Year in Review - Good Riddance to a bad year, fearful of the next
Here's a list of most of my published work - hopefully it's not the 35th "in review" email you've gotten...
It's been a year. Woah boy has it been a year.
For me, it's been a mentally taxing one. I've watched as outlet after outlet pulls back their coverage of the far right and moving into Presidential horserace coverage.... nevermind the leading candidate is a white nationalist and has a deep following from the right-wing and conspiracy world. That's shifted my work towards creating long form documentaries - the first of which I'll officially announce in a week. If you've been wondering why you haven't seen more of my work this year - this has been part of the reason.
Those of you who have stuck with me here, I can't thank you enough for your support. It has really made a difference. Thank you.
I spoke to the awesome actor and director Alex Winter for The Progressive Magazine about his new film The YouTube Effect.
Chatted with journalist Ari Paul about Seymour Hersch's sliding journalism for the VisuNews podcast. https://visunews.substack.com/p/chat-with-journalist-ari-paul-on
I wrote about right wing election denial non-profit True the Vote getting sued by Fair Fight. https://visunews.substack.com/p/fair-fight-goes-to-trial-to-stop
For the Emerald City Video podcast Russ Burlingame and I spoke with the writers of Hulu's The Princess about it getting pulled from the app. https://visunews.substack.com/cp/124233706
I spoke with Matthew Dallek, Author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right for The Progressive Magazine. https://visunews.substack.com/p/audio-interview-with-matthew-dallek
In May I covered the Environmental protest of the White House Correspondents Dinner for DeSmog. https://www.desmog.com/2023/05/02/protest-blockade-white-house-correspondents-dinner-biden-climate/
A Brewer moved to Norfolk, Virginia and its owners had a really big problem with bigotry.
https://visunews.substack.com/p/norfolk-brewer-sells-to-trans-phobic
https://visunews.substack.com/p/town-hall-about-bigot-brewery-turns
Trump had a lot of trials this past year and I covered one of them... well at least the circus that happened outside - in The Progressive. https://visunews.substack.com/p/trumps-criminal-circus-comes-to-the
Two young fascists who work for members of Congress are identified outside of the DC Courthouse where Trump's arraignment was happening...https://visunews.substack.com/p/groypers-at-the-dc-circus
For The Progressive, I wrote about the origin of the "Helicopter rides" meme. https://visunews.substack.com/p/how-the-free-helicopter-rides-meme
In September I worked with Dana Drugmand to cover the March to End Fossil Fuels, a huge protest in Manhattan calling out the United Nations and President Biden. https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/18/thousands-march-in-new-york-city-to-un-to-fight-fossil-fuels-climate-emergency/
For Bucks County Beacon I wrote about the annual gun cult festival Rod of Iron. I titled it, A Rod of Iron for Trump all about the festival, a two-day carnival of MAGA-dripping madness, offered an unfiltered look at the Republican Party's present and future. https://visunews.substack.com/p/a-rod-of-iron-for-trump
In December I wrote about the Tommy Gun and its lone modern producer - the same gun cult that I wrote about in October... Kahr Arms/Rod of Iron Ministries. https://visunews.substack.com/p/tommy-gun-used-by-musk-in-cybertuck
And finally I spoke with comedian and activist Lizz Winstead about the excellent new documentary NO ONE ASKED YOU. https://visunews.substack.com/p/lizz-winstead-sounds-the-alarm-for
