✅ Major Issues in America
As 2025 ends, we reflect and prepare for 2026—a critical year to defend democracy, champion freedom over fascism, and build people-powered progress together.
Friends, as we close out 2025, it’s time to both reflect on where we’ve been and prepare for what’s ahead. The road to 2026 is already unfolding—and it will be a defining moment for our rights, our democracy, and the future we leave behind.
The forces of authoritarianism, corruption, and extremism are organizing aggressively. If we want to champion freedom over fascism, real progress, and power to the people, we must be just as intentional, united, and prepared. That means listening to one another, identifying the most urgent challenges facing our country, and building a clear, people-powered path forward.
Today, I’m asking for your input. Please review the list below and share your thoughts:
What major issues do you believe America is facing right now?
Is anything missing?
What do you see as the most effective path forward for change?
Chime in below in the comments—your voice matters, and our collective wisdom is our strength. As always, I’m grateful to stand with you as a foot soldier for justice. Together, we can organize, build power, and move forward—side by side.
⚖️ Democracy and Rule of Law
Crisis:
Fascism rising.
Authoritarian power expanding.
Project 2025 threatening democracy.
Unitary Executive Theory undermining checks and balances.
Courts rigged to favor corruption.
Voting rights restricted.
Elections manipulated and suppressed.
Free speech silenced.
Political enemies criminalized.
Press freedom attacked.
Civil liberties eroded.
Checks and balances dismantled.
Path Forward:
We must defend democracy at every level — from local elections to federal courts. That means passing the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act, ending gerrymandering, and expanding the Supreme Court to restore balance and integrity. It means abolishing dark money, protecting whistleblowers and journalists, and reclaiming government for the people — not the powerful. Democracy survives only when we refuse to be silent.
💰 Economic Inequality and Corruption
Crisis:
Greed and corruption rampant.
Corporate tax breaks for billionaires.
Public funds siphoned to cronies.
Minimum wage frozen.
Union rights under attack.
Jobs disappearing and manufacturing shutting down.
Housing costs skyrocketing.
Food prices soaring.
Electricity bills rising.
Income and tax inequality widening.
Social safety net gutted.
Student debt crisis worsening.
Path Forward:
We must tax the wealthy and corporations their fair share and end corporate welfare that drains our communities. We can raise the minimum wage, protect unions, and restore the dignity of work. We must cancel medical and student debt, expand Social Security, and guarantee housing as a human right. The economy should work for the people who build it, not the billionaires who buy it.
❤️ Human Suffering and Public Health
Crisis:
Children and Seniors are going hungry.
Families losing access to doctors.
Health insurance premiums doubling.
Hospitals closing.
Medical debt rising.
Veterans’ honor defiled by corruption.
Disability benefits slashed.
Poor and working people treated with contempt.
Women’s reproductive rights stripped away.
Public health programs defunded.
Mental health crisis ignored.
Water and air poisoned for profit.
Path Forward:
Health care is a human right, not a privilege for the rich. We must pass Medicare for All, ban medical debt from credit scores, and invest in mental health, addiction recovery, and disability care. We must defend reproductive freedom, expand food security, and restore public health funding. A nation cannot call itself great when its people cannot afford medicine or basic health services.
🌎 Environment and Climate
Crisis:
Renewable energy opportunities lost.
Environmental protections repealed.
Big oil and gas pollutes our air, water, and elections.
Climate change denied and ignored.
Wildfire and flood response neglected.
Communities left to suffer pollution.
Path Forward:
We must treat the climate crisis like the emergency it is — by investing in clean energy, public transit, and green jobs. We must end fossil fuel subsidies, hold polluters accountable, and rebuild our infrastructure to protect every community from disaster. Protecting the planet isn’t a partisan issue — it’s about survival, justice, and our responsibility to future generations.
⚔️ Violence, Hate, and Authoritarian Control
Crisis:
Police violence is escalating.
Racism intensifying.
ICE abuses rising.
LGBTQIA+ rights under attack.
Book bans spreading.
Christian nationalism rising.
Guns flooding communities.
Hate groups emboldened.
Protest rights crushed.
Path Forward:
We must stand up against hate and stand with those under attack. That means passing federal gun safety laws, ending qualified immunity, and investing in community-based violence prevention. It means protecting LGBTQIA+ rights, ending family separations, and restoring free expression in schools and libraries. Love and liberty are stronger than fear and fascism — if we advocate for them.
🧠 National Security and Institutional Decay
Crisis:
National security attacked from within.
Intelligence agencies politicized.
Military loyalty exploited for corruption.
Alliances weakened and adversaries emboldened.
Foreign interference ignored.
Democracy undermined from the inside out.
Path Forward:
We must rebuild trust in government through transparency and accountability. That means independent oversight, ethics reforms, and ending the revolving door between corporations and government. We must strengthen alliances that uphold human rights and defend against authoritarian threats — foreign and domestic. True patriotism is protecting the Constitution, not pledging allegiance to a tyrant.
What We Deserve
We deserve leaders who feed the hungry, not their donors.
We deserve healthcare that heals, not policies that kill.
We deserve clean energy, not corporate pollution.
We deserve justice that protects the people, not the powerful.
We deserve a democracy that cannot be bought.
They may have the money, but we have the movement.
They may control the airwaves, but we control the streets.
They may say we can’t afford it—
But we know the truth:
They say we can’t afford it, but we’re already paying for their corruption.
✊ Final Call: Power to the People
The challenges are great — but so is our power. Every generation faces a choice: submit to tyranny or rise for freedom. We are the inheritors of a promise — that government derives its power from the people.
When we organize, when we vote, when we speak out — we win.
Because the future belongs to the people who refuse to give up on it.
Together, we can Champion Freedom Over Fascism.
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Today’s Calls to Action
Click here to Ban Guns on College Campuses Nationwide
Click here to Ban Members of Congress from Trading Stock While in Office
Click here to Expand Social Security: Raise the Cap on Social Security Taxes
Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Fossil Fuel Giveaways—Fund Our Future
Click here to Tell Congress: Visit ICE Detention Centers NOW
Click here to Demand Congress Reject “Trump-Kennedy Center” Rename
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Although this was suggested, I would describe more specifically that this Administration has lost international respect for the United States because of withdrawal from our alliances and new friendship with Putin and Russia to the detriment of the U.S. dollar among other serious consequences. The immigration fixation has harmed multipole industries, especially farming and restaurants. Our sense of morality is damaged by the murder of civilians abroad with no due process as well as the cruel imprisonment of immigrants, many of whom have been denied their claims of asylum.
I appreciate your asking me for my comments, since I get 250-300 emails per day asking me for only money, and I am thinking these people are mistaking me for a bank. Like you, I am like a cat on a tin roof in Trump's America. I am ill at ease in a country where a woman can not control what happens to her own body and where a loose-cannon document like Project 2025 can be put into practice with such apparent ease. The essence of my commentary to you is that I attribute all of this to Christian nationalism, a topic that none of the pundits feel comfortable discussing. Yes, they dance around it as a fringe phenomenon but no one analyzes it in depth. Even David A. Graham's recent book on Project 2025 does not plumb the dangers. For 32 years I taught at an open admissions community college in non-urban Maryland and for much of that time, I was fought every inch of every teaching day by fundamentalist Christians, now called Christian nationalists, who articulated their grievance at secular society and their intention to destroy that society. So, please wake up, those of you whose stated aim is to save American democracy, and let's face these "Christians" head on. Saying "Keep your religion out of my government" sounds nice but does nothing to repel or dispel the seductive power of their goal to turn this nation into a theocracy.