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Complacency Will Never Be An Option Again

Posted by Jared Yates Sexton | Nov 9, 2016 | Atticus On The Trail

A bonafide fascist is the president-elect and there are very real consequences looming. The Supreme Court could be altered for a generation. A global war that threatens civilization and demands a careful touch rages daily. And, I say this without hyperbole, the progress we’ve made in securing the rights of men and women of every race, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status is now in danger of being negated. We are entering one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and we cannot afford to sit this one out.

Though We Have Faltered

Posted by Jared Yates Sexton | Oct 10, 2016 | Atticus On The Trail

As soon as the second presidential debate ended the cable news networks took to the air to name winners and losers while the candidates’ teams converged on the spin room to manipulate reality and the emerging narrative. None of it matters. None of it.

The Dead and The Dying From The First Presidential Debate

Posted by Jared Yates Sexton | Sep 27, 2016 | Atticus On The Trail

Is that what we were so afraid of? This bloated bully incapable of stringing together so much as a single coherent thought was the monster we’ve all feared? By the end of Monday night’s festivities, it was more than apparent that two people were standing on the stage at Hofstra University and only one of them was up to the job of President of the United States.

The Dead and The Dying In Jacksonville

Posted by Jared Yates Sexton | Aug 4, 2016 | Atticus On The Trail

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA – The talk all day had been whether Donald Trump could get his shit together and stage something resembling an actual campaign for the Presidency of the United States of America. Rumors swirled that GOP officials were looking into any means necessary to steal the nomination from him while top party officials and Trump confidants were planning an intervention of sorts. Newton Leroy Gingrich, longtime Trump sycophant and certified space cadet, had even gone on the record saying Trump was coloring himself “unacceptable,” a real treat coming from a man who has salted more earth than Sherman himself.

A Pilgrimage to America’s Burnt Churches

Posted by Jared Yates Sexton | Jul 13, 2015 | Atticus On The Trail, Politics

THE AMERICAN SOUTH – There’s no way to explain what it’s like to stare into the gutted remains of a burnt church. The mind works desperately to reconstruct the roof, to reassemble the ruined boards, to recreate the shattered and...

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Complacency Will Never Be An Option Again

Though We Have Faltered

The Dead and The Dying From The First Presidential Debate

The Dead and The Dying In Jacksonville

A Pilgrimage to America’s Burnt Churches

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