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Statement by Ralph Nader on the Passing of Morton Mintz at the age of 103
July 28, 2025 Morton Mintz was a consummate ‘beat journalist.’ His pioneering sense of newsworthiness, including reporting what citizen groups were doing, opened up one area of consumer, environmental, and workplace abuses after another for other reporters to follow. He was the drug industry’s consistent “hair shirt.” Many a high corporate executive looked with dread…
Read MoreToady Speaker Johnson: Closing Down the House to Cover for Trump’s Scandal
By Ralph Nader July 25, 2025 The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson—probably the worst Speaker in American history—shut down the House early this week before its five-week vacation. He wants to avoid holding votes on releasing the Epstein files that reportedly include, among other notables, Donald J. Trump. This is the latest…
Read MoreLetter to President Obama July 22, 2025
July 22, 2025 The Honorable Barack Obama The Office of Barack and Michelle Obama P.O. Box 91000 Washington, DC 20066 Dear Mr. Obama: We are dismayed at your idling while summoning citizens to man the barricades against President Donald Trump’s daily wrecking ball against the United States Constitution: usurping the war power, the power of…
Read MoreWho Will Fund the Massive Rallies in 50 States to Tell Tyrant Trump “YOU’RE FIRED”?
By Ralph Nader July 18, 2025 Since the attached article was published on May 2, 2025, Trump has made matters worse by having his Congressional Republicans shred America’s historic social safety net in one big, savage, cruel, and vicious bill. He also gave more power, privileges, and tax escapes to giant corporations who fund him,…
Read MoreSummer Reading to Spark Civic Action
By Ralph Nader July 11, 2025 Readers think, and thinkers read. Here are some selections for your summer reading list. A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges (Seven Stories, 2025). With brilliant narratives, both historical and contemporary—Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges provides the framework that explains how the…
Read MoreBRAND TRUMP’S NAME ON HIS BIG SAVAGE WRECKING OF AMERICA BILL
By Ralph Nader July 3, 2025 The narrow passage of Trump/GOP 1100-page bill that spells death, destruction, and deprivation to the American people—including MAGA voters and innocents abroad should destroy the Trumpster Republicans in the 2026 Congressional election. However, by then it will be too late for poor American children facing Trump reducing the food…
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