Tonight, on this penetrating, investigative episode of Light ‘Em Up…

With the 250th birthday of the United States rapidly approaching — we take a critical and intensive look at the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and at its foundation and the importance of a free press in a democracy.

The most basic liberties guaranteed to Americans — embodied in the 45 words of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — assure Americans a government that is responsible to its citizens and responsive to their wishes. These 45 words are as alive and important today as they were more than 249 years ago.

These liberties are neither liberal nor conservative, Democratic nor Republican — they are the basis for our representative democratic form of government.

45 words that grant us the inalienable right that:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Thomas Jefferson in 1787 famously articulated that a “well-informed public holds ultimate power; without truth and oversight, even the best-intentioned government can devolve into tyranny”.

Jefferson's preference for “newspapers without government” over “government without newspapers” was essential to the fledgling U.S. democracy and, as the truly wise man that he was, these maxims hold true to this day as the press is being tested like it never has been before.

President Trump had his most recent “meltdown” in an on-air interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. The world bore witness to “Exhibit A” … of Donald Trump’s face becoming as red as a beet … as he shouted at and insulted another female, minority reporter — this time it was Kristen Welker, an NBC journalist who is biracial.

Welker’s mother is black and her father is white.

It is crystal clear Trump is triggered by reporters that aren’t ass-smooching sycophants as the members of his entire presidential cabinet are.

Intelligent women in general and minority women especially trigger Trump the most.

We’ll shine the antiseptic light of the truth on the importance of having an independent free press and how it has proven to be an essential ingredient in the making of and maintaining a democracy.

Also, we’ll investigate the damage the free press has suffered at the hands of Donald Trump and his constantly dishonest style of “scorched-earth politics” — where he rails against all media, unless of course, it’s his coveted Fox News.

And we’ve researched and plan to share with you if there are any fair and accurate comparisons to Mussolini’s Fascist Italy and Hitler’s Nazi Germany and their treatment of the press in the lead-up to their power-grabs as they sought to change the balance of power for the free world.

Every time Donald Trump attacks a reporter — the free press dies a little bit each time.

The second Trump administration's core campaign pledge to protect open discourse has sharply clashed with its executive actions, resulting in a systemic contraction of First Amendment protections.

Critics and civil liberties watchdogs argue that while the administration aggressively targets what it deems "left-wing bias" and "federal collusion" with tech platforms, it simultaneously deploys state infrastructure to:

— penalize critical media,

— restrict assembly,

and …

— mandate strict government-approved speech orthodoxy.

The fact of the matter is:

Donald Trump rails against EVERYONE who doesn’t blow smoke up his ass — as a lot of people do.

He’s always done this. He will continue to do so. He’s a thin-skinned, weak-charactered, congenital narcissist — THIS is what they do. They can’t take any criticism … a narcissist to this degree can’t even entertain anything that isn’t praise.

We’ll examine all this … pero mucho más aquí y solamente aquí — on this edition of Light ‘Em Up!

The search for the truth and justice begins RIGHT HERE … and RIGHT NOW!

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