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.

VisuNews Podcast: Alex Winter on his doc 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