Posts by Jim Shultz
The wonders of Election Day in Bolivia. Maybe the US should also ban cars and beer for a Sunday and make folks vote.
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The story of a man who changed a community by simply being kind to everyone. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...
When a local official warns the local League of Women Voters that protest is not protected by the First Amendment, we call him out in his local newspaper. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...
1. Lie about nukes that can reach the U.S.
2. Take the US into a war you don't know how to end.
3. Let thousands of soldiers and innocents die.
4. Wait 23 years and repeat.
Given Donald Trump's need to have things named for him, I suggest cities across the U.S. meet his need in the following way.
The SAVE ACT, Donald Trump's proposed voter identification law, is a brazen effort to keep millions of Americans from voting this year. Here is what you need to know at Democracy Man, my new column on Substack.
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Trumpism is a bomb exploding under US democracy, and a bomb can only be disarmed from the inside, as we are doing in one of the most conservative corners of Western NY open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...
Here is how Stand Up Lockport helped melt ICE in one of the most Republican counties in Western NY. A case study in citizen action. open.substack.com/pub/jimshult...
I was grateful to be invited to speak to a very large No Kings gathering in Amsterdam yesterday. The US is waking up, even abroad. Onward!
Trump will whine that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, because it was given to someone working to turn a dictatorship into a democracy instead of the other way around. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
I was really honored to be profiled in the new edition of the Kennedy School alumni magazine. I have been walking the citizen activism road for 50 years and I have been graced to walk it with many of you.
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Donald Trump sends me an email like this almost every day. Is he finally having regrets about his actions? But it seems like the only way he can get to heaven if I give him money.
Dear Donald, sorry I missed you. Are you asking for money again?
More than 120 people of all ages turned out this morning in Lockport NY for our protest against ICE and Trump‘s abduction of migrants in our community. Most heartbreaking sign, a middle school student holding up: “ICE abducted my friend’s family.”
Masked agents with no identification are throwing terrified men, women, and children into unmarked vans and carrying them away. Here is my column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal and syndicated to 100 newspapers nationwide.
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"Congresswoman Claudia Tenney loves concentration camps in El Salvador the way some Germans loved Auschwitz." My column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal: Letter to our Coward Congresswoman. www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...
Notice the difference in Pope Francis photos?
Well Donald?
Rep Claudia Tenney are you on drugs. Our retirement funds are cratering in service to Trump’s ego and your lips are occupied elsewhere.
Where?
If you aren’t paying attention to how NYPD is turning #LuigiMangione into a folk hero, you aren’t paying attention.
Biden’s pardon of his son will give Trump both license and a lot of motivation to pardon anyone for anything. Political boomerangs are tough. Hunter did us no favors and we owed him none.
It will give Trump both license and a lot of motivation to pardon anyone for anything. Political boomerangs are tough. Hunter did us no favors and we owed him none.
Forrests are pretty cool and are the reason we can have books.