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Know Your Rights

SUMMARY: Hear from legal experts at the ACLU of Maine, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein (Ret.), and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance.

We The People

Supporters of Democracy Make Their

 Voices Heard in Edwardsville

 
By Steve Rensberry
Commentary
     
 
    EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- 2/16/25 -- I am proud to have exercised my First Amendment Rights at a local pro-democracy action group protest on Feb. 14 in Edwardsville, along with many other local residents. This is no time to be silent. 
 
    Lining the sidewalk near the library downtown, pro-democracy demonstrators held up signs for more than an hour, in a highly visible area. Many motorists were honking their car horns in support.

    This is what democracy is all about, and what the freedoms outlined in the Consitution are all about, and what having a backbone and the courage to fight for what's right is all about. 
   
    If you're not angry at the cruel and unnecessary "reforms" the current administraton is forcing upon us, illegally so, affecting disabled people, veterans and good people all over the country, you're not paying attention. 
 
   More protests are planned accross the country, and locally, on (Not My) Presidents Day.
 


 


 
 
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What the DOJ’s SPLC Indictment Actually Says (Not the Headlines)

Summary: The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on 11 federal counts, including wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The DOJ alleges that, “unbeknownst to donors,” SPLC used more than $3 million in donor funds to pay informants embedded in extremist groups, routed those payments through fictitious entities, and made false statements to banks to keep the system running.