Dennis Liberty - Artist

Dennis Liberty - Artist Dennis Liberty is a landscape painter of the American West. His paintings reflect an unabashed love of the land in which he lives.

10/02/2025

🚨 BREAKING: A Reagan-appointed judge just TORCHED Donald Trump’s unconstitutional assault on free speech – as well his ICE abuses –in one of the most scathing legal rulings we’ve EVER seen.

Trump got his authoritarian ambitions shredded — not by a liberal firebrand, not by a “radical left” activist judge, but by a Reagan-appointed federal judge who knows the Constitution better than Trump ever will.

U.S. District Judge William Young didn’t just rule against Trump’s plan to deport non-citizen students for protesting Israeli actions in Gaza — he obliterated it. And he did it in a 161-page opinion that reads like a love letter to the Constitution — and a warning siren to a country sleepwalking toward authoritarianism.

And Judge Young made it personal right out of the gate. He attached a threatening anonymous postcard someone had sent him:

“TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS…WHAT DO YOU HAVE?”

His reply? Pure constitutional poetry:

“Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People … have our magnificent Constitution.”

That’s how you open a legal ruling. With spine. With defiance. With a reminder that the Constitution doesn’t belong to Trump — it belongs to We The People.

From there, Judge Young reprinted the actual text of the First Amendment — apparently deciding that if Trump, Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio keep pretending not to understand it, he’d spell it out for them like children: "Congress shall make NO LAW... prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech."

And then he lowered the boom:

Calling this case “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court,” Judge Young settled the matter once and for all:

“The Court answers the Constitutional question [of whether non-citizens have First Amendment rights] unequivocally ‘yes, they do.’ ‘No law’ means ‘no law.’ The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction [between citizens and non-citizens,] and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence.”

Translation: Trump’s attempt to strip free speech rights from non-citizens is not only unconstitutional, it’s flat-out un-American.

And Judge Young wasn’t finished. He took direct aim at Trump’s fragile ego and strongman cosplay:

“The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.”

Let’s pause here: A Reagan judge just said the former Republican president poses “a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.” Imagine how far gone you have to be to get that kind of rebuke.

Judge Young then cut deeper:

“I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.”

That’s the Trump strategy in a nutshell: keep people divided, distracted, and convinced the Constitution is somebody else’s problem — right until it’s too late.

And then came one of the most searing passages we’ve ever read from the federal bench, this time about Trump’s ICE shock troops:

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor — and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

Read that again. A federal judge just compared Trump’s ICE to the Ku Klux Klan. And he’s right. No democracy tolerates a “masked secret police” — except the one Trump is trying to build.

Judge Young made plain that Trump has repeatedly violated the Constitution. But here’s the kicker: thanks to the Supreme Court’s disgraceful ruling granting Trump blanket immunity for his “official acts,” this president-turned-defendant can shrug off accountability for now.

Still, the decision is a thunderclap. It rules for the plaintiffs, reaffirms that the First Amendment protects everyone — citizen or not — and leaves the executive branch scrambling to figure out what “remedies” they’ll face for trying to shred our most fundamental freedom.

Make no mistake: this ruling is more than legal precedent. It’s a moral indictment. It’s a reminder that even after years of Trump’s bullying, gaslighting, and “hollow bragging,” there are still judges who will stand up and say:

The First Amendment is NOT negotiable, no matter WHAT Trump thinks.

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08/02/2025

I’ve never been an avid sports fan. The best I can offer is the NAVY army football game. Well that has changed for, as in most cases, the good and the bad.
Woman’s basket ball has grabbed me. It has everything going for it!
The skill, thinking, physicality, speed, beauty, brutality, politics, egos, liars, truth tellers, media mavens, and an incredible star!
The other side of that golden coin is a disaster. My Nation is being dismembered by a bully with the intellect of a sea slug. He has surrounded himself with a crew of the most inept dumb greedy toadys that beggars the imagination.
We have had incompetent people on the national stage many times in the past, and they have done damage to the ideals of the constitution. Never before has a group of malcontents tryed to give our country to the greedy, evil, ignorant, bigoted, scum. Who have overturned the system of balance of power and are doing their best to burn our founding document and install a king!
I’m a proud Vet. My family has served our country for generations. We must not allow anything to turn us away from getting rid of those who have nothing but contempt for the law.
This is a battle we must win!q

06/01/2024
Check out this art show online before it’s gone! All the artwork is for sale including this painting by Dennis Liberty
06/07/2021

Check out this art show online before it’s gone! All the artwork is for sale including this painting by Dennis Liberty

Final days! EMBODIED an online exhibition depicting the portrait and figure by artists living and working in New Mexico.
This truly stunning show can only be found on our website:
http://bit.ly/NMArtLeague
Artist cred:
Red Rider
by Dennis Liberty - Artist
oil on canvas
26.5" x 43"

Hi Folks! It's Dennis' daughter coming to you today with Big News! (Long post but it’s worth it.)* NEW Artwork, Websites...
10/29/2020

Hi Folks! It's Dennis' daughter coming to you today with Big News! (Long post but it’s worth it.)
* NEW Artwork, Websites and an Art Show you view from anywhere in the world!

https://animoto.com/play/x7df23fDicz0mw1pViv1ag

*The little movie gives you a taste of the paintings Dennis has for sale in the Albuquerque Museum ArtsThrive! show happening NOW. Buy art! Support me.
Support my fellow artists.
Support the Albuquerque Museum. https://www.bidsquare.com/search?search=Dennis%20Liberty

* Dennis has a new website that is one long scrolling page. It's everything a website should be including pictures you can embiggen when you click on them! Take a look, http://dennisliberty.com/

* DENNISLIBERTYTOO shop is coming soon! (A bona fide eCommerce web developer is building the site.) There you will find affordably priced artwork that fit into multiple categories of themes, styles and mediums.

As with most activities, the style of Dennis' work the public sees depends on what happens to be most visible at the moment. We hope you enjoy seeing the wide variety of work Dennis has created over the course of his 70-year career.

I have always been a son of the West. The quality of light, the wide expanses, the high mountains and the animals that inhabit the landscape speak to me as no other landscape on earth can. Every time I look at the land, I see something new. Exploration of color is my primary activity, my eternal fas...

Terra Incognita : Explorations in Unknown Territory ::: Two-person show of works by Dennis Liberty and Patrick Carr! Whe...
02/03/2020

Terra Incognita : Explorations in Unknown Territory ::: Two-person show of works by Dennis Liberty and Patrick Carr!
When: Opening reception, Friday, February 7, 2020, 4-8 pm
Where: The Gallery Albuquerque located in Hoffmantown Shopping Center, 8210 Menaul Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM.
Tractor Brewery is sponsoring the reception.

11/30/2019

The Dennis Liberty, Too FB page is up!
https://www.facebook.com/dennislibertytoo/
I posted the first story about how I began creating pewter miniatures in the 1980s. My online store may not be open in time to buy gifts for Christmas, but the absolute biggest gift giving day is just around the corner: Groundhog Day! Get ready. February 2, 2020 will be here sooner than you think.
https://www.facebook.com/dennislibertytoo/

Artwork by Dennis Liberty - Wizards, imaginary creatures, faeries, guardian animals, and more includ

11/30/2019

About Dennis Liberty, Too...
Setting up a print-on-demand online store is far more complicated than one is led to believe. Setting up a FB page for people to follow is much, much easier.
https://www.facebook.com/dennislibertytoo/

I will be sharing the backstories behind the concept art I made during the late 1980s and early 1990s for miniature pewter collectible sculptures and other artwork. Read my first post now!
https://www.facebook.com/dennislibertytoo/

Artwork by Dennis Liberty - Wizards, imaginary creatures, faeries, guardian animals, and more includ

Dennis Liberty, Too — http://dennislibertytoo.comComing soon! A new site for drawings and sketches that many of you have...
11/23/2019

Dennis Liberty, Too — http://dennislibertytoo.com
Coming soon! A new site for drawings and sketches that many of you have never seen before. Dragons, wizards, my own mythical beasts, demons, faeries, cute animals, and cartoons. Some are doodles and others are concept art for collectible sculptures produced in the early 1990s.
My very tiny store opens next Friday, 29 November 2019

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125 Green Valley Road NW
Albuquerque, NM
87107

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