Greetings, Americans!
Upcoming is May Day, the worldwide celebration of workers. In the past few years, in this country, May Day was considered a commie holiday, with the image of troops marching past Lenin’s Tomb in Red Square. Over the past few years, however, it has gained currency and respect, with the downfall of the Soviet Union and workers from Central and South America coming in, who have grown up with traditions of May Day in their countries of origin.
In Philadelphia, the movement to celebrate May Day was the work of Jim Moran, of blessed memory, who served as Director of the Philadelphia Area Project for Occupational Safety and Health (PHILAPOSH), and has been the driving force behind the commemoration of Workers Memorial Day. We continue his work for the cause of workers.
We all need to organize to resist the ongoing trump onslaught on our rights. The administration is proposing to send ICE agents to polling stations—for what? It’s supposedly for “security,” but for whom? Certainly not us, the American voters. This regime’s solution to every internal challenge, like with the pro-immigrant movement in Minneapolis, or the possibility of losing the House and Senate, is to send its armed goons to let the nation know how badass he is.
It’s no different from how ICE deployed agents to airports to deal with the problems of long lines for passengers, due to TSA agents not being paid. What COULD they do about that situation? The agents just stood around, drank coffee, and they had nothing to do, really. It’s another example of a wannabe dictator showing us how powerful he is, except he isn’t so powerful. In short, they are attempts to intimidate us. We won’t allow that to happen.
(https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/us/ice-agents-airport-deployment-what-we-know)
(https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/sending-ice-polling-places-illegal)
To show you what we’re up against, the trump DOJ (it’s not ours) has put out an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (https://www.splcenter.org/), charging it with defrauding donor funds by (allegedly) paying informants to infiltrate racist and neo-fascist groups. The DOJ is not, however, going after the Klan, antisemites, or terrorists, for THESE are the constituencies that the Trump-MAGA movement comes from., and are the support of the regime. SPLC has done wonderful work in investigating racist-fascist organizations that continue to pollute our politics and society—and which have found its way into the Republican Party and then the Trump regime. THAT’S what this “indictment” is about. It’s using the apparatus of the State to go after the regime’s enemies.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/politics/southern-poverty-law-center-doj-investigation.html)
But all is not lost. Hungary has been ruled for 16 years by Victor Orban, who has used the government power he had to weaken democracy in his country, by controlling the news media and placing his minions into the judicial system. Conservatives have pointed to Orban’s Hungary as a model of “illiberal democracy” for this country to follow, and Budapest has hosted several meetings of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Earlier in April, Orban’s party lost in a landslide to the party of Peter Magyar, a more centrist conservative, and Orban conceded defeat; I was afraid he would be like trump and send a howling mob of loyalists to rampage the parliament, but that didn’t happen. If the Hungarians can peaceably vote out its dictator, we can do the same with ours.
(https://www.npr.org/2026/04/12/nx-s1-5782671/hungary-viktor-orban-concedes-defeat)
With the midterms coming up—May 19 in Pennsylvania—you know trump and his goons will try any dirty trick to prevent us from voting against him, like with intimidating voters, gerrymandering districts, and “voter ID” laws. The trump regime is running scared, so let’s ALL get out and vote, and we’ll run them right out of our government, and our politics. The fate of this country, and the world, is riding on this.
Stay safe, stay strong, and stay together! Am Yisrael Chai! Slava Ukraini! Fuck Trump! America will be free! Bye!
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