##  [ Championing Nationalism Dishonors American Soldiers](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16527-championing-nationalism-dishonors-american-soldiers "Championing Nationalism Dishonors American Soldiers")

      Details    George Cassidy Payne    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     November 08 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Nov-2018/090q.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16527-championing-nationalism-dishonors-american-soldiers)

VIEW FROM HERE--During a recent event in Houston, President Trump said: "You know, they have a word-it's sort of became old-fashioned-it's called a nationalist.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16527-championing-nationalism-dishonors-american-soldiers)

   ##  [ Americas Wars: Completely Ignored in the Midterm Elections](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16526-americas-wars-completely-ignored-in-the-midterm-elections "Americas Wars: Completely Ignored in the Midterm Elections")

      Details    Danny Sjursen    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     November 08 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Nov-2018/090s.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16526-americas-wars-completely-ignored-in-the-midterm-elections)

WHAT ABOUT THE SOLDIERS?-The United States military is actively fighting in [seven](https://www.defenseone.com/news/2018/03/the-d-brief-march-15-2018/146688/) Muslim-majority countries; and no one cares.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16526-americas-wars-completely-ignored-in-the-midterm-elections)

   ##  [ Yes, the Mid-Terms Were a Blue Wave](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16523-yes-the-mid-terms-were-a-blue-wave "Yes, the Mid-Terms Were a Blue Wave")

      Details    Tom Jacobs    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     November 08 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Nov-2018/090w.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16523-yes-the-mid-terms-were-a-blue-wave)

GUEST WORDS--Newly elected U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrates her victory at La Boom night club in Queens, New York, on November 6th, 2018.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16523-yes-the-mid-terms-were-a-blue-wave)

   ##  [ The Lessons We'll Learn from the Mid-Terms](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16515-the-lessons-we-ll-learn-from-the-mid-terms "The Lessons We'll Learn from the Mid-Terms")

      Details    Seth Masket    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     November 05 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Nov-2018/089c.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16515-the-lessons-we-ll-learn-from-the-mid-terms)

**POLITICS**--We're in the final hours of the 2018 [mid-term elections](https://psmag.com/tag/mid-term-elections), and there's more than enough information out there to keep you busy until the polls actually close Tuesday night.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16515-the-lessons-we-ll-learn-from-the-mid-terms)

   ##  [ The Dilemma of Anti-Semitic Speech Online](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16513-the-dilemma-of-anti-semitic-speech-online "The Dilemma of Anti-Semitic Speech Online")

      Details    Alexis C. Madrigal    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     November 05 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Nov-2018/089f.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16513-the-dilemma-of-anti-semitic-speech-online)

GUEST WORDS--Robert Bowers, the alleged Pittsburgh synagogue killer, had [an online life](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/what-gab/574186/) like many thousands of anti-Semitic Americans.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16513-the-dilemma-of-anti-semitic-speech-online)

   ##  [ Should Americans Be Allowed to Vote?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16512-should-americans-be-allowed-to-vote "Should Americans Be Allowed to Vote?")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     November 05 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Nov-2018/089g.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16512-should-americans-be-allowed-to-vote)

CORRUPTION WATCH-Allowing people to vote for candidates and for California propositions may violate our inalienable rights including Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. When voting trashes inalienable rights, doesn’t voting become illegitimate?

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16512-should-americans-be-allowed-to-vote)

   ##  [ Migrants from Central America are Today's Freedom Riders](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16509-migrants-from-central-america-are-today-s-freedom-riders "Migrants from Central America are Today's Freedom Riders")

      Details    George Cassidy Payne    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     November 05 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Nov-2018/089k.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16509-migrants-from-central-america-are-today-s-freedom-riders)

VIEW FROM HERE-James Lawson, a leading theoretician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement, was instrumental in helping to develop the strategy for Freedom Riders in 1961.

     [  Read more …  ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16509-migrants-from-central-america-are-today-s-freedom-riders)

1. [ Trump’s Anti-Semitism: Shouting Fire in a Crowded Theater](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16495-trump-s-anti-semitism-shouting-fire-in-a-crowded-theater)
2. [ Nationalism Dishonors Those Americans Who Died for Freedom](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16493-nationalism-dishonors-those-americans-who-died-for-freedom)
3. [ The Conservative Hive Mind Propaganda Complements of Fox and Trump](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16482-the-conservative-hive-mind-propaganda-complements-of-fox-and-trump)

 Page 210 of 347

- [Start](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads "Start")
- [Prev](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1456 "Prev")
- [205](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1428 "205")
- [206](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1435 "206")
- [207](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1442 "207")
- [208](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1449 "208")
- [209](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1456 "209")
- <a>210</a>
- [211](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1470 "211")
- [212](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1477 "212")
- [213](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1484 "213")
- [214](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1491 "214")
- [Next](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=1470 "Next")
- [End](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads?start=2422 "End")
<div data-id="1" 
	class="eb-inst eb-hide eb-emailform eb-1 eboxContentLocker"
	data-options='{"trigger":"onPageLoad","trigger_selector":"","delay":3000,"early_trigger":true,"scroll_depth":"percentage","scroll_depth_value":80,"firing_frequency":1,"reverse_scroll_close":true,"threshold":0,"close_out_viewport":false,"exit_timer":1000,"idle_time":10000,"close_on_esc":false,"animation_open":"slideInDown","animation_close":"fadeOutDown","animation_duration":400,"disable_page_scroll":true,"test_mode":false,"debug":false,"ga_tracking":true,"ga_tracking_id":"G-P16BQ7X1SW","ga_tracking_event_category":"EngageBox","ga_tracking_event_label":"Box #1 - Global Email Signup Form","auto_focus":false}'
	data-type='popup'
	>

	<button type="button" data-ebox-cmd="close" class="eb-close placement-outside" aria-label="Close">
	<img alt="close popup button" />
	<span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
</button>
	<div class="eb-dialog eb-formVer" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" id="dialog1" aria-label="dialog1">
		
		<button type="button" data-ebox-cmd="close" class="eb-close placement-inside" aria-label="Close">
	<img alt="close popup button" />
	<span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
</button>	
		<div class="eb-container">
						<div class="eb-content">
				
<form action="https://citywatchla.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=34d69f33624fd058ee9b56516&amp;id=4bfa422f51&amp;f_id=00d6c2e1f0" class="eb" method="post" id="mcform-1" name="mcform-1" target="_blank">
			<div class="eb-form-header"><p><img src="/images/2023/06/be-a-city-watcher.png" alt="be a city watcher" width="350" height="97" loading="lazy" data-path="local-images:/2023/06/be-a-city-watcher.png"></p>
<p>Sign up to receive our special e-news blasts on Monday and Thursday evenings!</p></div>
	
					<div class="eb-field-row">

			
			
			
			<input class="eb-input" type="email" name="EMAIL"  placeholder="Email address"  id="EMAIL" value="" required>

			
		</div>
										
	<div class="eb-footer">
    	<button class="eb-btn" type="submit" name="subscribe" style="background-color:rgba(93, 183, 93, 1);color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">
    		Sign up    	</button>
    </div>
</form>			</div>
		</div>
	</div>	
</div>
<div data-id="3" 
	class="eb-inst eb-hide eb-yesno eb-3 "
	data-options='{"trigger":"onScrollDepth","trigger_selector":"","delay":0,"early_trigger":false,"scroll_depth":"percentage","scroll_depth_value":80,"firing_frequency":2,"reverse_scroll_close":false,"threshold":0,"close_out_viewport":false,"exit_timer":1000,"idle_time":1000,"close_on_esc":false,"animation_open":"fadeInUp","animation_close":"fadeOut","animation_duration":300,"disable_page_scroll":false,"test_mode":false,"debug":false,"ga_tracking":true,"ga_tracking_id":"G-P16BQ7X1SW","ga_tracking_event_category":"EngageBox","ga_tracking_event_label":"Box #3 - Yes \/ No Donation Popup Box","auto_focus":false}'
	data-type='popup'
	>

	<button type="button" data-ebox-cmd="close" class="eb-close placement-outside" aria-label="Close">
	<img alt="close popup button" />
	<span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
</button>
	<div class="eb-dialog " role="dialog" aria-modal="true" id="dialog3" aria-label="dialog3">
		
		<button type="button" data-ebox-cmd="close" class="eb-close placement-inside" aria-label="Close">
	<img alt="close popup button" />
	<span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
</button>	
		<div class="eb-container">
						<div class="eb-content">
				
<div class="ebox-yes-no">
	<div class="ebox-yn-text">
		
		
		<div class="ebox-yn-headline" style="font-size:22px;color:#888888">
			<p>If you only give once a month, would you consider giving to CityWatch?</p>
<p>Your support fuels our mission to promote and facilitate civic engagement and neighborhood empowerment, and to hold area government and its politicians accountable.</p>
<p>Would you like to help? Even if you can only give $5, it will make a difference.</p>		</div>
			</div>
	
	<div class="ebox-ys-buttons" style="font-size: 16px;">
		
<a
					data-ebox-prevent="0"
		data-ebox-cmd="close"
				target="_self"
		href="https://www.citywatchla.com/donate"
		rel="noopener"
	
	
	
	
	class="ebox-ys-btn"
	style="background-color:#2ec664;color:#ffffff;min-width:100px">
	Yes
	</a>
<a
	
	
			data-ebox-cmd="close"
		href="#"
	
	
	class="ebox-ys-btn"
	style="background-color:#ef2345;color:#ffffff;min-width:100px">
	Not Right Now
	</a>	</div>

	</div>			</div>
		</div>
	</div>	
</div>