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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
January 31 Charlestown Historical Society features talk by Narragansett wampum artist Allen Hazard
State legislation introduced to protect your Constitutional rights
Blue states must act on Trump attacks now more than ever
From a press release:
State Representative Brandon Potter (Democrat,
District 16, Cranston) has introduced legislation to protect the constitutional
rights of Rhode Islanders from federal officials by creating a right to sue in
state court.
“Under the Trump Administration, federal officials have invaded our states and blatantly disregarded the constitutional rights of the citizens whose communities they have occupied,” said Representative Potter.
“These abuses are only growing more brazen. This federal government will not
police itself, so individual Rhode Islanders need a defense in state courts to
protect their constitutional rights, which is exactly what this legislation
provides. For too long, federal officials have enjoyed broad immunity against
lawsuits in federal court, a deficiency in our legal system that this lawless
administration has made heartbreakingly clear. It’s time for states to step up
to their residents’ defense, starting with Rhode Island.”
The Rhode
Island Federal Constitution Defense Act (2026-H
7202) would create a state law cause of action against federal
officials who, through actions in Rhode Island, violate a person’s rights under
the United States Constitution.
Rhode Island currently has no state cause of action to sue a
federal official in a Rhode Island state court for violating the federal
Constitution, meaning that Rhode Islanders whose constitutional rights have
been violated have to sue federal officials in federal courts, where judges
have ruled that officials have broad immunity from these lawsuits.
Charlestown issues official fraud warning about scam e-mails
Fraud Alert: Scam Emails Impersonating Town Boards and Officials
Town of Charlestown
These scam emails are designed to look official and may reference zoning applications, permits, invoices, or approvals.
In many cases,
they attempt to pressure recipients into sending payment, providing sensitive
information, or replying urgently in order to “complete” a Town process.
These messages are not legitimate and are not sent by the
Town of Charlestown.
How to recognize these scams
Scam messages often include:
- Requests
for payment by wire transfer, or electronic invoice
- A
request to reply directly to the email for payment instructions
- Language
that creates urgency or pressure to act quickly
The Town does not request payments, banking
information, or signatures through unsolicited emails.
Trump's long-awaited healthcare "plan" is a joke
He can barely bring himself to pretend he cares.
That’s the usual time period in which Donald Trump has, for the last 10 years, promised the arrival of a spectacular plan to reform the healthcare system, one that would solve every problem anyone could identify, whether individual or systemic.
Just you wait, he’d say — the plan is coming in
two weeks, and you’re gonna love it.
Well now the White House has indeed released what
it calls “The Great Healthcare Plan.” Is it great? No. Is it a plan? Not
really. It is, however, in its combination of stupidity, ideological
derangement, and unseriousness, a near-perfect expression of everything Trump
and his party believe about a policy challenge that has bedeviled the United
States for decades.
If the White House wanted to enact some kind of healthcare
reform, it would put out a document explaining a series of changes it would
like to make to the system, then work with Republicans on Capitol Hill to turn
those ideas into legislation. That is not happening. There are a few Republican
bills rolling around Congress, but no one takes them seriously.
What we have, then, is a bunch of vague statements of
principle, some outright nonsense, and a few absolutely terrible ideas.
Monday, January 26, 2026
Donald Trump Hates America
Trump's contempt for Americans includes even his most MAGA supporters.
Several days ago, Trump was visiting a Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan that makes Ford F-150 trucks. As he walked past the factory floor, a worker yelled up to him: “Pedophile protector.”
Trump heard the
comment and responded with the elegance and grace we’ve come to expect from
him. Twice he mouthed “f**k you,” then gave the guy the finger. (You can
watch the
episode here.)
He heard something he didn’t like, which—as we watch the
Justice Department’s contemptuous refusal to comply with the law and release
the Epstein files in full— suggests that he remains threatened by any assertion
that he was involved with Jeffrey Epstein’s monstrous pedophilia and sex
trafficking. Would an innocent man be so quick to flaunt his hostilities, his
hatred, his violence?
But he could count on his enabling team to defend his
fragile psyche. One of his particularly nasty rapid-response handlers, Steven
Cheung, had a quick counterpunch. Trump “gave an appropriate and unambiguous
response,” he said
in a statement, because a “lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a
complete fit of rage.”
You get the idea. If Trump does it, it’s just fine, indeed
evidence of his impressive authenticity. If he’s in any way criticized, that
person must be a rage-filled lunatic and slapped down.
This is no way to run a country, surely not one based on
encouraging a diversity of viewpoints—so necessary for creativity and
innovation, so fundamental for a society dedicated to personal freedom. But
then, we are being held hostage by a deeply broken man whose increasing need to
silence dissent is a feature of his malignant narcissism and his cognitive
decline.
Charlestown Democrats host 2026 candidates' meetings on Jan. 29 and February 4
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