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“Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine.”
The words are those of Renee Good’s wife Becca. They cut to our heart – our humanity. She was shot in the face by an ICE agent, who then muttered: “Fuckin’ bitch.” The murder of this 37-year-old mom as she tried to drive around the ICE guys who stopped her is national news, of course. Almost everyone has seen at least one of the many videos of the incident and, you might say, the national dialogue about virtually anything else has been put on hold.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested, detained, deported, and/or imprisoned many people that it has unilaterally determined to be undesirables. At first, they claimed they would deport only criminals, but it has already gone beyond that. We at the Free Press consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide. It appears the government will revoke Visa's to get rid of undesirable students. This article will be updated as long as is necessary.
Protest is now terrorism, Texas tells us. And green is now blue, at least in reflecting pools. Small victories: the Knicks did it in five, matching Iran’s win (in months). (Maybe.) Meanwhile, the Trumpistrate has switched from destroying the oceans to defending lung cancer. And housing for the homeless is held hostage by the Voter Fraud Hoax. Curiouser….
The fight for the 2026 midterms won’t begin on Election Day. It has already begun.
In this interview, we discuss the conspiracy that is still going on and how we can fight back now… before it’s too late to save the midterms.
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with journalist Bob Gatty for an in-depth conversation about my election research and the work we’re doing through the It’s Up to Us initiative.
Here is the link to watch the full video:
After musician after musician pulled out from Trump’s “Freedom 250” concert, he was left with Lee Greenwood, an opera tenor, a couple of military bands, and Kash Patel’s girlfriend. The anthem that made Greenwood a star, “God Bless the USA,” was written in 1985 during the height of the Cold War. It begins with the specter of loss— “If tomorrow—all the things were gone, I’d worked for all my life/ And I had to start all over with my children and my wife.” Then the wounds disappear before they’re felt: “I’d thank my lucky stars to be living here today/ Because the flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away.”
Professor Sang Hea Kil, a tenured Justice Studies professor at San José State University (SJSU), became widely known for her involvement in pro‑Palestinian campus protests. She was fired in 2025 after the university determined she had violated campus and CSU policies during several protest‑related incidents. In June 2026, however, an arbitrator ruled that her termination was excessive, ordering SJSU to reinstate her with back pay and reduce the penalty to a one‑month unpaid suspension.
Prof. Kil is an Asian American with no roots or affiliation to the Middle East. She is also known for her work with the California Faculty Association (CFA), where she serves as co‑chair of its Palestine, Arab, and Muslim Caucus. She has long been active in student advocacy, labor organizing, and pro‑Palestinian activism across CSU campuses. Like many Americans, Prof. Kil has not shied away from speaking out against injustice — most notably the genocide in Gaza and the plight of the Palestinian people.
I hope Trump, Miller, ICE and all the haters have a great celebration about their Supreme Court’s greenlight for the president to end of temporary protective status for Haitians and Syrians. I’d make a bet this is going to be a case of maybe “they should have been careful about what they wished for.” They’ve already seen fierce push back from agribusiness and farmers on all sides of the political spectrum for diminishing their workforce, forcing them to make allowances or look the other way. Now with more than 1.1 million workers at risk of losing the right to work based on a protective status, they can’t imagine the whelping from their allies and foes in the healthcare, service, industrial, and agricultural sectors.
The Columbus Free Press has a long history of investigating stolen elections beginning with the 2000 election (Bush vs Gore). Our most important contribution was the stolen election of 2004, where George W Bush and Karl Rove stole the election from John Kerry. This election was stolen in Ohio, so the Free P ress orchestrated important public hearings and published “Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election?”. Similarly we reported on Trump's theoretical defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Trump's most recent “win” over Kamala Harris. We recognize that Trump spent 4 years crying about a stolen election that was not stolen (2020), effectively causing Democrats to remain silent, as usual (Trump-cry makes America reluctant to discuss Stolen Elections).
Under Orange King Trump, the wannabe fascist government of the United States is working to ensure there is never a fair election in America again, and are specifically targeting the midterm elections.
Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire recently. Is that a good thing for one person to have that much wealth and influence? How feasible are Musk's plans to build spaceships to go the moon, Mars, or other areas of the solar system?
There are some good reasons the US have not gone back to the moon since 1972. Anything can go wrong on a mission as we have seen with Apollo 13, which failed to get to the moon but managed to return to Earth with its astronauts still alive.
There's not much reason to go. There's no life there or no way to grow anything. There's no oil or mining prospects there. The whole moon would have to be covered with gold to reap the enormous expenditures of financing a mission there. Even the worst land on Earth is better than the best land on the moon or Mars. It would certainly be much cheaper to build data centers here.