In our latest MeidasTouch interview, I sat down with Senator Gallego to expose Trump’s betrayal of veterans, how Republicans tried to sneak Trump loopholes into crypto laws, and more.
If you can make sure they teach their friends because this is the problem Trump is trying to make our history go away, and there are many like you or your dad that have served this country and they deserve the highest level of respect, but they're not getting it. And the big part of it is these goons are trying to erase history of anybody that wasn't European white having any kind of heroic qualities or anything like that it's insane. they even scrub the Tuskegee airmen website in Arlington. I believe trying to cover up things that is just blatantly wrong. I don't care what nationality anybody is. We shouldn't treat anybody like that. This country was made great because we work together as a team regardless of our politics.
Completely agree! We have Memorial Day in one week, July 4th in a little over a month, and we need to talk about all the connections we have. I have a grandfather who fought in WWI, my dad and uncles in WWII, and many cousins who are veterans of Afghanistan and many other places - all Mexican Americans. I plan to make a lot of statements about that. 🇺🇸🙏🏻❤️🩹
Inexplicable! The odious David Perdue is an antisemitic election denier and got 16 Senate Dems voting to confirm him! All Dems in Congress need to unite in voting NO to everything on the Trump agenda. All we can do now is join together in solidarity to oppose everything he and the MAGAs want!
It is easy to stand up for RIGHT and DEMOCRACY. Gallego and Kelly, also from Arizona, have not. If you want to be a MAGA DEMOCRAT, quit asking Progressive Democrats for $200 to fight Trump. Neither need money. They need a backbone!
Senator Gallego voted to confirm an election denying Trump nominee last week. It's really frustrating me that even independent meadia like Meidas isn't holding them accountable for doing one thing while saying another.
I honor your opinion and your right to have it, but I can barely imagine the conflicts, un-seen--to us who may not be Latinos--whispers, pressures, and judgments Senator Gallego has to deal with. Walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls would surely be easier.
I'm asking this in good faith, not trying to create conflict in this good community: Why do you believe the Latino community was pushing the Senator to vote for Georgia election denying David Perdue as Ambassdor to China? Why does that have to do with his constituents or the latino community?
It's always going to be an out for him if we have no standards at all.
Modifying my question I asked elswhere, and I'm not trying to be confrontational. Good faith discussion/disagreement is important in a community like Meidas!
Why do you believe the constituents was pushing the Senator to vote for Georgia election denying David Perdue as Ambassdor to China? You're implying he shouldn't have expended political capital opposing Perdue. Why would his consitutents get pissed about that? What am I missing on that front?
Gallego voted for Douglas Collins - head of Veterans Affairs. It is Collins who is doing the damage - not Trump. Collins could stand up for Veterans or RESIGN and work FOR Veterans, but he is a Trump sycophant. Just remember when you are assigning Hero Status be certain that your hero actually is one!
Oh, believe me before the election I got in a heated argument with a Chinese Latino Nurse that I wasn't trying to argue with her another thing she overheard my conversation about Trump on the phone and started yelling. Apparently, the Latinos thought Trump was for them. I said, I don't think you understand he wants to deport all of you. They didn't believe me. She seemed like a nice person. I was kind of surprised she was Latino because she looked more Chinese, but she was from Puerto Rico. All of them got used. They had no idea what a monster this guy was. I listen to a bunch of Latino say that oh he's the Messiah and all this Craziness And I just shook my head and threw my arms up. There's only so much you can say and try to do, but if people don't wanna learn the truth, I guess I'm not the guy to convince him otherwise I just try to put the raw facts out there.
Yup, I don't know how these people can call themselves Christian. They are just packed full of hatred and want to do harm to everything. They think it's funny. Somebody's gonna get hurt soon and it's gonna be real bad and everybody's gonna say something stupid like well who would've known well I don't know maybe like the entire country would've known
And unbelievably a lot of them still think Trump is the best thing America has ever had. It just goes to show the extent of how many people are suffering mental health issues. Sad but true what other reason can there be
I have thought this for a long time. Trump’s reelection definitely signals that we are not well educated on mental health disorders in the US. Narcissistic Grandiose Personality Disorder is a real diagnosis! He needs treatment, not the presidency. However, my understanding is that people just can’t get over or well from this disorder. There’s a lot of it these days.
Trump cult mirrors Jim Jones Guyana cult—committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-aid—because demented cult leader—Jim Jones—told them to—suicide of families, parents in cult giving poison koolaid to their kids, babies.
I am not American i am a Scot still living in Scotland so I had no preference for either party as I didn't know to much about US politics. But, I have learned a lot by watching what is happening and could not believe that people fell for Trumps Lies when it was obvious for even us way over here. We laugh everytime Trump opens his mouth because what he says is so comical you gotta be a wee bit thick to not see through the guy. Even his wee press secretary is way of her trolley she's just a kid stamping her feet. Come on America you are better than this. The shit is already hitting your fan soon the fan will break and the shits gonna be all over the people
ENTIRE WORLD IS WATCHING —REPUBLICANS TRUMP MUSK VANCE VOUGHT, STEPHEN MILLER, PUTIN—
SIGNALGATE REPUBLICAN MOBSTER CABAL IS MAKE AMERICA A DISASTER SHIT-HOLE COUNTRY.
“I am not American i am a Scot still living in Scotland so I had no preference for either party as I didn't know to much about US politics. But, I have learned a lot by watching what is happening and could not believe that people fell for Trumps Lies when it was obvious for even us way over here. We laugh everytime Trump opens his mouth because what he says is so comical you gotta be a wee bit thick to not see through the guy. Even his wee press secretary is way of her trolley she's just a kid stamping her feet. Come on America you are better than this. The shit is already hitting your fan soon the fan will break and the shits gonna be all over the people..”
There was a HUGE misinformation campaign going out on the Spanish speaking airwaves. Dems missed that market.... I don't understand how the DNC cannot get their minds wrapped around the messaging and delivery ...aside from not having memorable slogans that encapsulate what were about... and aside from being able to decide as a party what were about. We got shredded on Gaza, and now look at the place...
Unfortunately, we're probably going to pay for decades of the damage that Trump is doing as soon as the supply chain gets low even if they fixed it immediately it's gonna take at least 6 to 10 months to come back and that's even if they do it right and by then people's gonna be so broke and so many people out of work I look for this whole administration to end up in a catastrophe
Customers here—businesses will be out of business. Truckers and Dockworkers with no jobs. Add Musk DOGERS fired “Amer govt career servants” for zero cause by #chainsawElon — Trump depression will be bankruptcies—and dwarf the 1929-1932-1939 years of global depression—accelerated by tariffs.
Senator Gallego, is a patriot who served our country. Just like the rest of our veterans who served our country it's so that we all can enjoy our freedom to worship! women's reproductive freedoms, our civil rights!! our civil liberties immigrant freedoms. So my Senator Ruben Gallego who has done an amazing job of keeping my state of Arizona first and safe!!! he deserves so much better and our respect. All of our veterans deserves so much better and our respect every single day. We are all one nation under God not under Trump.
Lower class white men and women in these jobs especially in red states also. They are just fed so much propaganda amongst other things it’s basically a list cause.
Central California also has a huge red base. Driving though these areas is crazy. all you hear on the airwaves is Christian, angry Christian, and right wing propaganda. The airwaves are owned by far right interests and they are all pushing out the same poison 24/7.
Can you guys do more coverage on why Senators like Gallego are voting to confirm Trump nominees? I find it very troubling and it makes me feel like we're being grifted.
He and Booker and others are saying all this and then voting in collaboration with MAGA Fascists. It's really really upsetting.
I agree. I've made up my mind on a few already, but having this addressed would help. I don't want to assume grifting & throw someone prematurely under the bus, but one does have to question actions that don't align with their message.
More honest straight forward truth, thank you! Have you seen REINS they may try to push w/ the big beautiful pile of shit package? Need to get people on their reps about this.
A bit off topic. How can Trump and Noem take an oath and not be held responsible for upholding it. They both swore allegiance to the Constitution and now they are back pedaling on due process rights. Isn’t that lying under oath….. anyone?
A Case for a Gold Standard Democrats Need to Step Up
The US is in the biggest credit/debt bubble($35T debt and in risk to be $40T+) in global history and at the top of a credit cycle(equity market highs) the Orange Cheeto has decided to inflict the world with a tariff war Shades of the market crash in 1929 coupled with the Smoot Hawley tariffs which led the country into a long term depression bailed out by the way by WWII spending not as Keynesian economists argue that it was JM Keynes
Inflation is not going down and consumers are suffering And the dollar is tanking(dropping below 100 for the first time in 4y and moving into low 10y territory) and foreign investors are nervous about the chaotic activity in government and losing confidence in investing in the US as a country This means that foreign as well as domestic investors are slowly moving away from buying bonds(in order to attract investors in bonds the bond yield has to increase to attract investors to buy our bonds since they taking on risk)
This now sets the stage for a classic debt trap The Fed cannot lower interest rates to deal with inflation….its typical tool to lower the inflation rate….and if the interest rates stay or go higher the government cannot afford the interest rate on the debt particularly if investors are reducing their purchase of bonds
Reintroduction of a gold standard will fix this debt trap that the country faces The reason that gold is going up to higher and higher is because the cost of credit/debt is going higher and the purchasing power of the dollar is going down hence inflation staying the same or going up
Democrats need to make the radical change and work toward re-establishing a gold standard that Nixon took the economy off in 1971 creating 50y period of fiat money, quantitative easing, and excessive government spending without scrutiny And they would find bipartisan support if they campaigned on the issue
It's not some DOGE boy deciding the % for cuts. DOGE is a front. Heritage/Project 2025 is setting/moving the goalposts for this. My guess is that they have a timeline based around the 2026 election cycle and they will make as many incremental cuts as needed to strip & sell the place by then.
It was the CUBANS who left Cuba because they didn't want to hand over their excessive wealth to Castro that voted for Trump. When you lump everyone that speaks Spanish into one pigeon hole you misrepresent entire groups of people. "Latino" should not be used. Neither should "hispanic" because the first wave of Cubans and the second wave (Castro actually DID open Insane Asylums and jails and put them on boats and sent them to the USA.....quite different groups. (also possibly where tRump keeps mentioning Asylums)... or maybe he thinks people SEEKING Asylum should be IN them.
I'm a US Puerto Rican American My Dad fought for this country so
my two sons I would never vote for somebody like Donald Trump ever and my kids too they would not vote for him or anybody like him
If you can make sure they teach their friends because this is the problem Trump is trying to make our history go away, and there are many like you or your dad that have served this country and they deserve the highest level of respect, but they're not getting it. And the big part of it is these goons are trying to erase history of anybody that wasn't European white having any kind of heroic qualities or anything like that it's insane. they even scrub the Tuskegee airmen website in Arlington. I believe trying to cover up things that is just blatantly wrong. I don't care what nationality anybody is. We shouldn't treat anybody like that. This country was made great because we work together as a team regardless of our politics.
Completely agree! We have Memorial Day in one week, July 4th in a little over a month, and we need to talk about all the connections we have. I have a grandfather who fought in WWI, my dad and uncles in WWII, and many cousins who are veterans of Afghanistan and many other places - all Mexican Americans. I plan to make a lot of statements about that. 🇺🇸🙏🏻❤️🩹
Senator Gallego is a patriot. Latinx and veterans should never vote for a racist traitor. I can't wait until he and Schiff impeach the orange menace again: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/adam-schiff-poem-democracy
I cannot understand how he could have voted to confirm any of Trump's nominees for any reason, especially claiming someone else could be worse!
I agree!! I was going to ask if they asked him why he voted for an election denier for Amb to China.
Inexplicable! The odious David Perdue is an antisemitic election denier and got 16 Senate Dems voting to confirm him! All Dems in Congress need to unite in voting NO to everything on the Trump agenda. All we can do now is join together in solidarity to oppose everything he and the MAGAs want!
It is easy to stand up for RIGHT and DEMOCRACY. Gallego and Kelly, also from Arizona, have not. If you want to be a MAGA DEMOCRAT, quit asking Progressive Democrats for $200 to fight Trump. Neither need money. They need a backbone!
Senator Gallego voted to confirm an election denying Trump nominee last week. It's really frustrating me that even independent meadia like Meidas isn't holding them accountable for doing one thing while saying another.
I honor your opinion and your right to have it, but I can barely imagine the conflicts, un-seen--to us who may not be Latinos--whispers, pressures, and judgments Senator Gallego has to deal with. Walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls would surely be easier.
I'm asking this in good faith, not trying to create conflict in this good community: Why do you believe the Latino community was pushing the Senator to vote for Georgia election denying David Perdue as Ambassdor to China? Why does that have to do with his constituents or the latino community?
It's always going to be an out for him if we have no standards at all.
Modifying my question I asked elswhere, and I'm not trying to be confrontational. Good faith discussion/disagreement is important in a community like Meidas!
Why do you believe the constituents was pushing the Senator to vote for Georgia election denying David Perdue as Ambassdor to China? You're implying he shouldn't have expended political capital opposing Perdue. Why would his consitutents get pissed about that? What am I missing on that front?
I can’t wait either, but what do we get? VANCE! I mean, I’m really scared
We have to continue to dismantle the pillars that are holding up the entire regime.
We need a plan, they put their in writing, we need a good legal plan
Gallego voted for Douglas Collins - head of Veterans Affairs. It is Collins who is doing the damage - not Trump. Collins could stand up for Veterans or RESIGN and work FOR Veterans, but he is a Trump sycophant. Just remember when you are assigning Hero Status be certain that your hero actually is one!
Oh, believe me before the election I got in a heated argument with a Chinese Latino Nurse that I wasn't trying to argue with her another thing she overheard my conversation about Trump on the phone and started yelling. Apparently, the Latinos thought Trump was for them. I said, I don't think you understand he wants to deport all of you. They didn't believe me. She seemed like a nice person. I was kind of surprised she was Latino because she looked more Chinese, but she was from Puerto Rico. All of them got used. They had no idea what a monster this guy was. I listen to a bunch of Latino say that oh he's the Messiah and all this Craziness And I just shook my head and threw my arms up. There's only so much you can say and try to do, but if people don't wanna learn the truth, I guess I'm not the guy to convince him otherwise I just try to put the raw facts out there.
Trump voters voter for all of this. Every single assault on Americans and America and all peoples on earth. Trump voters voted for all of this misery.
Yup, I don't know how these people can call themselves Christian. They are just packed full of hatred and want to do harm to everything. They think it's funny. Somebody's gonna get hurt soon and it's gonna be real bad and everybody's gonna say something stupid like well who would've known well I don't know maybe like the entire country would've known
And unbelievably a lot of them still think Trump is the best thing America has ever had. It just goes to show the extent of how many people are suffering mental health issues. Sad but true what other reason can there be
I have thought this for a long time. Trump’s reelection definitely signals that we are not well educated on mental health disorders in the US. Narcissistic Grandiose Personality Disorder is a real diagnosis! He needs treatment, not the presidency. However, my understanding is that people just can’t get over or well from this disorder. There’s a lot of it these days.
Trump cult mirrors Jim Jones Guyana cult—committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-aid—because demented cult leader—Jim Jones—told them to—suicide of families, parents in cult giving poison koolaid to their kids, babies.
I am not American i am a Scot still living in Scotland so I had no preference for either party as I didn't know to much about US politics. But, I have learned a lot by watching what is happening and could not believe that people fell for Trumps Lies when it was obvious for even us way over here. We laugh everytime Trump opens his mouth because what he says is so comical you gotta be a wee bit thick to not see through the guy. Even his wee press secretary is way of her trolley she's just a kid stamping her feet. Come on America you are better than this. The shit is already hitting your fan soon the fan will break and the shits gonna be all over the people
SIGNALGATE Republican fascist mobster crime spree regime.
ENTIRE WORLD IS WATCHING —REPUBLICANS TRUMP MUSK VANCE VOUGHT, STEPHEN MILLER, PUTIN—
SIGNALGATE REPUBLICAN MOBSTER CABAL IS MAKE AMERICA A DISASTER SHIT-HOLE COUNTRY.
“I am not American i am a Scot still living in Scotland so I had no preference for either party as I didn't know to much about US politics. But, I have learned a lot by watching what is happening and could not believe that people fell for Trumps Lies when it was obvious for even us way over here. We laugh everytime Trump opens his mouth because what he says is so comical you gotta be a wee bit thick to not see through the guy. Even his wee press secretary is way of her trolley she's just a kid stamping her feet. Come on America you are better than this. The shit is already hitting your fan soon the fan will break and the shits gonna be all over the people..”
There was a HUGE misinformation campaign going out on the Spanish speaking airwaves. Dems missed that market.... I don't understand how the DNC cannot get their minds wrapped around the messaging and delivery ...aside from not having memorable slogans that encapsulate what were about... and aside from being able to decide as a party what were about. We got shredded on Gaza, and now look at the place...
That's cause the DNC doesn't do anything. It's a waste of time.
How could any Veteran support a draft dodger who considers them "losers" and "suckers"?
Amen. Or someone who makes fun of a disabled person. That would have been it for me. Finished.
He needs to go on Fox and say these things.
Unfortunately, we're probably going to pay for decades of the damage that Trump is doing as soon as the supply chain gets low even if they fixed it immediately it's gonna take at least 6 to 10 months to come back and that's even if they do it right and by then people's gonna be so broke and so many people out of work I look for this whole administration to end up in a catastrophe
It’s not coming back.
Nations are building new trading relationships with governments not headed by a SIGNALGATE Republican —
Trump Musk Vance Vought Putin — fascist Republican crime spree regime.
Customers here—businesses will be out of business. Truckers and Dockworkers with no jobs. Add Musk DOGERS fired “Amer govt career servants” for zero cause by #chainsawElon — Trump depression will be bankruptcies—and dwarf the 1929-1932-1939 years of global depression—accelerated by tariffs.
TRUMPS TARIFFS GREAT DEPRESION
Senator Gallego, is a patriot who served our country. Just like the rest of our veterans who served our country it's so that we all can enjoy our freedom to worship! women's reproductive freedoms, our civil rights!! our civil liberties immigrant freedoms. So my Senator Ruben Gallego who has done an amazing job of keeping my state of Arizona first and safe!!! he deserves so much better and our respect. All of our veterans deserves so much better and our respect every single day. We are all one nation under God not under Trump.
Lower class white men and women in these jobs especially in red states also. They are just fed so much propaganda amongst other things it’s basically a list cause.
Central California also has a huge red base. Driving though these areas is crazy. all you hear on the airwaves is Christian, angry Christian, and right wing propaganda. The airwaves are owned by far right interests and they are all pushing out the same poison 24/7.
Can you guys do more coverage on why Senators like Gallego are voting to confirm Trump nominees? I find it very troubling and it makes me feel like we're being grifted.
He and Booker and others are saying all this and then voting in collaboration with MAGA Fascists. It's really really upsetting.
I agree. I've made up my mind on a few already, but having this addressed would help. I don't want to assume grifting & throw someone prematurely under the bus, but one does have to question actions that don't align with their message.
More honest straight forward truth, thank you! Have you seen REINS they may try to push w/ the big beautiful pile of shit package? Need to get people on their reps about this.
A bit off topic. How can Trump and Noem take an oath and not be held responsible for upholding it. They both swore allegiance to the Constitution and now they are back pedaling on due process rights. Isn’t that lying under oath….. anyone?
Yes. Lying under oath is a crime--and a sin!
Thank you. I start to think I’m crazy!!!!!!
Senator Gallego has some explaining to do to his constituents re March 21-23 fundraiser ($5k ‘suggested contribution’) featuring Marc Andreessen
I live in Arizona. We are blessed that he won his election and not the Crazy Maga candidate.
But why can't he be a Democrat? Why didn't he run as a Republican?
A Case for a Gold Standard Democrats Need to Step Up
The US is in the biggest credit/debt bubble($35T debt and in risk to be $40T+) in global history and at the top of a credit cycle(equity market highs) the Orange Cheeto has decided to inflict the world with a tariff war Shades of the market crash in 1929 coupled with the Smoot Hawley tariffs which led the country into a long term depression bailed out by the way by WWII spending not as Keynesian economists argue that it was JM Keynes
Inflation is not going down and consumers are suffering And the dollar is tanking(dropping below 100 for the first time in 4y and moving into low 10y territory) and foreign investors are nervous about the chaotic activity in government and losing confidence in investing in the US as a country This means that foreign as well as domestic investors are slowly moving away from buying bonds(in order to attract investors in bonds the bond yield has to increase to attract investors to buy our bonds since they taking on risk)
This now sets the stage for a classic debt trap The Fed cannot lower interest rates to deal with inflation….its typical tool to lower the inflation rate….and if the interest rates stay or go higher the government cannot afford the interest rate on the debt particularly if investors are reducing their purchase of bonds
Reintroduction of a gold standard will fix this debt trap that the country faces The reason that gold is going up to higher and higher is because the cost of credit/debt is going higher and the purchasing power of the dollar is going down hence inflation staying the same or going up
Democrats need to make the radical change and work toward re-establishing a gold standard that Nixon took the economy off in 1971 creating 50y period of fiat money, quantitative easing, and excessive government spending without scrutiny And they would find bipartisan support if they campaigned on the issue
It's not some DOGE boy deciding the % for cuts. DOGE is a front. Heritage/Project 2025 is setting/moving the goalposts for this. My guess is that they have a timeline based around the 2026 election cycle and they will make as many incremental cuts as needed to strip & sell the place by then.
It was the CUBANS who left Cuba because they didn't want to hand over their excessive wealth to Castro that voted for Trump. When you lump everyone that speaks Spanish into one pigeon hole you misrepresent entire groups of people. "Latino" should not be used. Neither should "hispanic" because the first wave of Cubans and the second wave (Castro actually DID open Insane Asylums and jails and put them on boats and sent them to the USA.....quite different groups. (also possibly where tRump keeps mentioning Asylums)... or maybe he thinks people SEEKING Asylum should be IN them.
my senator and i love him
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