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10/16/2025

🤯3 weeks after her election, Adelita Grijalva still hasn’t been sworn into Congress — leaving 812,000 Arizonans without a representative. Democrats say Speaker Mike Johnson is stalling to block the final signature on a bipartisan petition to release the Epstein files.😤
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➡️ Read what’s really behind the delay:

Three weeks after winning her seat, Adelita Grijalva still hasn’t been sworn in — Democrats accuse Speaker Johnson of blocking her to stall Epstein file release.

10/15/2025

The “No Kings” rallies are back this week — with millions expected to take to the streets. But new research suggests that protests combining nonviolence with mild disruption — like sit-ins, boycotts, and creative actions — may be far more effective at driving change.

Tom Cantlon explores what makes protest movements succeed, and how “No Kings” could have an even greater impact this time around.

Read more ➡️ https://www.dcreport.org/2025/10/15/will-the-upcoming-no-kings-rally-be-effective/

Research shows that nonviolent but mildly disruptive protests — like sit-ins and boycotts — can be the most effective for change.

10/14/2025

🚨 The Warning Signs Are Flashing Red.

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, and our Co-Founder, David Cay Johnston breaks down what’s really happening behind the economic headlines — and it’s troubling news.

While the stock market soars under Donald Trump, the real economy is sliding backward. Small and mid-sized businesses are shedding tens of thousands of jobs, the hospitality industry is shrinking, and Trump’s tariffs have wiped out exports like U.S. soybeans to China.

With the government shutdown blocking official data, private payroll reports show the truth: the U.S. economy has stopped growing and is starting to reverse.

💬 In this video, Johnston explains:
• Why the stock market boom isn’t sustainable
• Where jobs are disappearing fastest
• How Trump’s trade policies are fueling the decline
• What you can do to prepare for a rocky road ahead

👉 Watch the full breakdown below and stay informed. 👇

10/14/2025

🚨 Toxic “Forever Chemical” Report Hidden from the Public 🚨

Scientists at the EPA have completed a report confirming that PFNA — a dangerous “forever chemical” found in the drinking water of 26 million Americans — causes developmental harm, liver damage, and reproductive issues.

But here’s the problem: the EPA hasn’t released it.

The report has been finalized and ready for publication since April, yet it remains buried while the agency moves to roll back drinking water protections. Environmental scientists are sounding the alarm — this delay puts public health and transparency at risk.

PFNA has already been detected in water across 28 states. Communities deserve the truth.

💧 Clean water and public health depend on transparency. Don’t let this science stay hidden.
🔗 Read the full investigation at: https://www.dcreport.org/2025/10/14/scientists-completed-a-toxicity-report-on-this-forever-chemical-the-epa-hasnt-released-it/

Great reporting from our friends at ProPublica.

The EPA completed but withheld a report showing PFNA, a toxic “forever chemical,” contaminates drinking water for 26 million people, endangering public health.

10/12/2025

As Trump basks in global praise for brokering a fragile Middle East ceasefire — even hinting at a Nobel Peace Prize — Terry H. Schwadron asks: how do we square that image of “peacemaker” with the strongman at home deploying troops in U.S. cities, silencing dissent, and reshaping democracy through intimidation and control?

Read the full DCReport analysis on Trump’s contradictory personas — one chasing peace abroad, the other waging conflict at home.

👉 https://www.dcreport.org/2025/10/12/reconciling-clashing-trump-images/

Trump casts himself as a global peacemaker while tightening control at home—deploying troops, silencing critics, and reshaping democracy.

10/12/2025

Trump didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize — and he’s not so happy about it. 😠

Terry Schwadron unpacks Trump’s sadness, the real story behind the Nobel Committee’s decision, and why the world should be focused on Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and the fragile peace still forming in Gaza.

Read more: 🔗 https://www.dcreport.org/2025/10/11/the-trump-nobel-snub/

Will Trump lash out for not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? Will the Netherlands feel his wrath? Terry Schwadron provides his view.

10/11/2025

🚨 From David Cay Johnston: Help Expose Trump’s Hidden Grant Mandates🚨

Trump’s administration is planting anti-DEI and deportation clauses inside small federal grants — like a $69,000 FEMA grant to Urbana, Illinois. Accepting it would force the city to cooperate with ICE and shut down programs that “benefit illegal immigrants.” If your community has received a federal grant, check the fine print — and let DCReport know what you find.

🕵️‍♀️ Together, we can expose how Washington is weaponizing local aid. Big shoutout to Jana Wiersma for her breaking story from the The News-Gazette, in Urban, IL.

👉 Read the story and share tips at https://www.dcreport.org/2025/10/11/trump-using-small-grants-to-force-deportation-compliance-and-dei-bans/

Trump’s team is embedding anti-DEI and deportation mandates in small federal grants - forcing towns to choose between funding and freedom.

10/10/2025

🚨 Trump, Silicon Valley, and Your Freedom

David Cay Johnston breaks down a deeply concerning story that’s not getting attention from big media. Former DCReport contributor Max Taves, now with the The Mercury News , reveals that major tech CEOs — including those at Intel, Meta, and others — are staying silent out of fear of Donald Trump’s wrath.

Even more alarming, a new federal stake in Intel includes a “stadium-sized loophole” giving Trump the ability to intervene directly in corporate decisions — something straight out of the Beijing playbook.

🎥 Watch now, read Max’s full column (outside the paywall), and share this story before it disappears from the headlines. Max's piece is here: https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/03/taves-capitulation-fear-top-silicon-valley-executives-mum-trumps-extortion/

10/08/2025

📰 Private Ownership Turns Media Into a Destructive Weapon
By Tom Cantlon

From Fox News to X (formerly Twitter) to TikTok, CBS, and even CNN — the consolidation of media power in the hands of a few billionaires with political agendas threatens the very foundation of democracy.

When major media outlets become mouthpieces for their owners’ views, facts take a back seat to propaganda — and truth becomes a casualty of profit and power. As Tom Cantlon warns, “A people saturated with media warped by people with corrupt agendas is simply, and utterly, incompatible with democracy.”

It’s not the technology that’s the problem — it’s who controls it. If we want a future where facts still matter, media must serve the public, not private interests.

🔗 Read more at DCReport.org: https://www.dcreport.org/2025/10/08/private-media-ownership-threat-democracy/

From Musk’s takeover of Twitter to Ellison’s growing media empire, private ownership of major platforms is endangering democracy.

10/08/2025

Trump’s second-term purge is accelerating. FBI Director Kash Patel is firing agents who won’t pledge loyalty, Pam Bondi is ousting prosecutors who question Trump’s orders, and Tulsi Gabbard has cut key national security staff.

Experienced professionals are being replaced with loyalists — leaving our justice system and national security weaker than ever.

Read more at DCReport.org
👉 “Fear Me, Follow Me: Trump’s Purge of the FBI and Federal Agencies”

FBI Director Kash Patel fires agents, DOJ prosecutors dismissed, and Trump’s loyalty purge deepens — leaving America’s national security at risk.

10/06/2025

💊 A Deal That Sounds Good—But Isn’t What It Seems

This week, amid all the chaos of the government shutdown and political showmanship, Donald Trump struck a “voluntary” deal with Pfizer to lower some prescription drug prices for Medicaid patients. Sounds like progress, right? Not quite.

The agreement came only after Trump threatened massive tariffs on imported drugs — and it affects just a small slice of Americans. Most people with private insurance or on Medicare won’t see lower costs at all. Meanwhile, the administration continues efforts to cut Medicaid eligibility, limiting who benefits in the first place.

Pfizer gets to avoid tariffs, Trump gets a headline, and Americans still pay three times more for brand-name drugs than people in other countries.

As DCReport’s latest analysis shows, this wasn’t about health — it was about business and control.

📰 Read more: https://www.dcreport.org/2025/10/03/on-lowering-prescription-drug-costs/

Trump and Pfizer struck a deal to lower some Medicaid drug prices, but the move is more about tariffs and politics than broad healthcare relief.