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This Is What You Bought With Your Vote

October 25, 2025 B. John 198 Views 0 Comments working class, retirees, policy impact, Trump, 2024 Election, rural hospitals, farmers

Millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2024, believing he would deliver for farmers, the working class, retirees, and the forgotten small towns. But as his administration’s policies take shape, those same groups are paying the price. Hospitals are closing across rural America. Farmers are watching debts rise as export markets disappear. Working-class families face climbing health costs. Retirees are seeing threats to the Social Security and Medicare benefits they worked their lives to earn.

This essay traces the immediate fallout of those choices, showing how the policies now harming these voters were exactly what Trump promised to do. It’s not betrayal. It’s follow-through. The question is whether Americans are ready to face the consequences of what their ballots actually bought.

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An Important Reminder During the Resistance

November 14, 2024November 13, 2024 B. John 411 Views 0 Comments Laura Jean Truman, justice, Faith, 2024 Election

Keep my anger from becoming meanness.

Keep my sorrow from collapsing into self-pity.

Keep my heart soft enough to keep breaking.

Keep my anger turned towards justice, not cruelty.
Remind that all of this, every bit of it, is for love.
Keep me fiercely kind.
-Laura Jean Truman

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The Call to Justice is Urgent

November 13, 2024 B. John 1046 Views 0 Comments justice, Harris, 2024 Election, Trump

Progressives stand at a critical juncture where the call for justice is louder and more urgent than ever. My faith compels me to see the injustices that surround us and act against them with conviction, guided by Christ’s example of righteous defiance in the face of oppression. While persistence is essential, there are moments when persistence alone is not enough; sometimes, our witness demands a more forceful resistance, a willingness to dismantle the systems that perpetuate inequality and cause harm actively.