National political analyst/strategist. Author of Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts, co host of This is America on The Cycle on Substack 👇🦆🏈 I watch the news so you don’t have to. https://thecycle.substack.com/
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Voter: I want to get to ask my question… The Epstein files. I mean, do you think Trump's in there? Collins: Yeah, I'm sure he's in there because he's the one that was telling the FBI about it. He's the one that kicked the guy out of Mar A Lago and then called the FBI. Yeah, he's in there.
American hero
LFG!!!!
The day will come when the guilty face the judgment they thought would never arrive.
It’s Ken Martin vs the Dem Establishment, the same folks who led us into this hellhole. They’re Big Mad they might lose their free money pipeline. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
It’s Ken Martin vs the Dem Establishment, the same folks who led us into this hellhole. They’re Big Mad they might lose their free money pipeline. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
LFG!!!!
I do say that
Trump got rich, you got screwed It’s an easy message, folks.
They came for Tish Bonds, but I was not Tish Bonds so I did nothing They came for James Comey, but I was not James Comey so I did nothing They came for Lisa Cook, but I was not Lisa Cook so I did nothing They came for John Bolton, but I was not John Bolton so I did nothing.
“Look! Hey look it’s the couch fucker! Wanna fuck a couch, buddy?!” American hero there
Listen as @genefortexas.bsky.social tries to warn Americans they are running out of time.
THIS. THIS. THIS. Wallace: there is…such reluctance [among Ds] to embrace stronger medicine, the sharper tools to protect democracy, it strikes me that had better change…quickly bc voters smell weakness and fear.” lol
My new book is about that
So yeah, if we’re going to start fixing distorted history, let’s rip this one out first. Let’s call the Lost Cause what it was: a propaganda campaign to launder slavery, treason, and white supremacy into something honorable. And let’s stop pretending it’s anything but a Big Lie.
The Lost Cause isn’t just history — it’s the live virus still coursing through our politics. It’s why “heritage not hate” gets trotted out to defend Confederate flags. It’s why MAGA rallies echo secessionist rhetoric.
And here we are again. The same forces that once dressed treason up as honor are back, marching under new banners but preaching the same gospel of racial hierarchy.
and political speeches steeped in Confederate nostalgia. It isn’t harmless myth-making — it’s the foundation stone of Jim Crow, of segregation, of modern white nationalism.
I know because I’ve seen it up close. I taught students in Georgia and Virginia, and I watched firsthand how deeply this poison runs. Generations have been raised on textbooks scrubbed clean of slavery, on statues that glorify men who fought to destroy the Union, on church sermons
Imagine Germany naming a barracks after Rommel. The South didn’t just lose the war — it won the memory of it.
They weren’t freedom fighters, they were traitors. And yet, because of the Lost Cause, Americans still drive down highways named for them, send their kids to schools named for them, and until very recently, trained soldiers at federal bases named for them.
They gambled the Union, and when they lost, they cried victim. And here’s the kicker: they weren’t just rebels. Men like Lee and Jackson were U.S. Army officers. They swore loyalty to the United States of America, and then they broke it. That’s called treason.
And this myth goes further — it paints the Confederacy as a noble David facing down the Northern Goliath, supposedly fighting off economic domination. In reality? They were fighting to preserve a slave empire that was the economic backbone of their wealth.
The Lost Cause insists the Civil War wasn’t about slavery — no, it was about “states’ rights.” Right. States’ rights to own people. States’ rights to rape, whip, sell, and kill human beings as property. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
But here’s the thing: it isn’t a joke in the South. That narrative, that “alternative history,” has been engineered. And it’s been taught, reinforced, carved into granite, and literally set in bronze on courthouse lawns for more than a century.
When I was at the University of Georgia, someone cracked a joke — “Oh, are you teaching about the War of Northern Aggression?” Everyone chuckled, including me, because it sounds absurd.
Because the Lost Cause isn’t some quaint relic of “Southern heritage.” It’s the longest-running con job in American history — a mass-scale gaslighting campaign that rewrote treason into honor, slavery into benevolence, and violent white supremacy into nostalgia.
If America wants to purge distorted history, let’s start with the biggest, ugliest distortion of them all: the Lost Cause.
🧵🚨Memory Wars: Trump is Coming For Our History Donald Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian might sound like another throwaway rant. But it’s not. It’s part of a larger authoritarian project: the control of memory itself. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
This is fascism This is exactly what the Nazis did in Germany. Museums about their fascist future. Someone gave them one hell of a propaganda tool to use against us in this racist ass memo that’s racist to both Black and White people.
Wait, holy shit. Texas Republicans forced Texas Dems to sign forms to authorize 24 hour surveillance on themselves to be able to leave the Texas floor. Every D but 1 is now under guard by the Republican Party. That’s fucking NUTS!!!!!
There is a fascist in the White House—and we have to throw out our old playbook. Democrats cannot be the only party that's playing by the rules anymore.
Wait, holy shit. Texas Republicans forced Texas Dems to sign forms to authorize 24 hour surveillance on themselves to be able to leave the Texas floor. Every D but 1 is now under guard by the Republican Party. That’s fucking NUTS!!!!!
Learn how to be an asshole for democracy 👇
Like the rest of the Rs who betrayed democratic principles and helped Trump get away with a coup attempt Elise Stefanik refuses to hold any public town halls or hold meetings with non maga constituents. If yours is same, do this 👇
🧵This Space is Getting Hot Lots of Red Lines Have Been Blown Through in the First 6 Months of Trump's Revenge Tour. (No firewall. Read and RP) open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
🧵This Space is Getting Hot Lots of Red Lines Have Been Blown Through in the First 6 Months of Trump's Revenge Tour. (No firewall. Read and RP) open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES, DONNIE??? WHAT YOU HIDING???
They’re going to seize control of DC. They are positioning troops here for a reason. What to know as GOP governors plan to send ARMED National Guard units to D.C. wapo.st/45kUEaz
I’ll be making my New Mexico debut helping Blue CD 2 raise some cash to keep CD 2 Blue in 2026. I’ll be IN PERSON with my buddy @simonwdc.bsky.social You can also join us by zoom! Reg here 👇 www.bluecd2nm.com/fighting-and...
Listen to my friend @donlemonofficial.bsky.social as he urges fellow journalists to stop covering what Trump does like it’s normal.
Stealing!!
Folks we are having a lot fun fucking with MAGA over on Twitter. Esp now that Gavin is leading the way and Grok and Grok Imagine exists Re-join us and send me a DM over there and I’ll follow you back. The brave man is the one who fights even though he is scared." -Patton
HEY DONALD, WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? WHY ARE YOU HIDING THEM? ARE YOU IN THE EPSTEIN FILES, DONALD????
This is the presidential vote in Mississippi, by race. Compare White voter behavior in Oregon. The New South is just like the old south but under new management in the Republican Party.
Frankly I think if Trump gets his autocracy, America will be an ally with Putin and relaunching colonialism under the argument that self rule has failed. Do you want to live in a world where America is allied with Russia against Europe?? I sure as fuck don’t.
Yes! Now I go to sleep with history books on audible 😢
Where are the Epstein Files? Is Trump in the files? Why is he hiding files Bondi “had on her desk.” That’s what you’re supposed to be focusing on
I think its important to take a look back at Trump's first summit with Putin so you can see how far down the rabbit hole we already are in terms of foreign policy under this lunatic.
There is no fire wall and you really need this info 👇 bsky.app/profile/rach...
If Dems do not control the House in 2028 Rs will refuse to certify the election in the House. They will claim millions of illegals voted and refuse to relinquish power. Thats why they’re doing the stealmanders. It’s imp you accept this fact so we can stop it D’nile is a river, not a strategy
🧵The Nazi War on “Asocials” You Can't Cure Crime Without Crushing Freedom When the Nazis sold themselves to Germany in the early 1930s, they didn’t just promise jobs, glory, and a return to greatness—they promised a national makeover. Learn more & plz RT👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
🧵🔥👇 Appeasement Didn’t Work Then. It Won’t Work Now. Hitler wrote Mein Kampf — part autobiography, part revenge manifesto, part how-to guide for dismantling the post–World War I order. No one took it seriously, just like Project 2025 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
🧵🔥👇 Appeasement Didn’t Work Then. It Won’t Work Now. Hitler wrote Mein Kampf — part autobiography, part revenge manifesto, part how-to guide for dismantling the post–World War I order. No one took it seriously, just like Project 2025 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
They are going to seize control of Washington DC.
Do you understand that NYC votes 80% Dem.
RP if you agree with Chair Martin and the DNC and want Democrats to fight fire with fire!
🧵STAT(S) of the Week: Tariffed Enough Already Trump’s New Tax on America Trump’s tariffs are finally here—and they’re hitting your wallet like a second income tax. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
🧵The Anatomy of “Othering”: How Authoritarians Build Permission for Violence All autocratic regimes need enemies. Authoritarians invent them to seize power. Learn how you’ve been othered by MAGA👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
🔥🧵Different Party, Same Ideology There’s a favorite talking point on the American right: “Democrats were the party of slavery. Democrats were the party of Jim Crow.” If you're sick of that, this free analysis is for you.👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
RP if you agree with Chair Martin and the DNC and want Democrats to fight fire with fire!
🧵The Anatomy of “Othering”: How Authoritarians Build Permission for Violence All autocratic regimes need enemies. Authoritarians invent them to seize power. Learn how you’ve been othered by MAGA👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Trump has created a massive new tax on Americans.
I did Nazi this coming Office of Special Counsel says it's opened Hatch Act probe of Jack Smith apple.news/AxXExGndkSx6...
It’s been 6 months and all Trump has brought us is higher prices and less jobs.
OMG @KamalaHarris is all of us. My dissertation in 2015 was on polarization. All of us in that field worried about where it would lead but we could never have guessed it would lead us to fascism.
Trump has had his friend and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to a minimum security prison. The MAGA movement is about to let Trump strip Epstein’s victims’ of the only justice they ever got. Epstein pled the 5th when asked about his activities with Trump.
Viability in Presidential Nominations Why Name ID Matters open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Same
🚨🚨🚨Democrats are facing an extinction event via the GOP’s plans to do stealmanders in the Red States. If Rs control the House in 2028 do you really think THIS GOP will certify a D win in 28?! If you live in a Blue state, call your governor. Demand reciprocity.
The 2028 Hungry for Power Games: Win or Lose, Running for President is Good Business open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Trump is letting Netanyahu starve Gaza.
Donald can run but he can’t hide from the Epstein cover up. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Under leadership from Ken Martin and Gavin Newsom Dems plan to fight “fire with fire” after the latest GOP plan to cheat to retain control of the U.S. House?👇👂🔥 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Republican Jesus
🧵Make America 1933 Again The Rise of American Fascism It can happen here. It already is. Fascism doesn’t need to show up looking like the History Channel: swastikas, stiff-armed salutes, and jackboots marching down Main Street. (Learn more 👇and share plz) open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
OMG Meidas Touch has Trump’s caddy cheating for him ON CAMERA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
Gaza is starving to death because of you.
The Red States dominate the “worst states” on the quality of life ranking 👇
Trump is now rounding up Dreamers- children brought here illegally by their parents, raised as Americans. Most have no connections to their parents home country. We used to agree that it would be cruel & waste of 💰 to deport them. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
And the @TheDemocrats would be able to do a lot more of this if y’all would start donating to them again. We can’t reform shit without money. Scoop: DNC targets vulnerable House Republicans with Epstein ads www.axios.com/2025/07/25/d...
🧵STAT(S) of the Week: Epstein is not a Sidebar, The worst thing a movement built on “drain the swamp” can face is the perception that its leader is now the blocker of swamp‑level secrets. Why we must wedge the Epstein files 👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
“We have a lot of bad people … many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too.”
🚨🔥🧵👇Herding Cats: The Problem Isn’t Just Structural. It’s Behavioral. The comms asymmetry between Democrats and Republicans isn’t just structural. It’s behavioral. It’s psychological. It’s us. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
That’s pretty much my message
Lots of evidence that there’s a “there, there” with Trump and Epstein: ✅ Letter to Epstein about “their secret.” ✅ Private party of just two (Trump & Epstein) with teen girls at Mar-a-Largo ✅ Says Diddy calls him when he has a party ✅ Files “disappeared”
🚨🔥🧵👇Herding Cats: The Problem Isn’t Just Structural. It’s Behavioral. The comms asymmetry between Democrats and Republicans isn’t just structural. It’s behavioral. It’s psychological. It’s us. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Remember when Donald Trump told you he “wasn’t Project 2025?” www.project2025.observer
Live look at the Republican Party
“There’s no one to stop him.” Not Republicans Not the Supreme Court This is why we begged y’all not to return this mad man to power.
Yes. Share my guide so we don’t all die open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Just incredible work from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social getting all these fascist fucks on camera.
🚨🔥🧵Politicize Everything: A Blueprint for a Party That Fights. Let me start with the obvious: Republicans politicize everything…. Read and share this so we don’t all die 🤣👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
I hate when I see Ds accept the premise that Ds left the working class behind. Culturally? Sure Economically? Pretty clear who has the back of the working class
They are kidnapping people off the street, have opened their first concentration camp, and are turning ICE into the Gestapo. It’s long past time to “get mean.” Learn why and how👇 hitemwhereithurts.com
New #StartMeUp 👅 podcast with @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social #MSWMedia Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/134342...
MAGA PERSONALLY blamed Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg for the East Palestine train wreck They didn’t wait 24 hours to start lying about the FEMA response in W. NC who then went on to elect Trump who denied their funding. So yes
There’s no getting out of Alligator Alcatraz Man being held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz' wants to self-deport: Daughter Fernando Artese had plans to voluntarily leave the country before he was arrested last month for driving with a suspended license. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/m...
“These are stupid people that got duped by Democrats.” - Donald Trump
🧵Make America 1933 Again The Rise of American Fascism It can happen here. It already is. Fascism doesn’t need to show up looking like the History Channel: swastikas, stiff-armed salutes, and jackboots marching down Main Street. (Learn more 👇and share plz) open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...