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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 25/08/2026

Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions to influence our elections and defeat Troy Jackson. He is forgetting that power actually belongs to the people. We will not allow big money to control our collective future. #BlueWaveIn70Days

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 02/07/2026

Happy Canada day, to those who celebrate. Credit to Mike Digout (Mike's videos of beavers on YouTube) for the incredible picture.

A beaver standing under a Canadian flag.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 13/11/2025

For everyone in the South Shore MA or Cape Cod areas (or anyone who wants to travel): The next planned large stand out in front of Plymouth County Correctional Facility to demand that Sheriff McDonald end the Services Agreement with ICE to house detainees is December 13, 2025 from 2pm to 3:30pm.

December 13, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
ICE OUT OF PLYMOUTH
Home to the only ICE detention center in Massachusetts
Demand Sheriff McDonald ENDS ICE Agreement
Plymouth County Correctional Facility
26 Long Pond RD, Plymouth, MA

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 11/11/2025

As Kathryn Monet said, we must do right by veterans and their families—many of whom rely on SNAP and the ACA to get by. Supporting them isn’t charity; it’s a promise this nation is morally bound to keep. It’s time to deliver on it. Happy Veterans Day!

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 15/10/2025

Speaker of thr House Johnson is showing up in the media, but hr and his GOP colleagues aren't showimg up for work. #TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

House Republicans have worked a total of 14 days since July 25th. You can't blame a shutdown in Democrats when the entire Republican Party hasn't even bothered to show up for work.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 26/09/2025

The White House is weaponizing a shutdown to hollow out federal agencies gutting services Americans rely on. This crisis is due to Trump’s refusal to negotiate. A MAGA plan to exploit a crisis they create With the funding deadline days away, Americans will pay the price #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

NBC News headline:
White House lays groundwork for mass government firings if there's a shutdown

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 08/09/2025

The League of Women Voters of the Plymouth Area (MA) are holding a panel discussion on immigration detention in the commonwealth this evening (Mon. Sept 8) at 7pm at Plymouth Town Hall.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 14/08/2025

Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare. It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today! #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 30/07/2025

Medicaid turns 60 today & half the people it covers are children. Let that sink in. Every cut, every cruel restriction, is an attack on their futures. On their health, their dignity, their lives. We are fighting for our kids. #CancelTrumpsMedicaidCuts

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 29/07/2025

Texas Republicans are shamelessly kowtowing to Donald Trump, prioritizing gerrymandering over disaster relief and the needs of Texas voters, a clear sign of their cowardice. An unpopular GOP supported by a minority of voters can only hold on to power through voter suppression and rigging the system

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 23/07/2025

Republicans in Congress lost their moral compass and abandoned American families! They speak of family values, but clearly don't value families. By passing their Big Ugly Bill, they voted for hardship and death for American children. On July 26, we're taking a unified stand to put #FamiliesFirst!

Image, black and white photo of parents and children at the bottom. White text on a red background: "Those who choose to abandon our collective responsibility to future generations and vote for hardship and death for millions for medically complex children and their families are a national shame and moral failure. We will continue to fight for Medicaid and our children's lives."

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 18/07/2025

New GOP-backed caps on graduate student loans are a direct attack on working-class students. If you’re not born rich, forget med school, law school, or becoming a teacher. This isn’t about debt—it’s about control. Fight back. #ClassroomsNotCuts

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 02/07/2025

WATCH as Republicans run away in shame on their votes to cut healthcare from millions of Americans. The faces of cruelty are so pedestrian as they walk away from their responsibility to their constituents. #VoteHellNO

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 27/06/2025

Not giving VPOTUS a pass on deliberately misnaming a senator he knows and chose to misname as a racist whistle -nothing dog whistle about it BOLO: JD Vance or J.D. Vance alias James Donald Bowman aka James David Hamel or could be J.D. Hamel or possibly James D. Hamel or maybe James David Vance

JD Vance
or is it
J.D. Vance
alias
James Donald Bowman
aka
James David Hamel
or it could be
J.D. Hamel
or possibly
James D. Hamel
or maybe
James David Vance

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 26/06/2025

So, we can afford to give Meta 15 BILLION in tax breaks, but we can't afford Medicaid? Make it make sense. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) calls it out loud and clear. The MAGA-GOP budget reconciliation bill is cutting social support in order to fund tax breaks for the richest #MedicaidSavesOurLives

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 23/06/2025

Worried about a terrorist attack in response to escalating war in the Middle East? Sleep easy! Thomas Fugate is on the job, appointed by the Trump administration to coordinate counter-terrorism readiness as part of DHS. They take these things very seriously www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 20/06/2025

For months, Republicans said they wouldn't touch Medicaid. News flash - they lied. Cutting Medicaid and Medicare, and tax breaks for the wealthiest are all wildly unpopular. Their one big idea is to cut Medicaid and Medicare in order to fund billionaire tax breaks, and lie. #DontKillOurMedicaid

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 20/06/2025

For Pride Month, get a free copy of: Queer America: A People's Glbt History of the United States (Vicki L. Eaklor) while they last In the tradition of Howard Zinn's People's History, it tells the story of LGBTQ+ folks' experience of history in this country www.storybookcove.com/history-amer...

Screenshot of the header of the page available at: https://www.storybookcove.com/history-america-special-offer

Free book offer, including, new for June: Queer America: A People's Glbt History of the United States (New Press People's History) (Paperback) by Vicki E Eaklor

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 20/06/2025

Any of it is a distraction only in the sense that each thing is meant as a distraction from all the other horrible things being done. What destroyed We the People's country? Do Tell. "'Twas that cruel policy"

Thomas Nast political cartoon from the 1800's. "Who stole the people's money?" --Do tell... "'Twas him" caption under a circle of Tammany Hall related politicians standing in a circle. Each man points to the man on his right in an endless circle of deflection.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 18/06/2025

When POTUS describes a US Senator as "looking like an illegal" after he was violently thrown to the ground by DHS goons for having the audacity to ask a question of Sec. Noem at a press conference that he was escorted into, anyone could be next. The cruelty is the point. #MAGAKidnappers

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 17/06/2025

Fun times at the No Kings protest in Plymouth looking out over the Rock and ~1k+ folks with @remleec.bsky.social A little rain didn't dampen any spirits, but a gusty wind off the harbor tried its best to turn my sign into a kite!

Uncle Sam and Mrs. Uncle Sam with a sign that reads: We Love the Constitution. No Kings Here.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 16/06/2025

The face you make when you realize the $40M+ parade you threw for yourself has more people walking (not marching) in it than attending it.

Photo of sad TACO Supreme Leader on his birthday

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 12/06/2025

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) attempted to ask DHS Sect Kristi Noem some questions about here department's behavior in CA while she was grandstanding at a press conference. That's the kind of oversight an elected politician should provide. He was arrested by Noem's minions instead.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 11/06/2025

The rest of the folks in CECOT need to be brought back for due process now that they've proved they can do it. Their specious foreign sovereign prison argument collapsed, so it's back to planning to use the original USAmerican offshore legal limbo camp. How low can we go?

Guantanamo = concentration camp

End the migrant prison

Text on graphic of Lady Liberty crying while surrounded by fencing and barbed wire

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 11/06/2025

Guantanamo = concentratioj camp

End the migrant prison

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 09/06/2025

Workers are rallying nationwide to say: 🟣 We won’t be intimidated! 🟣 We won’t be silenced! 🟣 We won’t stop fighting! This is what solidarity looks like! #FreeDavidEndRaids Great turnout and compelling speakers at the rally at Government Center in Boston this afternoon

Rally in support of bith David Huerta, president of SEIU, who was injured and arrested while peacefully protesting ICE assaults in immigrant cimmunities and also those detained improperly by ICE.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 08/06/2025

YES! Miller has been threatening that and I'm sure dreaming about it.

Stephen Miller: "Habeas corpus can be susoended...we're actively looking at that." from May 2025

Picture if Miller looking as he does on the left. Picture of Elon Musk giving a fascist salute in the right.

Text across the bottom: Give salute if you think I'm sexy.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 08/06/2025

Lest anyone forget, this is what an insurrection looks like.

Photo from January 6, 2021: Election deniers storm the Capitol and assault police officers in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 US presidential electon.

The current POTUS issued pardon for all convicted for their actions this day, almosr certainly using an autopen to do so.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 07/06/2025

That is great to highlight, too! JUDICIAL warrants allow them search, seizure, entry, and arrest powers. Administrative warrants are a piece of paper ICE has in hand Saw this posted a while ago with highlighted ways to tell the difference. Big one is judicial warrants are signed by a judge

Photo of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant, used by ICE, side by side with the differences highlighted. The judicial warrant is issued by a court and signed by a judge

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 07/06/2025

Yep! Just pointing out at least the crew of the tank, who he chatted with briefly before getting whisked off, didn't run him over Here in the USA, it's going to take at least 11M of us resisting in a sustained fashion to have a chance 3.5% of the population is a necessary start generalstrikeus.com

General Strike poster from the One Big Union, IWW, International Workers of the World

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 07/06/2025

June 5, 1989 a lone protestor halted tanks on their way to Tiananmen Sq June 6, 2025 a lone protestor is run over by ICE Isn't hitting someone with a car use of deadly force? Where was the imminent threat to the life of those secret police functionaries? ICE aren't police except the secret kind

Famous photo of Tank Man. A lone protestor stands in front of a line of four stopped tanks

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 07/06/2025

A photo of a lone man standing in front of 4 tanks on their way to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China June 5 1989

The image is famously known as Tank Man

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 05/06/2025

Any sense of shame or embarrassment seems to have gone missing in the new regime.

22 year old Thomas Fugate might not have qualified for a job interview as junior staff at DHS in days gone by. Now, he's in charge of an office tasked with terrorism prevention.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 04/06/2025

Yes! 100s and 100s of protests against the fascist takeover in progress in cities and small towns across the country Easy to find one near you at nokings.org

Screenshot of the No Kings website (https://nokings.org) showing the hundreds of events protesting fascism planned in cities and towns of all size across the USA on 06/14.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 04/06/2025

JUNE 14 we are showing up EVERYWHERE! There are 1475 events taking place across the USA! We have a simple message: No thrones. No Crowns. No KINGS! Find your event! www.nokings.org Sound way up! This song is a banger, and should be the Song of the Summer of '25.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 03/06/2025

Manly Josh Hawley hightailing it from the J6 "supporters" he'd egged on not long before.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 03/06/2025

The wannabe king and his welfare queen share a tender moment. Vlad would be so jealous if they didn't have an open relationship.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 03/06/2025

If you're on the South Shore of the Boston area, there are many ways to celebrate Flag Day with fellow patriots. One is to re-affirm what our patriot forebears bequeathed -there are No Kings in America I recommend heading to Cole's Hill (across from Plymouth Rock) at noon 06/14 www.nokings.org

Screenshot of the many protests on Flag Day (06/14) in the South Shore MA area

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 02/06/2025

Miller and his wife Katie got her placed in DOGE so she could try to control Muskrat. Now she's leaving DOGE to continue working directly underneath him. Half-boy's putting horns on Stephen, but it's a bit like a hat on a hat... he's already hiding devil's horns somewhere under that bald pate.

Stephen Miller looking his best on the left side of an image. Elon Musk throws a fascist salute from the right. A quote from Miller "Habeas corpus can be suspended...we're actively looking at that". His eyes are saying to Elon "Give a salute if you think I'm sexy".

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 01/06/2025

Sen Joni Ernst making her best case for Christianity... www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) says the quiet part out loud. Photo of the senator (not pictured, missing soul). Her implied message, "Some of you will die. But thst is a sacrifice I am willing to make."

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 31/05/2025

Waaaaahooo! Good thing she's up for re-election!

Still from Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. SLIM Pickens rides an atomic bomb to Earth.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 31/05/2025

Maybe they should read Josh Hawley's book on manhood.

Sen. Josh Hawley running in terror from a J6 mob he'd cheered with a raised fist not long before. For more if his tips on manly virtures find one if his books in a clearance rack or dusty back of a publisher's warehouse.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 29/05/2025

With his evil little sidekick...

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 29/05/2025

The voucher system is a Trojan horse for privatization. Don't be fooled – it's a threat to public education as we know it. #HandsOffPublicSchools

Political Cartoon. "School Choice" showing gated access with a checkpoint on the way in to a school. Children gather at the gate. One suited white old dude labeled "Private Schools" says to another "It means WE choose which ones to admin" as the other guffaws.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 29/05/2025

Great read, and well written, Bren! It's important to remember Jamal Khashoggi's legacy, and the importance of a free press and no monarchy Sadly, MBS international image rehabilitation started with a visit from President Joe Biden. In that case, security concerns reigned, not personal greed

President Joe Biden fist bumping the butcher, MBS, during a visit to Riyadh.

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 29/05/2025

Katie Miller, married to Stephen Miller, and with kids, fathered by someone, is quitting DOGE to continue working under Elon Musk. I bet Stephen's enjoying watching that! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Billboard format graphic. Stephen Miller (picture Nosferatu with less charm) looks out from the left.

A quote: "habeas corpus can be suspended...we're actively looking at that" -Stephen Miller
An unattributed quote below: "salute if you think I'm sexy"

Elon Musk throwing a fascist salute at the inauguration is pictured on the right.

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