Sixteen Thirty’s Ballot Book
When dark money meets direct democracy, the rules of disclosure don’t stand a chance.
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Culture & Media
Pop culture, journalism, entertainment, and social-trend analysis.
Arizona’s EPM Wars
When the rulebook for referees becomes the ball, the game isn’t football—it’s lawfare.
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Wisconsin Drop Boxes
How a 2023 state-supreme-court flip turned blueprints into ballots.
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Pennsylvania’s Date Line
When “fill in the date” becomes a civil-rights issue, you’re no longer counting votes — you’re manufacturing them.
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Elias, Everywhere
The most powerful Democrat you’ve never voted for doesn’t run campaigns—he writes the rulebook before they begin.
The Crescent and The Donkey
The Crescent and the Donkey shows that moral power has replaced money and tracks how compassion became political currency—from activist incubators to empathy-for-profit campaigns—and why the West is drowning in its own good intentions.
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America Votes, Inc.
How a permanent coordination hub turns hundreds of groups into one well-tuned field operation.
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Under-the-Radar Ads
Influencer politics is the ad disclosure fight nobody saw coming. We break down how nonprofit-backed creator programs turn campaigns into “native morality plays” without telling viewers they’re sponsored. Sunlight fixes it: if it’s paid political persuasion, label it.
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Mamdani’s Political Taqiyya
New York just elected a guy who thinks budgets are optional and slogans are currency. Mamdani’s campaign promises make Bernie look like Milton Friedman—rent freezes, free buses, $30 wages, all on borrowed air. The piece calls it what it is: political taqiyya—lying beautifully for power.
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Unholy Marriage
Alvin Toffler saw it coming—a moral-political merger of crusades that would make democracy flinch. Three decades later the Radical Left and the Crescent crowd are sharing slogans and strategy decks inside the same coalition. When futurists talk about convergence, this is what they mean: theology with a turnout operation.