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10/14/2025

Trump just told us where he stands. By branding antifascists as terrorists, his administration chose sides. If opposing fascism makes you the enemy, then fascism itself is now the friend of the White House.

This is not about law. It’s about power. It’s about turning dissent into terrorism. And it’s about normalizing the very forces we are supposed to resist.

Read the full piece on Outspoken.

Declaring antifascists the enemy is not a legal act. It is a political confession.

10/11/2025

Troops are patrolling Chicago — not at the request of Illinois, but because Donald Trump ordered it.

This isn’t about crime or immigration. It’s a test of presidential power, one that treats a blue state city as occupied territory.

Governor JB Pritzker has called it an invasion. How he responds will shape the blueprint for every state Trump targets next.

Full essay up now on Outspoken.

With troops in Chicago and the government in shutdown, Pritzker’s response will set the standard for blue state resistance.

10/09/2025

What looks like harmless lifestyle content or even a love song is now part of a much bigger project. From Nara Smith’s curated homemaking to Taylor Swift’s engagement headlines, the tradwife fantasy is being used to normalize a conservative vision of women’s roles.

This is not nostalgia. It is politics dressed as aspiration.

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The tradwife fantasy is everywhere. From Instagram kitchens to stadium stages, it’s softening the politics of control and turning culture into propaganda.

10/08/2025

The warnings are over. Trump’s second term is not about testing boundaries anymore. He is crossing every single one. From branding antifa a terrorist group to dismantling checks on corporate power, we are watching a fascist blueprint unfold in real time.

This is not political drama. It is a fight for democracy.

Read the updated essay on Outspoken:

The warning signs are over. Trump’s second term is fascism in action. The question now is whether we’ll fight back.

09/02/2025

When Trump dies, MAGA dies with him.
There’s no heir to a cult.
No Vance. No Jr. No second coming.
He built a monarchy, not a movement.
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09/02/2025

When Trump dies, MAGA dies with him. There’s no heir to a cult. No Vance. No Jr. No second coming. He built a monarchy, not a movement. And when the king falls, there’s only wreckage.

Trump built a monarchy, not a movement. If we don’t change the rules, the next strongman is already waiting.

08/28/2025

School shootings aren’t new. Guns are the problem. The right’s scapegoating of trans kids is a distraction — and the data proves it.

0.11% of mass shootings involve trans people. But the GOP wants you to think they’re the threat.

08/19/2025

From Obama’s viral hope to Zohran’s multilingual memes—Democrats have mastered the internet.

But have we traded movements for metrics?

This piece connects the dots between Gavin Newsom’s viral dominance, Zohran Mamdani’s social reinvention, and the political blueprint AOC and Obama created years ago.

It’s not just about reach. It’s about what we do with it.

Read it now on Outspoken.

We’re great at the internet. Are we still good at winning?

08/18/2025

Trump met with Putin. Then he called to ban mail-in ballots, scrap voting machines, and federalize control of our elections.

The same week, Gavin Newsom triggered a surprise California election to take back red seats lost to GOP gerrymandering.

Same news cycle. Two radically different strategies.

Trump is targeting mail-in ballots, voting machines, and state authority. The ballot itself is under siege.

08/14/2025

Zohran Mamdani is not the exception. He’s the signal.�
The party spent years sidelining voices like his. Now, they’re scrambling to catch up. Obama’s calling. Advisers are circling. Donors are watching.

When a socialist makes the cover of TIME, you’re not looking at a fluke. You’re looking at a shift.

The Democrats didn’t build this moment. But if they’re smart, they’ll learn from it.

Read the full piece on Mamdani, the message, and what comes next — only at Outspoken.

Time put Mamdani on its cover. The voters might put him in City Hall. Either way, this is not a story Democrats can afford to ignore.

08/13/2025

Trump doesn’t survive scandal. He marinates in it.

The chaos is the point. The outrage is the product. Every “can you believe this” moment is bait. And while people take it, the real work is happening out of sight: deregulation, court stacking, power grabs.

This isn’t random. It’s the authoritarian playbook Adam Curtis calls hypernormalisation. Alexei Yurchak saw it in the Soviet Union’s final years. Everyone knew the system was failing but no one could imagine anything else. Sound familiar?

Scandals that would have ended political careers a decade ago barely register today. Not because they’re less outrageous, but because we’ve been trained to accept more. And the more we accept, the further the line moves.

The fix isn’t better outrage. It’s to stop playing his game entirely.
• Ignore the circus. Follow the policies.
• Move as fast as they do.
• Build what they can’t break.

Trump’s distraction machine only works if we feed it. So stop feeding it.

If you feel exhausted, distracted, and powerless—that’s the point.

08/12/2025

The Republican platform now calls for overturning Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that made marriage equality legal nationwide. At the same time, Pete Hegseth is boosting calls to criminalize gay s*x. Cities are quietly removing rainbow crosswalks — symbols of visibility being erased in real time.

The Supreme Court has been formally asked to take the case. Thomas and Alito are certain to vote against it. That leaves Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh as the deciding votes. If one flips, marriage equality will be decided by the states — the same “states’ rights” playbook used to dismantle abortion access.

This is not isolated. The Court is also signaling it’s ready to weaken the Voting Rights Act. LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, voting rights — all targeted through the same judicial strategy.

These fights are linked. And they’re moving fast.

The GOP wants to erase LGBTQ rights. Their convention floor set a Grindr record.