To close out this Thanksgiving Day weekend, I wanted to offer my condolences to the family of Sarah Beckstrom, the National Guard soldier murdered in Washington, D.C. last week, and to offer my best wishes for a full and speedy recovery for Andrew Wolfe, the other National Guard soldier critically wounded in that incident.
 Happy Thanksgiving! We have so much for which to be thankful here in the United States. This year, in particular, I am grateful for the many people in key positions who are standing up for the rule of law. The Cuban people have suffered under a terrible communist dictatorship for nearly seventy years. Many do not understand that the Bautista dictatorship opened the door for the communists by allowing organized crime to undermine the rule of law through the corruption of government officials. Our constitutional republic here in the United States is under a similar deliberate attack by corrupt officials who violate the law with impunity (e.g., the Hatch Act), accept illegal gifts from foreign governments, pardoning elected officials who have been convicted of soliciting bribes, pardoning other convicted criminals who have given money for certain "causes", and accusing political adversaries of made-up crimes. Thankfully, we still have citizens in key positions who are fighting for the rule of law. We should all be thankful for them this Thanksgiving.
Accountability Citizenship can help us find our way out of the current political wilderness... In this video, I explat two things Members of Congress can do right now that would break the gridlock in Washington. Almost every one of us (except residents of DC and territories) has one United States Representative (one of the 435 Members of the House of Representatives and two United States Senators (two of the 100 Members of the Senate). We all need to communicate directly and with urgency using either the electronic messaging available on your Representative's or Senators' web sites or by regular mail (or both). As I stress in the attached video, we should demand a bipartisan resolution condemning the President's action in bulldozing the East Wing of the White House (AFTER telling the American people the White House structure would not be harmed in any way), or, in the case of Republican Members of Congress, switching their party affiliations away from the Republican Party. I did a television interview 12+ years ago just after publishing my first book, Accountability Citizenship, and starting my company AccountabilityCitizenship.org. Here is a short video with key excerpts from that interview. Author Stephen Tryon cites the Republicans' "strategic obstruction and ruthless application of unilateral power" over the past 15 years, along with the truth standard of coherence to argue that Republicans are to blame for the impending shutdown of our government. In the wake of the political violence we have experienced over the last several months, author Stephen Tryon shares an essay on how to beat hate. A simple look at the numbers and the dishonest way they have been covered up shows the Republican Congress has failed to do its job with the FY2026 budget. The FY2026 Budget passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump is illegal because it violates the standards set forth in Section 313 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Here is the second video in the series on the FY2026 budget bill passed by Congress last week: |
AuthorAuthor of What Makes a Great President?, Close Encounters With Accountability Citizen-ship, Thy King Dumb Come, & Accountability Citi-zenship, Stephen P. Tryon is a businessman & technologist with extensive experience in e-commerce, a retired Soldier, and former Senate Fellow. Archives
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