By Ralph Nader August 14, 2026 To House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—Your responses on July 1, 2026 on the reporting of the $2.2 billion profit personally reaped by President Donald Trump, while allegedly a public servant in 2025, was not specific enough. Jeffries wrote on his social media account: … Read more
By Ralph Nader August 10, 2026 A major dereliction by the feeble Democratic Party leadership is their unwillingness to address the political amnesia they have allowed corrupt, lying, cruel, outlaw tyrant Trump to enjoy with political impunity. Trump has been more than willing to fill the vacuum created by this abdication. That is his business … Read more
By Ralph Nader July 31, 2026 Unfortunately, Labor Day has become a long weekend for mattress sales and political platitudes when it should be the annual day when working people present the case for taking control of our country back from the corporatists who shape our political economy. The first Monday in September is a … Read more
By Ralph Nader July 24, 2026 “Leader Jeffries, President Trump is calling.” HJ: “Hello, Mr. President, this is a rare occasion!” DT: “Well, Hakeem, I want to have a confidential talk with you on a secure line. Agreed?” HJ: “Sure, since you made the call.” DT: “By the way, Hakeem, my Saudi friends tell me … Read more
By Ralph Nader July 17, 2026 The chronic prevaricator and delusionist, Donald J. Trump, knows the worse his outlaw actions and mouth are, the less likely the Democrats in Congress are to impeach him. The Democratic leaders, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, like Trump, oppose impeachment drives but for different reasons. With Trump the coming … Read more
By Ralph Nader July 10, 2026 Democratic politicians, as they regularly do, have displayed an inverted double standard regarding the Graham Platner affair and serial sexual abuser Donald Trump. Usually, a political party covers up its own misbehavior even as it accuses its political opponents of similar misdeeds. Instead, the Democrats drive out their own … Read more
By Ralph Nader July 2, 2026 After progressives, including self-described Democratic Socialists, won numerous primary victories in New York and elsewhere, Trump launched a whopper of a lie, even by his crazed standards. He declared that the “communist” Democratic Socialists are “the biggest threat to our nation there is, maybe since our founding …. That … Read more
By Ralph Nader June 26, 2026 Jimmy Carter’s campaign motto in 1976 was “Why Not the Best!” declaring everywhere he went: “I want to see us once again have a nation that’s as good and honest and decent and truthful and competent and compassionate and filled with love as are the American people.” Dictator Donald … Read more
By Ralph Nader June 19, 2026 The mainstream media has no problem guesstimating the deaths (500,000) from the Assad Dictatorship’s Civil War in Syria, nor the estimated deaths in the wars in Ukraine, Sudan, or Iran. Somehow, media editors do not let their investigative reporters assess the extent of Israel’s mass murder of civilians in … Read more
By Ralph Nader June 12, 2026 In my past two columns, I made the case for the Democratic Party to take the lead in pushing for Trump’s Impeachment. The majority of people favor firing Trump and the massive number of blatant, impeachable acts by the lawless, corrupt, violent, unstable, dangerous Tyrant Trump increases by the … Read more