It is the eve of the 4th of July, America's 249th birthday in a time of turmoil and tumult, a country divided, and not that far off from where we started.
So yeah people, we need to do EVERYTHING and then some within our powers to fight to rid ourselves and our nation of this repugnant Republican Party and fully support new and stronger, younger voices within our nation to take it forward and make certain they agree to right the wrongs of ineffective leadership that doesn’t take the responsibility seriously to protect our democracy from all possible tyranny that would go against our Constitutional rights our independence and our freedoms. Above all we will need to abolish the structure of our Supreme Court, Never allowing unequal judicial representation of all parties appointments, how long they can serve and how their elected and removed when they go against our Constitution and our hard fought and won freedoms, strict ethics requirements not written by their own selves and strict requirements of impeachment if their broken. Also putting the power back into the people’s hands instead of just a Presidents and the senates in confirming and appointing Supreme Court justices through elections voted on by the people. We MUST also ABOLISH the Electoral Vote and Citizens United dark unlimited campaign donations and take our nation BACK to its original and true EVERY VOTE COUNTS rule where the true majority wins. For too long this nation has suffered under this system created just to appease the Republican Party who abuses it through rampant gerrymandering all across our nations states. NO MORE.. EVERY SINGLE VOTE MUST ACTUALLY COUNT, EVERY SINGLE TIME.. In every single election across this nation. WE MUST ACCEPT NO LESS than this from our future leaders.
Exactly! We go back to our history, learn from it and take back our rights as the USA governed by the people, for the people. We protect…against foreign and DOMESTIC Threats. And we remember what it says on the Statue of Liberty…”The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
I also have been contemplating our early history. Our system of government is good, superior to anything in the world today. It is those who represent us, our duly elected who have not honored their oath to we the people or adhere to the laws of the constitution and have chosen to ignore the statutes who have protected our freedom and values for 250 years. In the early days of our democracy our forefathers fought and argued their different views with passion but they realized that to form a more perfect union rational thinking and compromise would need to occur for the higher good. There is no higher good for all in existence now. Lawmakers are driven not by a higher good but by greed and self servicing (law makers is too kind a word used to describe them). We need to end corporate contributions to elected officials which has resulted in the buying of elections and term limits. And instead of going after average citizens, members of Congress and their immediate families should be investigated for benefiting financially from elected positions. Thomas Jefferson never benefited from financially for his service.
Thanks Elli, I’d like to take the liberty to add another throwback to our legacy (if a bit more recent). This is an animated appreciation of Woody Guthrie’s, ‘This is Your Land’. We just finished it last week and it’s free to all to share or repost.
Little known fact that may stimulate thought about the close relationship strengths among the Founding Fathers as they exercised courage for independence, is that, except for Adams, they were all related. They were glued together by COLES women. COLESs were part and parcel of early American history and Edward COLES, who became the second governor of Illinois, is known as The Man Who Freed His Slaves. He was very close with Jefferson, Monroe, and Madison, who all helped and supported him in his endeavor. Very important about this relationship is that it proves Jefferson’s intention that the Constitution and practice should change with the generations as he believed each generation would ever move toward a more perfect union as they lived in increasing freedoms and memory of evil ways from the monarchy would slip into the past. Original textualists would have been abhorred by him as counter and destructive to the Freedom experiment that was this country. The conservatives and purveyors of a unitary executive would have been reviled. The answers are plain in Jefferson’s letters with Edward Coles. SCOTUS originalists always skip that part because it completely disproves their power mongering push.
What thawed out from a hard winter at Valley Forge turned out to be men of steel filled with resolve. It was one bad winter. We are there again. We know what to do. Wear them down. Wear them out. Vote’m Out! Block the concentration camps. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/concentration-camping?r=3m1bs
It will be the bill-political suicide of yesterday which impels partisans to defy even that lofty grandeur of insanity, when (20) senate Republicans and (13) senate Democrats come up for reelection in November of 2026.
In Terms Unstolen:
Already bracing ourselves for the divide-and-conquer campaigns they will run, we take a step back, to recall that James Madison defined a “pure Democracy” as a "society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government" themselves. (footnote 1)
Whereas the cofounders recognized that would not be possible, given the size of our country, they devised a representative form of Democracy that is referred to as our "Republican Form of Government" in the Constitution. (footnote 2)
Thus reminding ourselves that we, the Members of our American Republic, are in fact all republican-democrats.
As well as that, ironically, to breach the Constitution that forms the Offices that our Public Servants currently hold, is to dissolve their own seats in our General Government, whilst the State Governments persist and we pursue happiness as Members of our immutable Republic:
Turning Two Hundred & Forty-Nine (249) today, the Charter that Formed Our Republic & Codified Our Rights as forever unalienable, remains as perfect and unalterable as the day the it was signed! (footnotes 3 & 4)
( 3 ) Charter of the united States of America. The American Republic. Jefferson, Thomas &a., Journals of the Continental Congress, Volume V. (1776). 1906. See page 76 of the PDF (page 491 as written on the page), “Declaration of Independence,” https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/llscd/lljc005/lljc005.pdf(accessed 03JULY2025).
So yeah people, we need to do EVERYTHING and then some within our powers to fight to rid ourselves and our nation of this repugnant Republican Party and fully support new and stronger, younger voices within our nation to take it forward and make certain they agree to right the wrongs of ineffective leadership that doesn’t take the responsibility seriously to protect our democracy from all possible tyranny that would go against our Constitutional rights our independence and our freedoms. Above all we will need to abolish the structure of our Supreme Court, Never allowing unequal judicial representation of all parties appointments, how long they can serve and how their elected and removed when they go against our Constitution and our hard fought and won freedoms, strict ethics requirements not written by their own selves and strict requirements of impeachment if their broken. Also putting the power back into the people’s hands instead of just a Presidents and the senates in confirming and appointing Supreme Court justices through elections voted on by the people. We MUST also ABOLISH the Electoral Vote and Citizens United dark unlimited campaign donations and take our nation BACK to its original and true EVERY VOTE COUNTS rule where the true majority wins. For too long this nation has suffered under this system created just to appease the Republican Party who abuses it through rampant gerrymandering all across our nations states. NO MORE.. EVERY SINGLE VOTE MUST ACTUALLY COUNT, EVERY SINGLE TIME.. In every single election across this nation. WE MUST ACCEPT NO LESS than this from our future leaders.
Thank you 💙
So muchof your post I believe is so valuble.
Thank you!
Exactly! We go back to our history, learn from it and take back our rights as the USA governed by the people, for the people. We protect…against foreign and DOMESTIC Threats. And we remember what it says on the Statue of Liberty…”The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Thank you :)
I also have been contemplating our early history. Our system of government is good, superior to anything in the world today. It is those who represent us, our duly elected who have not honored their oath to we the people or adhere to the laws of the constitution and have chosen to ignore the statutes who have protected our freedom and values for 250 years. In the early days of our democracy our forefathers fought and argued their different views with passion but they realized that to form a more perfect union rational thinking and compromise would need to occur for the higher good. There is no higher good for all in existence now. Lawmakers are driven not by a higher good but by greed and self servicing (law makers is too kind a word used to describe them). We need to end corporate contributions to elected officials which has resulted in the buying of elections and term limits. And instead of going after average citizens, members of Congress and their immediate families should be investigated for benefiting financially from elected positions. Thomas Jefferson never benefited from financially for his service.
Do you know when the things in the bill go into effect??
It is important now that the bill is getting signed.
Thanks
The dates vary. Most of them are December 31, 2025.
224th birthday? It’s the 249th.
Thank you. It was very late, and I was tired. Updated. I would’ve known that at 6pm, but not at Midnight.
Ok. Thx. I just thought I was missing something. Lol.
No, you got it right. I’m always open for edits!
Thank you.
Thank you too
Thanks Elli, I’d like to take the liberty to add another throwback to our legacy (if a bit more recent). This is an animated appreciation of Woody Guthrie’s, ‘This is Your Land’. We just finished it last week and it’s free to all to share or repost.
https://vimeo.com/1096145803
Little known fact that may stimulate thought about the close relationship strengths among the Founding Fathers as they exercised courage for independence, is that, except for Adams, they were all related. They were glued together by COLES women. COLESs were part and parcel of early American history and Edward COLES, who became the second governor of Illinois, is known as The Man Who Freed His Slaves. He was very close with Jefferson, Monroe, and Madison, who all helped and supported him in his endeavor. Very important about this relationship is that it proves Jefferson’s intention that the Constitution and practice should change with the generations as he believed each generation would ever move toward a more perfect union as they lived in increasing freedoms and memory of evil ways from the monarchy would slip into the past. Original textualists would have been abhorred by him as counter and destructive to the Freedom experiment that was this country. The conservatives and purveyors of a unitary executive would have been reviled. The answers are plain in Jefferson’s letters with Edward Coles. SCOTUS originalists always skip that part because it completely disproves their power mongering push.
Have we forgotten what this country was truly founded on? Enslaved people built everything!
Here is our post
What thawed out from a hard winter at Valley Forge turned out to be men of steel filled with resolve. It was one bad winter. We are there again. We know what to do. Wear them down. Wear them out. Vote’m Out! Block the concentration camps. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/concentration-camping?r=3m1bs
Exquisite reminder we all need. Well done Ellie. Signed an old new fan.
[ Nice job! Thank you for your article. ]
It will be the bill-political suicide of yesterday which impels partisans to defy even that lofty grandeur of insanity, when (20) senate Republicans and (13) senate Democrats come up for reelection in November of 2026.
In Terms Unstolen:
Already bracing ourselves for the divide-and-conquer campaigns they will run, we take a step back, to recall that James Madison defined a “pure Democracy” as a "society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government" themselves. (footnote 1)
Whereas the cofounders recognized that would not be possible, given the size of our country, they devised a representative form of Democracy that is referred to as our "Republican Form of Government" in the Constitution. (footnote 2)
Thus reminding ourselves that we, the Members of our American Republic, are in fact all republican-democrats.
As well as that, ironically, to breach the Constitution that forms the Offices that our Public Servants currently hold, is to dissolve their own seats in our General Government, whilst the State Governments persist and we pursue happiness as Members of our immutable Republic:
Turning Two Hundred & Forty-Nine (249) today, the Charter that Formed Our Republic & Codified Our Rights as forever unalienable, remains as perfect and unalterable as the day the it was signed! (footnotes 3 & 4)
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FOOTNOTES:
( 1 ) Federalist No. 10: Madison, James. See the last paragraph of page 40 of the pdf (page 30 as written on the page) and the first two paragraphs of the next page, https://.us.archive.org/15/items/isbn_9798693829671/isbn_9798693829671.pdf(accessed 03JULY2025).
( 2 ) The Constitution, As Finally Amended. The Papers of James Madison Purchased by Order of Congress, Volume 3. Washington, Langtree & O'Sullivan, 1840. See page 1605 ("We, the people"),https://archive.org/details/papersofjamesmadi03madi/page/1605/mode/1up(accessed 03JULY2025)
( 3 ) Charter of the united States of America. The American Republic. Jefferson, Thomas &a., Journals of the Continental Congress, Volume V. (1776). 1906. See page 76 of the PDF (page 491 as written on the page), “Declaration of Independence,” https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/llscd/lljc005/lljc005.pdf(accessed 03JULY2025).
(4 ) The Irony of Demagoguery's Self-Abdicating Throne. Concerning yesterday’s Court decision. Baker, Anthony D. &a., June 28, 2025,https://open.substack.com/pub/republia/p/the-irony-of-demagoguerys-self-abdicating (accessed 03JULY2025)
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With the highest regard and deepest respect,
we have the honor of being,
Your most humble and obedient servant,
REPUBLIA
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Thank you, you are officially my Substack mom. Off to bed go I.
Night, JoAnne
me too ;)