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On Democracy with FPWellman
by Fred Wellman
Multiple shows and interviews that feature engaging discussions with leading voices ranging from politics to comedy about the state of democracy in the U.S., the threats to its future, and how we can fight back to preserve our nation as well as lighter takes on the news and culture. From our 'OG' podcast featured on the MeidasTouch Network to 'Too Late to Cancel' every Sunday on the On Democracy Channel and stand alone interviews with newsmakers, candidates, and leaders. On Democracy is dedicated to informing, challenging, and growing our community of like minded freedom lovers.
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Alabama is about to shock the nation
As the Trump Administration and its lackeys in the Senate like Tommy Tuberville continue to show how little they care about life and morality Alabama is heading into a pivotal election and a hurricane too. Energy across the state is growing with anticipation for a chance to show Republicans that...
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Lies won't stop us from voting!
The latest jobs numbers came out today and it's a train wreck. The economy is reeling and all the Trump Administration and Republicans can do is lie about it. Out here in the real world we know what's happening and the Black community knows it better than anyone. Now that the 2026 midterms are...
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Tuberville goes completely insane
Furries in planes. That's literally what Senator Tommy Tuberville is talking about with 39 days until the midterm election. Really. He gave a whole speech about it and the danger of furry pilots, air traffic controllers (ATC), and flight attendants...on the floor of the United States Senate while...
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The lies are being fed to you!
We are living in an information environment designed to keep us watching, clicking, reacting, and returning. But what happens when the things that capture our attention aren't necessarily the things that are true—or even important? We are now in a media ecosystem where algorithms and AI are…
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9/11 25 years later and we are in more danger than ever
Today is the 25th anniversary of the fateful events of September 11th, 2001. Many of us look back at how much our lives changed that day as we were shocked to lose thousands of our fellow citizens at the hands of ruthless terrorists. We were at war within weeks to root them out. A war that would...
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Gerrymandering is the root of the mess
Gerrymandering is one of the most powerful—and least understood—ways politicians can manipulate American democracy. Redistricting wars have broken out across the United States with the latest skirmish happening right in Missouri this week. Ohio has become one of the clearest examples of how...
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Pennsylvania is the crossroads for the insanity
Pennsylvania could once again be at the center of American politics in 2026. With several competitive House races that could help determine control of Congress, and a political landscape that remains deeply divided, the Keystone State may offer Democrats one of their clearest paths to rebuilding...
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Constant lies don't pay the bills
Working Americans know the truth: the economy is in freefall and getting worse. Costs for gas, food, healthcare, and energy keep climbing while our wages stay flat and jobs dry up. All of this is only made worse because the Trump Administration and the Republican Congress only worsen this…
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Christian Nationalism and the Fight for American Democracy
Christian nationalism has moved from the political margins into the center of American political power. As religious movements increasingly influence government, public policy, and the Republican Party, a growing debate is emerging over what that means for the future of American democracy and the...
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It's not the factions...it's the actions
Young voters could once again play a decisive role in the 2026 midterms, but campaigns can't simply assume young people will show up at the polls, nor can they assume we will keep them engaged if campaigns don't deliver quickly. Following Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan's Democratic Senate...
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Trump has no way out of Iran debacle
The United States once again finds itself confronting a never ending conflict in the Middle East following President Trump's continued military escalation in Iran with no end in sight and no good options to end the war. As lawmakers debate the President's authority, America's role in the region,...
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Are you sick of it yet?
Millions of Americans are losing health insurance. Rural and community hospitals are closing. Families are paying more while politicians in Washington continue to debate cutting programs that millions depend on and the billionaires and corporations get richer. Is healthcare simply another policy...
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Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall to Steal an Election
Trump held another unhinged speech last night on the 2020 election but this time China was the nefarious actor meddling. Amidst the usual lies and smokescreens the path is emerging for how Trump will try to undermine the upcoming midterm elections and stay in power. We must take his threats...
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The Time for Ruthless Democratic Power is Coming
One thing that Republicans have learned long ago is that when they have power to wield it ruthlessly to push through their agenda. They don’t care what anyone says or thinks to achieve their goals. The Democrats haven’t been so resolute. Norms and traditions are respected and taking the high road...
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How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear
Fear has crept into every corner of American life - but so has resistance. Investigative journalist Julia Angwin and former White House policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer spent the first year of the Trump administration interviewing more than 100 dissidents across five continents to answer a…
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Election Theft Is Nothing New — And It's Coming for the Midterms
With the 2026 midterms fast approaching, the threat to free and fair elections has never felt more urgent. Trump and his cronies have spent years laying the groundwork for exactly the kind of election interference that voting rights attorney David F. Walbert has spent five decades fighting. David...
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Trump can't erase our history
Juneteenth reminds us of a simple truth: freedom delayed is freedom denied. More than 160 years after enslaved Americans in Texas finally learned they were free, the struggle for equal citizenship and political power continues. As attacks on voting rights, civil rights protections, diversity...
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Lead, Fight, or Get Out of the Way: Americans are ready for change
We are deep into the primary season and Democrats are showing up in record setting numbers across the country. A whole new crop of newcomers are running for seats in the House and Senate with many truly being outsiders like never before. Graham Platner has confounded the traditional political...
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Free speech is no longer free under Trump
We know that the Department of Homeland Security has a very loose relationship with the truth and it’s only getting worse under new Secretary, and former plumber, Markwayne Mullin. Words have no meaning at all when oversight becomes politicization and protest becomes assault. A federal case in...
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Women aren't backing down from this fight
With Ken Paxton’s win in the Texas Senate runoff the MAGA talking heads have unleashed a bizarre flood of hate, misogyny, and smears to defend a man who was charged with felonies and impeached by his own party. For many women watching it all unfold they are nodding along knowing that women have...
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MAGA is fighting itself...let's fight for Americans
The Trump revenge tour is in full swing against not just his enemies in the Democratic Party but his own Republican members of Congress! In the last week he sent his Secretary of Defense to help successfully defeat Thomas Massie, endorsed Ken Paxton over John Cornyn, and helped oust Louisiana...
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The Instigators are still in the fight
Trump and his Administration haven’t bothered hiding their racism this time. Every day we are reminded of his disdain for black Americans from the so called Anti-DEI attacks by DOGE to Pete Hegseth’s gutting of the military leadership of women and POC. But, Trump has special disdain for black…
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The Republicans worst nightmare in California
The California redistricting passed and now there is change happening fast in the state and Republicans are scared. Republican Darrell Issa has been in Congress since 2003 and has decided not to run for reelection in his newly drawn 48th District and is openly talking about moving to Texas to run...
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Hegseth can't lie his way out of this failure
Today marks 60 days since the war with Iran began. By law the War Powers Act is now expired and President Trump must seek Congressional authorization to continue military operations. He has not bothered and has now suggested that it actually isn't 60 days because there is a "ceasefire." Secretary...
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Is it a war for America’s security or profit by Trump?
Yesterday Kash Patel triumphantly announced the arrest of a Special Forces Master Sergeant who had bet on the fall of Maduro and made upwards of $400,000. But, oddly, no investigations have been announced into the series of oil futures trades and others just minutes before major announcements by...
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We're in a fight for power and it will get more dangerous
Between the Iran war and the upcoming midterms the United States is locked in both an international and domestic battle for power, a situation we have only faced a few times in our over 250 years of history. Iran has figured out that it doesn't actually have to win the shooting war to wield vast...
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This out of control Administration is endangering our troops and veterans
It’s a war. We all know it’s a war and while Trump prepares to ask for another $200 billion to fight it and an astonishing $1.5 Trillion defense budget he is also saying he doesn’t want to pay for daycare, Medicare, or Medicaid. We are sending our sons and daughters to war under the leadership of...
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The theft of the election has already started
They are desperately trying to steal the midterms as we speak. From the outrageously stupid SAVE Act being jammed through Congress to the threats to deploy ICE and troops to polls this fall and, of course, the illegal mid-decade redistricting in Texas and Missouri. The Republicans are saying…
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Trump's chaos is going to destroy all of us
We are three weeks into a war with no foreseeable end, and meanwhile the economy is in freefall all because of the chaos of Donald Trump and the Republican Doormat Congress. All they can do is lie but working Americans know the truth as they face impossible healthcare bills, skyrocketing prices,...
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The most disgusting leadership in history
We have lost at least 14 service members since the war in Iran began. Six more were killed in the crash of a KC-135 tanker in Iraq. Pete Hegseth couldn’t even begin is press conference the next day with condolences for the families. He spent his time attacking the media and smearing the people…
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If this feels familiar to you it should
We are at war. The Republicans and Trump Administration are hell-bent on twisting that word to avoid oversight and accountability but we are bringing home American service members in caskets and having F-15s shot out of the air while dropping thousands of weapons on Iran. It’s a war. That means…
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They are coming for the kids
Donald Trump promised to get rid of the Department of Education. The far right conservative movement has seen it as an enemy for decades against their mission to dismantle public schools and transfer more money to their private and religious schools. There hasn’t been a despot in history that...
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We will win with a positive progressive populism!
Scarcely a day goes by when it doesn’t seem like the U.S. is sliding further into authoritarianism. At home we see ICE agents killing innocent civilians and terrorizing immigrant communities, unelected corporate titans dismantling public infrastructure, and unprecedented attacks on academic…
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Censorship isn’t just redactions today!
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know the media is struggling to meet this moment in our nation and world’s history. Time and time again we see them follow unimportant stories, fail to explain complex issues, and shrink in the face of financial and government pressure. It’s not new. As long…
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It’s the corruption…and everything else too!
Beyond the outrageous behavior of ICE and CBP agents in the streets we are also seeing the complete collapse of the Department of Justice. Every day we see more examples that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel believe their jobs are to work for Donald Trump and not the American people. From political...
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The mask is coming off Trump’s thugs
Yet another killing by masked federal agents in Minnesota this week has sent shock waves across the country. It’s becoming clearer by the day that ICE and CBP have become out of control. Even the professional law enforcement community is condemning the behavior of these government forces from...
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You can’t say you value every human life then ignore millions of them
The images coming out of Minneapolis became even more shocking this week with the shocking pictures of little Liam Ramos being used as bait to get access to his family home. Meanwhile millions of Americans had their health insurance rates explode this month and tens of thousands losing their...
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It’s not the drugs, it’s the money
We have seen weeks of chaos and now there is violence in Minnesota and Steven Miller’s evil machinations coming to fruition. It’s easy to forget that it has only been just two weeks since the attack on Venezuela on January 3rd. Now federal agents are running amok in Minneapolis, Trump is...
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The Republican Congress has to go!
It has been an absolutely catastrophic week in the United States from the raid on Venezuela and Trump’s continuing absured claims on their oil, threats against Denmark, and even worse the killing of an innocent civilian in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. Increasingly we are seeing the fallout of an...
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The Doormat Congress has to go!
It’s finally here! Election year 2026 has arrived. We have the midterms in just 11 months now and it’s time to take a hard look at what the Republican Doormat Congress is doing for working Americans. The answer is pretty obvious…not just nothing but they are actually hurting working people. From...
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Ho ho ho…let’s screw veterans for Christmas!
Just a week before Christmas the Department of Veterans Affairs was caught deleting over 35,000 positions across the country that they had left unfilled for the last year. VA Secretary Doug Collins is scrambling to spin the cuts as nothing but we know it now adds up to over 70,000 lost positions...
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Fighting the battle for democracy on every front
One thing Fred learned in 22-years in the Army and four combat tours is that you don’t just fight alone. It takes a coalition, multiple services, and many different teams to fight a war. The battle against the creeping authoritarianism, corruption, and economic destruction of the Trump...
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Exposing the lies that are getting people killed here and overseas
We are being lied to by the Republican Doormat Congress. They want us to think everything is going great here at home and that the real issue is the dangerous “narcoterrorists” in Venezuela. On one hand we have Trump saying the “affordability crisis” is a scam and that the economy is awesome and…
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The time for change is now and we are the engine
We are facing a crisis in America that has been unfolding for decades. Working Americans cannot afford to live and nothing is being done to fix it. While prices have constantly increased wages have failed to keep pace for working Americans. Meanwhile the rich have gotten richer and used that…
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Trump is using faith to divide us even more
Donald Trump decided to use the turkey pardoning ceremony as an opportunity to polish his own ego bragging that thanks to him religion and prayer were back again. That is not true at all but worse it represents how he is using Christian Nationalism and their leaders to attack our democracy,...
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The battle over healthcare will hit everyone
After the government shutdown over extending Affordable Care Act tax subsidies, Donald Trump and the Republican Doormat Congress have suddenly decided they care about healthcare costs. He has floated a series of insane ideas from just giving the money to individuals so we can "negotiate prices'…
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Missouri isn’t going down without a fight
Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans are continuing their desperate attempt to save their power from the impending blue tidal wave coming their way. Their favorite tactic recently was pressuring red states to illegally redistrict before the midterms. Texas quickly leaped and so did Missouri’s...
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Starving Veterans and Feds for the holiday
Donald Trump continues to fight paying SNAP benefits as the shutdown continues. Not only are average Americans in the crosshairs but as we go into Veterans Day weekend over 1 million veterans are going without food aid and millions of government employees are unpaid or being illegally fired. This...
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Hegseth is murdering in our name
Are Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump ordering our military to murder innocent people? It's a simple question that seems increasingly true. As of this week the U.S. has conducted 14 known strikes on boats in international waters killing 63 people and leaving 3 survivors. We don't know publicly if any...
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Trump is bailing out Argentina and screwing Americans
We are deep into the government shutdown with no end in sight. Republicans refuse to even negotiate in good faith with Democrats who are demanding a simple thing….restore the healthcare tax subsidies that have been instrumental in controlling spiraling health insurance. It was the Republicans…
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Multiple shows and interviews that feature engaging discussions with leading voices ranging from politics to comedy about the state of democracy in the U.S., the threats to its future, and how we can fight back to preserve our nation as well as lighter takes on the news and culture. From our 'OG' podcast featured on the MeidasTouch Network to 'Too Late to Cancel' every Sunday on the On Democracy Channel and stand alone interviews with newsmakers, candidates, and leaders. On Democracy is dedicated to informing, challenging, and growing our community of like minded freedom lovers.
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