CURE News Digest: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
CURE News
CORRUPTION
Trump’s SLUSH FUND is angering many Americans, and many posts today show this. Here is one representative post on this topic. Contact your federal Congress person or Senator to express your outrage!
5-20-26 Letters from an American
“May 19, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-19-2026More corruption data to use before the midterm elections.
5-20-26 The Contrarian
“UPDATED: “Trump & Cronies’ Top Ten Corruption Scandals” by Norman Eisen & Gabriel Lezra
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trump-and-cronies-top-10-corruption-258More kleptocracy for the Trump family.
5-20-26 Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
“Almost as good as a pardon” by Joyce Vance
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/almost-as-good-as-a-pardon
How can the Republican party leadership tolerate Trump’s hypocrisy & corruption?
5-20-26 Popular Information
“UPDATE: Vance confronted with Popular Information report on Trump stock purchases” by Judd Legum
https://popular.info/p/these-media-outlets-are-ignoring“Losing loyalists could use their remaining time in office to do the right thing”
5-20-26 The Contrarian
“Republicans Might Finally Consider Their Legacy” by Jennifer Rubin
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/republicans-might-finally-consider
ELECTIONS
Trump doing everything possible to create chaos in the midterms.
5-20-26 Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara
“Trump’s Most Dangerous Executive Order Yet” by Elie Honig
https://staytuned.substack.com/p/trumps-most-dangerous-executive-order-yetCULTURE WAR
This is one of the best explanations I’ve seen about why MAGA continues to support Trump.
5-20-26 Lincoln Square Media
“Why the Culture War Is Enough for MAGA” by Rick Wilson
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/why-the-culture-war-is-enough-for
RESISTANCE EFFORTS
“5 Calls is the easiest and most effective way for U.S. constituents to make a political impact.”
5 Calls.
Use this website to contact your Congress person and Senator. Let your voices be heard!
5calls.orgWrite & mail postcards to fight back!
Cartoons for Democracy
“Our cartoons will help voters realize that “facts” from news and social media are heavily tainted by billionaires and, regardless of political party or education level, they are pushed to act in favor of the wealthy, even if this goes deeply against voters’ own interests.”
https://www.cartoonsfordemocracy.org/
Congressional switchboard.
From the 1-29-26 Contrarian post: “To reach the Washington, D.C. office of any House or Senate member, call the congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121. In the runup to big votes, you may have better luck reaching a human by calling the politician’s state or district office.”
Another tool.
Common Cause
“Find Your Representatives”
“Here you can find your representatives, how to contact them, bills they’ve introduced, committees they serve on, and political contributions they’ve received.”
https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/Democracy io.
An easy way to send messages to members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. This is a free, open-source web platform developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Democracy.ioTalk with family, friends and neighbors.
Use your corruption list to encourage them to contact their representatives and senators to express their outrage over the corruption.
Write letters to local newspapers and other local publications.
Provide factual information about Trump and his family’s corruption and kleptocracy.
Quote for the Day:
"A government of laws, and not of men."
~John Adams, 2nd U.S. President & one of America’s founding fathers