CURE News Digest: Friday, March 13, 2026

[CURE News]

3-12-26  Open Windows - Ann Telnaes

“Trump declares a little ‘excursion’”

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-declares-a-little-excursion

3-10-26  The Existentialist Republic

“10 Mutual Aid Organizations Worth Your Attention” by Christopher Armitage

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/10-mutual-aid-organizations-worth

3-13-26  The Existentialist Republic

“Herd (The Anti-Autocracy Psyop)” by Christopher Armitage

“The first voice in the room decides what’s normal”

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/herd-the-anti-autocracy-psyop

3-12-26  ProPublica

“Election Records Handed Over to the FBI inMaricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say”

By Jen Fifield

This week, when 2020 voting information from Maricopa County, Arizona, was handed over to the FBI, it might have seemed like a replay of the agency’s late January raid in Fulton County, Georgia….But the evidence collected from Maricopa County is fundamentally different, in ways that election experts say threaten the accuracy and integrity of the federal government’s investigation.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-arizona-election-records-fbi

3-12-26  The Contrarian

“Not a Dime More for Trump’s Illegal War” by Jennifer Rubin

“Funding the war means supporting it”

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/not-a-dime-more-for-trumps-illegal

3-13-26  Letters from an American

“March 12, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson

“On March 9, Mike Baker and Steven Rich of the New York Times published a long exposé of the corruption of American politics by billionaires. They explain how underwriting political campaigns from those for local school boards to the presidency has enabled the very wealthy to lock in their policy preferences for tax cuts, deregulation, and cuts to the social safety net while also steering valuable government contracts to themselves.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2026

This post is definitely worth reading!

3-10-26  Searching for Hope

“When ‘Could’ Becomes ‘Fact’” by Tryvge Olson

“How political narratives quietly turn speculation into certainty – and why that matters for democracy”

“...authoritarian movements don’t depend on convincing everyone of a lie….It works by flooding the environment with emotionally powerful hypotheticals until people stop distinguishing between possibility and fact.”

https://trygveolson.substack.com/p/when-could-becomes-fact

3-12-26  We (the people) Dissent

“Map of Protests This Week + May Day News” by K. Starling

https://thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/map-of-protests-this-week-may-day

3-13-26  The Bulwark | Morning Shots

“Trump to America:  Thank Me for Your Gas Bill” by Kristol, Egger & Swift

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-to-america-thank-me-for-your-gas-bill-poil-prices-tariffs-iran-war-inflation

3-13-26  The Grassroots Connector

“Do MAGA Supporters Deserve Our Scorn or Empathy?” by Kristin Baptista-Frazee, MSW

“As grassroots activists hold our fingers in the dam of democracy, it’s inevitable that we feel anger and sadness, and may blame MAGA supporters for giving Trump the power of the presidency to ruin our country. But do MAGAs deserve our scorn or empathy?...This may not be a question some can easily answer. But right now, the MAGA faithful are questioning their loyalty to Trump and could be open to supporting Democrats.”

https://grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/do-maga-supporters-deserve-our-scorn

End of CURE News Digest:  Friday, March 13, 2026  

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,

in a final sense, [is] a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,

those who are cold and are not clothed.”  (1953)

~Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States