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Updates, letters, and notes from the movement.

A Brave New World

I want to say something to my friends around the world. I have friends in Europe. Friends in the Middle East. Friends in Asia. Friends all over this planet. And I know sometimes America can come across like the loud guy at the party who thinks everybody needs to hear his opinion. We’ve certainly earned […]

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Evolve Or Die

THREE MONTHS INTO THE TRUTH PARTY Three months ago, I started something called the Truth Party. And I had absolutely no idea what the hell I was doing. Which, when you think about it, makes me perfectly qualified for American politics. I built a website. I started making videos. I started a YouTube channel. I […]

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”-ISM.”

When I was growing up in the 1960s, the safest rule in America was simple: Be suspicious of any word ending in “-ism.” Communism. Socialism. Fascism. We were taught to fear the labels before we ever stopped to ask what they meant. But the older I get, the more I realize the real question isn’t […]

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Get In The Car!

I’ve now talked to 40 people. Forty complete strangers. Different ages. Different backgrounds. Different races. Different experiences. And let me say this right up front: forty people is not America. I’m not Gallup. I don’t have a polling department. I don’t have a statistician sitting behind me with twelve computer screens. I’ve got an iPhone […]

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Marking Your Territory

Donald Trump just renamed Lake Ontario. Lake America. I’m serious. Apparently, with everything going on in this country, somebody looked at the presidential to-do list and said, “You know what America really needs? We gotta straighten out these lakes.” And I’ve got questions. What happens to Lake Erie? Lake Freedom? Lake Superior? Obviously Lake Tremendous. […]

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The Same Road

For the last several days, I’ve been doing something that apparently has become radical in America. I’ve been listening. I know. Crazy concept. I’m not arguing with anybody. I’m not trying to convince anybody. I’m not asking whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat. I’m just walking up to complete strangers and asking them the […]

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