I’ve never seen a politician practice silent meditation.
It requires real courage: the willingness to look honestly at yourself and break down the false stories you’ve built up over time.
#SilentMeditation #PoliticalCourage #SelfReflection #Honesty #InnerStrength #BreakDownFalseStories
Jesse Jackson could do something most politicians can't even imagine.
He got conservative dirt farmers and inner-city families fighting the same enemy: corporate profiteers running roughshod over us all.
That's not (just) oratory. That's vision. And it's exactly what we need right now.
#JesseJackson #RainbowCoalition #Populism #ProgressivePolitics #MultiracialDemocracy #FoodJustice #RuralAmerica #Organizing #PoliticalCourage
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/jesse-jacksons-most-consequential
In 1988, I was one of only two white elected Democratic officials in all of America to endorse Jesse Jackson to be our party’s nominee for President.
This is what political courage looks like: Indiana Republicans defeat Trump's gerrymandering plan
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/indiana-votes-against-gerrymandering
Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a video reminding military and intelligence officers that they must refuse illegal orders.
María Corina Machado Wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Democracy
#MariaCorinaMachado #NobelPeacePrize #Venezuela #Democracy #HumanRights #IronLady #FreedomFighter #PoliticalCourage #BreakingNews #Inspiration #GlobalNews #TrendingNews #Peace #Activism #VenezuelaNews #annakarolinaheinrich
Representative Howell delivered a speech against SB164, a bill that would charge parents with child abuse for providing gender affirming care even if they were merely driving through the state.
We need more and more courageous politicians that don't abide to AIPAC, ADL and other Zionists organizations' blackmail.
#Chicago #DNC #Gaza #IOF #Israel #Genocide #PoliticalCourage
Supporting the troops becomes like supporting democracy for the Republican party.
" Is every member of the [House Republican Conference] a homophobic, racist, science denying lunatic? No. But the lesson of today is that the ones who aren’t are massive cowards completely unfit for any position of leadership. "
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-14-2023?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Republicans #Fascism #Democracy #PoliticalCourage
Traditionally, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which funds the annual budget and appropriations of the Department of Defense, passes Congress on a bipartisan basis. Since 1961 it has been considered must-pass legislation, as it provides the funding for our national security. For all that there is grumbling on both sides over one thing or another in the measure, it is generally kept outside partisanship.
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