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2026: The Year of We the People
2025: The Year MAGA Discovered the Constitution Was Load Bearing
We Bombed Something, Probably, Says Man on the Radio
The Anatomy of Government Overreach
How Trump’s True Purpose Was Making America Greater and Better
Nothing to See Here, Please Panic Quietly
When the Press Makes the Dangerous Seem Normal
The Constitution Does Not Celebrate Christmas
Naughty or Nice: Santa’s Ledger of Consequence
Why EssayX2 Exists, and Why You Matter
The Golden Fleet and the Floating Ego
One Nation, Under Which God, Exactly?
Epstein Files Released, Transparency Reported Missing, Sharpie Found at Scene
The Final Tour of Reaganomics, Hard Hats Optional
Tyranny Is Not Easily Conquered, But It Always Is
When the State Picks a God: The Quiet Militarization of White Christian Nationalism
Susie Wiles Says the Quiet Part That Has Been Visible All Along
Donald Trump: The Character Who Escaped the Script
Donald Trump Says Rob Reiner and His wife Died Because of 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'
American Democracy as Renovation Project
America Solves Gun Violence By Not Solving It At All
Examining Racism as a Technology, Not a Belief
When “Protect Our Values” Meets a Prosecutor Who Locked Up the Klan
A Christmas Carol for President Donald J. Trump
Human Rights Day Has Been Delayed For Classified Reasons
An Unstable Man in an Unstable Moment
Donnie's Golden Age of “I Didn’t Say That”
Digital ID: Threshold of a New Civic Order
THE GHOSTS WHO STILL STAND WATCH
The Trump Corollary and Other Bedtime Stories
The United States and the Great War on Anything That Floats
How to: Fact Check, Think Critically, and Spot Conspiracy Theories
America Tries to Spin a Million Layoffs Into a Success Story
The Imaginal Roots of American Authoritarianism
The GOP’s Thirteen Point Weight Loss Plan
When a Party Blinks, a Presidency Wavers
While Rome Burns, He Rests His Eyes
Digital Fentanyl: The Outrage Industrial Complex and the Erosion of Civic Life
Franklin Fires a Rocket and Other Thanksgiving Traditions in the Trump Era
The Epstein Class Takes a Victory Lap While America Checks Its Wallet
RedRum on the Rocks: Another Week in the House of Trump
Reverse Migration, Forward Grift: A Holiday Special From The Trump–Putin Shopping Network
Black Friday as a Mirror of a System in Collapse
Giving Thanks in Trump’s America
The Republic of Selective Shopping
Cabaret: A Movie That Holds a Mirror to 2025
The Great Halligan Hustle, or How to Lose a Coup in Ten Days
Welcome to the United States of Whose Plan Is It Anyway?
A Republic Reclaimed, a Nation Reborn
The Republic Shrugs, Then Sends a Memo
The Peace Plan That Sounds Like It Was Written During a Hostage Negotiation
A New Standard of Living: How Resourceism Reimagines Prosperity
Real Patriots Defend the Constitution—Not Power
The President Who Cried Treason
AMERICA: A Nation Finding Its Center Again
The Great Pedophile Transparency Panic of 2025
The Blindness of Authoritarian Grifters
President Ronald “Mac” MacDonald Goes to Gettysburg
The Week the Strongman Found the Exit Door Marked “Oops”
The Aristocrats Are Back, and They Brought the Cake
The Week That Was in Trumpworld, or How to Age Ten Years in Seven Days
Rebuilding the American Republic, We Deserve
The Republic of DoorDash Justice
The American (and Human) Unraveling
The Shutdown That Launched a Thousand Excuses
When Life Becomes a Market: Why Capitalism Cannot Sustain the Living World
The Quiet Majority: When Ordinary Americans Let Fascism In
The Government Opens for Business, the Circus Stays
The Next System of Economics and Governance
Public Man-Made Death: How the Dismantling of USAID Became an Act of State Cruelty
Let Them Eat Discount Turkey: The Court Rules Hunger Constitutional
The MAGA Meltdown: When Authoritarians Forget the Working Class Can Vote
The Common Good and the One Mind: How New Thought and Democratic Socialism Converge
Emergency Prayer Circle Formed After New York Elects Socialist Mayor
The Empire Votes Back: How Democrats Can Ride New York’s New Dawn
Yesterday’s Message: This is OUR Country!
Crypto, Corruption, and Cold Turkey: The Thanksgiving Special from Mar-a-Lago
The Arc of Justice in an Unsteady Nation
The Right Stuff: Tucker Carlson’s New Nazi Normal
The Two-to-One Principle: How Balance, Not Purity, Holds the Universe Together(Updated)
The First Market: How a Monkey’s Token Proved Resourceism Right
The Emperor’s Empty Pantry: A Luxury Bathroom for a Hungry Nation
When I Was Hungry: The Spiritual Crime of Withholding
Gold, Guns, and Ghouls: The Halloween That Ate Democracy
The Coming Reckoning: Humanity’s Crisis of Conscience
It’s Right to Be Anti-Trump, but Better to Offer Something Better
The End of the American Century
What Are We Doing Here, Folks?
The Measure of a Nation: A New Thought Teaching on Compassion and Collective Prosperity
RESOURCEISM: A New Foundation for the Human Future
The Home Improvement President
Living in Gray: A Meditation on Modern Life
Long Live the King (of Grift, Gaslight, and Gold Leaf)
The Wounded King: Trump’s Narcissistic Rage and the Collapse of American Politics
The King and His Flying Toilet: A Love Letter to Authoritarian Chic
The Truest Form of Wealth: The Philosophy of Resourceism
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
No Kings, No Clowns, No Problem
No Kings, Please, We’re Still Pretending to Be a Democracy
No Kings in America: Why “Political Opposition Is Not Rebellion” Matters Now
King Donald and the Case of the Magical Money
The Supreme Court’s New Hobby: Time Travel to 1874
The Future Is Fascist, and They’re Texting About It
The Business of Sickness: How America Profits from Disease
The Debt of Delusion: America’s Reckoning with Its Own Myths
The Day Charlie Chaplin Spoke and Defied Dictators (Video with transcript)
10 Practical Tactics for Staying Human in a Fractured America
Trump Wins the Nobel Prize for Alternative Peace
Selling Sovereignty, One Jet at a Time
Hostage Negotiations: The GOP’s Blueprint for Governing (Sort Of)
Hope on Credit: The Cost of Breathing
Holding Steady: How Americans Can Keep Faith in Democracy When Power Turns Against Them
Breaking the Brain’s Oldest Addiction: How Forgiveness Can Heal a Divided Nation
Awakening in the Dark Night: How America’s Crisis Can Heal the World
The National Trauma We’re Living Through
Daily 'Toon: The Machine Behind the Curtain
From Cowbell to Control: America’s Democracy Gauge Moves Toward the Red
The War That Isn’t: How Power Turns Citizens Into Combatants
Fascism’s Addiction to Lies: Why Falsehood is Its Lifeblood
Daily 'Toon: Unprecedented Opportunity: Axing Democracy
Duty Over Tanks: Why Judge Young’s Rebuke Matters for American Democracy
Deepfakes and the Dictator’s Playbook
Trump’s Magical MedBeds: Healthcare by Conspiracy
The Mental Cage of Fear and How to Escape It
How Democracies Die, American Edition
Peter Thiel’s Antichrist: Apocalyptic Hype as a Business Model
The Generals’ Summons: Trump, Hegseth, and the Authoritarian Turn in America’s Military
BORDER CZAR WITH A CASHBACK PROGRAM
Daily 'Toon: Escalators, Teleprompters and The Apocalypse
The Sleeping Giant Is Waking Up
The Sacred Worth of Every Human Life
Democracy Endures Only When Ordinary Citizens Rise to Protect It
The Rise and Fall of Oligarchies in American History
Project 2025’s “TIVE” Gambit: Turning Trans Identity into a National-Security Target
Daily 'Toon: ''Toll House Cookies''
Daily 'Toon: “Speak Softly, Wear a Helmet”
Empathy or Apathy: Reading the American Mood in Tumultuous Times
Daily 'Toon: Irony is Now Officially Retired
Daily 'Toon: Char Broiled Kash
Why the Love of Money Fails Us and How Resourceism Offers a Better Way
Prayer, Power, and the Peril of Theocracy
Daily 'Toon: Lisa Cook Reads the Fine Print
Radiating Goodwill: How New Thought Shapes a Kinder World
Daily 'Toon: Truth? That’s Tomorrow’s Problem
Daily Toon: “Shadow Over the Republic”
The Power of Unity Against Tyranny
HEADS UP: Paragon’s “Graphite” Spyware Is Watching
Trump, NATO, and the Shadow of World War: Opportunity, Danger, and the Martial Law Question
Washington’s Warning: Partisanship, Power, and the Perils Within
Daily 'Toon: Trump’s Deportation Jackpot
The Supreme Court Just Greenlit Racial Profiling in Los Angeles
Right Thinking in a World Gone Mad
The Two Faces of Liberty: Freedom From and Freedom To
Can America Shut It Down? Inside the Grassroots Push for a General Strike
Truth Against Power: Imagining the End of the Trump Era
The Theater of Waiting: Hitler’s Strategy of Delay
Trump’s 2 p.m. Oval Office Announcement: What Might Be Coming, and Why It Matters
LABOR DAY ISN’T ABOUT A DAY OFF
Without Empathy, Civilization Crumbles
DEMOCRACY DOESN’T RUN ON AUTOPILOT
The Power of Truth: Resisting Lies in an Age of Authoritarian Deception
God, Code, and Power: The Christian Revival in Silicon Valley
The Stoic’s Guide to Positive Thinking in Hard Times
Coarsening the Culture: Slurs, Fascism, and the Death of Empathy
Patriotism Is Fidelity to the Constitution
Armed, Insidious, and Insecure: How Domestic Extremists are Targeting U.S. Armories
How America Became a Monstrosity
Washington vs. The Hague: How the US Attack on the ICC Threatens International Law
Don’t Be Fooled: RFK Jr.’s Food Policies Miss the Mark on Health, Ethics, and Animal Rights
The Trap Reopens: What Zelensky Faces in Washington Today
Floating Authoritarian Fantasies: Trump, Putin, and the Alaska Trial Balloon
RECLAIMING AMERICA’S IMAGINATION
Today’s Headline, Tomorrow’s Martial Law
The Next Awakening: Machine Sentience and the Infinite Mind
RE: AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY?
From Gilded Age to Gilded Age and Beyond
The Future We Deserve: Living Without Money, Living With Purpose
Gold-Plated Fascism: How Corporations Are Publicly Courting Authoritarianism
The Cross and the Crown: How Christian Theocracy Threatens American Democracy
Fascism and Moral Collapse: Solutions Through New Thought
Fascism Has Come to America: How Bad Will It Get, How Long Will It Last, and What We Can Do About It
Rigging Democracy: How Trump’s GOP Plans to Steal 2026 Before You Even Vote
From the 70s to Trump: The Legacy of Sanewashing in American Media
From Denial to Sabotage: How America’s Authoritarian Drift Is Accelerating the Climate Crisis
How Americans Were Fooled: The Quiet Rise of Project 2025
When the Monsters Turn on Each Other: Trump, Murdoch, and the Rot They Built Together
From Oligarchy to Equity: The Case for a Resource-Based Economy
From Republic to Reich: The Authoritarian Rebranding of America
Before They Came for Us: How Cruelty to Animals Normalized Evil
November 2026: Where American Democracy Will Stand
Beyond the March: How to Make Protest Effective Again
Digital Civil Discourse: Can We Redefine Respect Online?
The Death of Human Empathy and the Rise of Barbarism
When the Crowd Booed Back: How Authoritarians Crumble When People Stop Obeying
Coarsening the Culture: Slurs, Fascism, and the Death of Empathy
My New Substack and An Invitation to Subscribe
Cracks in the Script: Epstein, MAGA, and the Collapse of Political Kayfabe
Access Hollywood, Epstein, and Abuse: The System Still Protects Power
How to: Fact Check, Think Critically, and Spot Conspiracy Theories
The President Who Breaks the Law
“This Restaurant Serves Only One Person: WAR”
Open Doors, Strong Foundations: How Welcoming Strangers Can Save America
Welcome to Alligator Alcatraz: Not Just a Temporary Facility
Stop Managing Decline: A Bold Plan for the Democratic Party
The Speech That Defied Tyranny: Charlie Chaplin’s Call to Humanity
Elon Musk’s America Party: Trojan Horse for Oligarchy
READER POLL: American Concentration Camps
Bend, Don’t Break: The Hidden Strength of Resilient People
Why So Many Americans Still Admire Trump
Fascist Smart Meters and Other Tricky Controls
The New Chains: How Trump’s Budget Turns ICE into an Engine of Modern Slavery
Elon Musk's 'America Party' Is a Vanity Project Disguised as Patriotism
Defunded: How Trump’s War on Public Agencies Endangers Us
Liberty on Trial: America’s 2025 Reckoning
Independence for Whom America?
What RFK Jr.’s Wearable Plan Means for Your Freedom
The Banality of Evil in Our Time
The Crime of Austerity: When Power Serves the Few
The Problem We Can No Longer Ignore: Wealth Inequality
ICE Age: Is Trump's Budget Preparing for a Crackdown on Dissent?
America for Sale: How Lisa Murkowski's Alaska Carve Out Exposes the Rotten Core of U.S. Politics
Malignant Manifesting: How a Corrupted Vision of Personal Power Helped Create the Trump Phenomenon
We Are Headed for a Post-Human AI World
Decolonization Isn’t Done: Why Shared Resources and People Power Are the Future
Alligator Alcatraz: The Internment Camp in the Swamp
False Confidence, Real Consequences
A Smarter Economy Starts With Trash
War with Iran: How We Got Here
The Fog of Fear: How Crisis Undermines Democracy
Redefining America's Greatness
Unity in the Age of Conflict: Lessons from Rising Middle East Tensions
Police State 101: Recognizing the Patterns of Repression
The Mad King: How a Nation Normalizes Tyranny
Trump’s Flagpoles: A Monument to Ego, Not Patriotism
“When Profits Pull the Trigger”
When the Jokes Start, the Movement Ends: MAGA’s Moral Collapse
Trigger Warning: When Politics Turns to Blood
The 3.5 Percent Rule Just Made History: Why 11 Million Protesters Can Change Everything
After the Fire: Why a New Era is Coming
The Cult of Ego: Why MAGA Mirrors History’s Darkest Movements
The Fatal Few: How the Corruptible Threaten Democracy
Unmasking the Real Monsters: How Dehumanization Fuels Unlimited Cruelty
The Last Warnings of a Fading Republic
The Final Curtain: America at the Brink of Executive Rule
A Republic on the Edge: Trump, Protest, and the Constitutional Crisis of Escalation
"The Slow Collapse of a Democratic Illusion"
Not Just Trump: The Authoritarian Impulse Behind the Red Hat
Peter Thiel's Antichrist Warning Is a Blueprint for Technocratic Control
How a Game Show Host Just Outlined a Roadmap to Save America
Beyond the Billionaire Circus: How the Trump–Musk Feud Exposes America's Broken Democracy
Staying Woke: The Power of Conscious Resistance
The J-Curve of Alien Intelligence Is Coming
Ignorance Is the Handmaiden of Tyranny: Trumpism and the Strategic Use of Untruth
The Future We Deserve: Living Without Money, Living With Purpose
Blood on the Ledger: The Real Cost of “Government Efficiency”
PROJECT 2026: Reclaiming Congress, Restoring Democracy
The Secret to America's Success
The Spirit of the Republic Is Not for Show
When the Rule of Law Becomes the Target
Resisting Hate in a Divided World
The Global Republic: Building a Just World Through Resourceism and Democracy
The Oath and the Ultimate Price
From Crisis to Greatness: Why America's Best Days Could Be Next
Trump Was the Trial Run. Vance Is the Real Threat.
The Power of Love in a Divided World
Justice for Students: A Federal Judge Defends Education Rights
Bring Back 'Evil': Why We Must Stop Sanitizing the Unforgivable
Unmaking America: The Real Agenda Behind Trumpism
How the GOP Plans to Crown a King
Midnight Bill, Daylight Robbery
Tariffs Are the Real Culprit Behind the Collapse in Consumer Confidence
We Are Not Alone—We Are All One
How to Stop Fear from Controlling You
Before They Came for Us: How Cruelty to Animals Normalized Evil
Dear Robert Reich: Too Many Baskets, Not Enough Loaves
Preserving Life: A Call to Conscience
A Gift Fit for a King, Not a President
What We Do Now, Our Children Will Remember
The Most Dangerous Words: “We’re Actively Looking at Suspending Habeas Corpus”
From Republic to Ruin: How America Lost Its Way and How One Voice Could Help Save It
Who is Laura Loomer and Why Does She Have Trump’s Ear?
Gates vs. Musk: A Billionaire Battle Over the World’s Poor
Mars as a Mirage: How Musk’s Space Dream Masks a Power Grab on Earth
On the Brink: Why We Must Confront the Nuclear Threat Now
Why They Fear 'Woke': Unmasking the Backlash Against Progress
From 1776 to Now: Equality as the Soul of Democracy
Letters from 2050: The People’s America
The Mind Trap: How Fear Holds Us Back
Oligarchy’s Feast, Humanity’s Famine
210,000(Update: 307,000) Dead and Counting
A Town Like Yours, A Threat Like This
Project 2025 and Trump's 100-Day Sprint Toward Authoritarianism
How to Cope with America's Drift into Authoritarianism
Toward a Global Republic: A Vision of Resourceism and Participatory Democracy
No Glory at the End of the Fascist Road
From Reagan to Trump: How a Lie Broke the Nation
One Earth, One Ethic: Why Veganism and Resourceism Must Unite to Save Our World
The Slow Death of Social Security and the America That Follows
Bend, Don’t Break: The Hidden Strength of Resilient People
#18: Be Ready When Democracy Is Tested
Unity in Contrast: Why Good, Evil, and Empathy Hold the Universe Together
The Spiritual Power of Embracing Both Light and Shadow
From Capitol Riots to Gaza: Where Appeasement Leads
Fear, Blame, and Power: Scapegoating in Authoritarian Systems
Bridgton Maine Joins Nationwide Wave of 50501 Protests Against Trump’s Policies
America, the Nation of Tomorrow: A Promise or a Warning?
Social Conditioning: Desensitization to Human and Constitutional Rights Violations
The Past is Prologue: Understanding the Present Through History
Feminism Isn’t for Sale: The False Triumph of Billionaire Space Tourism
Thoughts for Sale: The Dark Side of Brain Implants
The Fragile Foundation: Truthfulness and the Survival of Democracy
Silence Is Surrender: Why We Must Speak Out Now
Why Are So Many Americans Anti-Woke?
The Fascist Ideology Behind Animal Exploitation
Ignorance and Stupidity in the Information Age
The Last Stand for Liberty: Will We Rise or Fall?
Where Attention Goes, Life Flows
The Mad King Test: Will America Pass?
You Made This: The Uncomfortable Truth About Manifestation
Right Thinking in a World Gone Mad
Invite your friends to read Essay X²
The Ordinary Face of Evil: Seeing, Naming, and Resisting
America: A Tale of Two Futures
Real Patriots Defend the Constitution—Not Power
When "National Emergency" Means Executive Power Grab
''We the People'' Are the Firewall
Manufactured Crisis: The Trump Regime’s Path to Power Through Economic Ruin
One Senator, One Stand: Cory Booker and the Soul of America
Imaginal Thinking: The Power of the Mind in Shaping Reality
From Oligarchy to Equity: The Case for a Resource-Based Economy
The Death of Fairness: How Ignoring Due Process Leads to Authoritarianism
The Truth About Lies: How Deception Has Shaped Our World
Divine Theater: The Universal Mind Playing Every Role
Reckless, Clueless, Dangerous: The Hidden Threat of Unserious People
Breaking the Myth: Wealth is Not a Measure of Strength
Consequence, Karma, and Universal Divine Justice
Tyranny’s Breaking Point: Why 'We the People' Will Always Resist
From Domestication to Domination: How Animal Oppression Shaped Human Tyranny
The Democratic Party’s Last Stand Against Trump’s Dictatorship
Absurdity and Atrocity: The Dangerous Logic of America's New Policies
Taking Down Tyrants with Laughter: The Art of Public Mockery
Navigating Media, News, and Online Information Critically
The Worrying Time: Democracy’s on Fire, But At Least There’s Popcorn
The Death of Empathy: Why Authoritarianism Thrives on Dehumanization
The Death of Human Empathy and the Rise of Barbarism
Woke as Weakness: The Right-Wing's Manufactured War on Progress
Power, Fear, and Lies: How Governments Lose Their Moral Compass
The Spirit of War and the Fate of Humanity
Exploitation vs. Justice: The Eternal Struggle for Ethical Progress
How to Improve Your Critical Thinking Skills
Expanding the Circle of Compassion: The Path to a More Prosperous and Peaceful World
The Fascist Ideology Behind Animal Exploitation
When Nightmare Becomes Reality
The Silent Epidemic: Adult Bullying, Gaslighting, and Narcissistic Abuse
A Nation Worth Saving: Why America’s Values Matter
The Making of Monsters: How Our Civilization Breeds Cruelty
The Weight of Tyranny: Psychological Stress in Fascist Regimes
Accelerationism: Propelling Society Through Capitalism’s Extremes
From FDR to Trump: The Slow Death of American Democracy
The Legal Backbone of Democracy: Why Laws Matter
The Great American Miscount: How We Turn 1% into 21% and Miss the Majority
Economic Cannibalism: How 'Chiseling' Fuels Wealth Hoarding and Systemic Collapse
How to Fail as a Dictator: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ruin
Patriotism Reimagined: Love for Country in a Changing America
The Past is Prologue: Understanding the Present Through History
Without Empathy, Civilization Crumbles.
The Power of Truth: Resisting Lies in an Age of Authoritarian Deception
Let’s Revisit the Seven DEADLY Sins
''He Who Saves His Country Does Not Violate Any Law''— A Dangerous Justification for Tyranny
The Cost of Corruption: Why It Affects Us All
RFK Jr.’s Confirmation as HHS Secretary is a Catastrophe for Public Health
Resisting Hate in a Divided World
Toward a Global Republic: A Vision of Resourceism and Participatory Democracy
Through the Eyes of a Pig: The Ethics of Eating Animals
The Stoic’s Guide to Positive Thinking in Hard Times
The War on Words: How Linguistic Manipulation Shapes Reality
Is It Ethical to Bring Children into a World Facing Climate Crisis?
When The Stupid Rule: The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Public Policy
Healing the Earth: Solutions for Climate Change and Ecological Restoration
A Legacy of Excess: Hughes, Musk, and the Billionaire Mindset
Suffering and the Power of Consciousness
Oneness and Interconnectedness
The Ethics of Space Exploration
The Sacred Worth of Every Human Life
Renewable Energy: Is it the Future of Global Energy?
Theocracy’s Shadow and the Return of Light
Fear, Blame, and Power: Scapegoating in Authoritarian Systems
Space Exploration: The Ethics and Economics of Colonizing Mars
Honoring the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.: A Call to Action for Justice and Equality
Defeat of Tyranny Through Grassroots Movements: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
Media Integrity in the Age of Fake News
No Place Like Home: Addressing Homelessness with Compassion and Action
"The Power of Unity Against Tyranny"
Living with Purpose: Lessons on Thought and Character from James Allen
Redefining Happiness: A Case for Resourceism Over Capitalism
Disconnected: How the Digital World Fuels Loneliness
The Law of Attraction Meets Science
The Cow Who Remembered the Sky
You Are What You Believe You Are
The 10 Commandments of Social Media