Trump’s Second Term: Year One

The Bucks County Beacon looks back at the damage wrought.
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Voices include Bucks County NAACP President Adrienne King, former Central Bucks School Board Director Tabitha Dell’Angelo, New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner, The Welcome Project PA Executive Director Josh Blakesley, local author and military veteran Steve Nolan, Newtown-based progressive activist Steve Cickay, and more!

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It reminded us why the NAACP Bucks County exists, writes chapter President Adrienne King.
Trump is tearing down the systems that once helped the U.S. move toward becoming a more open and equal democracy.
This administration is dangerously redefining what children are allowed to learn — and who gets to decide, writes Tabitha Dell’Angelo.
But there’s far too many people not voting and making their voices heard at the ballot box, warns New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner.
How events in Minnesota are radicalizing parents in real time.
Rev. Josh Blakesley, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and the executive director of The Welcome Project PA, can't remember the country ever being so inhospitable and dangerous for immigrants and refugees.
The Trump regime's tactics, strategies and policies endeavor to include, incorporate or advance a politics that is recognizably “fascist” by either a classical or contemporary definition, write Christopher Vials and Bill V. Mullen, co-editors of "The U.S. Anti-Fascism Reader."
Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan, author of "American Carnage, An Officer’s Duty to Warn", looks back at Trump's first year of his second term.
There are significant legal and practical barriers to sending the military to polling places. But some officials are still worried.
Once a state teaches its agents that force is the solution, force becomes their habit. That’s how police states are formed out of democracies.

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