Trump Administration 2025-2026: Harmful Actions
This is a fairly thorough list of questionable and harmful actions by the 2025-2026 Trump Administration.
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What Can a Follower of Jesus Do When America Is Failing?
What do we do when our government becomes untrustworthy? I’ve been wrestling with this question for a while now. And everything I see coming convinces me that we’re in for a REALLY rough ride in the near future. So what do we do about it? I have some ideas that won’t fix any of our nation’s problems – but they will give us a roadmap for bringing the love of God to those around us, even as the darkness grows.
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Political Predictions for the USA in 2026
This is my personal appeal to be aware of the extreme political danger the USA faces this year, and my thoughts about how we might react.
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Special Council Jack Smith’s deposition to the House Judiciary Committee
On 12/17/2025, Special Council Jack Smith gave an 8-hour deposition to House members regarding Donald Trump’s actions on and around January 6th, 2021, allegedly attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Smith explained his case for charging Trump with crimes, and strongly defended his work as being entirely non-partisan. The video and transcript
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Weaponizing the Human Soul
The MAGA propaganda machine is powerful and dangerous. More than anything I’ve seen in my lifetime, I’ve watched it successfully weaponize the human soul, taking the worst primal human emotions and using them to wound and even kill our neighbors and fellow citizens and the most vulnerable among us.
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On Dangerous Ground
How dangerous a thing it is to claim a mantle of being God’s chosen people living on God’s promised land, and not scrupulously following God’s laws! The land itself will spew them out.
And yet, that’s exactly what a massive number of American evangelical Christians are doing – even as they celebrate the horrible injustices being carried out by their government, violating the single most emphasized commandment in the Bible.
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Why Is It So Hard to Address Homelessness?
I’ve been getting involved in addressing homelessness in my town, and sat in on a meeting about renovating a house into a women’s shelter. I was struck by how *stupidly* hard it is to help people get affordable or even emergency housing. It seems like all the wheels of regulation are jammed against any real progress. Why is it so hard? What can we do about it, if anything?
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A Shallow Veneer of Equality
While I mourn many things that are being lost in the last few months here in America, one that grieves me the most has been the absolute shredding of many markers of equality in our culture. As I watch what is happening, it’s now clear to me that this equality was a lot less solid than I had thought.
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Decimation of the Civil Service
These “buyouts” are a bribery tool being used to literally decimate the Civil Service system, not trim the fat. And it’s inherently punitive, not constructive. Let me explain, and remind us of the etymology of the word “decimate.”
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A Brief History Lesson
This is a very succinct recounting of the history of Hitler’s rise to power. It’s worth seeing the sharp parallels with what is happening in 2025 in America.
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