Inland Empire Progressive

Donald Trump doesn’t just neglect rural communities he actively undermines them. Let’s take three concrete examples where his actions have betrayed the people he claims to champion. First, the program known as Essential Air Service ( EAS ), which subsidizes flights into remote and rural airports across the country, is being allowed to collapse on his watch. The U.S. Department of Transportation warns that funding could expire imminently, cutting off vital links to medical care, commerce and connectivity for hundreds of rural communities. If you live in a rural town, losing affordable air links is a lifeline that is being pulled away. Next comes the shocking billion-dollar bailout of Argentina. Trump’s decision to throw billions at Argentina’s economy while U.S. soybean and cattle farmers suffer is a rebuke his promised “America First” posture. U.S. farmers and ranchers are the backbone of rural communities and are watching as their markets are undercut by U.S. policy that benefits ...

Every time violence occurs in a Black community, Fox News and One America News seize the moment like vultures circling a carcass. They trot out their favorite talking point “Black-on-Black crime” as if it’s some profound revelation instead of a tired, misleading dog whistle. But when white communities are ravaged by violence, from domestic disputes to mass shootings, these same outlets fall eerily silent. You’ll never hear them say “white-on-white crime,” even though the numbers are nearly identical. Fox and OAN don’t report  crime  statistics, they weaponize them. They paint Black communities as inherently lawless, while portraying white violence as the work of isolated “troubled individuals.” When a Black teen is caught in a drive-by, it’s treated as proof of cultural decay. When a white man shoots up a school, it’s framed as a tragic anomaly, usually softened with sympathetic backstories about depression, bullying, or video games. “White-on-white crime” doesn’t generate out...