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Darlene McDonald

@darlenemcdonald.com
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Novelist. Essayist. Writer of Political and Civil Rights History darlenemcdonald.substack.com

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 09/10/2026
Is now a good time to remind people that lynchings were also public executions? White families—including women and children—routinely attended these lynchings in large numbers. For those who say, “This is not who we are. We’re better than this,” our own documented history proves otherwise.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 18/09/2026
White presenting Hispanics are still Hispanic. We tried to tell you. Ya’ll wouldn’t listen. Thought it only applied to folks from that ‘other’ Latino country. In a country run by white nationalists trying to ‘take their country back’ all brown people are Black and all Hispanics are from Mexico.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 12/08/2026
Thursday, August 13 | 5:30–8:30 p.m. |Viridian Event Center – West Jordan MC: Susie Estrada, President LWV of Salt Lake Speaker: Darlene McDonald, Founder, Selma Institute Documentary: Standing on My Sister’s Shoulders, an award-winning 2002 documentary.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 24/06/2026
Ballot still in the mail pile? It can’t count if you don’t turn it in.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 18/06/2026
Companies pay tens of millions of dollars for this type product placement in a movie! Altoids got a forever product placement at the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening for FREE!
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 13/06/2026
CNN left out a key detail in this headline. Trump’s name was removed in the wee hours of the morning after workers installed scaffolding, stood around for hours, and then lowered a tarp to block visibility. Just like the Epstein files. All done to protect the Predator-in- Chief
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 01/06/2026
$10 billion for Board of Peace $2 billion for insurrection goons $1 billion for a ballroom $100-$250 million for Arch $13 million to paint the Reflecting Pool $1 million to replace the grass on the South lawn Using the U.S. Treasury like a personal bank account. #NotABusinessMan
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 28/04/2026
The initial price tag for the proposed White House ‘ballroom’ was $200 million. The price has ballooned by a whopping $200 million and guess who’s now paying for it. What happened to the billions he’s already collected for his pay-to-play scheme? Why hasn’t anyone in Congress asked about this?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 07/04/2026
Trump 1.0, the Administration had General Mattis to keep Trump from acting on his worst impulses. Trump 2.0, Pete Hegseth fired the Generals that would oppose Trump’s illegal and immoral orders. The rest resigned. The scars of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain. This cannot happen in our name.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 05/04/2026
This is real. Members of Congress should prompt an immediate return to Washington to begin the process of removing Donald Trump from power. Any military service member that executes this order will be complicit in committing ANOTHER war crime. Trump needs to be removed, ASAP.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 26/03/2026
They lied to people about what they were signing. When that failed, they fraudulently added names. In the end, Republicans in Utah failed to meet the threshold they established to make it harder to get initiatives on the ballot. Great job, Utah! This is what democracy looks like. #utpol #utleg
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 25/03/2026
So unmasking ICE isn’t a problem, then? Whether at the airport or on our city streets, it’s the same ICE. #unmasked
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 02/03/2026
Likely source is Jonathan Karl (ABC News' chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.)
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 02/03/2026
The last time the U.S installed a puppet leader of Iran it didn’t end well… Hence…the current moment.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 01/03/2026
W.E.B Dubois had choice words for Booker T Washington for the very reason this Administration would choose to use him on the Board of Education. The inclusion of Washington, Catherine Beecher and Charlie Kirk sends a message to Black students and women. Aim down, and stay in your place. #doe
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 25/02/2026
Both, Rep Al Green (LA) and Burgess Owens (FL) were raised in the Jim Crow South. They’ve seen and lived the consequences of racist policies. Rep Green calls it out and works to dismantle the culture of white supremacy, while Rep Owens has chosen to provide aid and comfort to white supremacists.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 25/02/2026
One of the issues about Donald Trump is that people will not call him out on his sh*t to his face. Rep Al Green of Texas does just that, as Trump enters the House Chamber for the #SOTU. No worries, Utah’s Congressional Rep Burgess Owens is there to make things better. #utpol
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 20/02/2026
That one time (too many times, actually) when they erected Confederate statues in town squares to intimidate the Black residents. Yeah, same vibe.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 17/02/2026
I join the many others in mourning the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson. I had the immense privilege of meeting him and speaking with him. Learning about his work and Presidential Campaigns. He was a giant, who shoulders many us doing the work in social justice stand on. Because of them, we can
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 12/02/2026
Not voting is not a strategy for change.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 11/02/2026
Literally like the only time they’d willingly replace a white male billionaire with a Black female billionaire.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 09/02/2026
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 09/02/2026
Just a reminder that the President of Puerto Rico is a man named Donald Trump. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the WORLD. More people speak Spanish, than English.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 09/02/2026
I couldn’t sit down for an hour. Then Benito ‘Bad Bunny’ took center stage and brought Latin America to the world! I danced until the music stopped. Thank you, Benito for representing 🇵🇷 Together, we are America! 🇺🇸
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 06/02/2026
Not Fake. Not Removed. What’s your next move? By the way, we remember you did not vote to confirm and walked out of the Chamber during the celebration when now Justice Katanji Brown-Jackson was confirmed by the Senator. What’s your next move, sir?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 02/02/2026
God: “Yeah, my name is Bennett and I ain’t in it.”
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 02/02/2026
The last time I’ve been this excited about watching a football game in the middle of a concert it down-poured purple rain. #halftime #badbunny
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 31/01/2026
Idk…I suppose some Germans would have flocked to the theaters to see a movie about Eva Braun.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 30/01/2026
Of course he wants to start a race war to distract from the latest release of Trump/Epstein files. Because if he goes one inch towards President Obama, that’s what will ensue. A Civil War. Luckily, we’re smart enough to see right through his shenanigans.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 30/01/2026
🚨URGENT 🚨 Please contact your State Representative, NOW The current legislative session is calling for a 10% cut to DSPD funding. This will have a dramatic impact on staffing and the quality of services providers are able to provide to clients with disabilities. Say NO to cuts to DSPD! #utleg
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 30/01/2026
Yes, he is trying to steal the 2026 midterm elections. Yes, he is planning to run for a third term in 2028. Yes, you are going to have to do something about it besides post on social media. Yes, authoritarianism is here.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 25/01/2026
Do you think Mitch McConnell watches the news and thinks “Yep, this is the America I envisioned when we refused to convict a criminal president after inciting an Insurrection to overthrow the government “?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 24/01/2026
Jim Crow were legal, yet unjust laws. The militarization of ICE and Border Patrol that enabled them to occupy American cities and engage in racial profiling has resulted in the abduction and execution of citizens and non-citizens. These are unjust laws. #ice #minnesota
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 23/01/2026
After WWII, Americans went to great pain to defeat and then hunt down and prosecute Nazis that had fled. Today, those that adhere to the ideology of Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler sit in the House Chamber as revered guests of United States members of Congress. Michael Fanone got it right.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 22/01/2026
Your final straw can’t be when it’s too late to do something to stop it. Speak up. Stand up. #iceout
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 19/01/2026
Mocking a disabled reporter should have been the last straw, but yeah. This too.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 19/01/2026
The Beloved Community 70 million people voted for and too many millions more that didn’t vote to stop it. #mlk
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 15/01/2026
An absolute fool and an embarrassment to the Nobel Peace Prize process. There’s no way to strip her of her prize, but she deserves to be admonished #disgusted #shame
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 14/01/2026
1935 - Nuremberg Laws: These laws institutionalized racial discrimination, targeting Jews and other groups. 2025 - Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" allowed him to dramatically expand his administration's effort to arrest and deport 'undesirable' primarily non-white immigrants living in the U.S.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 14/01/2026
1934 - Night of the Long Knives: The Nazis eliminated political opponents, consolidating their power. 2025 - Donald Trump's Justice Department targets perceived political enemies of Donald Trump: Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Letitia James, James Comey, Bill and Hilary Clinton This is the beginning.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 14/01/2026
1933 - Enabling Act: This act allowed the Nazis to enact laws without parliamentary consent, facilitating their agenda. 2024 - In Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that presidents - including former Pres. Donald Trump - have immunity from prosecution when carrying out "official acts."
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 14/01/2026
1933 - Rise to Power: The Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, came to power in Germany. 2016 - Rise to Power: Trumpism, led by Donald Trump, replaced the Republican Party in the United States
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 13/01/2026
Who started this GoFundMe and where will this money go? Federal workers are prohibited from accepting gifts. Jonathan Ross is a federal employee. Therefore, he's prohibited from accepting this money. All of this money must be returned to the donors.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 11/01/2026
So is this like a Al Capone, ‘You pay us or we come and break your legs?’ kind of thing? Is that the U.S’ foreign policy?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 11/01/2026
If you’re wondering: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which includes the Border Patrol, claims authority to operate within 100 air miles of any US border, including land and maritime boundaries. Border Patrol has no jurisdiction in Minneapolis.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 10/01/2026
Just so we’re clear. ICE is a para-military organization. ICE agents are NOT being used to enforce immigration laws. They are being sent into communities to terrorize and intimidate citizens and non-citizens into submission to a regime. Hey Gadsden flag flying people, THIS is your moment.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 09/01/2026
Please people, stop calling the video from the ICE Agent, body cam video. It was a cell phone video he took himself as he walked the perimeter of her car. He then put the phone in one hand and shot her with the other
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 09/01/2026
Cell phone, not body cam
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 09/01/2026
“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’” Matthew 25:40 #utpol
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 09/01/2026
A cell phone is not a body cam. Stop believing lies. Calling someone a “fucking bitch,” after shooting them in the head can be used to prove intent. He was mad at her, so he shot her. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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