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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My column on Substack is also running in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal and Niagara Gazette, along with other small city dailies across the country. We have to hold Claudia Tenney accountable for taking the nation to war. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...

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Three Months of Trump and Tenney’s War

Our western NY Congresswoman thought starting a new war in the Middle East was going to be a laugh riot.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The wonders of Election Day in Bolivia. Maybe the US should also ban cars and beer for a Sunday and make folks vote. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...

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A Different Kind of Election Day

In Bolivia elections are all about making people vote, not trying to keep them away.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Connecting the dots of Donald Trump’s War of Stupidity substack.com/@jimshultz/n...

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Donald Trump’s War of Stupidity

No action of a U.S.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The story of a man who changed a community by simply being kind to everyone. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...

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Farewell Mr. Lockport

The story of a man who changed a community by simply being kind to everyone

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

When a local official warns the local League of Women Voters that protest is not protected by the First Amendment, we call him out in his local newspaper. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...

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The Niagara County legislator who needs to read the U.S. Constitution

Calling out a public official who warned the League of Women Voters that protest is not protected by the First Amendment

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

1. Lie about nukes that can reach the U.S. 2. Take the US into a war you don't know how to end. 3. Let thousands of soldiers and innocents die. 4. Wait 23 years and repeat.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Given Donald Trump's need to have things named for him, I suggest cities across the U.S. meet his need in the following way.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The SAVE ACT, Donald Trump's proposed voter identification law, is a brazen effort to keep millions of Americans from voting this year. Here is what you need to know at Democracy Man, my new column on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...

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Donald Trump’s Plan to Keep Millions of American Citizens from Voting

The Save Act is about denying people their voting rights, not voter fraud

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Trumpism is a bomb exploding under US democracy, and a bomb can only be disarmed from the inside, as we are doing in one of the most conservative corners of Western NY open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...

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Melting the Bonds Between ICE and Local Law Enforcement

Lessons in Activism from a County Trump Carried Three Times

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Here is how Stand Up Lockport helped melt ICE in one of the most Republican counties in Western NY. A case study in citizen action. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...

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Melting the Bonds Between ICE and Local Law Enforcement

Lessons in Activism from a County Trump Carried Three Times

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I was grateful to be invited to speak to a very large No Kings gathering in Amsterdam yesterday. The US is waking up, even abroad. Onward!

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Trump will whine that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, because it was given to someone working to turn a dictatorship into a democracy instead of the other way around. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I was really honored to be profiled in the new edition of the Kennedy School alumni magazine. I have been walking the citizen activism road for 50 years and I have been graced to walk it with many of you. www.hks.harvard.edu/alumni/conne...

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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Changes

Jim Shultz MC/MPA 1985 is founder of The Democracy Center, which for more than three decades has trained and supported activists around the globe in their quest for positive social change.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Donald Trump sends me an email like this almost every day. Is he finally having regrets about his actions? But it seems like the only way he can get to heaven if I give him money.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Dear Donald, sorry I missed you. Are you asking for money again?

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

More than 120 people of all ages turned out this morning in Lockport NY for our protest against ICE and Trump‘s abduction of migrants in our community. Most heartbreaking sign, a middle school student holding up: “ICE abducted my friend’s family.”

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Masked agents with no identification are throwing terrified men, women, and children into unmarked vans and carrying them away. Here is my column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal and syndicated to 100 newspapers nationwide. www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...

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JIM SHULTZ: America's new secret police

They wear black masks that cover everything but their eyes. They carry guns but not identification. They drive unmarked cars.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"Congresswoman Claudia Tenney loves concentration camps in El Salvador the way some Germans loved Auschwitz." My column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal: Letter to our Coward Congresswoman. www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...

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JIM SHULTZ: A letter to our cowardly congresswoman

Dear Congresswoman Tenney,

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Notice the difference in Pope Francis photos?

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Rep Claudia Tenney are you on drugs. Our retirement funds are cratering in service to Trump’s ego and your lips are occupied elsewhere.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If you aren’t paying attention to how NYPD is turning #LuigiMangione into a folk hero, you aren’t paying attention.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Biden’s pardon of his son will give Trump both license and a lot of motivation to pardon anyone for anything. Political boomerangs are tough. Hunter did us no favors and we owed him none.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving! He is risen.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A friendly reality reminder: Donald Trump’s win in the popular vote in 2024 was half that of Biden’s in 2020. Not much of a mandate.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“Allocating even a fraction of what the United States spends on warfare toward peace building and development would address the deeper drivers of migration,” Ms. Sheinbaum wrote in the letter. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...

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Mexican President Mulls Retaliatory Tariffs After Trump’s Threats

President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs, saying such a move would inflict damage on both countries.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

When Fred Harris dropped out of the presidential race in 1976 he said this and I never forgot it: “We couldn’t exactly call it winning and we couldn’t exactly call it losing so we decided to call it quits.” Vintage Fred Harris. www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...

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Fred Harris, former US senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94 | CNN

Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94.

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Jim Shultz @jimshultz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Fred Harris was the kind of populist the Democratic Party stopped being and a man worth remembering. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

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Fred Harris, former senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94

He made a bid for the presidency in 1976.

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