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It’s not just that this administration cares more about money than they care about justice. It’s that they care about money for the narrow set of people who control most of the market, particularly that subset that includes themselves and their donors, and they don’t care about justice at all.

During the Epstein-file hearings, Pam Bondi pointed to the Dow as if a rising stock market somehow answers questions about corruption, abuse, and accountability.

Huh?

If your first instinct when confronted with credible allegations of elite wrongdoing is to cite market performance, you have revealed your priorities.

This is the sickness at the heart of many MAGA supporters. When it is “our side,” suddenly standards evaporate. The same people who rightly demand law and order, accountability, and consequences for others wave it away when markets are up and their preferred administration is in charge.

Isn't this is a betrayal of just governance?

The rule of law is not suspended when the Dow hits 50,000. The moral law does not fluctuate with quarterly returns. A nation’s health is not measured by gross domestic product while victims wait for justice.

When prosperity becomes a shield for corruption, it ceases to be prosperity and becomes rot.

Truth is not partisan. Accountability is not optional. Justice is not contingent on whether your retirement account is doing well.

If you excuse abuse of power because the economy benefits you, you are not defending sound principles. You are defending power.

And power without moral restraint is exactly what many of these same voters once claimed to oppose.

The Dow is not the measure of a nation’s soul.

Truth and justice are.

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As someone who has never thought fondly of Ronald Reagan, it’s still wild to me how much worse the GOP has gotten even as compared with how bad *he* was. Reagan cemented the fusion of libertarianism and social conservatism, which do not properly fit together. We need the common good conservatism of Pope John Paul II.

February 6 marks the birth of Ronald Reagan.

Reagan is remembered by many for giving voice to a renewed pro-life conviction in American public life. His insistence that a society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable helped reintroduce moral language about human dignity into national debate. For that, his legacy deserves recognition.

Reagan also developed a cordial and historically significant relationship with Pope John Paul II. Both men stood firmly against the evils of communism, especially its denial of religious freedom, its subordination of the human person to the state, and its suppression of civil society. On that moral judgment, they were aligned.

But shared opposition to communism did not mean full agreement about the role of government.

Reagan famously argued that government itself was often the problem, and his economic vision emphasized trickle-down economics and market freedom as the primary engines of prosperity. In practice, this approach has failed to deliver for working families and the poor, even as it contributed to a growing wealth gap that continues to weaken social cohesion.

Pope John Paul II, by contrast, consistently taught that while the state must respect subsidiarity and avoid overreach, it nevertheless has a positive moral duty to protect workers, support families, and safeguard common goods that markets alone cannot secure. He rejected both collectivist socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, insisting instead that economic life be ordered toward the common good and the dignity of the human person.

From an American Solidarity Party perspective, this distinction matters. A consistent life ethic cannot end at birth, nor can it ignore the social and economic conditions that allow families to flourish. Government is neither a savior nor an enemy by nature. It is a moral instrument, judged by whether it serves justice, protects the vulnerable, and promotes solidarity.

Remembering Reagan well means holding his legacy honestly. Moral clarity about life must be matched with economic and political structures that make life livable for all.

That task remains before us.

“We call for policies that eliminate and overcome the artificial barriers erected to disenfranchise, degrade, and disinherit minority racial communities from the freedom, prosperity, and dignity promised by the American Dream. The injustices of the past must be healed through a kind of reparations specifically designed to secure long-denied ownership of our common prosperity. We also support infrastructure reinvestment prioritized for historically marginalized communities.” — Platform of the American Solidarity Party

Today we remember Rosa Parks, born February 4, 1913.

Her quiet courage on a Montgomery bus is rightly remembered as a turning point in the fight for civil rights and human dignity. But it is worth remembering where that stand took place: public transit, the everyday system working people relied on to live their lives.

For Rosa Parks, segregation was not an abstract injustice. It shaped how people got to work, how they accessed their communities, and whether they were treated as full members of society.

From an American Solidarity Party perspective, that connection still matters. A society committed to the common good must ensure that essential goods, like transportation, serve people rather than efficiency or profit alone. When transit is inaccessible, unsafe, or unaffordable, it is the poor and working families who pay the price first.

Civil rights are not only about laws on paper. They are about whether our shared institutions reflect solidarity, subsidiarity, and respect for human dignity in daily life.

Remembering Rosa Parks calls us not only to oppose discrimination, but to build systems, especially public ones, that allow every person to participate fully in community life.

That work is not finished.

Cruelty cannot be our compass. We need both compassion and conviction.

“Never again” can’t just be a slogan. It has to mean something.

In February 1942, fear led the U.S. government to incarcerate over 120,000 Japanese Americans, not for what they had done, but for who they were.

History reminds us that injustice often begins when the state treats entire categories of people as threats, rather than as persons with dignity.

That’s why this memory still matters today.

When families fear sudden detention, when communities live under constant surveillance, and when enforcement prioritizes speed and spectacle over due process, we should pause. Whatever one thinks about immigration policy, human beings must never be reduced to problems to be managed.

A society committed to the common good protects borders and people. It enforces laws and safeguards human dignity. It refuses collective suspicion and insists that fear never outruns justice.

Remembering Japanese internment isn’t about equating eras.
It’s about learning the same lesson before we have to apologize for it again.

Color me shocked that a Planned Parenthood executive is performatively supportive of marginalized people. The unborn are marginalized, too.

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What can we do?
This is the piercing cri de coeur echoing through our nation and our thoughts. What can we do about all this? There are more visible answers, like protesting, boycotting, and resisting. There are more popular answers, like organizing, voting, and praying. But like Yoda whispered on his deathbed: There is another.

Run for office. Run for local-level positions, because we need better leaders in our communities. Run for state-level positions, because we need better voices in our political discourse. Whether you campaign to win, or to be a principled option and beacon of hope, Arizona needs you.

❤️‍🔥 If you're tired of politicians playing games with election laws and investigations: run for office.
❤️‍🔥 If you're disheartened by mealymouthed statements that leave you wondering whether our leaders actually care about the people they're supposed to serve: run for office.
❤️‍🔥 If you're frustrated with misplaced priorities that paper over or completely ignore glaring issues that need solutions: run for office.
❤️‍🔥 If you despair over ever seeing honesty, integrity, bravery, humility, compassion, and thoughtfulness in politics: RUN FOR OFFICE.

Our next meeting is on Saturday, February 21st at 3pm. Come join us to learn about what is involved in being a candidate for state, county, and municipal positions. We will discuss the positions that are up for election on the 2026 midterm ballot; their requirements and responsibilities, and different campaign strategies for races that are more or less likely to be winnable. We will also talk about what the ASP of AZ, and we as individuals, can do to support those who stand up to be candidates. Please come for the information even if, especially if, you think you couldn't possibly do this because you really are a very ordinary person.

We need change. Not just any change, but positive change. We can't get change if we keep electing the same few people. We can't get positive change if we just vote for whatever new name shows up on the ballot. We need people who will seek common ground, using common sense, for the common good. We need leaders who do more than pay lip service to caring about life, justice, peace, and the environment.

Arizona needs the American Solidarity Party.
The American Solidarity Party needs you.
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