America Votes, Inc.
How a permanent coordination hub turns hundreds of groups into one well-tuned field operation.
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Politics
Domestic and international political coverage — campaigns, legislation, power, and policy.
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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The Chemonics Conundrum
When USAID quietly axed more than 100 contracts with its favorite mega-contractor, Chemonics International. Behind the bureaucratic jargon of “realignment” lies a revolving-door aid empire that keeps “collapsing”…
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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.
The List That Vanished
A leaked “demands list” from NYC’s socialist base surfaced, vanished, and left a crater where City Hall’s honeymoon should be. Turns out the revolution keeps better notes than the transition team. When you win with zealots, even deleted files have version history.
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The Colby Doctrine: Pentagon Policy in a Post-Consensus World
Elbridge Colby is what happens when a policy theorist gets the launch codes. The Pentagon’s new realism guru just told Congress, allies, and the bureaucracy to pick fewer fights and fight them better. Predictably, everyone’s offended—proof the doctrine’s working.
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Confront Caracas to Collapse the Axis
The “multipolar world order” crowd calls it balance; the rest of us call it open-source chaos. Venezuela has turned itself into a shared Airbnb for China, Russia, and Iran—minus the cleaning fee. Confronting Caracas isn’t warmongering; it’s pest control with better lighting.
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The Permanent Government
Every president promises change — but the real government never left.
Washington’s unelected class has turned “defending democracy” into defending themselves.
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The Iron Triangle: Welfare, Borders, and the Bureaucracy That Feeds Itself
Author Vince Everett Ellison’s The Iron Triangle describes a machine that feeds on dependency, chaos, and moral confusion. The numbers back him up: welfare rolls swell, borders blur, and bureaucracy expands to manage both.
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