I've wanted to write about this for a long time, but something else always came up, which is something the Trump/Project 2025 regime counts on. But we can't ignore these powerful misogynists/pro-natalists/christofascists' attacks on half of the U.S. population. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...
The Trump/Project 2025 Regime Won’t Stop Attacking Women’s Rights
No matter how it tries to justify its agenda, the goal is to disempower half of the population
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Amid all the chaos and turmoil from the Trump/Project 2025 regime, we have to keep our minds on what matters. The Affordable Healthcare for NEPA coalition reminded me of one issue that affects us all. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...
With what's going on with the data center industry in Pennsylvania, we have to enact a three-year moratorium sooner than later. #datacenters #Pennsylvania #government open.substack.com/.../pennsylv....
Despite everything that's going on in our country and beyond, I wanted to write something uplifting for this July 4 weekend, so I turned to a 1915 women's suffrage campaign in Pennsylvania. open.substack.com/.../pas-1915....
Be happy that the DHS is scaling back on concentration camps, but keep judging the Trump/Project 2025 regime for what it would have done if not for the well-deserved backlash its evil plan triggered. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...
Report that DHS is scrapping ICE concentration camp plan for PA is cause for cautious optimism
But we must remember what the Trump/Project 2025 regime attempted and how its cheerleader reacted
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Trump's celebration of the 80th anniversary of his birth prompted me to take a second look at what led to a rebirth of sorts -- and convinced enough Americans to vote him into the White House. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...
If Only More People Kept Watching ‘The Apprentice’
Especially in later episodes, the TV series foreshadows the world Trump is trying to create
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The Shenandoah Valley (PA) High School Diversity Club is a refreshing contrast to the vitriol spewed by the Trump/Project 2025 regime. Here's my interview with the students and their adviser. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...
A High School Diversity Club Channels Idealism into Action
Shenandoah Valley students strive for more unity in a diverse community
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One week before Memorial Day, the Trump/Project 2025 regime set a new standard for corruption and power grabs. Is this what our troops risk their lives for? open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...
The Man Who Would Be Swamp King
The Trump/Project 2025 regime deals its leader a royal slush fund
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MAGAs don’t like hearing Donald Trump and his Project 2025ers compared with Nazis, but the two regimes are similar in their brutality and autocratic agendas. But while Hitler improved Germany’s economy, our government hasn’t even done that. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...
An Iron Fist But No Gold from Trump/Project 2025
Will the regime’s failures be our salvation or undoing?
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A GOP official's reprimand to me for using the term "concentration camp" for "ICE detention center" or "megafacility" led me to review how the Trump/Project 2025 regime is sending representative democracy toward brutal authoritarianism. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...
A Concentration Camp by Any Other Name Is Still a Concentration Camp
The Trump/Project 2025 regime’s authoritarian moves simply can’t be whitewashed
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I liked what Conor Lamb had to say in Schuylkill County, PA, recently. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...
What PA's senator might have been and might still be
John Fetterman's former primary rival talks politics in Schuylkill County
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Joni Mitchell famously sang that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone, but many of us in my area want to stop the wealthy and powerful from destroying what we have. More in my column: lisavonahn.substack.com/p/what-is-ou...
What Is Our Countryside Coming To?
Toxic development threatens to turn havens into hellholes
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I wrote this before Donald Trump dragged us into a war, but we still can’t forget the concentration camps at home – and extend our thanks for any high-ranking patriot who resists them and all the other atrocities come from the White House. coalregioncanary.com/2026/03/01/o...
ICE's plan for two immigrant prisons in my red part of Pennsylvania is just one more example of the Trump/Project 2025 administration's depraved indifference to just about everyone else, including its supporters. coalregioncanary.com/2026/02/08/o...
OPINION: Too much ICE ahead - Coal Region Canary
Opinion columnist Lisa Von Ahn offers her take on the perceived secrecy before it was learned that the US government purchased two warehouses in Schuylkill and Berks counties to serve as ICE detention...
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Everyone should worry about how the Trump/Project 2025 administration is trying to redefine who should live and work in this country. Remember how Trump called for firing comedians who bashed him and even threatened to revoke some critics’ citizenship? coalregioncanary.com/2026/01/05/o...
OPINION: Immigrants, The Canaries In The Coal Mine - Coal Region Canary
Opinion columnist Lisa Von Ahn says ICE quotas are sweeping up law-abiding immigrants into inhumane detention centers, treating human beings like packages and threatening the due process rights of eve...
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I just published "Thanks to all who bring us the truth" on Medium. medium.com/@vonahnlisa/...
Thanks to all who bring us the truth
I often find myself fact-checking a social media post about a shocking quote or action from Donald Trump or one of his Project 2025ers.
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An article about how 19th-century coal miners had to work in underground surroundings that they could barely see made me think of the way Trump and his Project 2025ers are trying to restrict the field of vision of all Americans. coalregioncanary.com/2025/11/02/o...
OPINION: Trump And Project 2025ers Aim For Darkness And Smoke In ’26 - Coal Region Canary
Opinion columnist Lisa Von Ahn says Trump and his Project 2025 allies are working to extinguish truth and silence those exposing their authoritarian agenda.
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Donald Trump and his Project 2025ers are CREATING crises that may bring opportunities to themselves while hurting many Americans. coalregioncanary.com/2025/10/19/o...
OPINION: Flirting With Disasters - Coal Region Canary
Opinion columnist Lisa Von Ahn says Trump and his Project 2025 allies are deliberately creating crises to consolidate power, enrich the elite, and weaken public accountability.
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In these dystopian times, I want to share whatever hope Ican find. Several days ago, I found it in a poem that takes a very differentapproach to the famous post-Nazi confession/warning "First TheyCame." coalregioncanary.com/2025/09/27/o...
OPINION: We Must Keep Speaking Up - Coal Region Canary
Opinion columnist Lisa Von Ahn says it's important not to go silent in what she feels is a time of oppression.
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Well, I had to say something about Charlie Kirk's murder and the way the White House is exploiting it. medium.com/@vonahnlisa/...
Charlie Kirk: Divisive In Life, Even More So After Death
The Charlie Kirk case is a textbook example of why neither violence nor hate speech is the answer to our society’s problems.
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As many GOP members of Congress have, Dan Meuser (PA-9) got an earful last week from constituents who are angry and worried about what his real boss (Donald Trump) is doing to our country. He responded by essentially calling us lunatics. Here’s my account. coalregioncanary.com/2025/08/17/o...
OPINION: A Brief Trip Out Of The MAGAverse Sends Meuser Into A Snit - Coal Region Canary
Opinion columnist Lisa Von Ahn recounts US Rep. Dan Meuser's interactions with demonstrators in Pottsville last week.
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We absolutely cannot let Pennsylvania's Supreme Court sink to the depths that SCOTUS has. coalregioncanary.com/2025/07/26/o...
OPINION: We Must Vote Yes For PA's Supreme Court - Coal Region Canary
Opinion columnist Lisa Von Ahn says it's important to vote Yes on Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention questions on this year's ballot.
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On this Fourth of July weekend, are we still the United States of America, or are we now the United States of Oligarchs? Or even the United States of Trump? coalregioncanary.com/2025/07/06/o... #Trump #bigbeautifulbill
OPINION: What Has The U.S. Become? - Coal Region Canary
Opinion columnist Lisa Von Ahn says preserving American democracy means resisting Trump and the Project 2025 agenda that undermines its founding principles.
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The outcome of the attack on Iran is murky as the GOP gets ready to fire shots at most of the American people. coalregioncanary.com/2025/06/29/o...
OPINION: The Fog Of Wars Abroad And At Home - Coal Region Canary
Opinion columnist Lisa Von Ahn says Trump’s rush to sign H.R. 1 and strike Iran reflects a dangerous grab for power at home and abroad.
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Yesterday's No Kings demonstration in St. Clair, PA. I saw no out-of-state buses - no buses at all - in the shopping center parking lot. As one demonstrator's sign read: "Unpaid protester. I hate him for free."
