A Call to Arms

There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group.

Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250.

Donors duped into giving cash to Trump-backed group instead of bipartisan America 250 team: report

Joe Sommerlad

Updated Sat, July 4, 2026 at 8:43 AM MST

Donald Trump wants taxpayers to cover the $83.3 million judgment owed to E. Jean Carroll. The self-proclaimed billionaire who says America is “winning” now wants you to pay for his personal misconduct. Your tax dollars are not his legal defense fund.

'Yet another play for time': Trump says he is 'entitled' to timeline of his choosing after judge expedites briefing schedule in E. Jean Carroll demand for long-owed $5M

COLIN KALMBACHERJul 4th, 2026, 1:25 pm

Trump clearly thinks there is political gain in convincing his followers that his political opponents are communists, although this is a lie made up out of whole cloth after the victory of Democratic Socialists in Democratic primaries and the popularity of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. Communists call for the end of private ownership of the means of production, giving the state control of private enterprises. In today’s America, it is actually Trump, himself, who is taking government stakes in private enterprises.

Democratic Socialists are not communists or socialists, who want to see the end of private property. Democratic Socialists call for a robust system of private enterprise, alongside government control of the aspects of society required for people to participate in the economy on a level playing field. While Democratic Socialists embrace a wide range of policies, they generally don’t think schools, or medical care, or roads, should be profit-making industries.

In that, they echo Americans from the 1860s, when the Republicans established public colleges, or the 1900s, when Theodore Roosevelt called for public health insurance. Indeed, what today’s Democratic Socialists call for is much more limited than what the Republicans under President Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted in 1956, when the top income tax bracket in the United States was 91%.