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Reflections on Building My Life With My Wife and Kids
Easing Economic Anxiety in the Collapse With Mutual Support and Fearlessness
The Right Is Actively Building Concentration Camps and Plotting Genocide While the Media Attacks the Left
Why Robust Primaries Are the Best Way to Ensure a Healthy Democracy
My Thoughts on Corporate Sponsorships and Newsletter Advertising
Let's Stop Falling For Distractions and Recognize Where Our Power Lies
Melat Kiros and Ericka Kopp Prove They Have the Integrity and Compassion to Meet This Moment
We Must Remember All the Crimes When We Enter The Time of Crocodile Tears
Wasting the Lives of Lost Foot Soldiers Sent off to Die in a War for Nothing
Flags, Fireworks & Fascism: Live w/ Eevie, Derek & Walter
Powerful Voices | Courage Candidates with Keira Havens
Before PACs Could Purchase Politicians, They Had to Buy the Legacy Media
Progressives Are Listening to the People and Winning
Who Decided Only Evil People Can Have Nice Things?
Don't Let Corrupt Centrist Politicians and Media Divide Us With False Accusations
Justice for Women and Accountability for Predators
The Corrupt Corporate Establishment Is in Full-on Panic 😱: DSA Wins & Gaslighting
Maybe It's Time That Republicans Faced Some Deserved Accountability
We Are Going to Overcome These Challenging Times With Compassion, Reason, and Community
Corporate AIPAC Democrats Have Never Used Their Political Power to Oppose Antisemitism
What's the Appropriate Action for This Moment?
What's the Vulcan Neck Pinch Daddy?
Meeting the Moment With Congressional Candidate Melissa Chaudhry
The Founding Fathers Were Tyrants
Why the Center Is Joining the Right to Falsely Accuse the Left of Antisemitism
Estrangement Is Always On Your Mind
Environmental Destruction as a Manifestation of all the "Isms"
Peru, Travel, Movies and Hopefully a few Laughs with Peter Murphy and Ben Ulansey
Don't Put Hands On Kids
Using Public Funds for Public Good with Congressional Candidate Ginger Murray
Traditional Values Are to Blame for Mass Shootings
It's Become Clear That the Democrats Are Anti-Democratic
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the End of Humanity
Why We Must Not Be Afraid to Have Difficult Conversations
Why Progressive Candidates Like Rachel Peace Can Win in the Red Districts Corporate Democrats Ignore
My Conservative Rural Teachers Wore Klan Robes and Raped Students
How Making Art Is the Mental Equivalent of a Deep Tissue Massage
Why Do Writers Refuse to Recognize the Corruption of the Publishing Industry?
Corruption Everywhere You Look and What We Can Do to Expose It
Strategies to Achieve a More Humanitarian Future
I Found My Limit Last Week
Meet Congressional Candidate Joseph Perez-Caputo
Meet Courage Candidate Alex Rikleen Who is Running For Senate in MA
As We fight the Big Lies, the Little Lies Slip in Unnoticed
Democrats Have to Stop Mansplaining Why Their Losing Strategies Are the Only Thing That Can Work
How Conservatives Are Acting to Obliterate Healthcare Outcomes for Women and Children
These Are the Times That Try Our Integrity and Put Our Essential Spirit to the Test
The Fastest Way to Restore Our Country Is To Acknowledge Kamala Was Cheated
Why You Just Have to Accept That Your Narcissistic Parent Is Never Going to Love You Back
The Mechanism of Estrangement in Both Families and the Nation
The F*****g Republicans Will Take All Our Rights Eventually—Including Gun Rights
Interview - Dayna Marie Foster, FL gubernatorial candidate
This Is The Year of Progressive Candidates--But Only If We Make it So
The Drunk, Loser English Teacher Who Hated Me With Every Fiber of His Being
How Often Is Erectile Dysfunction Medication Abused to Facilitate Child Rape?
Please Don't Blame the President's Cruelty on Mental Illness
Discussing Iran, Healthcare, and the Future of Humanity With Congressional Candidate Ginger Murray
America Is Drunk on Racism
Epstein Files and Stolen Elections: Threats to Our Democracy
Meet Missouri Congressional Candidate Tommy Holstein
I. Need. Your. Help!
Why Independent Creators Must Elevate Progressive Candidates in Congressional Primaries
Leading From the Heart and the Graceful Revolution
The Best Way to Appeal to Moderate Republicans Is By Bashing Democratic Leadership
Scrolling Deprives You Of Agency, Programs Your Thoughts, and Makes You Hate Yourself
How It Looks When a Narcissist Comes Unraveled
Every Time You Cast a Vote, The Flames of Torment Are Turned Up on An Authoritarian in Hell
The President Is a Huge F*****g A*****e
A Resource Officer Is Just an Armed Aggressor at Your Child's School
Let's Talk About the Lengths to Which Corrupt People Will Go to Steal Elections
Supremacy As Policy and What We Can Do To Fight Back
Meet Maine Democratic Senate Candidate David Costello
Cruelty and Obedience Conditioning In Rural Schools
You Want to Shut Down Airports? Then Try It, Cowards!
All Our Suffering in Support of Conservative Ideals Has Meant Nothing
We Will Respond to Their Hate With Love, We'll Answer Their Despair With Hope
A Boy Spit in My Daughter's Face in Spanish Class and This Is What Happened
We're Living in an Era of Republican Domestic Terrorism
Please Don't Try to Correct Me By Regurgitating Culturally Indoctrinated Toxic Conditioning
Shut Up About Graham Platner and Start Elevating Good Candidates
“The Government Can’t Be Trusted” Was the Motto of the Confederacy
Dismantling the Deceit and Indoctrination Inherent to Conservative Ideology
How The Powder Keg of Conservative Male Sexual Frustration and Loneliness Leads to Violence
Relax and Allow Your Over-Arching Plot Structure to Emerge Organically
All The Unfinished Drafts That Writers Leave Behind
I Found My Guidance in the Negative Spaces Caused by the Destruction of Decency
How do we mount an effective response to authoritarianism?
What Is Blue MAGA and Why Do They Insist on Enabling Fascism, Lawlessness, and Futility?
When Republicans Confess to Election Fraud, You Should Believe Them
The President's Premature Invasion Leaves the Nation Unsatisfied
Why Sending ICE to Airports Is Going to Backfire Big Time
Dr. Melissa Bird Discusses How Healthy Primaries Allow the People to Have a Voice
The Little Boy Who Could Only Destroy
A Half Million Email Subscribers But No Book Deal
What To Do When Narcissists Are Everywhere
The United States Has 3 Political Parties Disguised as 2
If Being An A*****e Hasn't Worked Out, Have you Considered Giving Kindness a try?
How You Can Overcome the Tyrants and the Liars and the Abusers with Passion and Integrity
How My Latina Wife Survived Her First Experience With the Harsh Wisconsin Winter
Most Stories About Kids Who Were Bullied Don't Have a Happy Ending
Prominent Democrats Should Start Apologizing for This Mess of a Nation
confederates and white supremacists Are American nazis
Turning Red Seats Blue With Congressional Candidate Ace Parsi
We're Witnessing the Desperation of Power Slipping Away
It's Impractical To Round Up Americans and Put Them In Concentration Camps
We're Creating a Humanitarian Based System Whether the Right Likes it or Not
Republicans Aren't Worried About Polls or Gas Prices Because They Plan to Cheat
Going to the Drive-In As a Young Parent With My Beautiful Family
Why the Concept of Media Reform Needs More Attention
It's Time to Get Mansplaining Out of Politics
Notes of the Week | E33 - Candidate Carousel #2 with Ericka and Abel
Maybe It's Time to Recognize That US Citizens Are Not Good People
How Republicans Are Sabotaging Our Whole Healthcare System
I Don't Want My Children to Be Taught Republican Child Rape Ideology
What Do We Do About These Horrible Men Who Destroy the Relationship Between a Mother and Child?
Imagine if the Democrats Had Defended Kamala's Stolen Election
Meet Virginia Congressional Candidate Robert Tracinski
How AI Generated Scripts Become Examples of the "Uncanny Valley"
Congressional Candidates Melat Kiros and Ericka Kopp Discuss Humanitarian Reform
There Is No Funding For Messages of Kindness in the USA
How to Give Writers The Gift of Being Seen
Do Writers Have a Responsibility to Flee Platforms that Feature Hate Content?
White American Men Have Become an Embarrassment to Both Their Ancestors and Their Descendants
Why Access Is the Strategy That Will Win the 2026 Midterms
They Turned Voters Away in Dallas
Combating Ableism and the American Erosion of Basic Humanity
I Endorsed Jasmine Crockett and Got Eviscerated by Blue MAGA
Overcoming the Sins of the Crybaby Father
Congressional Candidate Erik Terwey Discusses How to Move Forward With Resolve and Integrity
It Will Never Be Your Turn to Speak
What if "Never MAGA" Republicans Are Really a MAGA Trojan Horse?
When the Furnace Dies and It's Twenty degrees Below Zero
Notes of the Week | E30 - What is Conscientious Emigration?
Dismantling the Patriarchy In Order to Build a Better World
You Know You're About to Hear Lies When Oppressors Begin With "Well…"
Escapist Delights! Try to Get Some Rest This Weekend!
Returning to the Beginner’s Mind with Joyce Strong & Walter Rhein
Don't Teach US History Like It's the Epstein Files
Toxic People Bring Problems Into Your Life, and Disguise That They Are the Cause
Finding the Courage to Demand and Plan a Society that Works for the People
I Would Like to Formally Apologize On Behalf of All White People
Folks In Blue Areas Don't Know Anything About White Supremacy Schools
Navigating The Republican Manufactured Healthcare Crisis
How Playing Marbles Taught Me To Succeed By Relying on Observation Instead of Dominance
We've All Been Forced to Endure Insults and False Accusations from Powerful Child Rapists
Discussing Republican Lawlessness and Education Reform with Congressional Candidates Chris Armstrong and Abel Chavez
We Must Dismantle the Myth That You Can Work Hard and Succeed In the USA
It’s Not “Normal” to Hate Somebody Because They’re Different
When Are Democrats Going to Wake Up and Recognize Republicans Can't Be Trusted?
All Conservative Love Is Conditional
I Won't Apologize Because My Wife Is an Immigrant
Breaking the Chains that Binds Us with AmericanCitizen & Walter Rhein
The United States Teaches History Like It Is Covering Up The Epstein Files
How Do We Dismantle the Structure That Enables Conservative Child Predators?
What creates the hate mentality that produced the "Rape Academy?"
Atrocities Still Cause Human Suffering Even When They're Ignored by the Media
How to Recognize Abusive Words and Phrases with Walter Rhein
I Constantly Feel Like I'm Letting Everybody Down
The Daily Whatever Show With Congressional Candidates Shelby Campbell and Ericka Kopp
He's the Kind of Kid You'd Stick Needles Into
How White Supremacy Has Defiled Christianity
Conversation with Oregon Gubernatorial Candidate Brittany Jones
'Klansplaining' Is The Right-Wing Alternative to 'Wokeism'
Reflections on Building My Life With My Wife and Kids
How to Deal With Racism Addicts
Congressional Candidate Doug Chapin Discusses A Better Future
Why Robust Primaries Are the Best Way to Ensure a Healthy Democracy
Congressional Candidate Jeromie Whalen Discusses Our Political Climate
White Supremacy Is the Ideology of Child Rape
All We Have to Do to Defeat White Supremacists Is Stand Up to Them
Let's Stop Falling For Distractions and Recognize Where Our Power Lies
I Strongly Believe Corporate Democrats Allowed Republicans to Steal the 2024 Election
Truth Kills White Supremacy
Imagining a Government that Helps Human Beings with Congressional Candidate Ruth Fortune
Thank You For Helping Me Combat the Tidal Wave of Republican Lies
Powerful Voices | Courage Candidates with Keira Havens
Meet Congressional Candidate Dr. Melissa Bird
Justice for Women and Accountability for Predators
Maybe It's Time That Republicans Faced Some Deserved Accountability
Let's Give Ourselves Permission to Admit that Republicans Cheat to Win Elections
Meet Georgia Congressional Candidate Nick Alex
The Founding Fathers Were Tyrants
What's the Appropriate Action for This Moment?
Abusers Live in a Perpetual State of Fear That's Born From Their Fundamental Weakness
Estrangement Is Always On Your Mind
It's Become Clear That the Democrats Are Anti-Democratic
The Billionaires Came and Promised to Help—But They Were Lying
Environmental Destruction as a Manifestation of all the "Isms"
We Must Come To Terms With the Lies We're Taught About America
Friends, It's Only a Matter of Time Before This Newsletter Is Censored, Suppressed or Banned
The Friday Rant w/ Walter and Arturo : Living During Wartimes
Don't Put Hands On Kids
How Blaming Voters Is the Quickest Way to Ensure the Rise of Fascism
Meet Connecticut Congressional Candidate Andrew Rice
How Making Art Is the Mental Equivalent of a Deep Tissue Massage
Rural Public School Made Me Physically Sick
Why We Must Not Be Afraid to Have Difficult Conversations
I Found My Limit Last Week
How ICE's Claim of "No Warrant Entry" Sets the Stage for Political Assassinations
Meet Congressional Candidate Joseph Perez-Caputo
Democrats Have to Stop Mansplaining Why Their Losing Strategies Are the Only Thing That Can Work
Meet Courage Candidate Alex Rikleen Who is Running For Senate in MA
The Veneer of America Has Cracked
Notes of the Week | E28 - Toning It Up
Watching The Muppet Show With the Kids
The Mechanism of Estrangement in Both Families and the Nation
Corruption Everywhere You Look and What We Can Do to Expose It
Will We Be Known as the Generation That Changed the Heart of America?
This Is The Year of Progressive Candidates--But Only If We Make it So
Republicans Train Their Base to Only See a White Supremacy Narrative
Kids First - Above All Else with John Liccione & Walter Rhein
Billionaires Are Just Another Form of Tyrant
The Children's Campaign That Doesn't Ask for Endorsements or Money
Please Don't Blame the President's Cruelty on Mental Illness
Is Your Local Police Force Angry They Don't Get Paid as Much as ICE?
TDWS: Interviewing Political Candidates with Walter Rhein & Emily Berge--Promote Progressives As a New Substack Trend!
Why Independent Creators Must Elevate Progressive Candidates in Congressional Primaries
Discussing Iran, Healthcare, and the Future of Humanity With Congressional Candidate Ginger Murray
Have You Considered How Much Effort it Takes to Remain a Toxic A*****e?
The Best Way to Appeal to Moderate Republicans Is By Bashing Democratic Leadership
Epstein Files and Stolen Elections: Threats to Our Democracy
Can We Use Dating Apps to Identify ICE Agents?
Supremacy As Policy and What We Can Do To Fight Back
Every Time You Cast a Vote, The Flames of Torment Are Turned Up on An Authoritarian in Hell
Right Wing Hate Ideology Is a Giant Inferiority Complex
Let's Talk About the Lengths to Which Corrupt People Will Go to Steal Elections
Cruelty and Obedience Conditioning In Rural Schools
Let's Talk About Women's Rights and How Republicans Are Destroying Them
There Need to Be Peaceful Demonstrations at the Homes of Senators and Representatives
🧢 F**k Blue MAGA
Let's Talk About Women's Rights
Meet Virginia Congressional Candidate Ericka Kopp
Meet Congressional Candidate Abel Chavez
How The Powder Keg of Conservative Male Sexual Frustration and Loneliness Leads to Violence
Meet Virginia Congressional Candidate Salaam Bhatti
Meet Michigan Congressional Candidate Shelby Campbell
Racial Injustice in the Workplace
The Greatest Citizen Journalists of Our Time!
All The Unfinished Drafts That Writers Leave Behind
Schools Must Teach that Thomas Jefferson Raped a Black Child
How Democrats Can Earn the Black Vote and Win Back Our Country
I Found My Guidance in the Negative Spaces Caused by the Destruction of Decency
The United States Has a White Supremacy Problem
We're Mad as Hell, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore!
A Schedule of Upcoming Content For the Week of 3/30 to 4/3
I Would Like to Formally Apologize for All White People
Diogenes Club | E8 - A Bundle of Joy
What Americans Get Wrong About Their Toxic Cultural Identity
How Democrats Can Win the Messaging War
Recognizing the Unaddressed Crimes of American History
US Oil Has Always Been a Foundation of White Supremacy
How Courage For Democracy Plans to Win Our Country Back Through Citizens' Impeachment
What Is Blue MAGA and Why Do They Insist on Enabling Fascism, Lawlessness, and Futility?
America's Colonizer Mentality Is on Shameful Display for the World to See
How To Gain Crediblity In the Publishing World
The President's Premature Invasion Leaves the Nation Unsatisfied
How Control Requires Poverty and the Belief that Hardship Is Deserved
When Are We Going to Stop Republicans From Grooming and Indoctrinating our Children?
What's Working For Writers on Medium and Substack?
A Half Million Email Subscribers But No Book Deal
Democrats Should Pledge to Eliminate Income Tax On Up to 100k in Earnings--Make It Go Viral
Why Independent Media Has to Start Interviewing Alternative Candidates
Becoming A Writer Means Learning How to Program Your Subconscious Mind
Why Sending ICE to Airports Is Going to Backfire Big Time
A Day In The Life of a Girl Dad Writer
Poli-Psych: PATTERN OF ABUSE EVERYWHERE!
When You Argue With a White Supremacist, You Can Never Be Right
Discussing Empowerment, Strength, and Joy With Some of My Favorite Substack Creators
How Creation Is an Act of Defiance
The Last White Supremacy President
Most Stories About Kids Who Were Bullied Don't Have a Happy Ending
What's the Fastest Path That Leads to the Arrest of Child Rapists?
Prominent Democrats Should Start Apologizing for This Mess of a Nation
The Racist With the Bland and Non-Threatening Face
confederates and white supremacists Are American nazis
Meet WI Congressional Candidate Ginger Murray
How We Can Defeat Toxic Conservatives by Forcing Them to Offer Solutions
It's Impractical To Round Up Americans and Put Them In Concentration Camps
Now's the Moment For Our National Redemption
MTG Acknowledges the Reality of Conservative on Conservative Violence
Going to the Drive-In As a Young Parent With My Beautiful Family
How I Know That Magic Is Real and That Our Spirits Are Eternal
The Infamous Poetry Episode, Featuring Pete Dominick
Cycling Through the Heart of Rural American Fascism
Economic Terrorism Stops Us From Thinking, Reflecting, and Creating
Maybe It's Time to Recognize That US Citizens Are Not Good People
Meet Congressional Candidate Robert People
Peru's Choquequirao Represented the End of a Chapter in My Life
I Don't Want My Children to Be Taught Republican Child Rape Ideology
A Vote For Hate Is a Vote For Death
How Conservatives Indoctrinate Kids With White Supremacy
Imagine if the Democrats Had Defended Kamala's Stolen Election
Discussing the Corruption and Danger Inherent to Border Patrol
I’ll Only Vote for Democrats Who Are Actively Anti-Racist
How AI Generated Scripts Become Examples of the "Uncanny Valley"
How Evil People Are Desperate to Escape the Thunderous Echo of Their Insignificance
White Supremacy Mutilates the Morality Center in The Brains of Children
James Carville Costs Democrats Votes Every Time He Opens His Entitled, Obnoxious, Ignorant Mouth
There Is No Funding For Messages of Kindness in the USA
Congressional Candidate Chris Bennett Discusses Positive Activism For the People
Republicans Are Better at Supporting Hate Than Democrats Are at Supporting Kindness
Pedagogy for a Compassionate Future and America's Unjust "Justice" System
How You're Losing an Information War You Didn't Realize You Were Fighting
Curiosity, Prosperity, and the Progressive Promise
Don't Mistake Your Unconscious Bias For Common Sense
Teaching Reason With No Support
Do Writers Have a Responsibility to Flee Platforms that Feature Hate Content?
It's Time to Grab Toxic Masculinity by the Balls
How Precinct Level Voting is the Secret Weapon for Winning Back Our Country
They Turned Voters Away in Dallas
Congressional Candidate Emily Berge Discusses Primaries and Working for the People
Racists Are Up To Their Eyeballs in Shame and a Small Push Can Provoke a Collapse
It's Time to Stand Up to the Injustices in Our Legal System
You Know You're About to Hear Lies When Oppressors Begin With "Well…"
How To Succeed (and Fail) as a Human Writer in an AI World
I Endorsed Jasmine Crockett and Got Eviscerated by Blue MAGA
They Need Our Blood, So Healthcare Should Be Free
When the Furnace Dies and It's Twenty degrees Below Zero
The Fascist Right Plays Dirty and They Absolutely Want to Silence Decent People Forever
Putting Aside our Frustrations and Helping Each Other to Become Better Allies
Skiing and Laughing in the Deep, Dark, Woods With Daddy and the Dog
The Regime Is Throwing a Temper Tantrum Over the SCOTUS Tariff Decision
How Losing Somebody Drains All the Color Out of Your Life
Sharing Notes On The Battle For A Better World
Don't Teach US History Like It's the Epstein Files
Sexual Frustration Is at the Root of the Political Right
A Discussion With Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Francesca Hong
Piercing the Veil Is the Secret to Handling Toxic Family Gatherings
Notes of the Week, E22 - All About Those Benjamins
Folks In Blue Areas Don't Know Anything About White Supremacy Schools
How Nostalgia Influences Our Perception of Literature
We've All Been Forced to Endure Insults and False Accusations from Powerful Child Rapists
How Creating Fan Art for Your Favorite Creators is a Great Way to Spread Joy
It’s Not “Normal” to Hate Somebody Because They’re Different
White Supremacy Breaks You Down With Injustice, Powerlessness, and Self-Loathing
I Know Why Rural Populations Are Vulnerable To The Lies Of Tyrants
I Won't Apologize Because My Wife Is an Immigrant
Getting Educated in the Era of Toxic Authority
How to Create a Peaceful and Compassionate Community
The United States Teaches History Like It Is Covering Up The Epstein Files
The Most Dangerous Men Are the Pathetic Little Weakling Conservatives You Barely Notice
The Friday Rant w/ Walter and Arturo and a Special Guest!
Atrocities Still Cause Human Suffering Even When They're Ignored by the Media
Instead of Prayer in School, Let’s Discuss Teaching Evolution in Church
The Preservation of Uncomfortable Truths
He's the Kind of Kid You'd Stick Needles Into
How Democrats Lose More Than They Gain With Their "Big Tent" Nonsense
The Truth About Venezuela As Told By Somebody Who Actually Lives There
'Klansplaining' Is The Right-Wing Alternative to 'Wokeism'
I'm Ashamed to Live in a Country That Could Elect a Pedophile
How to Deal With Racism Addicts
Oligarch Funded Writers Aren't Real Writers
You're Not Broke Because "You're Lazy," You're Broke Because You're Exploited
Truth Will Defeat White Supremacy
Sober Is a Super Power
Will There Still Be Room for Imagination in an AI World?
Pedophile Enabling Republicans Have Forever Stained the Honor of This Nation
Meet WI Congressional Candidate Chris Armstrong
White Supremacy Is the Ideology of Child Rape
Republicans Aren't Man Enough to Practice Accountability
Diogenes Club, E4 - What’s With All These Power People Being Pedos?
All We Have to Do to Defeat White Supremacists Is Stand Up to Them
How To Determine Which Independent Journalists to Support
ICE, Epstein, and the Lawless Republicans
I Strongly Believe Corporate Democrats Allowed Republicans to Steal the 2024 Election
Why You Shouldn't Trust Grifting Republicans on Redemption Tours
Positive Activation & Rediscovering Your Power with Walter Rhein
Fabricating Claims of Mental Health Issues Is a Heck of a Way To Ruin A Family
Why We Can't Ignore the Lies of White Supremacy
The Hays Code Made Censorship the Status Quo for American Writers
Thank You For Helping Me Combat the Tidal Wave of Republican Lies
When Our White Brothers and Sisters Lose Their Adjacency to Whiteness: A Frank Discussion
What If We Stopped Financially Supporting Millionaires?
The Horrific State of Healthcare in America and Other Topics with Dr. Eric Lullove
Who Decided Only Evil People Can Have Nice Things?
I Witnessed a Rural Teacher Pull a Gun on a Student
How to Fix the Failures of the Establishment
Let's Give Ourselves Permission to Admit that Republicans Cheat to Win Elections
We Have to Demand, Not Ask For, Universal Healthcare
You're Not 'John Wick,' Don't Become a Statistic
Abusers Live in a Perpetual State of Fear That's Born From Their Fundamental Weakness
Moving to a New Country Is Easier Than You Might Think
Why Do American Films Fail to Explore the Trauma of PTSD?
Yes, I Finally Upgraded My Profile Picture
Bullies Only Want to Compromise When They Know They've Already Lost
Diogenes Club, E3: Welcome to the Club
The Billionaires Came and Promised to Help—But They Were Lying
Conservatives Are More Likely to Engage in Self-Harm and They Need Help
The Way Back From Hate
Activism and Resistance--Lessons from Living Through the Civil Rights Era
Notes of the Week, 1/20: Questioning A Propagandized Reality
Kamala's Book Makes Me Believe Her Campaign Was Sabotaged by the Corporate Democrats
We Demand Confirmation That Children Are Not Being Tortured in US Detainment Centers
We Must Come To Terms With the Lies We're Taught About America
How Government Overreach Threatens Our Families--A Conversation with Congressional Candidate Emily Berge
I Hear You, I See You, I Stand With You, I Thank You
"Shame Loading" Is a Tactic of Abusers That Deserves More Attention
Meet Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Francesca Hong--The Kind of Leader We Deserve
Friends, It's Only a Matter of Time Before This Newsletter Is Censored, Suppressed or Banned
The Infuriating Reason Why Democrats Refuse to Support Independent Journalists
The Friday Rant w/ Walter and Arturo--Replay from 1/23/26
How Blaming Voters Is the Quickest Way to Ensure the Rise of Fascism
How Moral Bankruptcy is One of the Hidden Costs of Privilege
Meet the Courageous Young Man Who Is Traveling the World in a Tuk Tuk
Rural Public School Made Me Physically Sick
Peaceful and Nonviolent activism--I Published the Wrong One Earlier
Will MAGA Ever Protect Liberals the Way Liberals Protect MAGA?
Other Ways To Peacefully Resist and Make Our Voices Heard
ICE is EXECUTING Innocent People--We Must Activate the Resistance
I Know the Kind of Men Who Are Attracted to Ill-Gotten Gains
How ICE's Claim of "No Warrant Entry" Sets the Stage for Political Assassinations
Minnesota Strike, ICE Overreach, and Epstein
Republicans and MAGA Are Waking Up to the Fact That They've Been Betrayed
Intelligent Masculinity with Walter Rhein
The Veneer of America Has Cracked
I Want to Boycott the Businesses of Every Billionaire on the Epstein List
Teaching Uncensored American History Will Give Us the Power to Defeat Fascism
Will We Be Known as the Generation That Changed the Heart of America?
How to Be a Writer in a Time of Censorship
Dash Talks With Walter Rhein
Republicans Train Their Base to Only See a White Supremacy Narrative
Suggesting a Third Presidential Term Is an Act of Treason
Space and Grace Is the Key to Building a World That Respects Human Dignity
My Daughter Has Been Doing Portraits of All My Writer Friends
How "No Kings" Demonstrations Get the Message All Wrong
Notes of the Week, 1/13: Positive Masculinity with Zuri Stevens
Is Your Local Police Force Angry They Don't Get Paid as Much as ICE?
Why We Must Treat Republicans As if They Have a Mental Disorder
Justice for Good--Standing With Minneapolis
The Wolf Who Protects Little Girls
On Writing and Fighting White Supremacy
Have You Considered How Much Effort it Takes to Remain a Toxic A*****e?
Anyone Who Votes for a Rapist Is a Bad Person
Whose Side is Adam Kinzinger On Really?
No Kings, No Swastikas, No Confederate Flags, No Violence
How to Fight White Supremacy and Fascism Now With Poli-Psych
Right Wing Hate Ideology Is a Giant Inferiority Complex
White Supremacists Always Target Children for Indoctrination and Grooming
We're Being Led By Deranged, Evil Men Who Want to Strip Mine the Earth and Colonize Mars
There Need to Be Peaceful Demonstrations at the Homes of Senators and Representatives
The Republican Government Is a Complete and Utter Failure
How Redefining Masculinity Is the Key to Dismantling the Hierarchy of Cruelty
We Will Respond to Their Hate With Love, We'll Answer Their Despair With Hope
How To Recognize Reasonable Sounding Arguments That Are Secretly Absurd
The Report on What's Happening in Minneapolis and How We Can Peacefully Organize to Stop It
Please Don't Try to Correct Me By Regurgitating Culturally Indoctrinated Toxic Conditioning
Democrats Need to Stop Sponsoring Oligarch Owned Media
We're Living in an Era of Republican Domestic Terrorism
How Corrupt Police In Rural Towns Allow Children to Have Access to Alcohol
Schools Must Teach that Thomas Jefferson Raped a Black Child
A Report From the Streets of Minneapolis--Stop Republican Lawlessness
It’s Time to Acknowledge That the Constitution Is a Document of White Supremacy
How to Maintain Positivity, Empowerment, and Resistance in a White Supremacist Society
The United States Has a White Supremacy Problem
My First Fight Against Fascism Entailed Resisting Nuclear Strike Drills at School
Republican White Supremacists Are Murdering Innocent People in the Street
What Americans Get Wrong About Their Toxic Cultural Identity
Women Feel Nothing but Contempt for Weak, Unmasculine, Republican Males
Republican White Supremacists Are Coming After All Americans and We Must Resist
US Oil Has Always Been a Foundation of White Supremacy
Democrats Need to Stop Acting Like Weakling Nerds if They Want to Win Elections
Becoming A Writer Means Learning How to Program Your Subconscious Mind
Why We Can't Be Tolerant of Racist Republican Slogans Like "Joe and the Hoe"
How Control Requires Poverty and the Belief that Hardship Is Deserved
The President Declared War on America and I Made a Pie With My Kids
America's Colonizer Mentality Is on Shameful Display for the World to See
Did You Ever Fall in Love With a Fictional Character?
Democrats Should Pledge to Eliminate Income Tax On Up to 100k in Earnings--Make It Go Viral
Can You Help Me Reach an Even Bigger Audience?
Notes of the Week, 12/30
Welcome to the New Year, May it Be Better Than The Last
There Has Always Been a War Raging in America Over White Supremacy
Walter and Will's Year-End Wrap Up
It's Not the Guns, It's the White Supremacy
Don't Believe the False Narrative the Media and Government Are Trying to Push on the Epstein Files
When You Argue With a White Supremacist, You Can Never Be Right
How Writers Can Improve a Society's Dominant Cultural Narrative
The Last White Supremacy President
I Know Why Delusional Rural Populations Hate My Immigrant Family
How White Supremacy Is the Driver that Creates All Injustice, Misery and Suffering in the USA
What's the Fastest Path That Leads to the Arrest of Child Rapists?
I've Had Enough of Republican Bullies to Last a Lifetime
Christmas Is the Season of Gold but After Christmas Is the Time of Silver Linings
How to Survive Toxic Family Members During the Holidays and Why You Should Ghost Them
What Everyone Gets Wrong When it Comes to Writing a Family Holiday Letter
How We Can Defeat Toxic Conservatives by Forcing Them to Offer Solutions
After the Betrayal Your Abuser Will Pivot to Accusations and Censorship of Thought
How to Find Your Footing Again When A Relationship Runs Its Course
The Simple Importance of a Spontaneous Date Night
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Reflections on Father's Day, the Unity of Protest, and Why Democrats Have to Fight Harder
What Conservatives Get Wrong When They Think of Themselves as Decent People
Yawn, The President Is Threatening Us On Social Media Again
Why Writers Must Embrace the Chaotic Nature of True Creation
Another Movie Chat Where We Try to Take a Break From Politics
Republicans Are Evil, the Left Is Non-Violent
How I Learned an Important Lesson Fixing an Old Truck with an Olympic Hopeful
What I Learned When I Worked Up the Courage to Check Why People Unsubscribe
Will They Try to Erase Indiana Jones Because He Makes Nazis, “Feel Bad About Themselves?”
Should a President Resign If it Was Determined That He Rigged An Election?
What Happens When the Fascist Regime Starts Importing Outside Agitators?
I'll Never Forget the Terror of Riding the School Bus
What People Who Live Down in a Hole Get Wrong About the Misery of Life
A Reflection on Love and All the Things That We Cannot Control
The Celebration of Billionaires Dehumanizes the Rest of Us
What Happens When the Fascist Regime Starts Importing Outside Agitators?
Why Do Republicans Feel They're Entitled to Non-Consensual Friendship?
Publishing Has Been an Exercise in Censorship for the Last 50 Years
As a Farm Kid I Developed a Trauma Bond With the Land
America Can't Continue to Silence the Innocent People Who Pay the Price For Our National Lies
What Toxic People Get Wrong When They Start Raging About Student Loans
How Book Signings Are Pretty Much Worthless for Unknown Writers
One of the Kids I Graduated With Was Beaten to Death
There Are Some Challenges to Stand and Face and Others You Must Escape
The Inadequate Representation for Educated Perspectives in Media
I Once Witnessed a Farmer Hit a Kid With His Pickup Truck
A Desperate Man, a Gorilla Costume, and a Fulvous Whistling-duck
The Nostalgia You Feel For a Time of Abuses Past Is Not Love
What I Learned When I Worked Up the Courage to Check Why People Unsubscribe
Jesus Didn't Take the Wheel, So Billionaires Gave Us Self-Driving Cars
Talking Movies, Bob Dylan, Kubrick, Horror, and Sailing Around the World
Once You're Down in a Rural Town You're Never Getting Back Up
Harris Lost Because 70 Million Americans Voted for Evil
3 Stories by Walter Rhein
If Being an A*****e Is Your Defining Personality Trait, Don't Pout When It's Thrown Back at You
Why You Must Stop Normalizing the Idea That the Midterms Will Be Canceled
How False Compliance Is the Best Form of Defiance
It's a Normalized Form of Abuse to Force Farm Kids to Operate Heavy Machinery
American Farmers Get By on Authoritarianism, Socialism and Child Labor
Why We're Going to Win and Why the Losers Will Continue to Lose
I Hope All My Readers Understand That It's My Great Privilege to Write For You
What's New On Medium, My Summer Reading List, and How to Save More Money
Our Society Is Now Officially the Opposite of "Woke"