Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection
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Monday, Feb. 23, 2026
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256 Zoom Info and Archived: https://youtu.be/zrUM1sRdR6g
“GESTAPO”?, Ballroom Homeless shelter, Reports MN, OR etc, Elmo’s New Leaf, End Of Palisades and more
Somali Update From MN; ICE/GESTAPO; Epstein’s Election Protection & The Michigan/NY Run From Nukes
We start GREEP Zoom #256 with HEDY TRIPP and an update from St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Hedy introduces us to AHMED ABDI, an MN-based Somali radio personality with a deeply disturbing report about life under Trump.
From MYLA RESON, Ahmed gets an invite to become part of the Pacifica Radio Network, which carries this GREEP zoom to more than 200 affiliate stations around the US and world.
With the great SUSIE SHANNON we explore Adaptive Re-Use as an internet-era solution to the housing crisis in a nation with more than 770,000 people who have no place to live, but where we have “homeless encampments in the shadow of empty buildings.” The situation, says Susie, is being addressed by US bill #2410. She adds that 7 homeless persons die on the streets of LA every day, while some 70k housing units sit vacant in the face of 41,000 unhoused.
The legendary BOB FITRAKIS warns that the 2026 election could be turned by ICE intimidating voters at the polls, as advocated by Steve Bannon. Bob further recounts his pivotal role in breaking the original stories linking Jeffrey Epstein to Les Wexner, earning him at least one death threat.
We also examine MAGA’s SAVE Act as a tool for disenfranchising millions of Americans of color, and of the female gender.
GREEP engineer STEVE CARUSO shouts out the need to protect the 2026 election before fall.
From HEIDI VERTHAILLER we explore the ties of Patriots owner Robert Kraft to Trump and his mob backers.
The great KEVIN KAMPS tells the horror stories of Holtec and its insane quest to re-start the thoroughly wrecked Palisades nukes. Holtec, says Kevin, was found guilty of bribery and of denying it under oath. Holtec has also mis-managed radioactive waste at Chernobyl, risking another apocalyptic disaster.
With KARL GROSSMAN we deep dive into the utter insanity of NY Governor Kathy Hochul’s pledging $33.3 billion in public handouts for four decrepit nukes set to bankrupt the state. Karl explains that Holtec bought the Indian Point reactors for decommissioning, but now wants to restart them, immediately endangering more than 20 million nearby downwinders.
Ohio’s VINA COLLEY wonders about small reactors in Russia and Ukraine as well as at Piketon, where uranium has been spewed throughout the neighborhood.
Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN wonders why Mayor Mamdani is endorsing Hochul despite her embrace of Indian Point.
Listener PETER HALL wonders why fossil/nukes would power AI/data centers.
Next week will be the last President’s Day we’ll take off to celebrate Trump’s new soup kitchen/homeless shelter.
No Nukes!! See you all February 23.
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Dr. Robert Fitrakis and Harvey “Sunny” Wasserman article:
Bannon’s ICE-Gestapo 2026 Election Terror
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
February 5, 2026
Steve Bannon has clarified the real target of Trump’s ICE/Gestapo Wave of terror: the 2026 election.
Nationwide polls and early special elections indicate a likely massive public rejection of the Trump madness.
But this regime won’t tolerate any outcome that would hand Congress to the Democrats.
So it’s launching a Gestapo attack on the electorate.
From Hitler’s Nazis to advanced totalitarian states to fascist juntas in Third World nations throughout history, the agenda is clear: crush democracy.
The ICE killings and terror from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Charlotte to many other cities, campuses and rural reaches throughout the US are anything but random. They are the early stage of a coordinated dictatorial assault on the mid-term vote scheduled for November.
Trump has fantasized about cancelling that election altogether. If he could, he would.
But America’s popular and institutional resistance might run too deep.
So Trump’s Opus Dei consiglieri Steve Bannon has clarified the strategy that’s within their grasp: come November, they’ll have ICE surround every American polling place.
The overall MAGA attack will in fact be twofold: terrorize potential voters of color, and disenfranchise women.
The nationwide ICE murders and mass assaults on “immigrants” have been straightforward. Citizens of color are to Trump/MAGA what Germany’s Jews were to Hitler: scapegoats for failure, and the pretext for a totalitarian reign of terror.
In the early 1930s, Jews were just 1% of the German population (500,000 in 50,000,000). Their presence as an electoral force was nil. Once Hitler abolished democracy altogether, his anti-semitic rampage boiled down to pure hatred and terror.
By contrast, the US is an historically diverse nation. Citizens of African. Hispanic, Asian, Indigenous and other minority descent are at the brink of becoming a national majority (if they aren’t already).
Trump had been making inroads into the Hispanic electorate. But polls now show a massive revulsion. MAGA can hope to win in 2016 only by disenfranchising tens of millions of voters of color.
So the ICE attacks on “immigrant” communities throughout the nation are essential to a MAGA dictatorship. Bannon’s order to surround the mid-term polling stations with the ICE Gestapo is essential to a fascist coup.
That strategy is accompanied by Trump’s attack on mail-in voting.
Ironically, the majority of mailed-in ballots have historically leaned Republican. But the MAGA/Bannon calculation clearly involves forcing the electorate as a whole to come in person to the polls, where voters of color can be physically terrorized by the ICE Gestapo.
The other major target for disenfranchisement is women. The female electorate is now heavily anti-Trump. Women also now constitute a majority of the electorate.
Without a de facto reversal of the 19th Amendment (which some MAGA fanatics explicitly demand) women voters are highly likely to help deal Trump a heavy mid-term defeat.
So the MAGA crusade now wants strict identification papers in which current legal family names match directly with birth certificates.
This often impossible demand stands ready to disenfranchise tens of millions of women whose married married names that don’t match birth records. Passports, birth and marriage certificates can be rare documents to have. An ICE/Gestapo entrenched in election boards at polling places will have the de facto power to rob tens of millions of women of their right to vote.
In election after election, the Democratic Party has flailed loudly about protecting the right to cast ballots and have them fairly counted…and then failed miserably to do so.
Steve Bannon has now made it clear that a core MAGA strategy for the November mid-terms will be to trash mail-in voting while besieging the polling places with the ICE Gestapo.
At the same time the MAGA/Bannon terror attack means to deny the ballot to tens of millions of women.
In a nation increasingly infuriated by Trump’s dictatorship, only massive disenfranchisement can keep him in power.
The Bannon/MAGA junta is not shy about using the ICE Gestapo to do just that.
Who will stop them?
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Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman co-wrote (with Steve Rosenfeld) What Happened in Ohio about the theft of the 2004 election. Bob wrote The Fitrakis Files; Harvey wrote Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth. Most Mondays at 5pm ET they join eco-democracy activists via https://grassrootsep.org/upcoming-zooms/
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https://truthout.org/articles/war-against-renewables-takes-terrifying-turn-in-newsoms-nuke-powered-california
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/dumb-money
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/18/diablo-canyon-does-the-time-warp/
https://www.downwithtyranny.com/post/if-you-like-nuclear-power-you-ll-love-nuclear-war
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Diablo Documents: mothersforpeace.org
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/ralph-cavanagh/guest-blog-amory-lovins-future-diablo-canyon
https://www.rsn.org/001/nukes-on-the-brink-in-ukraine-and-california.html
AMORY LOVINS / ED SMELOFF
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/California-Diablo-Canyon-nuclear-power-17396392.php
DOWNWITHTYRANNY
https://www.downwithtyranny.com/post/gavin-newsom-s-radioactive-anti-solar-double-back-stab
LA TIMES EDITORIAL
Editorial: 10 more years of nuclear power? Gov. Newsom needs to make the case
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-16/diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-extension
MICHAEL HILTZIK / LATIMES
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-16/diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-should-be-shut-down
ARNIE GUNDERSEN / FAIREWINDS-MOTHERS FOR PEACE
https://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education/arnie-gundersen-fairewinds-associates-testimony-to-the-cpuc-31-1-17
ED LYMAN / UCS-BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS
The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: assessing the seismic risks of extended operation
By Edwin Lyman | August 15, 2022
LAPROGRESSIVE.COM:
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/dire-apocalyptic-diablo-future
TRUTHOUT.ORG
https://truthout.org/articles/inflation-reduction-acts-subsidies-may-prop-up-aging-nuclear-plants-for-years
RALPH CAVANAGH
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-18/diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-extension-2025-newsom-mistake
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Stop Putin’s Nuke Madness
https://www.downwithtyranny.com/post/apocalypse-now-putin-threatens-all-human-life-by-attacking-ukraine-s-nukes
Prophet of horror: Nuke expert warned of terror scenario now playing out in Ukraine
https://www.rsn.org/001/how-the-peaceful-atom-makes-ukraine-a-nuke-war.html
https://freepress.org/article/emergency-ukraine-nuclear-report-dennis-bernstein-kpfa-%E2%80%9Cflashpoints%E2%80%9D-harvey-wasserman-kpfk
https://www.rsn.org/001/nuke-power-at-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-war-apocalypse.html
https://politicsdoneright.com/2022/02/journalist-activist-harvey-wasserman-on-dangers-of-nuclear-reactors-in-ukraine/
https://progressive.org/latest/chernobyl-wasserman-220223/
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