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Daily Dispatch, 2025-10-27

Oct 27, 2025

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2 min read

Daily Dispatch, 2025-10-27

Year 0, Day 280 since the fall of the republic

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Politics

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Writer's Paralysis as Resistance

Sep 12, 2025

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3 min read

Writer's Paralysis as Resistance

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Politics

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Seven Months In

Aug 24, 2025

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3 min read

Seven Months In

It's worse than I imagined

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Politics

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A Government of, by, and for the Psychopaths

Jul 3, 2025

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3 min read

A Government of, by, and for the Psychopaths

America has been gleefully overrun by psychopaths. Do we have the collective will to pull it back from the brink?

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Politics

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Unelected Bureaucrats

Jun 3, 2025

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3 min read

Unelected Bureaucrats

They're not the enemy — they're the people you had no idea your life depends on.

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A Losing Message

Jun 1, 2025

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2 min read

A Losing Message

Demonizing billionaires isn't cutting it

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Impeachment

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Impeach Trump?

Apr 30, 2025

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3 min read

Impeach Trump?

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Politics

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A Week of Fascism

Apr 30, 2025

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3 min read

A Week of Fascism

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Ordinary American

Politics

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Homework From My Son — Part II

Apr 30, 2025

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8 min read

Homework From My Son — Part II

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Politics

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Are We Living Under Fascism?

Apr 9, 2025

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6 min read

Are We Living Under Fascism?

Have we exchanged democracy for authoritarian, Fascist, rule? Not yet, but we’re closer than we may want to admit.

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Politics

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Homework from My Son

Apr 9, 2025

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9 min read

Homework from My Son

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J.D. Vance

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The 22nd Amendment Won't Prevent a Third Trump Term

Apr 7, 2025

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4 min read

The 22nd Amendment Won't Prevent a Third Trump Term

A third presidential term is impossible, until it’s not.

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