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The Perfidy of the Supreme Court Six
By Jessie Seigel / July 19, 2025 Under Donald Trump’s administration, the nation’s government has been turned into a full-fledged...
Jul 19, 2025
Living in the Twilight Zone--A Fourth of July Short Take
By Jessie Seigel / July 4, 2025 Every Labor Day and every New Years Eve, one television channel or another in the Washington, DC area...
Jul 4, 2025
The Gangster State
By Jessie Seigel / June 22, 2025 ICE thugs in masks, employed by the U.S. government, have been kidnapping people off the street. These...
Jun 22, 2025
Plain Talk from Mary Trump
By Jessie Seigel / May 30, 2025 Mary Trump, author, psychologist, and Trump niece In this issue of My Washington Whispers, I am providing...
May 30, 2025
To Pro-Democracy Leaders: You Want to Stop Trump's Coup? Stop Underestimating Him!
By Jessie Seigel / May 14, 2025 Donald Trump's regime is not incompetent. Those who moan that Trump and his lackeys do not know how to...
May 14, 2025
The Trump Lesson: Terrorism 101
By Jessie Seigel / April 19, 2025 The fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, in pertinent part: No person shall be…deprived of...
Apr 19, 2025
Short Take: Hands off Our Democracy! The Protests
One unusual poster at the April 5,2025 Hands Off Our Democracy protest in Washington DC. It's a struggle as old as time or, at least, as...
Apr 7, 2025
Fighting Fascism: Support Those Doing the Good Work
By Jessie Seigel / April 2, 2025 This Saturday, April 5, there will be peaceful protests all around the nation, coordinated by ...
Apr 2, 2025
Short Take: Minnesota Says Trump Derangement Syndrome is WHAT????
By Jessie Seigel A bill just introduced in the Minnesota legislature would revise state law to add a category, "Trump Derangement...
Mar 18, 2025
Combatting Fascism: Unite in the Fight or Lose!
By Jessie Seigel / March 12, 2025 Democratic institutions are being attacked by the Trump adminstration at breakneck speed and on all...
Mar 12, 2025
SHORT TAKE: What the Democrats SHOULD Have Done at Trump's Inaugural "Rally"
By Jessie Seigel / March 5, 2025 During President Donald Trump's inaugural litany of lies, Texas Democratic Representative Al Green...
Mar 5, 2025
The Red Menace
By Jessie Seigel / February 26, 2025 The Republican party has long made capital out of its staunch anti-communist stance in alleged...
Feb 26, 2025
Fighting Fascism: What the Average Citizen Can Do
By Jesssie Seigel / February 10, 2025 MSNBC host Rachel Maddow frequently advises—concerning Republican policy makers—"Watch what they...
Feb 11, 2025
The Robbers Take Over
By Jessie Seigel / January 26, 2025 The quote above is from Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial By Jury Dear Readers, Last Tuesday, I broke my...
Jan 26, 2025
To Save Democracy: Open Your Eyes
By Jessie Seigel / January 8, 2025 Monday was January 6, the fourth anniversary of the Republicans' 2021 viciously violent attack on...
Jan 8, 2025
YEAR END ROUND-UP: -Biden's Pardon, Appropriate? -Do the Democrats Have a Spine? -A Death Knell for Non-Profits?
By Jessie Seigel / December 12, 2024 2024 is almost over. What will come next? This will be the last My Washington Whispers Column for...
Dec 12, 2024
To Fight Fascism: Acknowledge the Problem and Prepare for the Long Haul.
By Jessie Seigel / November 27, 2024 And so it begins in earnest. President-elect Donald Trump is daily putting forward his rogues...
Nov 27, 2024
2024 - The Choice Made
By Jessie Seigel / November 11, 2024 jas-copyright-2024 Despite the depth of his open depravity, Donald Trump has managed to be elected...
Nov 11, 2024
Election Day Is Upon Us
By Jessie Seigel / November 3, 2024 This is what it comes down to. No more to be said. Except, if you have not done so already, this...
Nov 3, 2024
Short Take: Save Democracy--Vote a Straight Ticket
By Jessie Seigel / October 26, 2024 In the capital of the United States, we have no vote for senator or representative. But we are...
Oct 28, 2024
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