"This is a time to roll up our sleeves…to organize, to mobilize, and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together. Many people feel like we are entering a dark time. But only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. Let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars.  The light of optimism, of faith, of truth and service. And may that work guide us even in the face of setbacks toward the extraordinary promise of the United States of America. "

Kamala Harris

To see if Trump will actually lower the price of eggs, David Pepper begins a quarterly accounting of the prices of 30 grocery items found at his local Kroger.

Ohioan Alexander Sheppard who was released from federal prison after serving time for his part in the Capitol riot, believes all the Jan 6 insurrectionists should be pardoned; but an OSU sociologist says it's a bad idea and would vindicate the rioters' actions.

Jack Smith and his team believed they could have secured a conviction according to the 130-page report. You can read it for yourself.

Convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records, President-Elect Trump is now a sentenced felon.

Mary Trump writes about her experience on Jan 6, 2021 and the failure of American Democracy.

As Project 2025 calls for terminating the Dept. of Education, Trump has nominated former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon to head the Department. The NEA is opposed to her confirmation.

Attorney Joyce Vance reminds us that George Orwell's "1984" is "a warning, not just an instruction manual for would-be dictators." And she also reports on the letter two Senators wrote to President Biden urging him to issue a directive clarifying the deployment of the military under the Insurrection Act, concerned that Trump would follow through on his comments to invoke the Act "on his first day in office." FREE SUBSTACK SUBSCRIPTION TO "CIVIL DISCOURSE WITH JOYCE VANCE."

Several months ago, David Pepper wrote a fictional story about a Trump presidency in 2025 when an anti-vaxxer replaced a CDC expert during a bird flu outbreak.
Now in reality, there's a rise in bird flu infections coupled with the possibility that anti-vaxxer RFK will play a leading role in health decisions in Trump's administration.
What other fictional worst case scenarios of David's Project 2025 book could come true? FREE SUBSTACK SUBSCRIPTION TO "PEPPERSPECTIVES."

As he begins to analyze what happened with the election, David Pepper looks at it from a historical perspective...and calls attention to the issue on which the right wing "got absolutely destroyed." FREE SUBSTACK SUBSCRIPTION TO "PEPPERSPECTIVES."

Click the button and scroll down the page to the Table of Contents to read "The Conservative Promise to save our republic." Candidate Trump denied having anything to do with it, but as President will Trump embrace Project 2025?