Again, it's been two years since my lost post, which was about the movement to expel George Santos from Congress, and my involvement in the movement. To my surprise and delight, not only was Santos expelled by Congress on December 1, 2023, with the rest of the Long Island Republican House delegation voting in favor of expulsion, he was brought up on Federal charges. Santos ended up pleading guilty, though his sentencing in February was postponed to April 25. Democrat Tom Suozzi ended up winning a special election to take back the seat he had previously vacated in a failed bid to be governor of New York, and he handily won the general election in November of 2024. At least in terms of Congressional representation in the 3rd district of New York, all is back to normal again. Now we have a fascist in the White House, who in tandem with Elon Musk, is trying to gut the United States government and replace career government employees with Trump sycophants and Heritage Foundation Project 2025 acolytes. The question now is what is to be done to stop or at least limit the damage caused by Trump and his minions? The movement to expel George Santos, of which I was a participant in my own small way, showed that the seemingly impossible can be achieved if you organize and fight. Donald Trump is a much larger target than George Santos, and will require an alliance of Democrats, Independents and principled Republicans in order to effectively check his power.
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