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Maybe you’ve heard some of the buzz about “Project 2025.” What is it — and what would it mean for you and your family?

Project 2025 is a proposed “transition plan for a new Republican administration” put together by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank. It’s an in-depth list of what conservative groups will push for in the event of a Trump victory in the fall.

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Today is the last day we work on our olive trees at the museum gardens in
Bethlehem (80 trees). Earlier last week we picked olives in our own home
garden in Beit Sahour. This is a form of resistance but it is also
physically and mentally healthy exercise that gets us to understand both
the blessings and the challenges of life. As a communal event, we receive
help from volunteers (local and international) and we get to feel
camaraderie and friendship while we also discuss the horrors of starving

I hate elections in the same way that I hate dining in a cafeteria with lots of options, every single one of them disgusting and overpriced. But I don’t mind taking 30 seconds to fill out a few ovals with a pen. I can’t think of anything I do that’s easier. It’s harder to get back into a website that wants a new password than it is to vote. I’m a little sick, in fact, of hearing from former presidents who launched goddamned wars without the hint of any concepts of any plan but who now demand that I make a “plan” for my voting. Stop spamming me with texts and emails, both of you monstrous gangs of con-artist slimeballs! Please? I voted long ago, by mail. I was done in under 30 seconds. I didn’t vote for either of you. I don’t live in one of the handful of states where it could possibly matter if I did.

The conclusion that Donald Trump is a fascist has gone mainstream, gaining wide publicity and affirmation in recent weeks. Such understanding is a problem for Trump and his boosters. At the same time, potentially pivotal in this close election, a small proportion of people who consider themselves to be progressive still assert that any differences between Trump and Kamala Harris are not significant enough to vote for Harris in swing states.

 Opposition to fascism has long been a guiding light in movements against racism and for social justice.

 Speaking to a conference of the African National Congress in 1951, Nelson Mandela warned that “South African capitalism has developed [into] monopolism and is now reaching the final stage of monopoly capitalism gone mad, namely, fascism.”

Politico reported that Trump lied on average every five minutes over 4.6 hours of speeches and press conferences.

The Huffington Post recorded that he told 71 lies during just one town hall event.

Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported in July 2020 that President Trump made over 20,000 "false or misleading claims." This amounts to an average of 23 false claims per day (a polite way to describe lies).

Here are my seven favorite lies from Trump, with my responses:

1. The “Man of the Year” Lie

[Duluth, Georgia]. It was a fashion show with a bullet. Derek Molenhour was showing off one of his T-shirts that sported a scary looking dude pointing a pimped-out assault rifle at you.  

The Palast Investigative Team had worked its way into Wednesday’s Trump rally in Duluth, Georgia. One theme is crystal clear: if Harris wins, the MAGA troops are ready for what LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, calls “Civil War Part 2.”

I asked Molenhour, who is selling piles of his assault rifle Tees, what would happen if Harris wins?

The red-capped salesman didn’t hesitate. “The Three Percenters, who are protectors of our nation, as far as militia, not necessarily military, We the People”—pointing to the sea of red MAGA hats, “are going to come together and there’s going to be a revolution.”

If you don’t know the Three-Percenters, take a look at the photos by our photographer Zach D. Roberts who has tracked them across the country for years. They don’t display AR-15s on T-shirts; they carry them on their with extra ammo cartridges on their chest.