CURE News Digest: Friday, May 15, 2026

[CURE News]

In this digest, I have categorized the posts into a few major topics to make it easier to understand what's available.  I'll monitor how this works over the next few issues.  

I know that all this information can be overwhelming which is part of Trump's authoritarian playbook.  But please absorb what you can from all of your news sources, if for no other reason than to keep the fire of resistance in your belly! 

Over the next 7 months, CURE's major goal is to support Americans' individual and collective resistance efforts by (a) providing credible information on a regular basis, and (b) supporting efforts to get out the midterm vote in November!

My personal belief is that if we all do at least one thing persistently, we can accomplish more than we thought -- together and collectively it all adds up!

Mary-alayne Hughes, Co-editor CURE News Digest

RACISM

Who do you think gets to swim in the country club pool?

5-14-26  Mark Fiore’s Cartoon Update

“The country clubification of the USA” by Mark Fiore (editorial cartoonist)

“...the public space that hosted one of the most pivotal moments of the civil rights struggle is being made over to look like a country club pool.”

https://markfiore.substack.com/p/the-country-clubification-of-the

We can’t sit on the sidelines in this fight against racism.

5-15-26  Lincoln Square Media | The Revolution

46-minute video featuring Maya May, LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, & Michael Fanone

“The Fight Against White Supremacy Is Not a Spectator Sport”

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-fight-against-white-supremacy

“All Roads Lead to the South” National Movement:  May 16, 2026, 1 pm, Montgomery, Alabama 

5-15-26  The Contrarian

“Undaunted.  The civil rights activists and ‘architects’ championing All Roads Lead to the South” by Jennifer Rubin.

Rubin reports that “‘All Roads Lead to the South,’ focused on Selma and Montgomery (two iconic sites in civil rights history), is a coordinated effort championed by Black Voters Matter and over 200 (!) civil rights and pro-democracy organizations (including #WinWithBlack Women, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the ACLU, Democracy Defenders Action, The Lawyers’ Committee, LULAC, The Brennan Center, SPLC, The Transformative Justice Coalition, and Fair Fight) as well as the broader No Kings Day coalition.”  Read the post and join the movement!

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/undaunted-311

AUTHORITARIAN PLAYBOOK

Hypocrisy:  MAGA’s tattoo of loyalty.

5-15-26  Adam Kinzinger substack

“Hypocrisy Is The Point” by Adam Kinzinger

Kinzinger states, “Don’t argue with the cult. You won’t win that. Argue past it, to the people who are quietly watching and quietly horrified and quietly looking for permission to say so.”

https://www.adamkinzinger.com/p/hypocrisy-is-the-point

CORRUPTION (Next 4 posts)

Don’t be afraid to “call it what it is.”

5-15-26  Robert Reich substack

“How to Describe This Catastrophe” by Robert Reich

Reich reports that it’s not an administration, it’s a regime.  The regime is not administered by a president, but by an authoritarian.  The regime’s disregard for the “rule of law” means it’s lawless.  All of this results in the catastrophe Americans are feeling.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/regime-change

Republican propaganda.

5-15-36  Letters from an American

“May 14, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-14-2026

A crime family’s corruption; what can we do about it?  

5-15-26  The Existentialist Republic

“Untangling the Trump Crime Family’s Multi-Billion Dollar Pardon Market” by Christopher Armitage

Armitage analyzes how Trump’s pardons have shaped his family’s wealth; how his distractions are keeping Americans from figuring out what’s happening; and how the GOP is enabling Trump’s behavior by looking away.  He states “The press chases his day to day behavior and we rarely stop to account for the totality. So this is the totality, as of May 14, 2026, of who Donald Trump has pardoned in his second term, how he has been paid for those pardons, and how much money has likely flowed to him and his family in the process.”

Spoiler alert:  “The direct pardon-traceable figure flowing to Trump and his family, conservatively tallied, sits between $40 million and $110 million. The broader Trump-family crypto enrichment that runs alongside the pardon operation reached approximately $620 million through mid-2025, according to Bloomberg, and Cointelegraph reported $802 million in first-half 2025 income alone.”  Armitage provides his opinions about what Americans can do about it, including free informational downloads included in this post. 

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/untangling-the-trump-crime-familys

Potential government slush fund for January 6ers.  

5-15-26  The Bulwark | Morning Shots

“You’re Getting Robbed.  By Trump.  In Broad Daylight.” by Kristol, Egger & Swift

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/youre-getting-robbed-by-trump-in-broad-daylight-irs-tax-returns-lawsuit-settlement-slush-fund-january-6-china-summit

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." 

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister, activist & prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955-1968