Politics

Someone on Twitter said #NoKings is just grandstanding from people who lost, that Trump’s power grab doesn’t approach monarchy—but they’re historically illiterate. Most kings throughout history had less power than Trump claims: they couldn’t fire every official, ignore parliaments, or eliminate inst

I’m a veteran, pro-Second Amendment Catholic who’s voted Republican most of my life. Christians have quoted Scripture to condemn my interracial marriage as “white genocide.” Now they quote the same verses at my gay son. When someone says “you can’t vote Democrat and be a good Christian,” I hear the

A couple days after publishing “The Price of Reform,” someone calling themselves “El Bearsidente” sent me 500 words of fury attempting to refute my documentation of dangerous rhetoric patterns. He accused me of ignoring the left, betraying conservatism, and being like Eichmann. Then he suggested I’m

Two weeks before Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I documented the rhetoric that historically precedes mass violence. When the crisis hit on September 10th, I watched the pattern activate exactly as predicted, grief weaponized into apocalyptic framing, half the country painted as existential threats. I

I raised my right hand in January 1994 and swore to defend the Constitution with my life. That oath didn’t expire. Now I’m watching domestic enemies dismantle it while calling themselves patriots. Federal troops in American cities despite courts finding no justification. Judges called “corrupt” for

I’m losing my publisher’s audience. Former allies are calling for my cancellation. Friends are abandoning me. Not because I attacked them—but because I pointed out alarming patterns of dehumanizing rhetoric within the conservative movement I’ve belonged to my entire adult life. When people use elimi

When tragedy strikes, we face a fundamental choice: do we use it to build bridges or burn them? Do we distinguish between extremists and ordinary people, or do we use extremists to justify viewing entire populations as enemies? I wasn’t being tone deaf when I called for de-escalation. I was watching

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination I heard growing rhetoric from the Right about dramatically escalating leftist violence and decided to dig into the data and see where things were trending. What I didn’t expect to find was the rhetoric wasn’t just wrong, it was catastrophically backwards. Compiling

Genocide doesn’t start with gas chambers. It begins with dehumanizing rhetoric, legal discrimination, and deportation systems. Right now, the U.S. is progressing through the documented early stages that preceded every modern genocide: systematic dehumanization of immigrants, Muslims, and LGBTQ+ Amer

For twenty years, American political discourse has crossed a dangerous line—and no, both sides aren’t doing the same thing. There’s a fundamental difference between attacking what people believe versus who they are. Right-wing rhetoric increasingly targets immutable characteristics: race, sexuality,