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Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)
The last update to this was on May 24, 2025. Let me know if I forget to add to it. This post is a rolling chronicle of executive orders, proclamations, federal memoranda, and allied state-level initiatives that legal scholars, journalists, and watchdog groups have flagged as authoritarian, unconstitutional, or corrosive to democratic norms since President
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Free Hot Dog Event At Kathleens Korner – Thursday, July 9 – 5:30 – 7:00
If you like hot dogs and you don’t like paying for them you should come to our event at Kathleen’s Korner. Kathleen is super cool and so, as a super cool person, she is letting us have a Free Hot Dog and Pop event at her store. I’ve been there and she’s got some great
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My Answers for Nichole Marxen
I recently got an amazingly thoughtful comment from Nichole on this post: Day 14 My Mayoral Candidate Petitions Were Denied. HERE’S MY ANSWER The Road To Mayor – Sage Lewis for Mayor of Akron She spent a lot of time asking some really thoughtful questions. Because they were such good questions I thought it deserved it’s
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Day 16 – Campaign Finance (Ugh) – The Road To Mayor
I’m a little gun-shy after my denied signature submissions to run as a Democratic candidate for mayor. I feel like the political road is filled with hidden land mines that an uninitiated candidate is very likely to set off. So far I’ve passively raised about a small amount of money through a Paypal account
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Free Hot Dogs and Pop Lunch – Wednesday June 24 – Noon to 1:30pm
Do you like free food? Us too! We are doing a free lunch outside of our headquarters at: 15 Broad St. Akron. Wednesday June 24 from 12 noon to 1:30pm We’ll have free hot dogs, pop and water. Stop by and say hi and help us get us our petition signatures so we can get on
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Day 15 – You Can’t Do That – The Road To Mayor
The path I’m on for mayor is unlikely, filled with unforeseable risks and unadvised by pretty much everyone in power and authority. The last one is why I’m pushing forward with everything I’ve got. I’ve always had a problem with just blindly accepting what authority tells me to do. But more importantly: I’m doing
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Day 14 My Mayoral Candidate Petitions Were Denied. HERE’S MY ANSWER The Road To Mayor
I’M RUNNING AS AN INDEPENDENT! Today the Summit Count Board of Elections officially announced what petitions they approved and what petitions they didn’t approve. I had 65 out of the 50 needed signatures needed to run for Mayor. They accepted 41 of my signatures. Natural Hunka Kaboom, the other outsider, submitted 53 signatures. They accepted
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Day 13 – It’s Not Republican vs Democrat – The Road To Mayor
Deciding to run for mayor has instantly given me the opportunity to talk with all sorts of people. What I’ve quickly found is that we all, no matter the party, have more in common than not. We don’t want others to suffer We want less crime We want to be safe We want our
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Day 12 The One Thing We All Want The Road To Mayor
I had the opportunity to check out Celebration Church on Dan St. here in Akron today. A friend of mine’s kid was having his high school graduation party there. The graduate’s grandfather is a minister. I got a chance to talk with him for some time. We got on the topic of what people
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My Initial Take on Natural Hunka Kaboom
My handlers have all been trying to persuade me to go easy on my desire to support Natural’s campaign. One of the first things I told them was that we should help him with his campaign. Strategically, it’s a risk. So I’m sure they are going to cringe as they see this post come over.
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Day 11 This CAN Happen The Road To Mayor
11 days in and my mind is flooded with things I should do to run a successful campaign for the office of Akron mayor. The help I have been given within 11 days is breath taking. Amazing. That’s all I can say. I don’t under estimate the tried and true activities of running an Akron
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Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor – There is an alternative.
From WKYC: “Unlikely Candidate” “The Mystery Cowboy Candidate” My campaign is simple: You don’t have to accept the way things are. There is an alternative to the same old same old. You can be whoever you want to be. That’s the right of everyone in Akron, Ohio USA THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE. More is coming
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Day 10 It Feels Bigger Than Me The Road To Mayor
I felt something today that maybe I never have felt before in my life. Today this whole mayoral journey felt bigger than just me. The outreach of help and encouragement I’ve gotten in these 10 days is utterly humbling. People have written me detailed insight in their experiences running for office. People have suggested books
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Cindy Bechtel Paris on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor
Wow Cindy. Thank you! If you truly mean this then no matter how hard I have to work, it will all be worth it.
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Day 9 – The Campaign’s Values – The Road To Mayor
I posted a story yesterday about Dan Horrigan winning the race. The story wasn’t the problem. I found a picture of him and The Don. It was one of those pictures that you see of politicians looking like politicians. I didn’t make fun of him. But I also knew that the picture put him
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Loosen Restrictions On Food Trucks
photo from: Akron Food Truck Friday | TeaTime with the Mad Artist I evolve my businesses based on one fundamental law of business: You can’t stop progress. Food trucks are the current evolution of the restaurant business. I love restaurants as much as the next person. But I also love food trucks. We need to continue
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Akron Will Post Its Checkbook Online
I recently came across this story: Stow first in Summit County to put citys checkbook online Through the states OhioCheckbook.com website, taxpayers are now able to view every dime Stow spends — from office equipment to asphalt providers to legal fees — in a searchable database. Akron will do this when I’m mayor! We
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Josh Fidel on Sage Lewis for Mayor
Thanks so much for this Josh. I REALLY appreciate it!
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Day 8 – Everybody knows this is Dan Horrigan’s Town – The Road To Mayor
OK. Politics is weird. It’s only taken me eight days to figure that out. By day 16 I should be really tripped out. Talk to an insider and they will tell you one thing: Dan Horrigan is going to win. He will get hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend any way he wants
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DL Meckes on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor
“I think Sage Lewis would make a great mayor.” Thank you DL. Your support means a huge deal to me. 🙂
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Brian Deagan on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor
“If we want Akron to thrive we need to try something different than professional politicians.” Thank you Brian! That’s exactly my thought too. You as a tech entrepreneur in Akron are key to an amazing future for us all. New jobs. New ideas. A new vision. We can do it! Thank you man.
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George Nemeth on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor
“I can’t vote in Akron but if I could it’d be for Sage Lewis.” Thank you George! You were always a great supporter of Northeast Ohio while you were here. Your support means a huge deal to me.
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Lerryn Campbell on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor
“Sage Lewis has come to my aid more than once.” Thank you Lerryn! This means a great deal to me. 🙂
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Day 7: Unexpected Opportunities The Road To Mayor
Monday, June 15, 2015 Running for mayor has been some of the most exciting work I’ve had the opportunity to pursue. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I use Mondays to get as much work done as possible. Adding a mayoral campaign to my list of activities has added a decent amount of work
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Akron Sewer System Isn’t A Problem. It’s a HUGE Opportunity
If there is one thing people seem to be afraid of it’s: How is an outsider with no political experience going to be able to handle the multi-billion dollar sewer system problem? The more I think about it, the more I think I might be able to handle it better than career politicians. Everything in
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Akron Will Become An Entrepreneurial Center of America
This is the initiative I am most excited about. And it’s the initiative I have the most experience with. We have a declining population. We have brain drain. We have a lower than Ohio average median household income. All of this is fixed with jobs. Small businesses are the leading creator of new jobs in
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Self-Imposed 2 Term Limit
I declare right here, right now that I will not run more than 2 times for Akron Mayor. If aliens possess my body and I somehow get mad for the hunger of power please use this post to do everything in your power to stop me from running. I will also do everything I can
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Day 6: The Details The Road To Mayor
Sunday, June 14 2015 We had a really great weekend in Hocking Hills. It’s a very cool and fun place. I love checking at all the interesting places in the world. Our friend who has worked on some campaigns in the past drove home with us back to Akron. She started going through all the
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Immediately Tie the Mayor’s Salary To The Median Household Income
This is a quick and easy one that I’ll do on day one as Akron Mayor. I will make the salary of mayor double whatever the median household income is. Want more money as mayor? Figure out how to raise the median household income in Akron. According to City-Data the median household income in
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Day 5: Slogans – The Road To Mayor
It’s Saturday. I often use the weekends to think. I avoid the phone and email as much as possible so I can take some time to think. Every small business owner knows this fact: As a small business owner you are the General, the front line soldier and the cook. You have to be
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Internet is not a luxury. It’s a fundamental right.
You don’t need a big study to prove that kids who have Internet access at home will have a significant edge over kids who don’t have Internet at home. We need a way to get Internet access in the homes of every kid in Akron. Now, you need to understand something about me. I
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