-
You’re Fired: A Chairman’s Review of CEO Trump
← Back to Essays & Commentary A Mid-Year Emergency Session of the Board of We the People LLC Opening Statement from the Chairman Subject: Six-Month Performance Review — CEO Donald J. TrumpDate: Fiscal Q2, Reality Optional [Transcript begins] Esteemed Board Members, We reconvene not as optimists, but as survivors – a little over six months…
-
The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
← Back to Essays & Commentary Part 4 – The Lawful, the Vulnerable and the Vanished They followed every instruction. Showed up for check-ins. Paid taxes. Kept their appointments. Taught Sunday school. Filled out the forms. They were told to wait. And they did. For years. Then one morning, or afternoon, or evening, they were…
-
The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
← Back to Essays & Commentary Part 3 — They Were at My Graduation Last Year It started with one name not called at roll. Then another. And another. In a middle school in Arkansas, two desks remained empty after spring break. Their lockers stayed full. Binders, shoes, a hoodie still on the hook. The…
-
Wedding Bells and Welfare Cuts: The One Big Beautiful Bill
And while they danced beneath chandeliers and fireworks, lawmakers in Washington prepared their own celebration; a grotesque tribute to inherited wealth and institutionalized greed. They call it the One Big Beautiful Bill.
-
The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
← Back to Essays & Commentary Part 2 – When They Were Taken The shriek of tires. The clash of doors. The sound of lives shattering. It doesn’t always happen in the shadows. Sometimes it happens at school pickup. On the way home from work. While children draw sidewalk chalk hearts in the driveway. That’s…
-
The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
← Back to Essays & Commentary Part 1 — When the Lights Go Out Next Door It began with shrieking. Not laughter or squeals from tag in the yard, but high, piercing screams from children, echoing off vinyl siding and white fences. Neighbors stepped out onto porches. Some dropped garden tools. Others froze. Moments before,…
-
With Power Comes Responsibility
With Power Comes Responsibility
-
Intimidation as a Political Weapon
← Back to Moral Courage & Public Responsibility Throughout history, autocrats have wielded political intimidation as a weapon to silence opposition, control narratives, and consolidate power. Whether through threats, legal pressure, or outright violence, intimidation has served as a critical tool for authoritarian figures seeking dominance. From Stalin’s purges to Mussolini’s blackshirts, rulers have repeatedly…
-
Leadership by Grievance: Trump’s Politics of Revenge
Trump’s politics of revenge have profound consequences for governance and democracy in America.
-
The Campus Crackdown: Trump’s War on Academic Freedom
Donald Trump’s war on academic freedom is a tactic autocrats have historically used to suppress dissent and enforce ideological conformity.
-
The One Big Beautiful Bill
← Back to Essays & Commentary The One Big Beautiful Bill was born during Trump’s last presidential campaign. Donald Trump made sweeping promises to ease the tax burden on everyday Americans, vowing to put more money back in their pockets. He pledged to eliminate taxes on tips and overtime pay, provide tax relief for seniors,…
-
Impact of Trump’s Trade Wars
Container ship carrying imported products into port.