Civic Self-Respect is out today from @7StoriesPress. Tune into this week's Ralph Nader Radio Hour where we will be discussing the book and much more.

Congressman Richard Neal’s “BIG LIE” paid for by millions of dollars of corporate campaign money is saturating Western Massachusetts media. He is slandering his opponent, independent candidate Nadia Milleron, as being “Too MAGA for Western Massachusetts” when is it is he who is too “MAGA for Western Massachusetts.” For example— 1. Nadia Milleron strongly supports impeaching Trump; Richard Neal voted “present” on a recent impeachment resolution in the House thereby refusing to cast his vote for impeachment. 2. Nadia Milleron supports tax increases on the under-taxed or no-taxed super-wealthy and giant corporations; Richard Neal protects these giant tax escapees just the way Trump does. 3. Nadia Milleron wants a major crack down on corporate crime with strong enforcement budgets and penalties; Richard Neal has been a silent legislator for decades on the corporate crime wave sweeping over America. 4. Nadia Milleron oppose corporate welfare—subsidies, giveaways and bailouts—totaling hundreds of billions of dollars a year; Richard Neal as Chair or Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee has done nothing, not even public hearings, to get “the rich off welfare” who fund his campaigns. 5. Nadia Milleron wants Medicare For All—everybody in, nobody out—saving many lives and many dollars; Richard Neal prefers to tweak the present corporate perforated system with huge thefts from Medicare and Medicaid. 6. Nadia Milleron opposes weapons of mass destruction to the Netanyahu genocidal regime paid for by American taxpayers. She’s opposed to such mass slaughter of civilian families enabled by Richard Neal and other lawmakers in Congress. 7. Richard Neal surrendered to Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2022 who blocked a vote on the House floor of legislation from Neal’s own committee to increase benefits for 60 million retirees receiving Social Security benefits, frozen since 1971. The bill pays for this increase by lifting the cap (now limited to the first $184,000 of income) of the wealthy and super wealthy like Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Nadia Milleron supports these long overdue increases in Social Security benefits. All of these positions by Richard Neal are those of Donald Trump and his Washington Trump Dump. So who is the true “Too MAGA for Western Massachusetts?” Richard Neal. That’s who. Stop immediately your “BIG LIE” paid for by big corporations saturating radio and television in Western Massachusetts—the district you have been an absentee corporate Congressman for for many years. Voters should vote out both Richard Neal and the “BIG LIE” coming out of his mouth. -R

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Trump has learned the wrong lesson from his mentor Netanyahu, who among other war crimes has deliberately destroyed over 1 million olive trees in Gaza—a key source of food for the civilian population. Last weekend, anticipating a judge’s restraining order on Monday, Trump cut down over 400 trees in a beautiful area of green refuge for Washington DC city residents, aiming to convert an affordable public golf course into a private luxury club for professional events and his rich friends. He even cut down some trees after the judge issued her restraining order, therefore engaging in contempt of court if the judge chooses this sanction. The legendary National Park Service, now under Trump’s clutches and in Trump’s Dump, has disgraced itself with such vengeful tree clear cutting. -R

Why hasn’t the mainstream press written a feature on Veterans for Peace (@VFPNational) which has a hundred chapters around the country, is very active on the ground, over the social media, and even in some court rooms? Does anybody know the answer to this? Go to veteransforpeace.org to see how important their mission is for all of us. Please call any members of the media and bring to their attention this remarkable community of veterans from WWII to the present time. -R

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Women’s professional basketball teams are becoming advertising billboards on their players’ uniforms, just like NASCAR cars. The Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell have “Salesforce” in big letters under, for example, Indiana 22 on Clark’s Jersey. The Nike swoosh and the drug company “Lilly” are on the upper shoulders. The swoosh has also been plastered on major league baseball players’ uniforms… and so on. The giant advertising industry, with so many portals into our lives, receives very little scrutiny, even though it makes possible the enormous profits of Silicon Valley’s child exploitation and Data Center Corporate Giants among other sine qua nons. This industry has no limits to its pathological demand for omnipresence. It is ready to pay top dollar to get on the foreheads of athletic superstars. Other than just bad taste and greed of the teams’ billionaire owners, can these athletes ever speak out about the downsides of these corporations, such as Lilly’s drugs? Plus, there seem to be no limits—from the long-installed endorsements of products by athletes, including now college players, to who knows what’s next in bad taste and over-commercialism? Where’s the backlash from consumers who can selectively deny these companies’ their dollars? Boycotts anyone? -R