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If Democrats Win in 2026 and 2028, They’d Better Get Dead Serious About De-MAGAfying Public Institutions
No more Merrick Garlands. No more playing nice while the other side burns the house down. This time, the Trump rot has to be removed permanently.
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Poorly Trained My Ass. ICE Is Behaving Exactly as They've Been Trained to Behave.
Every viral video of masked goons in unmarked vans, every family ripped apart at dawn, every “isolated incident” excuse—it’s not a bug. It’s the…
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For the Love of God, In Order to Save the Country We Need to Get Curtis Yarvin Laid
The entire neoreactionary pipeline is just centuries of sexual frustration weaponized into feudalism fan-fiction. One good Tinder date and the…
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Mamdani's Day 1 Orders: A Nightmare for GOP Villain-Makers But an Even Worse One for Establishment Dems
Governing like a working class Democrat could be bad news for Republican and Democratic leadership.
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The Economic Data is Coming In and the Upper Class Is Winning the Class War, While the Useful Idiots Freak Out If We Even Mention It
They clutch their pearls at “class war” rhetoric from the bottom, but the rich have been waging it all along. 2025 consumer spending data proves they're…
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How National Review Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Identity Politics
For conservatives identity politics is bad unless it's white identity politics.
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Conservatives Are Suddenly “Classical Liberals” Now That “Conservative” Stinks
The word “conservative” got too toxic because of the MAGA crowd, so they’re stealing “liberal” to launder their image.
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Dark Before Dawn is a political newsletter for people tired of being lied to about how government works. I’m a liberal, writing with a cynic’s eye for incentives, power, and institutional failure — not vibes, personalities, or comforting myths.
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