MI Second Congressional District Democrats:
Letter to the Editor
July 2025
Three words sum up the performance of the current Trump administration. Chaos, corruption, and cruelty!
The chaos is purposeful and intended to distract us from the rapid dismantling of established federal government agencies and programs that have proven to benefit the greater good of all Americans. Tariffs are on/off then on again. Prices at the grocery store and gas pump remain high despite campaign promises that he alone will fix it. Do you remember he promised to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza within days of his inauguration? When Wall Street goes up he claims it for his own. When our retirement funds go down he blames it on Biden. Business leaders are holding up on expansion and hiring due to the instability of our government.
Corruption is rampant in the avalanche of executive orders that seek to usurp the separation of powers and make the executive branch into a pseudo-monarchy. The Trump family is unashamedly profiting with shady crypto-currency deals and a golden cell phone to complement their gold colored watches, sneakers, and trading cards. The inner circle of MAGA acolytes are buying and selling stocks based on their insider knowledge of pending actions by their cult leader. Revenge and retribution are at the forefront to punish those who have resisted Trump in the past. Supporters and sycophants are rewarded with no-bid government contracts. Spineless members of the legislative branch are kept silent for fear of losing their power to an opponent financed by billionaires who want more tax breaks.
Cruelty is exemplified by the actions of the so-called leaders of the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. The campaign promise of the largest mass deportation of criminals who entered this country illegally has morphed into the abduction and disappearance of anyone with brown/black skin regardless of their citizenship status. Toleration of the genocide in Gaza and now direct US military involvement in the Iran/Israeli war also exemplifies the cruelty of this administration. The draft dodger-in-chief only wants to play soldier while our sons and daughters are the ones put in harm’s way.
America deserves better than this!
John Helge, 2nd Congressional District Chair
May 2025
The chaos, corruption, and cruelty of the executive branch of the US government has been breathtaking in its ineptitude during the first 100 days of the MAGA administration. The “dear leader” blithely continues his golf pursuits racking up $30+ million in travel and security costs so far. His family has benefited amassing an estimated $2 billion in US dollars selling and trading shady crypto currency. Many of the worthless “$Trump” meme coins were bought by foreign agencies in a brazen attempt to gain access to the oval office. Inspite of the DOGE chainsaw the federal government under Trump spent more taxpayer dollars in his first 100 days than any other administration. His cabinet and advisors, dominated by twenty-three Fox News alums, are better at praising their cult leader than they are at managing their assigned government functions.
His Homeland Security chief has bankrupted her organization spending tax dollars on multimillion dollar TV ads starring her complete with perfect hair and makeup playing dress up in a uniform she has not qualified to wear or posing in front of jailed migrants unconstitutionally sent to a foreign prison. During these 100 days she has deported fewer undocumented migrants than the Biden administration. Her masked ICE storm troopers are now snatching US citizens and properly documented foreign visitors off the streets to meet their quotas.
The Defense Department spends more taxpayer dollars than any federal agency and its bumbling tattooed leader also insists that his hair and makeup are TV ready. He refuses to follow basic security protocols putting US troops in danger while blaming everyone else for the Pentagon chaos caused by his lack of management skills.
Because federal programs are being defunded and experienced bureaucrats are being fired, our federal government will eventually experience the curated failures designed to align with Project 2025. Our social, economic, and environmental safety nets will disappear, and we will be abandoned to carry on regardless. Elected representatives like John Moolenaar are simply too afraid of MAGA to act. We WILL fix this in November of 2026 when we elect a courageous representative of the people.
John Helge, 2nd Congressional District Chair
Fellow Democrats:
This is your invitation to the Michigan Democratic Party Second Congressional District Committee meeting on
Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 10 am.
This meeting will be via ZOOM and you can join in using this link:
The Nominees for the 2nd CD Legacy Awards are announced. Look over their Nominations and be prepared to vote for the best representatives of the 2nd CD at the meeting Saturday, May 10th.
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We are excited to get together to share the good trouble we have been causing protesting against the chaos, corruption, and cruelty of President Musk and his DOGE rats. We have also been demonstrating in support of federal employees and programs that are being destroyed. We hope each county can update us on your successes and lesson learned.
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We want to hear about the empty chair town hall meetings and specific protests that have been focused on MAGA Moolenaar from each of the 20 counties in the MI2CD. Please plan to share your experiences and best practices so we can all continue to keep the heat on our soon-to-be-ex US Rep.
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We also want to share what we learned at the MDP Rural Caucus Rural Summit in the Soo in April and how each county is planning to implement the new strategies and tactics they discovered to help build our grassroots movement to elect more Democrats up and down the ballot.
The proposed agenda for this meeting is below. If you have anything you would like to see added to this agenda, please contact me at your earliest convenience so I can make the addition.
I look forward to ZOOMING with you all on Saturday morning!
John M. Helge
[email protected]
616-915-2403
The proposed agenda for this meeting is below. If you have anything you would like to see added to this agenda, please contact me at your earliest convenience so I can make the addition.
I look forward to ZOOMING with you all on Saturday morning!
John M. Helge
[email protected]
616-915-2403
Letter to the Editor
“Flood the zone! Keep them distracted so they are not able to focus on any single issue. We are going to purge the federal government of those who don’t support Trump. We are going to restructure the Justice Department to prosecute our political opponents.” Steve Bannon, convicted felon.
“Project 2025 is systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.” Paul Dans, Project 2025 Co-author. Many Americans are rightly shocked and awed at the Elon Musk led destruction of our federal government in the name of “efficiency.” The tactics of selecting a chain saw over a scalpel to “move fast and break things” by a band of computer nerds is not uncovering documentable fraud and waste as much as it is simply destroying government programs and services that have become integral to the life and well-being of millions of Americans.
Those of us who took the time to read and study Project 2025 see this 950+ page detailed strategy being implemented virtually verbatim by the leader of the executive branch who, on the campaign trail, declared it to be an absolute hoax that he would ever embrace this document. Yes, we know he lies virtually every time he opens his mouth, but you can now count on the fact that this lazy lout will enthusiastically embrace the ultra-conservative white, Christian nationalist game plan that was so neatly laid out for him ahead of time.
Our current president is nothing but a useful fool in the global strategies of Putin and other fascist dictators. He is succeeding in ruining our great nation from within by spreading fear and division. In less than 90 days he has made the United States an untrustworthy partner in business or diplomacy.
Those we elected to represent us in the co-equal congressional branch of our federal government refuse to step up and challenge this descent into fascistic oligarchy hell. They have gleefully abdicated their responsibility to protect and defend our democratic constitutional rule of law. History will judge them harshly!
John Helge, 2nd Congressional District Chair
“Project 2025 is systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.” Paul Dans, Project 2025 Co-author. Many Americans are rightly shocked and awed at the Elon Musk led destruction of our federal government in the name of “efficiency.” The tactics of selecting a chain saw over a scalpel to “move fast and break things” by a band of computer nerds is not uncovering documentable fraud and waste as much as it is simply destroying government programs and services that have become integral to the life and well-being of millions of Americans.
Those of us who took the time to read and study Project 2025 see this 950+ page detailed strategy being implemented virtually verbatim by the leader of the executive branch who, on the campaign trail, declared it to be an absolute hoax that he would ever embrace this document. Yes, we know he lies virtually every time he opens his mouth, but you can now count on the fact that this lazy lout will enthusiastically embrace the ultra-conservative white, Christian nationalist game plan that was so neatly laid out for him ahead of time.
Our current president is nothing but a useful fool in the global strategies of Putin and other fascist dictators. He is succeeding in ruining our great nation from within by spreading fear and division. In less than 90 days he has made the United States an untrustworthy partner in business or diplomacy.
Those we elected to represent us in the co-equal congressional branch of our federal government refuse to step up and challenge this descent into fascistic oligarchy hell. They have gleefully abdicated their responsibility to protect and defend our democratic constitutional rule of law. History will judge them harshly!
John Helge, 2nd Congressional District Chair
MI 2nd Congressional District Meeting Summary - March 15, 2025
We had a truly fantastic turnout for our first meeting of 2025 on Saturday, March 15, 2025! Attendance would have been even higher but the highly engaged folks in Clare County made sure MAGA Moolenaar was "welcomed appropriately" as he marched in their Irish Parade.
The attached PDF document contains a summary of the meeting for your review. We collaborated to develop a viable strategic action plan for the 2025-26 election cycle, and we will share that plan with you in the next few weeks.
There will be NO MEETING of the 2nd CD in April!
We want to support the MDP Rural Caucus Rural Summit in the Soo. Please plan to attend and learn how we can collaborate and become an even stronger political force in our rural counties. Here is a link to more information: https://mdpruralcaucus.com/rural-summit/
Challenge your local county party leaders to plan and execute an "empty chair" town hall meeting to enable all voters in your county to express their anxiety, stress, and anger about the chaos and corruption being inflicted on us by the regime in Washington. We deserve to know why MAGA Moolenaar is doing nothing but supporting this travesty, but he refuses to meet with the public.
If you are in the Greenville area, come to the Empty Chair town hall meeting scheduled to begin at 1pm on Saturday March 29, 2025, at the Greenville town library building.
As always, I remain available to provide additional information and to answer your questions. Do not hesitate to contact me using my contact information below.
The attached PDF document contains a summary of the meeting for your review. We collaborated to develop a viable strategic action plan for the 2025-26 election cycle, and we will share that plan with you in the next few weeks.
There will be NO MEETING of the 2nd CD in April!
We want to support the MDP Rural Caucus Rural Summit in the Soo. Please plan to attend and learn how we can collaborate and become an even stronger political force in our rural counties. Here is a link to more information: https://mdpruralcaucus.com/rural-summit/
Challenge your local county party leaders to plan and execute an "empty chair" town hall meeting to enable all voters in your county to express their anxiety, stress, and anger about the chaos and corruption being inflicted on us by the regime in Washington. We deserve to know why MAGA Moolenaar is doing nothing but supporting this travesty, but he refuses to meet with the public.
If you are in the Greenville area, come to the Empty Chair town hall meeting scheduled to begin at 1pm on Saturday March 29, 2025, at the Greenville town library building.
As always, I remain available to provide additional information and to answer your questions. Do not hesitate to contact me using my contact information below.