Quinn's Next Step

20/07/2026

The Reciprocity Gap

What I Really Mean When I Say, "I Have No Friends."

I have no friends. Not in a way that I dislike others. Quite the opposite, actually. Perhaps others dislike me, and maybe that is something I should concern myself with more.

Maybe friends are a distraction from self-realization. Maybe they are the guides and mentors that lead to self-realization. It might be that community is more about the whole than the individuals that make up the whole....

What I Really Mean When I Say, “I Have No Friends.” I have no friends. Not in a way that I dislike others. Quite the opposite, actually. Perhaps others dislike me, and maybe that is som…

02/07/2026

The Common Thread: Charlie Kirk, LEGO, &

Let me say the common thread plainly: My distrust in authority and institutions is strengthened by the actions taken against the common man. The alleged cover-up of the Charlie Kirk assassination by governmental authorities and Turning Point USA. The alleged theft of consigned LEGO through Bricks & Minifigs and Utah police against Reckless Ben on BAM's behalf. The cancellation of a greenlit Stargate reboot by Amazon/MGM Studios at the crest of preproduction, to the dismay of over 100,000 fans around the world....

Let me say the common thread plainly: My distrust in authority and institutions is strengthened by the actions taken against the common man. The alleged cover-up of the Charlie Kirk assassination b…

30/06/2026

It’s different. Keep going.

26/05/2026

What I Found

Yesterday I published I Am Trying to Remember What I Lost — a piece about finding a church history video and breaking down crying at my desk before sunrise. I didn't expect what came next.

By evening, my sister confirmed the year of the youth group trip to Disneyland — 1992. She remembered the earthquake from west Phoenix, water sloshing out of the pool....

Yesterday I published I Am Trying to Remember What I Lost — a piece about finding a church history video and breaking down crying at my desk before sunrise. I didn’t expect what came next. By…

25/05/2026

I Am Trying to Remember What I Lost

I looked up St. Paul Lutheran Church to research and remember this morning.

I didn't expect to break down crying.

I am a grandson of Jim and Wilma Stout. I was baptized as a baby at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Maryvale, a west valley suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, by Pastor “Art” Irmer in 1980. Mrs. Corky Hecker was my teacher....

I looked up St. Paul Lutheran Church to research and remember this morning. I didn’t expect to break down crying. I am a grandson of Jim and Wilma Stout. I was baptized as a baby at St. Paul …

15/05/2026

The Daily Wire Was a Warning of What I Didn’t Want to Become

by John-Quinn Mulquin Jr. The Daily Wire announced mass layoffs last week. Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel has shed somewhere between a third and nearly all of its audience since 2023, depending on whose numbers you trust and what baseline you use. The company that once dominated conservative digital media is restructuring, bleeding staff, and drawing fire from former allies and mainstream outlets alike....

by John-Quinn Mulquin Jr. The Daily Wire announced mass layoffs last week. Ben Shapiro’s YouTube channel has shed somewhere between a third and nearly all of its audience since 2023, dependin…

14/05/2026

Standing in the Fire: Candace Owens After Kirk

by John-Quinn Mulquin Jr. Charlie Kirk's former security chief filed a federal defamation lawsuit last week against Candace Owens, alleging she falsely accused him of conspiring in Kirk's assassination. The suit names Brian Harpole. He claims he was in Dallas when Owens placed him at a secret meeting at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and accuses her of running a months-long campaign to destroy his reputation....

by John-Quinn Mulquin Jr. Charlie Kirk’s former security chief filed a federal defamation lawsuit last week against Candace Owens, alleging she falsely accused him of conspiring in Kirk& #8217…

13/05/2026

I Used to Watch The Rubin Report

by John-Quinn Mulquin Jr. Dave Rubin and Candace Owens went to war publicly in the past couple years — accusations of dishonesty, betrayal, old grievances aired in front of millions. Rubin claimed Owens had spent an hour ranting against Charlie Kirk during a 2022 visit to his home. Owens called it fiction and accused Rubin of lying to protect his pro-Israel position....

by John-Quinn Mulquin Jr. Dave Rubin and Candace Owens went to war publicly in the past couple years — accusations of dishonesty, betrayal, old grievances aired in front of millions. Rubin claimed …

12/05/2026

I Didn’t Know Charlie Kirk. His Death Changed Me Anyway

by John-Quinn Mulquin Jr. A Utah judge ruled last Friday that cameras will remain in the courtroom for the trial of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk. The preliminary hearing has been pushed to July 6. The proceedings continue. The media cycle churns. And somewhere in a Hill Country farmhouse, a veteran and author is watching all of it — because he lived it in real time, and put it in a book....