The idea that a former president would weaponize people’s pain for his failing campaign is totally on brand for this rapist-felon-conman-grifter who lies as easily as he breathes.
John Pavlovitz
Many of our immigrants are not white—which is why they will continue to be made into the convenient monsters by white leaders in power, who want to distract from their own grievous malfeasance.
This election offers us two distinct choices: a leader and movement of unity and optimism, seeing the best of who we can be together, or a leader and movement that runs on half of the country silencing, eliminating, or hurting the other half.
Trump's followers know everything we know about him. They have come to understand how predatory and destructive he is—and yet, they cannot bring themselves to take ownership of their errors in judgment.
The response to the cultivated Conservative lie in Springfield, reminds us that too many folks claiming Jesus right now just aren't anywhere near the same page.
Trump supporters don’t care about reality, only about the narrative they need to be true in their heads to justify their allegiance. There is no bridge too far, no crime or offense too sickening to move them from him.
So many women, men, boys, and girls have had their paths irreparably altered by a predator who disregarded their humanity. Imagine what it feels like to know they could soon have such a person as their president.
The fact that we are still in this race, despite candidate changes, gerrymandering, voter suppression, Russian interference, media bias and Electoral College obstacles shows that the tide is turning.
Harris and Walz are offering believers the chance to elect, not the hollow, ceremonial religion that perpetuates white patriarchy—but a spirituality that is as expansive and open as we claim God is.
Donald Trump is a fraudulent coward who mocks true American valor. He is a traitor draped in a cheap veneer of patriotism.
When religious liberty is used as justification for discrimination or when it impedes the daily lives of those who don't share our convictions, we move from merely having freedom, we become a theocracy.
What we are seeing directed at Gus Walz isn’t a mystery. It is the rotten, putrid fruit of generations of conservative toxic masculinity resulting in men who were never emotionally mature enough to show or receive love.
We’ve seen the cost of giving inhumanity run of the house. We’ve seen the way it becomes contagious. It’s time we welcomed humanity back.
November 5th is the only poll that matters, and rallying every decent human being there is the single measurement of whether we truly want a more loving nation or not.
It’s time to turn the page on the dusty, antiquated sexism-disguised-as-strength that Trump represents and to reject the Evangelical/Republican/MAGA toxic masculinity once-and-for-all.
And for eight years we began to sleepwalk through the world, physically here and moving through daylight but not fully present, not totally seeing—caught between the true nightmare and the imagined dream.