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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What Trump’s First Year Revealed About Power, Accountability and Our Responsibility

It reminded us why the NAACP Bucks County exists, writes chapter President Adrienne King.

12 Ways the Trump Administration Dismantled Civil Rights Law and the Foundations of Inclusive Democracy This Past Year

Trump is tearing down the systems that once helped the U.S. move toward becoming a more open and equal democracy.

How Trump Has Transformed Public Education in His First Year

This administration is dangerously redefining what children are allowed to learn — and who gets to decide, writes Tabitha Dell’Angelo.

As Long as We Have the Vote, We Have Hope

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.

OPINION: Under the Trump Administration, We Are All Domestic Terrorists Now

How events in Minnesota are radicalizing parents in real time.

What Trump’s First Year Looks Like From an Immigrant Rights Advocate’s Perspective

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.

Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement’s Aspirational Fascism

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."

The Year of Living Dangerously 

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.

Protecting American Ideals During This Second Trump Term Depends on Each and Every One of You

It's time to make "good trouble", writes Newtown's Steve Cickay.

Trump Regrets Not Calling up Troops to Seize Voting Machines After the 2020 Election. What Stops Him in 2026?

There are significant legal and practical barriers to sending the military to polling places. But some officials are still worried.

OPINION: Renee Good Was Killed by the Kind of State Violence Our Founding Fathers Warned Against

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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