The United States is safe because we have military strength to protect ourselves.
By April 2026, in the Iran War, video-gamer-in-chief Pete Hegseth, with Trump’s full approval, emptied the U.S. stockpile of many of our most expensive missiles. Hegseth, the former FOX weekend talk show host, is Trump’s Secretary of Defense, or, as he calls himself, the Secretary of War.
It’s important to vote for Democrats because for over 16 months Republicans, who control both the House of Representatives and the Senate, have defiantly refused to stop Trump.
The president and video-gamer-in-chief, Pete Hegseth, is making America weak by depleting our entire weapons stockpile in the Iran War. Democrats have demanded Hegseth’s resignation and an end to Trump’s war. Republicans have blocked all the Democrats’ efforts to do both.
Trump chose to start this war without approval from Congress. The Constitution does not give the president authority to start a war; that power lies solely with Congress.
Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of War, blew up 803 missiles on the very first day of the Iran War. It takes one year to manufacture 800 missiles. The U.S. is in Day 122 of the Iran War as of June 30, 2026. The Pentagon said the Iran war costs $29 billion, but the real cost is closer to $200 billion – and counting.
The oil prices are the economic pain people feel. Farmers are without the fertilizer they need to grow their crops. They both have to change the crops they grow and reduce the amount of food they can grow. Doctors need the helium shipped from the Middle East for MRI scanners to help diagnose conditions in patients.
President Barack Obama achieved the goal of Iran having no nuclear weapons without wasting hundreds of billions of your tax dollars by using diplomacy. In 2015, Obama got Iran to agree to inspections and prohibitions in his Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Trump ripped up Obama’s JCPOA in 2018, giving Iran free rein to produce, purchase, and stockpile nuclear weapons.
It’s important to vote for Democrats who have tried to stop Hegseth’s reckless depletion of our military weaponry and put an end to the voluntary war against Iran. How tough is the United States if video-gamer-in-chief Pete Hegseth blows up all our weapons just for fun?
Venezuelan Boats and Likely War Crimes
Trump still gives Pete Hegseth free rein to waste missiles in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific, even on boats not headed to the U.S. From September 2025 to June 2026, more than 200 persons have been killed under Hegseth’s orders, without any proof that the boats were carrying drugs.
The Coast Guard patrols the waters surrounding the U.S. to stop drug trafficking, using cutters, aircraft, and specialized boarding teams – without blowing up extremely expensive weapons or committing bloody killings with no evidence of drugs that Hegseth orders.
Democratic Congress members who viewed some of Hegseth’s films of the boats being blown up are sickened, describing them as “snuff films.” Republicans defend these murders. The United Nations, international law experts, and even American lawyers are denouncing these as potential war crimes.
In February 2025, Trump began firing JAG officers (military lawyers who advise on matters like whether acts are war crimes) to get them out of their way.
Democrat military veterans in Congress issued advisories to the military that they are required to disobey unlawful orders. Trump called them traitors, retaliated by trying to demote and court-martial Sen. Mark Kelly (retired U.S. Navy captain and astronaut), opening FBI investigations and Department of Justice investigations. The six Democrats are Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Deluzio (former U.S. Navy officer); Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (former Air Force officer); New Hampshire Rep. Maggie Goodlander (former intelligence officer); Colorado Rep. Jason Crow (former U.S. Army officer); Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin (former intelligence officer).
Ebola and USAID
Then there’s the Ebola virus. When Ebola broke out in West Africa during the Obama Administration, he appointed a task force to contain the disease. In 2014, Ron Klain was appointed White House Ebola Response Coordinator. He oversaw and coordinated federal efforts to detect, isolate, treat, and contain the Ebola virus in West Africa and averted the further spread of the disease.
Trump let Elon Musk, an unelected foreigner unfamiliar with our U.S. government, and his six-pack of 19- to 24-year-old “DOGE Bros” (who are also unfamiliar with our government) dismantle our federal agencies.
One of the most critical agencies these folks axed was USAID, which played a critical part in stopping the spread of the disease. A major outbreak of Ebola is happening in East Africa, with 267 deaths and more than 1,000 cases as of June 25, 2026. A doctor in France has been confirmed to be the first case of Ebola outside Africa.
Nicholas Enrich, former lead official for global health at USAID, served under four presidential administrations. Trump lied about keeping food and humanitarian aid in Belgium storehouses instead of sending it to Africa to save lives. International authorities estimated that in the one year since, over 700,000 people have died, most of them children, and nearly all of them preventable.
ICE and CBP
Keith Porter, a 43-year-old Black father of two, was shot and killed outside his home by an off-duty ICE agent on December 31, 2025, in Los Angeles. He was celebrating the New Year with his family.
Renee Good had just dropped off her son at school. Alex Pretti, a Veterans Administration hospital ICU nurse. Both Renee and Alex were shot multiple times by ICE in January 2026 in Minneapolis.
Fifty-two people died in ICE custody during the first 500 days of Trump’s second term, and ICE refuses to give information to Congress, families, and the public.
Corruption
Elon Musk axed many federal agencies, then gave himself federal contracts. Honestly, should the State Department buy $400 million of Cybertrucks?
Trump gave his son’s companies $1.6 billion in a federal mining deal in Kazakhstan. TrumpRX charges its subscribers more for prescriptions that are available for less elsewhere.
Tariffs get reduced when they enrich Trump, such as the reduction in Swiss tariffs a few days after Swiss business leaders presented him with a personalized gold bar worth more than $130,000 and a Rolex desk clock.
The Republicans’ June 2026 bill makes life intolerable for the very constituents who elected them to office and for Americans across the U.S.
In Trump’s Big Ugly Bill of 2025, Republicans cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and the ACA credits that help people pay for health insurance. This was the largest cut in Medicaid funding in the program’s history. The bill allows health care providers to deny services to adults who cannot afford co-payments of up to $35.
The bill also uses block grants for ACA subsidies and Medicaid state funds so that there is no adjustment for inflation or changes in population. A June 2026 Republican bill eliminates an additional $2 billion in funding for ACA health insurance plans – funding for maternal health, telehealth, mental health services, substance abuse treatment programs, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
No Teachers? What About College?
The Republicans’ June 2026 bill cuts funding for 30,000 teachers by reducing Title I grants by $2 billion. Remember, Pete Hegseth’s Iran War cost Americans $1 billion each day.
It eliminates funding for teacher training and community schools and puts pressure on state budgets by slashing funding for low-income students. The Republican 2026 bill increases student loan rates, cuts funding for need-based financial aid, and eliminates job training programs.
Democrats Need Your Help – Vote!
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s 2027 $125.8 billion budget is a model of what progressive Democrats can do if Republicans are not blocking the way.
Investment in safety, education, worker protections, and health and well-being highlights include launching the city’s first municipal day care system, supporting the Office of Hate Crime Prevention and the Office of Community Safety and the Safer Streets and Sammy’s Law, introducing the Supervised Release Intensive Case Management program, expanding access to mental health care and supporting survivors and seniors, and improving disease testing capacity, among many others.
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have long advocated for Medicare for All so that all Americans have access to health care.
Governor Mikie Sherrill announced plans to increase the supply of housing in New Jersey to lower housing costs for families. Thirty municipalities will be chosen to receive technical assistance and planning support to expand home development through the New Jersey Housing Opportunities for Municipal Equity and Success.
Democrats need the votes to pass legislation aimed at keeping medical care and education available to all Americans.
Vote for those who want to help you, not for those who want to take away what you have and need.
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