Gregg and Pat share their thoughts about the tragedy of Alex Pretti's killing/murder/assasination at the hands of ICE/CBP agents in Minneapolis this past weekend and what we can do as citizens to fight this authoritarian overreach at the hands of the Trump administration. We also are sharing some links below that you can check out to support groups that are helping us connect with our congressional representatives every day to push them to do what's necessary to end the fascistic and corrupt ways of our current federal agencies.

In the podcast we mention giving you a list of emails of you can use to communicate with your congressional reps. We're still working on curating that for you, but in the meantime you should definitely check out the following:

https://5calls.org/This website make it easy to contact all of your congressional representatives with your message of what you want them to do to earn your support/vote. It makes it sooooo easy to inform your reps of the issues important to you that you expect them to act on.

Pat and Gregg share their thoughts and observations of the tyranny of President Trump in our moment in history, what world leaders are doing about it, and why we all need to do what we can all do to help make things better.

Pat and Gregg share how you can be more involved locally and how you can act to push our elected leaders to do better for all of us.

Gregg and Pat share their thoughts on Georgia District 23's special election results, the continuing rampant criminality of the Trump administration's actions both national and international, Jack Smith's recent revelations about Trump's involvement in the Jan 6 Insurrection, and about how it all relates to the Epstein files.

Pat and Gregg discuss the upcoming special election for Georgia House District 23, the importance of being aware of and talking up contacting your representatives regarding the republican's efforts to take away the Affordable Care Act; a.k.a "ObamaCare" subsidies; and the importance of staying engaged and voting.

Episode 19 Show Notes: Vote Your Health

Special Election and Voting Information for Georgia House District 23:

Voter Precincts and Advance Voting Information:

https://www.cherokeedemocrats.com/voter-election-resources/

Cherokee County Democrats Special Election Voting Information Page

https://www.cherokeedemocrats.com/voter-election-resources/

Learn about Scott Sanders, Democrat running in the special election, Jan. 6th

https://www.sandersforga.com/

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS:

Congressman Barry Loudermilk Contact Page:

https://loudermilk.house.gov/contact/

Cartersville OfficePhone: 770-429-1776

Woodstock Office

Phone: 770-429-1776

DC Office

Phone: 202-225-2931

Senator Jon Ossoff Contact Info:

Washington D.C.: 202-224-3521

Atlanta: Phone: 470-786-7800

Raphael Warnock Contact Info:

DC Office: (202) 224-3643

Atlanta Office: (770) 694-7828

Independent News sources related to today’s Pod:

The Hill:

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5652266-aca-subsidies-expiration-premium-spike/

The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/republicans-healthcare-subsidies-vote-petition

Gregg and Pat share history professor Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American post from Dec. 6, where she shares a story from the attack on Pearl Harbor and the American democracy connection it still holds for us today . You can see the episode for yourself online using the link below. (https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6-2025-802).

Pat and Gregg discuss their thoughts about the Orange Julius' new plan for healthcare that he broadcast out of Truth Social recently , along with Speaker Johnson's whinings about the ACA and what the ACA really does for so many Americans. Spoiler Alert: Trump's plan is quite a doozy but still doesn't cut the mustard...of course!

Pat and Gregg share thoughts on why the shutdown may not have been a total waste in the end analysis, along with ruminations on the efforts of the Trump regime to deflect the body politic's attention away from the Jeffrey Epstein files and Trump's utter failure to even grasp, much less address affordability issues that all but the wealthy are dealing with, including grocery and health care costs.

Pat and Gregg discuss the recent developments resulting in the end of the 2025 government shutdown, and what it means for us all moving forward.

In this episode we remind viewers to vote tomorrow and how important it is to never let up on letting truth rule over lies in our politics. Seems like a tall order, I know. But in our current climate, the goal of the liars is to make all of us give up on trying to know truth and facts over our feelings and fiction.