Tag: People Power
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Sand in the Gears
You do not have to do everything. Pick one thing. Then do it. Be sand in the gears. “Be troublesome. Be sand, not oil, in the gears of the world.” The German poet Günter Eich wrote that in 1951, trying to jolt people out of complacency after the catastrophe of the Nazi era. I think…
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Celebrate What?
I am celebrating with hope that they still exist. Today America is 250 years old. Many of us are despondent or enraged over the loss of American democracy. I am here at Antietam, site of the bloodiest single day in American history. Why am I here? What is there to celebrate? On September 17, 1862,…
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Votes for Women
Old, terrible arguments, it seems, never die; they simply wait for new keynote speakers. In early June, Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio gave a keynote platform to tradwife influencer Savanna Stone, who called for an end to women’s right to vote. She is proposing a one household, one ballot system in…
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Cracked
The South is being redrawn. Watch who disappears from the map. Note to my future self. Yesterday Tennessee’s Republican supermajority passed a new congressional map that splits Memphis into three districts. Memphis is over 60% Black. The new map disperses those voters into three districts, each tied to whiter, more rural areas stretching as far…
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Turned Around
It appears the government continues to try to decide for itself which court orders to follow. Note to my future self. On Saturday, Hayam El Gamal walked into an ICE office in Denver for a required check-in. Agents arrested her and her five children and put them on a plane. They came to the United…
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Not Winning
Watch, because those who believe themselves to be cornered can be the most dangerous. Note to my future self. This is not winning. The president built his reputation on being perceived as a winner. Recent facts do not paint that picture. Just look. Iran. He started a war of choice seven weeks ago. Iran closed…
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Authoritarian Playbook Lost
The people of Hungary just showed what’s possible. The question for us is: are we paying attention? Note to my future self. Great hope in Hungary this week. Strongman Viktor Orbán — 16 years in power, the global patron saint of illiberalism — lost decisively in elections on Sunday and conceded. Seventy seven percent of…
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The Point
That is our point. Yesterday 8 million Americans demonstrated that in this land we will have no Kings. I received many derisive comments yesterday from MAGA who were mocking the historic protests. “He’s not a king he’s your daddy” is one example. “We haven’t had a king for 250 years so what’s your point?” is…
Notes To My Future Self 