What should be next for this newsletter?

What would you like to see? I'm curious to expand this in some new directions, and I'd love to hear from you!

Consider this the beginning of a longer conversation with all of you.

Allow me to start with a personal note. When I launched this a year ago, I was not really sure that writing this newsletter was ever going to be a thing. I did it because I thought it would be fun — and because I wanted to bring my writing to an audience on a regular basis, and because it felt like the natural next step after Taking Down Trump, and because I felt compelled to fight the fight anywhere I could. And really, it was an experiment.

Now the little “experiment” has over 41,000 of you reading, which feels very strange to type into my laptop here.

This truly has a life of its own now. It’s not just my newsletter anymore — it’s our newsletter, our community, our space.

While I have some ideas for what to write about, what to cover, and where to go next, I want to make sure we do this together.

For one thing, I believe that the real tale of our time is much broader and deeper than just Trump and Trumpism — it’s a tale of predation, corruption, fraud, and rampant lies and deceit, robbing and injuring millions and millions of people, a tale of grifters and con artists run amok. Our problem is not limited to the government, and it did not start there. It started with malefactors in the private sector, with entire business models based on fraud and deception rather than offering superior goods or services — and the federal government just happens to be the largest, juiciest target for the grifters to hit.¹

So I’ve been considering expanding our focus into consumer protection and false advertising and product safety and assaults on workers, all of the ways that our modern-day robber barons have perpetrated the Art of the Steal.

And this would include doing whatever I can to help you, if you’ve been scammed or ripped off or have spotted some new nefarious scheme. We need a much stronger structure for finding and fighting all of these frauds, and it begins with us.

I also have a never-ending curiosity about big-picture issues of democracy and justice, and how to articulate a more perfect vision for all of us — a better theoretical framework that fits with the real world of today, and a better rhetorical framework that allows us to win elections today, and for years to come.

These are just some of the ideas I’ve been mulling.

What do you think? And what else do you want to explore together? What else can we do to help people, to help one another, and to help America defeat these disgusting liars?

If you have any thoughts at all, please leave a comment below — we all want to hear from you!

Thanks and much more soon!

1. To be clear, this does not mean that I will stop covering what’s happening with the Trump administration and its far-right allies, or what’s happening with the court challenges to the administration. We will still examine all of those things — and we will also tread into some new terrain as well.