Robert Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel in the Russia investigation, has died.1 Just a day after Mueller’s family announced his passing, President Trump decided to celebrate his death.2 The display of crass hatred is part of a larger pattern of reckless and cruel conduct that would damage most presidents’ careers, but this is who Donald Trump is. This is who leads us now.

What Did He Say?

On his platform, Truth Social, Donald Trump announced Mueller’s death in the most absurd way possible, posting: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” Celebrating a person’s death is unacceptable, especially when the death is so fresh in the minds of family members and loved ones who have just lost someone dear to them.

Despite this, the President of the United States openly and publicly mocked Mueller with no condolences for his family. There was no attempt at human empathy, no display of concern or care for what this death meant to the Muellers or the country.

This is not the rhetoric of a President— or even a responsible citizen. It is the rhetoric of a petty, reckless man who sees any opposition—no matter how minor that opposition is—as inherently illegitimate and undesirable. It is that same zero-sum thinking that has been guiding Trump, both in his first term and in his current administration.

Cruelty is the Point

Since Donald Trump first came down the escalator in 2015, his politics have been unabashedly dehumanizing. He started his campaign by saying, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best…They’re not sending you…They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”3

The dehumanization of people, regardless of accuracy, was always part of the Trump brand. It’s why he insists on pointing to critics of ICE raids as threats and criminals.4 It is why he calls Democrats and Americans on the left “the greatest enemy America has…” This is dangerous.

That rhetoric is not healthy for a republic, and it only further incentivizes violence. There can be disagreements among partisan actors, differences of opinion on the Mueller report, but when someone’s very existence is seen as illegitimate, peaceful discourse becomes harder to maintain. If America is to heal and to grow beyond this authoritarian era, this kind of rhetoric must be rejected entirely.

Democrats and Americans across the board must force every Republican politician to answer for this rhetoric. Our country deserves better than this. We deserve better than this. Anything less is a failure.

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In the face of the overwhelming corruption plaguing our nation and in the face of the unmitigated authoritarianism of the current administration, it can feel as though our nation is going down a path with no way out. That feeling, while understandable, especially after the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, must never overtake us. This is why protests against the Trump administration matter.

Background

On Saturday, I attended a weekly protest outside a Tesla dealership, calling for the end of the ICE raids, Elon Musk’s right-wing agenda, and, of course, the end of Trump’s horrendously corrupt and racist presidency. I have previously attended such protests and was at the ‘No Kings’ Rally in my hometown last year.

However, while most of the responses we received at today’s protest were largely positive, my hometown is increasingly opposed to the administration, and some gave the usual responses to peaceful protest. Phrases like “get a job” were yelled at us, along with the expected middle fingers, while the perpetrators ignored the importance of civil disobedience and the fact that it was a Saturday.

That response and the fact that some continue to feel the protests are pointless annoyances are precisely why I went.

Protest is a right and a resource

As I mentioned before, many Americans feel they have no means to make their voices heard or to organize, but while I was outside, I met numerous people who not only shared their experiences and motivations for opposing the administration, but also organized within their local community. One gentleman even handed me a series of cards with useful responses for dealing with ICE in the event of a confrontation. These ‘know your rights’ cards are part of a larger movement in my area called Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, which seeks to “Educate, organize, and mobilize DuPage County around the rights and collective struggles of the Latino community.”

It is through these kinds of connections that people can help protect themselves, should they ever need to, but also to protect their community. Learning about new resources by networking within your local community is not only necessary but central to being able to assist others who may need help in turn.

It is one thing to look for a big, national movement —and those pushes are important—but it is also important to look for the smaller, more personal elements of resistance. Helping spread information, ensuring everyone knows their rights, and making sure the attention on threats to the local scene are critical to ensuring that this administration doesn’t get away with its current policies.

Staying connected

I started this article focusing on the danger of fear and apathy, the feeling of helplessness that can consume us in the face of the horrors of this administration, but protesting, especially with people who are just as angry and frustrated as you are, serves as a reminder that we are not alone in this fight. We are not fighting this administration as singular, isolated individuals. We are fighting this as a community and as a nation.

More Americans oppose this administration than support it, and that matters not only for our nation’s conscience but also for the long-term trajectory of this fight. Come November, the Trump administration will likely be forced into lame duck status, and there will almost certainly be investigations into the crimes committed by ICE. However, that requires each of us to get involved and make our voices heard before they can silence us.

If you want to get involved, please consider joining your local Indivisible group and finding new events in your area. You can find out if you have an Indivisible chapter here. The American experiment isn’t going anywhere so long as there are Americans willing to fight for it.

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The United States has violated international law and captured Venezuelan head of state Nicholás Maduro. The attack, which took place on Saturday, January 3^rd, is not only risky and will likely undermine regional stability, but it is also a complete and total violation of Constitutional law. Backed by his cabinet of yes-men and imperialist authoritarians, Donald Trump has instigated a conflict that serves only corporate interests and not the interests of the United States or the Venezuelan people.

What Happened?

In the early hours of Saturday morning, Venezuelans woke up to explosions in Caracas, with American aircraft over their heads. American forces attacked strategic airbases and defenses. Within less than three hours, Donald Trump announced that Maduro and his wife had been captured and were being taken to the United States for trial. The attack killed 40 people, including civilians. Maduro was subsequently brought to New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where he is facing charges of narcoterrorism conspiracy, cocaine trafficking conspiracy, and weapons charges, according to NPR and an unsealed indictment.

In that indictment, Maduro is accused of trafficking “thousands of tons of cocaine to the United States.” The indictment further alleges that Maduro had been involved in drug operations in Venezuela since as early as 1999 and that Maduro, through one of his subordinates, had been commissioning state-backed criminal organizations to hold onto power by “kidnappings, beatings, and murders against those who owed them drug money or otherwise undermined their drug trafficking operation, including ordering the murder of a local drug boss in Caracas, Venezuela.”

Maduro denies the charges, although it is worth noting that Maduro was already facing an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity and torture, among other charges. However, Maduro was unlikely to face any repercussions in Venezuela, as the country’s National Assembly voted to withdraw from the Rome Statute, thereby removing the ICC’s jurisdiction over Venezuela. Last Month, a report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner showed that Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) was implicated in a “decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violence targeting protesters and opponents of President Nicolás Maduro.”

You can read the report summary here.

Why This Matters

It is important to remember that Maduro’s regime was undeniably corrupt and engaged in human rights abuses. Maduro lost the 2024 election and used the police against protesters to stay in power, despite the blatant illegality of his actions. However, it is equally important, if not more important, to recognize that the Trump administration has no concern whatsoever for human rights.

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President Trump blatantly stated that his goal is to secure oil that he believes, without evidence, was stolen from the United States, and has unequivocally stated that America will “run” Venezuela. Even attempts by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio to downplay Trump’s comments about running Venezuela have demonstrated the true intention of the administration: to exploit the resources of Venezuela and its people.

Trump’s Imperialism Continues

The goal, as Secretary Rubio made clear in a recent press conference, is to seize Venezuelan oil for American companies, even if it gets innocent people killed. Since September 2^nd, the President has authorized 35 attacks on boats off the coast of Venezuela, illegally executing 115 people with little regard for their right to due process or regard for the Geneva Conventions’ prohibition against killing civilians.

We needn’t downplay Maduro’s alleged crimes to denounce the horrendous criminality of the President. We needn’t pretend that this was about the people of Venezuela or protecting Americans from drugs, because President Trump has already pardoned the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison for flooding the United States with cocaine.

And it might not even be the end of Trump’s interventionism. Trump is already suggesting future military action against Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba, telling reporters that Colombia’s President should “watch his ass.” Just as I was writing this article, Reuters reported that Trump has just suggested that a second strike against Venezuela could occur.

All of this is yet another sign of Trump’s own belligerent criminality and imperialistic agenda. He is usurping Congress’s constitutionally enumerated power to declare war and is pursuing a reckless policy of subjugation that flies in the face of human rights, self-determination, and the laws of the United States. This can only lead to a worse situation in Venezuela, both for the United States and for Venezuelans. If this continues, Trump must be impeached.

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References

Board, The Editorial. 2026. “Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise.” Opinion. The New York Times, January 3. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/venezuela-attack-trump-us.html.

CBS News. 2024. “Independent Experts Legitimize Tally Sheets Proving Maduro Lost Presidential Election - CBS Miami.” News. October 2. https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/experts-legitimize-tally-sheets-venezuelas-election/.

Earle, Geoff. n.d. “Trump Issues Thinly Veiled Warning to Mexico, Slams Cuba, Colombia after US Strikes Venezuela, Arrests Maduro.” News. The New York Post. Accessed January 4, 2026. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-issues-thinly-veiled-warning-to-mexico-slams-cuba-colombia-after-us-strikes-venezuela-arrests-maduro/ar-AA1TvU0S.

Gamio, Lazaro, Carol Rosenberg, and Charlie Savage. 2025. “Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks.” U.S. The New York Times, October 30. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/29/us/us-caribbean-pacific-boat-strikes.html.

Griner, Allison. 2025. “Venezuela Seeks Withdrawal from International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute.” Al Jazeera, December 12. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/12/venezuela-seeks-withdrawal-from-international-criminal-courts-rome-statute.

Kurmanaev, Anatoly, and Tyler Pager. 2026. “Maduro Arrives in N.Y.; Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run’ Venezuela.” World. The New York Times, January 3. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/03/world/trump-maduro-venezuela-us-strikes.

Lucas, Ryan. 2026. “What Are the Charges against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro?” Venezuela and U.S. Relations. NPR, January 3. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/03/nx-s1-5665617/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-charges.

United States of America v. Nicolás Maduro Moros et al., Sealed Superseding Indictment, S4 11 Cr. 205 (AKH) (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2025). https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1422326/dl.

OHCHR. 2025. “Venezuela: Bolivarian National Guard Responsible for Systematic Violations and Crimes against Humanity, UN Fact-Finding Mission Says.” United Nations. December 11. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/12/venezuela-bolivarian-national-guard-responsible-systematic-violations-and.

Otis, John. 2024. “Venezuela’s President Faces Criminal Prosecution If He Loses Reelection in July.” NPR, May 26. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/26/nx-s1-4970778/venezuelas-president-faces-criminal-prosecution-if-he-loses-reelection-in-july.

Pager, Tyler. 2026. “Trump Celebrates Capture of Nicolas Maduro in New York Times Phone Interview.” World. The New York Times, January 3. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/world/americas/trump-venezuela-maduro-capture-interview.html.

Ramsey, Michael, and Stephen Vladeck. n.d. “Interpretation: Declare War Clause | Constitution Center.” Education. National Constitution Center – Constitutioncenter.Org. Accessed January 4, 2026. https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/753.

Reuters. 2026. “Trump Says Second Venezuela Strike Possible If Government Does Not Cooperate.” United States. January 5. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/venezuelas-maduro-custody-trump-says-us-will-run-country-2026-01-04/.

Singh, Rimjhim. 2026. “After Venezuela, Donald Trump Hints at Military Action against Colombia.” News. Business Standard, January 4. https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/trump-colombia-us-military-action-drug-trafficking-venezuela-maduro-arrest-126010500100_1.html.

UN News. 2025. “Venezuela’s National Guard Linked to Killings, Torture and Repression, UN Probe Finds | UN News.” News. December 11. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166565.

Vogel, William K., Rashbaum, Maggie Haberman, Kenneth P., and Jonah E. Bromwich. 2025. “Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon.” U.S. The New York Times, December 2. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/hernandez-honduras-trump.html.

Wong, Edward, Julian E. BarnesThe reporters have covered President Trump’s military operations, and pressure campaign against Venezuela throughout the year. 2025. “Venezuela’s Oil Is a Focus of Trump’s Campaign Against Maduro.” U.S. The New York Times, December 16. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/trump-maduro-venezuela-oil-tanker.html.

Russia is not interested in peace, and it is time the current administration acts like it. On Saturday, Russian forces attacked Kyiv, killing two and wounding thirty-two people. The attacks, which come amid negotiations between the United States, Ukraine, and Russia, are yet another sign that Russia is not interested in a long-term peace with Ukraine. The Trump administration must come to terms with this painfully obvious fact.

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Russian Aggression and War Crimes Against Ukraine

From its initial invasion in 2022, Russia has repeatedly demonstrated that it seeks to conquer Ukraine. In 2022, Putin gave a speech attempting to justify the invasion of Ukraine—an invasion he said would never happen—arguing that Ukraine was “historically Russian land.” Putin further argued that Ukraine only exists because Vladimir Lenin allowed the country to form in the 1920s. It is worth noting that one reason Lenin recognized the Ukrainian Soviet Republic was the already-established Ukrainian national identity. Putin went further, casting the Ukrainian government as illegitimate, saying, “There is no legitimate executive authority in Ukraine. “ As historian Timothy Snyder put it at the time, “This kind of language, that another nation doesn’t exist, is something we need to pay attention to because it usually precedes atrocious actions...”

NOTE BY AUTHOR: THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS CONTAIN GRAPHIC DISCUSSIONS OF ABUSE AND WAR CRIMES. DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Since the initial speech by Putin and the invasion that would follow it, Russia has continued to make claims on territory it doesn’t control and commit war crimes against the people of Ukraine. In 2022, United Nations experts determined that Russian soldiers had raped and tortured children. That same panel found that the victims of Russian sexual abuse were between the ages of four and eighty-two years old. Another report conducted by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner found that Russian forces accounted for “the vast majority of the violations identified.” In that report, investigators pointed to one incident involving a four-year-old girl who was forced to commit sexual acts on a Russian soldier after her mother and father were also sexually abused and raped.

In addition to sexual violence, the Russian Federation is responsible for indiscriminate bombings and killings of civilians. Describing the crimes allegedly committed, the report explained that:

“The relentless use of explosive weapons with wide area effects in populated areas has killed and injured scores of civilians and devastated entire neighbourhoods. The Commission documented indiscriminate attacks using cluster munitions, unguided rockets, and air strikes in the context of attempts by Russian armed forces to capture towns and smaller settlements. These weapon systems are highly likely to have indiscriminate effects and cause significant harm to civilians. Indeed, most of the verified deaths since the outset of the hostilities have been caused by these weapons.”

It is worth noting that these alleged crimes, which have been documented repeatedly by international observers, occurred in just the first year of the war. The reports I have cited thus far don’t include any of the alleged crimes committed by Russian forces from 2023 onward. Nor do they address the warrant by the International Criminal Court that was issued for Vladimir Putin’s arrest for his unlawful deportation and kidnapping of Ukrainian children. Russia started its war with atrocities and continues to follow through with even more monstrous acts.

Pointless Negotiations with a War Criminal

As it stands, Putin is an alleged war criminal who has continued to demand that the Ukrainians surrender their territory in Donetsk and Luhansk, even as the Russians fail to secure the territory totally. Even as the war in Ukraine has cost Russia nearly a million of its soldiers and 30 percent of its oil and gas revenue, Russia continues to push along in its foolish war of aggression. However, it is unlikely that the Russians can sustain this kind of fighting, though they will never admit it.

In a piece for the Washington Post, Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell rightly pointed out that Russia is not operating in a strong position. They rightly note that roughly a quarter of Russian companies are bankrupt or facing bankruptcy. Russia has also been forced to sell gold to keep its finances out of the red, and its only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, has been out of commission since 2017. A Newsweek report from earlier this year went so far as to suggest that Russia may scrap the carrier due to its many performance issues.

With all these factors and more, Senators Shaheen and McConnell warn that “Putin may be playing for time, but he is not dragging out this conflict because it is his preferred tactic. He is dragging it out because he cannot achieve a decisive victory. He’s hoping that slow, grinding attrition will divide the West.”

Despite this, the Trump administration has attempted to appease Russia. At one point, the administration proposed that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the Donbas region. It is worth noting that Russia doesn’t control all of the Donbas region, and the United Nations Charter prohibits annexation of territory in wars of aggression. Article 2, section 4 of the UN Charter states, “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”

As such, Russia’s annexation of territory in Crimea in 2014 and its current attempts to gain more territory are not only horrific in their humanitarian implications but are blatantly illegal under international law. The Trump administration’s proposed peace plan, when it comes to the Donbas, is nothing short of victim-blaming and appeasement, and even then, Russia still has not committed to any peace plan.

The reality remains the same as it was in 2022. Ukraine must get the support it needs to defend itself from Russian aggression. So long as Russia can continue its blatant criminal acts, it will continue to push for more. If there is to be any international standard of justice, stopping Russian aggression must be America’s highest priority. Anything less is a strategic and moral failure.

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Two people were killed at Brown University last Saturday. The shooting, which comes amid a flurry of conspiracy theories and claims of political persecution, left two dead and nine wounded, with the unidentified gunman remaining at large. Amid this tragedy and death, it is tempting to claim motives and to fill in the blanks with speculation. However, if there is to be an end to the suffering that we face, claims of political targeting and conspiracy theories must be rejected.

What We Know

On Saturday at around 4 PM, an unidentified gunman entered an economics study group of about 60 students and began firing, killing Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook, two students. The shooter, a masked man, then fled the scene on foot. A person of interest, not necessarily a suspect, was later taken into custody, something that FBI Director Kash Patel boasted about on Twitter. It was later revealed that the person of interest was not the shooter, but a bystander, and was subsequently released.

The shooter remains at large.

Filling the Gaps

While the motives for the shooting remain unknown, claims of supposed political targeting quickly spread online, with the President of the College Republicans, William Donahue, claiming on Monday that he was “told” that Ella Cook, one of the victims and the Vice President of Brown’s College Republicans, was targeted for her conservatism. The hastily organized post seemingly ignored that another victim, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, was also killed in the attack and had yet to have any political connections.

In his post, Donahue wrote:

“I am filled with rage and sadness to learn that our Brown College Republicans VP, Ella Cook, has been identified as one of the victims from the attack. I’m told she was allegedly targeted for her conservative beliefs, hunted, and killed in cold blood. Losing Charlie three months ago rocked our worlds. The entire College Republicans community is weeping this evening, learning of the news. This was an attack on our family.”

In a subsequent post, Donahue further noted that he was relying on reports from “students immediately after the news broke…” and that he was waiting for the official police report and receiving updates from the chapter. “Though he has continued to repost claims that she was targeted despite police not yet prescribing a motive.

Nor was he alone in this. Vice President Vance seized upon Cook’s death, pointing to Brown as a “left-wing campus,” in an apparent nod to the theory that Cook was targeted for her politics. On Sunday, the chairman of the Ohio College Republicans Federation, Gabe Guidarini, wrote, “They have martyred one of our own. Pray for every College Republican leader and member.”

All of this is to say that some Republican operatives have continued to spread this idea of martyrdom and assassination, especially with the murder of Charlie Kirk hanging over the conservative media sphere, even though the police have yet to release a motive.

Why This Matters

While it is certainly possible that the shooting was motivated by politics, the reality remains, as of writing, that we are operating on very little information. Responsible actors, meaning advocates who actually want to address this horrid tragedy, would not immediately take the suffering of victims for their own ends.

While one can argue policy over how to prevent such shootings in the future, something I firmly believe is fair, presupposing political violence without evidence is not only dishonest, but it also incentivizes more violence. If we are to have a more peaceful and just country, then we should wait for more information before making pronouncements about the motive behind this horrific attack.

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References

Ahn, Katherine RosmanAshley, and Jenna Russell. 2025. “A Brown University Instructor Hid From Gunfire With His Students.” U.S. The New York Times, December 14. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/brown-shooting-classroom-victims.html.

“Authorities Will Release Person Detained in Brown University Shooting | AP News.” n.d. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://apnews.com/article/brown-university-shooting-suspect-search-1da03b12b2eac2b530172667d3df30c4.

FBI Director Kash Patel [@FBIDirectorKash]. 2025. “An update on the @FBI response at Brown University: @FBIBoston established a command post to intake, develop and analyze leads, and run them to ground. We activated the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team, to provide critical geolocation capabilities. As a result, early https://t.co/KONDEbrduR.” Tweet. Twitter, December 14. https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2000244040667676940.

Gabe Guidarini [@GabeGuidarini]. 2025b. “They have martyred one of our own. Pray for every College Republican leader and member.” Tweet. Twitter, December 15. https://x.com/GabeGuidarini/status/2000405404933816650.

González-Ramírez, Andrea. 2025. “MAGA Is Already Spreading Misinformation About the Brown Shooting.” The Cut, December 15. https://www.thecut.com/article/maga-is-spreading-misinformation-brown-university-shooting.html.

Hernandez, Joe. 2025. “Brown University Shooting Victims Identified as Gunman Remains at Large.” National. NPR, December 15. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/14/nx-s1-5644153/brown-university-shooting-man-identified.

JD Vance [@JDVance]. 2025. “This beautiful young girl was one of the murdered students at Brown University. It takes special courage to lead an organization of conservatives on a left wing campus, and I am very sorry our country has lost one of its bright young stars. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord.” Tweet. Twitter, December 15. https://x.com/JDVance/status/2000610342951399864.

Olmstead, Edith. 2025. “MAGA Spreads Dangerous Conspiracy About Brown University Shooter.” The New Republic, December 15. https://newrepublic.com/post/204429/maga-conspiracy-brown-shooter-targeted-republicans.

“Roommate of Brown University Shooting Victim Says He Was Intelligent and Studying Neuroscience - CBS Boston.” n.d. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/video/roommate-of-brown-university-shooting-victim-says-he-was-intelligent-and-studying-neuroscience/.

William Branson Donahue [@realwilldonahue]. 2025. “I am filled with rage and sadness to learn that our Brown College Republicans VP, Ella Cook, has been identified as one of the victims from the attack. I’m told she was allegedly targeted for her conservative beliefs, hunted, and killed in cold blood. Losing Charlie three months https://t.co/Efwo1wpfFY.” Tweet. Twitter, December 15. https://x.com/realwilldonahue/status/2000402459135779277.

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Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you are doing well. As some of you may know, I have been away from publishing as of late and haven’t produced a lot of content this month. This is for two reasons:

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I also deeply appreciated Mr. Halperin’s focus on the role religion played in his book because both of the men he was writing this book about, Kurt Ver Beek and Carlos Hernández, come from a faith background, and it was nice to see Christianity discussed in a manner that focuses less on culture war issues and more on helping people in need.

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Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you are doing well. I just wanted to announce that my previously planned interview with Ross Halperin was rescheduled for this Saturday at 2 PM CST. We will be discussing his book "Bear Witness: The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land," and the role Christianity played in Honduras in the…

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