Trump is willing to flood the zone with anything—even blows that seem self-inflicted—to push the Big Beautiful Bill across the finish line. The movement must keep its eyes on the ball and kill the bill.
General News
Democrats wake up: Here’s how to turn GOP killing green projects and Medicaid cuts into big wins.
The Big Beautiful Bill is so dangerous to MAGA and Red States — Medicaid cuts — that it is easy to put on national/local campaigns to stop Republicans from passing the bill and to win 2026 big.
Mining our brain: Capitalism makes AI a clear and present danger. Democracy makes it our utopia.
We should only fear artificial intelligence (AI) if it is allowed to exist under current capitalist rules. Democracy would make AI a utopia for America and the rest of the world.
Give “We’re all gonna die” Sen Joni Ernst a break. It’s a smokescreen, taking our eyes off the ball.
The media decided to make Sen. Joni Ernst the poster person for the millions who will lose healthcare. Why did they give the real villains a pass over the years?
Michael Steele nails the naivete of journalists covering the Trump-Musk saga.
Journalists are missing the real story on Musk’s failed DOGE project. Michael Steele points out it’s about the servers stealing your data and Musk’s contracts.
The Hartmann Report
“Free Trade” Has Put America & Democracy At the Mercy of China
Bringing our manufacturing back from overseas will reverse the 40-year-long slide of the American middle class and rebuild our nation’s security & economy. China is threatening the United States: this could get very ugly, very quickly. Here’s what’s happening. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning a trip to Taiwan, the first for a Speaker in […]
How Will Trump’s Deadly Sabotage Of America End?
use he has not been held to account, Trumpism has spread across the US landscape like metastasized cancer, with GOP politicians who aspire to corrupt strongman status emulating him in every state
The Abortion Firestorm is also a White Freak-out About the Browning of America
America is no longer all-white or all-under-white-control and white supremacists on the Court are bound and determined to do something about it
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Guest Bloggers
The End of the Frontier means the end of America as we know it
Over a hundred years ago, a German professor stated that socialism failed on American shores because of a surplus roast beef, apple pie, and free real estate on the American western frontier.
On the Eve of World War III: Middle East Edition
One Tuesday afternoon, my grandfather picked up my sister and me from high school. He remarked that today marked nothing less than the beginning of World War Three.
League of Independent Voters of Texas
Imperial Governance and Constitutional Wreckage • LIV News, July 29, 2021
Are imperial governance and the related constitutional wreckage taking Texans down a dangerous path to a constitutional crisis?
The elephant in the Texas voting booth that neither party wants to talk about.
The elephant in the Texas voting booth that neither party wants to talk about is the suppression of a plurality of Texas voters. Surprise! There are more non-aligned and independent Texans than Democrats or Republicans.
Egberto Mentioned In Media
Joe Paterno to retire at season’s end – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs
Legendary Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno will retire at the end of the season, he said Wednesday in a statement. Paterno’s move comes in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant football coach. “I am absolutely devastated by the developments in this case. I grieve for the […]
CNN iReporters Show How "WE ARE CNN"
Egberto On TV
Guested on HuffPost Live with Nancy Redd Discussing Hate Texts Targeting President Obama
Nancy talks to our community about toxic troubles after Sandy, the latest campaign attack, and speaking to "the other side" (and we don’t mean politics). Originally aired on October 31, 2012 Hosted by: Nancy Redd GUESTS: Terri Jay (Reno, NV)Intuitive Messenger @terrijay Nikolas Kozloff (Brooklyn, NY)Political Writer @NikolasKozloff Egberto Willies (Kingwood, TX)Political Blogger and […]
Egberto on CNN On President Obama’s Job Creation
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Egberto’s Published Articles
Is Net Neutrality Really Necessary? You’re Damn Right!
by Egberto Willies and Keyan Bliss (Originally Published at Common Dreams) Three weeks after Christmas, the American judiciary gave telecommunications corporations a huge present. On January 14 a federal appeals court decided to weaken the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Internet Neutrality policy by striking down the rules it adopted in 2010 to regulate Internet service […]
Egberto Willies: Wendy Davis’ life story provides empathy necessary to be governor – Kingwood Observer
It seems like I chose just about the right time to write an article on Wendy Davis. She finds herself under attack not only by the entire Right Wing establishment, but from the traditional media as well. She happens to be the story to balance the myriad of bad acts by Republicans. There is a […]
Battleground Texas
Support continues to build for Judge William ‘Bill’ McLeod
Judge McLeod turned around his office in two months. McLeod and his staff accomplished more in 2 months than his predecessor did in two years.
Occupy Movement
Occupy Kingwood – A Sustainable Form Of The Occupy Movement (2012-01-28)
We are now at six weeks and Occupy Kingwood is still going strong. We will continue to do this weekly to keep awareness on the issues affecting middle class Americans. We want our community to be aware that we understand the plight of most of them as they keep their real concerns about our economy […]
Netroots Nation
Intercept’s Ryan Grim talks Democratic Party loyalty problems, AOC, & much more.
I interviewed The Intercept’s Ryan Grim at Netroots Nation 2019 in Philadelphia. We discussed the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, The Squad, and his new book.
Coffee Party Posts
Coffee Party USA Board of Directors 2016 Meeting in Blue Ridge, Georgia
The Coffee Party USA board of directors coalesced around a strong voter education and turnout strategy that we will be releasing in the forthcoming weeks.
Columnists
Young column: Uses for $5 trillion other than a tax-cut ‘debt bomb’
My wife has a way of measuring excess that’s particular to her passion. At any obscene outlay, she’ll wonder: “How many animal shelters would that build?” Let’s say your government shells out
Young column: ‘Venezuelans!’: a scarily racist campfire tale
There’s an iron train a-travelin’ that’s been a-rollin’ through the years with a firebox of hatred and a furnace full of fears – Bob Dylan What is the Spanish word for “boogeyman”?I Googled the
How Charter Schools Promote ‘Development Off the Backs of Children’
Marta Bulaich didn’t notice the charter school that abutted her rental property in Watsonville, California, until she saw children scaling the 12-foot fence surrounding her backyard to retrieve
As a Growing Social Movement and Self-Care Practice, Death Literacy Is Fostering Positive Conversations About the End
As global populations transition into what has been called the “longevity society,” caring for the aging and dying has prompted the emergence of an unusual self-care movement promising improved
How the Rights of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law and Culture
The mountain dominates the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island, also known as Aotearoa. Its peak is like the center point of a sundial, the shadows on its slopes telling time. The cloud
Alongside China’s, Which Social Credit Systems Are Developing?
By the late 2010s, China’s “social credit system” (SCS) was increasingly viewed as a notorious government effort to monitor personal behavior, shape public conduct, and control access to services.
A Few Takes
Original Sin? Or Original Choice?
I subscribe to a lot of newsletters. I don’t always get around to reading them daily, just like I am sure many cannot read every one of my “Egberto Off The Record” newsletters. After all, I send out 1 to 5 every day, depending on the day’s news. I served on the Coffee Party USA […]
Joy-Ann Reid did the best job of covering the real TikTok narrative, the hidden billionaires.
Joy-Ann Reid and Robert Reich provided the best coverage of the insane TikTok fiasco. Unlike the shallow coverage elsewhere, they hit the real issues.
Maddow Blog: Stefanik picks the wrong fight, asks whether we were better off in 2020
But the idea that conditions in the United States got worse after Trump left the White House is demonstrably ridiculous.
People Making a difference
Patricia Esteves has a project attempting to unite the country as one.
As I walked in between protest movements at the Democratic Debate at TSU. Patricia Esteves was giving away T-Shirts. Her T-Shirts say.
The inhumane side of our immigration policy seldom spoken about.
I interviewed Andrea Fernandez before she went on stage at the Unlock the Future rally in Houston sponsored by the NOW on immigration policy.
Local News
Houston Chronicle Endorses State Senator Molly Cook for reelection to SD-15.
Congratulations to State Senator Molly Cook (@MollyforTexas) for earning the endorsement of the Houston Chronicle for reelection to Senate District 15.
Why DA Kim Ogg must be expelled from the Democratic Party for her Ted Cruz endorsement.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg can’t endorse Ted Cruz under the law and order moniker. Ted Cruz was a participant in the attempted coup on America via his support for Donald Trump.
Harris County’s Guaranteed Income Program (Uplift Harris) is in Danger
Last April, Harris County passed a historic guaranteed income program. One of more than sixty pilot programs across the country,
Kingwood Texas Floods Again, May 2024.
Once again, the Kingwood, Texas, area is experiencing a significant flood. It is becoming a way of life that engineering can solve, but our political and economic system proves incapable of mitigating.
Entertainment
Chris Rock used his new Netflix skit Selective Outrage to slam Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
I watched Chris Rock on Netflix this morning. It was clear that the Will Smith slap at the Oscars has affected Chris Rock’s comedy.
The movie “Honk For Jesus” brought back memories of a CNN iReport I did on Bishop Eddie Long.
Just got back from the movie “Honk for Jesus.” It felt familiar. A woman told my wife, “That’s the Eddie Long story.” Yes, it is similar to the iReport I did in 2010.
Message To Garth Brooks: Took this superfan lots of money & attempts to finally see you in Houston.
Garth Brooks super fan Debra Willey finally got to see you in Houston, TX, after several attempts and several thousand dollars — a shoutout maybe to her?
Environment
Are there ways living organisms can be used to fix pollution?
Pollution remains one of the most significant environmental challenges, contaminating air, water and soil and posing risks to human health. Traditional cleanup methods, like chemical treatments and mechanical removal, often come at a high cost and sometimes harm the environment further
Which companies and industry sectors stand to profit the most from global warming?
According to a report by Swiss Re, a global insurance provider, climate change could erode a total of $23 trillion of global gross domestic product by 2050.
Sports
Texans Win. But why do it the hard way?
The Texans vs Bills game was exciting but it should have ended in regulation. Bill O’Brien is lucky to have stellar players.
Simone Biles named female athlete of the year | khou.com
Simone Biles continues to make Houston proud as she wins female athlete of the year. Congratulations! COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Gymnastics powerhouse Simone Biles has been named the 2019 Team USA Female Olympic Athlete of the Year after another record-setting performance in competition this year. Biles topped a list of award-winners of the honors presented […]
Move To Amend
Move to Amend’s Daniel Lee: Transcending political parties at the People’s Convention (VIDEO)
Many grassroots organizations have converged on Philadelphia, PA using the Democratic National Convention as the catalyst to organize for a better America.