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Fun With States And A New Title

Two updates today. The first bit of news is a new little web app I built for fun. It's a State Power Analysis tool. I'm hoping to do a video with some thoughts after playing around with it a bit, but in the meantime you can

Why Is The News So Stressful?

Here is the first of (hopefully) many videos going forward - the Scenario Exploder introduction! I've written two books on the topic of the US federal government collapse at this point. While I wish things were different, the reality is that books really are more something that you

The Authoritarians

"26% of the U.S. population qualified as highly right-wing authoritarian"Morning Consult One of the most mystifying questions in history is "why would individuals support a right-wing authoritarian movement?" The answer to the question, "Why would someone want to be an authoritarian leader?"

"De-regulation at the federal level"

It's barely 100 days in to the new administration, and the collapse of the federal government is moving along surprisingly quickly. From this article in the the Seattle Times comes this piece, "At this budget meeting, the crackup of America was right at the surface." The

Tracking The Current Administration

A few websites you might find interesting for tracking events related to the current administration: Project 2025 TrackerTrack the progress on Project 2025John DoePOTUS Tracker - Executive Orders, Presidential Schedule, Signed LegislationWhere is the President? Find out what the President of the United States is doing with real-time location, schedule,

WI Gov Evers on Arrest Threat

One premise underlying The Defederalized Democrat is that the tensions between the current administration and the states will continue to escalate. One of the key demarcation lines for this turning very... ugly... would be the arrest of a state governor by the Trump administration. We've already seen the

The Defederalized Democrat Preview

My new book, The Defederalized Democrat, feels increasingly timely as so many of us reconsider our relationship to the US federal government. Here is a brief PDF containing selected excerpts from the book, including the chapter summary, an explanation of how we got here, and one of my favorite chapters

New Book, New Site

Quick update on a few things. First - big news! My new book The Defederalized Democrat is coming out soon: pre-order here. It explores how states will increasingly be on the frontline in the ongoing federal vs state power debate. With the federal government rapidly shutting down programs, agencies, and

Make Your Own Country

A reader sent in a link to this website that lets you make your own nation composed of US states. By way of context, the rhetoric continues to escalate on the Republican side around topics such as a second civil war and national divorce. Far right figures such as Alex

2024... Oof.

The primary season for the 2024 election is now underway, and it's not surprising if you are approaching it all with a certain certain sense of dread. I can say with a pretty high degree of confidence that it's going to be an unusually weird year.