"Democracy is not a spectator sport." — Marian Wright Edelman
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." — Thomas Jefferson
"Democracy dies in darkness." — The Washington Post
"A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living." — John Dewey
"Democracy is fragile and must be protected. It requires constant care and effort from all of us." — Barack Obama
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself." — John Adams
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." — Benjamin Franklin
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." — Alexis de Tocqueville
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." — Abraham Lincoln
"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments." — Alexander Hamilton
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for." — Thomas Jefferson
"The alternate domination of one faction over another... is itself a frightful despotism." — George Washington
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... as short in their lives as violent in their deaths." — James Madison
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects." — Aristotle

The Reasons Why The Truth Matters — Now More Than Ever

Economic Reasons

The economic policies being pursued by the Trump administration are having a direct and measurable impact on the lives of everyday Americans. Select a topic below to learn more.

🧠 Why Is the US Economy So Bad?

A Fox News host runs the $850B Pentagon. An anti-vaccine lawyer runs public health. A man with an enemies list runs the FBI. And above them all: the only president in American history with zero prior public service, six business bankruptcies, and ranked 41st out of 44 presidents by historians. When incompetence governs, markets pay. Here's the full story of how we got here.

💸 The Tariff Catastrophe: A 1930 Failure Repeated

The Supreme Court called them unconstitutional 6-3. Every court that reviewed them ruled against them. American households lost $1,000–$1,700 in 2025. Farmers lost $34.6 billion. 15,000 farms went under. And the man who designed it invented a fake expert to quote in his own books. The full story of how a convicted felon's fringe theory became the most damaging economic policy in a century.

📊 Job Losses, the Hiring Freeze & The War on the Fed

92,000 jobs lost in February 2026 alone — nearly double what economists predicted. Five months of job losses in 2025, the worst since 2010. 330,000 federal workers fired. Manufacturing shed 83,000 jobs. And while the economy collapses, Trump is threatening to criminally prosecute the Federal Reserve chair for refusing to cut rates on demand.

💰 It Costs More to Just Survive

Groceries up 30% since 2020. Ground beef at its all-time record high. Health insurance premiums doubling for millions. Energy bills up 13%. 52% of Americans can't pay rent on time. And while 9 in 10 Americans say there's a full-blown cost-of-living crisis, Trump calls it "a hoax" — and spends $400 million building a gold ballroom for himself.