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Your Social Security Is in Danger: The Backdoor Plan to Cut Earned Benefits

August 5, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Your Social Security Is in Danger: The Backdoor Plan to Cut Earned Benefits

The PROMISE Act could fast-track Social Security cuts through an unelected board. The real solution protects benefits and makes millionaires and billionaires pay.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: AARP, Bernie Sanders, COLA, cost-of-living adjustment, disability benefits, earned benefits, Economic Justice, lame-duck Congress, millionaires and billionaires, neoliberalism, Progressive Politics, PROMISE Act, retirement benefits, retirement security, senior citizens, Social Security, Social Security cuts, Social Security expansion, Social Security solvency, Social Security Trustees Report, tax the rich, taxable wage cap

How Mainstream Media Uses `Socialism` to Attack Progressives

August 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies

How Mainstream Media Uses `Socialism` to Attack Progressives

Marlon Weems exposes how corporate media weaponizes “socialism,” targets progressives with loaded questions, and applies a softer standard to authoritarian Republicans.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Abdul El-Sayed, authoritarianism, Corporate Democrats, Corporate Media, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialism, Donald Trump, Egberto Off The Record, Harry Truman, Independent media, Jen Psaki, Kamala Harris, Mainstream media, Marlon Weems, Media Bias, media framing, Medicare For All, Neoliberal Democrats, Norah O'Donnell, organized labor, political journalism, Politics Done Right, Progressive Politics, Progressives, Republican Party, Social Security, socialism, The Journeyman, The Reality Check, Todd Blanche, working class

The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need

August 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies

The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need

Solar waits, patients suffer, and workers sit idle while corporations demand maximum extraction. This exposes the grand economic con behind “free markets.”

Filed Under: General Tagged With: America’s Grand Economic Con, capitalism, Climate Crisis, corporate greed, Democratic Economy, drug prices, Economic fraud, Economic Inequality, Electrical Grid, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, fossil fuels, green energy, Healthcare Profiteering, infrastructure, Insurance Denials, Job Creation, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, NIH research, Oil Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Politics Done Right, Prescription Drugs, Private Health Insurance, Privatized Profit, Profit Blocks Progress, progressive economics, public investment, renewable energy, rooftop solar, Socialized Risk, solar energy, Traditional Medicare, Unemployment

Dana Bash Tried to Divide Democrats—Hakeem Jeffries Refused the Media Trap

August 1, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Dana Bash Tried to Divide Democrats—Hakeem Jeffries Refused the Media Trap

Dana Bash pushed Hakeem Jeffries to condemn progressives, but he rejected the manufactured conflict and focused on affordability, MAGA extremism, and working families.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Abolish ICE, Affordable Childcare, Bernie Sanders, CNN, Corporate Democrats, Corporate Media, Dana Bash, Democratic Party, Democratic Primaries, Economic Justice, Hakeem Jeffries, Immigration Reform, labor unions, MAGA Extremism, Mainstream media, Media Bias, Medicare For All, neoliberalism, plutocracy, Political Commentary, Progressive Democrats, Progressive Politics, working class

Trump Wants a Museum of Mythology, Not the Truth About American History

July 28, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Trump Wants a Museum of Mythology, Not the Truth About American History

Trump ordered political warning signs outside the Smithsonian because honest history threatens MAGA mythology. Patriotism requires truth, accountability, and repair.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: American Exceptionalism, American history, authoritarianism, Bill of Rights, democracy, Donald Trump, Founding Fathers, Historical Revisionism, Historical Truth, Indigenous History, MAGA Propaganda, National Museum of American History, Political Propaganda, Politics Done Right, Progressive Politics, Slavery in America, Smithsonian Institution, Trump Smithsonian Order, United States Constitution, Whitewashed History

Who Gets to Enrich Uranium? Ali Velshi Exposes America’s Nuclear Double Standard.

July 27, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Who Gets to Enrich Uranium? Ali Velshi Exposes America’s Nuclear Double Standard.

Ali Velshi asks who decides which nations may enrich uranium, exposing Washington’s unequal treatment of Iran, Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Israel.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Additional Protocol, Ali Velshi, American imperialism, Ernest Moniz, IAEA, International Law, Iran, Iran Nuclear Deal, Israel nuclear weapons, Israeli nuclear arsenal, JCPOA, Middle East, NPT, nuclear colonialism, nuclear disarmament, nuclear energy, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear weapons, Politics Done Right, Progressive Politics, Saudi Arabia, Saudi nuclear agreement, United States foreign policy, uranium enrichment

Trump Exposed: DOGE, Tariffs, Manufacturing and Military Promises Collapse

July 26, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Trump Exposed: DOGE, Tariffs, Manufacturing and Military Promises Collapse

Charts expose Trump’s exploding debt, failed DOGE promises, exaggerated tariff claims, manufacturing losses, and reckless military escalation.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: American workers, Congressional Budget Office, Corporate Media, Corporate Tax Cuts, DOGE, DOGE failure, Donald Trump, Economic Inequality, Elon Musk, Endless Wars, federal deficit, Foreign policy, Independent media, Iran war, Mainstream media, manufacturing decline, manufacturing jobs, military escalation, Morning Joe, national debt, Politics Done Right, Progressive Politics, Steve Rattner, tariff tax, Trump economic failure, Trump Economy, Trump tariffs, working class

Trump’s Tariff Tax Makes Working Americans Pay for His Profitable Iran War

July 23, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Trump’s Tariff Tax Makes Working Americans Pay for His Profitable Iran War

Trump promised tariffs would rebuild manufacturing. Instead, workers face higher prices, lost factory jobs, and a costly Iran war that rewards corporate profiteers.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: American economy, Anti War Movement, billionaire class, Consumer Prices, corporate greed, defense contractors, Donald Trump, Economic Inequality, forever wars, gas prices, Iran war, manufacturing jobs, military industrial complex, Oil companies, Pentagon spending, Progressive Politics, tariff tax, tariffs, tax the rich, Trump Economy, Trump tariffs, U.S.-Iran war, War-Profiteering, working class, Working Families

Republicans Cry “Socialism,” but Americans Want Healthcare, Housing and Economic Justice

July 23, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Republicans Cry “Socialism,” but Americans Want Healthcare, Housing and Economic Justice

Michael Steele dismantles the GOP’s tired red scare as Americans recognize socialism for corporations and ruthless capitalism for workers, patients, renters and families.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2026 midterms, Affordable Housing, capitalism, CNBC Poll, Corporate Welfare, Democratic Socialism, Democratic Socialists, Donald Trump, DSA, Economic Justice, Gallup Poll, Harvard Youth Poll, Healthcare for All, income inequality, Katy Tur, MAGA, Medicare For All, Michael Steele, Politics Done Right, progressive movement, Progressive Politics, public education, Red Scare, Republican Fearmongering, Republican Party, socialism, working class, Young Voters

Billions for War, Austerity for Americans: Hegseth Reveals the Scam

July 22, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Billions for War, Austerity for Americans: Hegseth Reveals the Scam

The Pentagon always gets its billions. Families get deductibles, hunger and austerity. Hegseth’s war request exposes Washington’s corporate, people-last priorities.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: American Farmers, Antiwar Movement, China Belt and Road Initiative, Corporate Welfare, DEFENSE BUDGET, defense contractors, DOGE, Economic Justice, Foreign Aid, healthcare crisis, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Iran war, Medicare For All, military industrial complex, military spending, Pentagon Budget, Pete Hegseth, Politics Done Right, poverty, Progressive Politics, public investment, social programs, Trump administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, Universal Healthcare, USAID, USAID Cuts, War-Profiteering

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