The Inside Outsider
Melissa Amour, Joe ThomasMy strange, unlikely journey through NeverTrump world...and the lessons learned along the way.
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On Family and Loss
This is a very personal reflection on a highly emotional experience from the last two weeks of my life. I’m sharing it here because I think it’s less unique than I wish it were in this era of our history.
I lost my big brother two w...
On the Most Prescient Thing I Ever Wrote
In 2024, I was working with Olivia Troye, whom I met three years earlier at the Renew America Movement, where I was on the comms team. Our Executive Director, Miles Taylor, brought her in as Chief of Strategy, and we became fast friends. Th...
On Choice
I’d like to start off this piece by asking for your forgiveness. It’s been a while since I’ve written, not from a lack of desire or topics to write about—but a lack of time. Not a worthy excuse, but an accurate one. My apologies!
The year...
On Change
On September 10, I was silently praying that no big news stories would break—a pretty tall order in 2025. That afternoon, for reasons unknown, Pickles, the 5-month-old puppy we had adopted four days earlier, seemed to have the idea that she...
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I’m a seasoned pro-democracy researcher, writer, editor, and advisor, just hanging out in the Philly burbs❤️
Carl Sagan: “it pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out” - I write about politics, media and culture.
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