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BRAND 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…
Citizen Action and Other Big Ideas By David Bollier — Chapter One The Beginnings
In 1963, Ralph Nader, then an unknown twenty-nine-year old attorney, abandoned a conventional law practice in Hartford, Connecticut…
Chapter 2 Nurturing the “Consumer-Side” Economy
By the early 1970s, Nader’s many task forces had exposed dozens of outrages committed by the “supply-side” of the American economy
Chapter 3 The Office of Citizen
For this army of Harvard graduates about to enter the moral narcosis of the Reagan years, Nader issues a provocative challenge…
Chapter 4 Let the Information Flow
Secrecy, collusion among self-selected elites, and public relations hocus-pocus were common practices among the governing class.
Chapter 5 Corporate Abuses, Consumer Power
Over the past twenty years, one Nader advocacy group after another has tried to help the law catch up with the march of corporate abuses.
Chapter 6 The Art of Public Interest Litigation
Morrison first met Nader in 1971 through a law student who had worked for Nader the previous summer.
Chapter 7: The Politics of Health
It has been said that Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., has a waiting room packed with 240 million patients.
Chapter 8 The Citizen Movement Expands
How many more people are becoming active citizens?