Updates, letters, and notes from the movement.
There’s a fascinating line coming out of Donald Trump’s latest campaign rallies. He told the crowd: “Please pretend that I’m on the ballot.” Think about that for a second. Because that may tell us more about the 2026 midterm elections than almost anything else Trump said. For ten years, Donald Trump has been the center […]
Something interesting happened in Mobile, Alabama. Donald Trump went back to where, in many ways, the whole MAGA phenomenon began. Back in August 2015, Trump was still the guy everybody in Washington thought was a sideshow. Jeb Bush was running. Marco Rubio was running. Ted Cruz was running. And here comes Donald Trump — the […]
Sometimes in life, you just need help. That’s it. You don’t need somebody to fix your entire life. You don’t need somebody to tell you what to do. Sometimes you just need another human being to sit there, listen to you, and help you sort through the noise. Sometimes it’s physical help. Sometimes it’s mental […]
I read something this morning about Friday Night Lights, and it got me thinking about Greensboro. Now, Friday Night Lights was supposedly a television show about high school football in a little Texas town called Dillon. But it really wasn’t about football. It was about community. Dillon had rich people and poor people. Black people […]
You ever watch a dog chase a car? That dog is committed. He’s barking, running full speed, absolutely convinced that catching that Buick is the most important thing he will ever accomplish. But nobody ever asks the obvious question: What the hell is the dog going to do if he catches the car? And sometimes […]
If we’re going to talk about John Kennedy, the CIA, and the military-industrial complex, we have to be careful about one thing: there’s a difference between what we can prove and what we suspect. And frankly, the documented history is dramatic enough without pretending we know something we don’t. Start in 1947. World War II […]