Friends, sharing my weekly presentation last night while attending some meetings in New Orleans. As I do each week I tried to take a step back from the crush of news to evaluate where we are in the fight for freedom and democracy, and against MAGA and Trumpism/Putinism. Here’s this week’s assessment: Trump is an irredeemable failure, a historic betrayer of this great country, an addled and arrogant old man who should be removed from office, or at the very least our leaders must now mount a major effort to wrest power away from him and force a national course correction along the lines of our agenda, below. Our current path is unsustainable and we cannot wait until January of next year to find a new and better path. https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/th... This war in the Middle East is the greatest mistake by an American president in our history. We’ve come out of it far weaker, and Iran far stronger. Our discourse is only just beginning to acknowledge the magnitude of the geopolitical and economic disaster this one man has caused, lawlessly and recklessly, acting without Congress and our allies. For we now in a global crisis - Trump, and his quisling enablers in Congress and the Supreme Court. Republican 2026 campaign strategists have come to recognize that the fall out from the war has put their majorities in both chambers in jeopardy, and have announced two big campaigns - a Trump effort starting in May, and a fall campaign led by the Senate Republican SuperPAC. My assumption is the House Republican SuperPAC will soon announce their fall campaign, and combined these three efforts could amount to $1 billion in total, an extraordinary sum of money in a mid-term election. That they are committing this much money, and starting the first campaign so early (in May), shows how much trouble they understand themselves to be in. It also tells us that the real election, when the ads starting flying, begins in a few weeks not in a few months. The 2026 general election is here now, and we need to help our candidates and party committees prepare for what is going to be a savage battle with a failing and desperate Republican Party. Winning these midterms by the biggest margin possible is job one for all of us now. Visit my post linked above for the remainder of my written analysis today. Keep working hard all - Simon