Writer and speaker on immigration, political cruelty, and conscience over party. Spent 22 years in the pro-life movement. Now writing Wide Angle.
Charlotte, NC
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In May 2025 I asked a church class how a deportation video felt in their bodies. One man in the back said "Relaxed." I heard him. I moved on. My first Wide Angle piece is about that, and the years I spent doing the same thing.
I will have more to say about this.
I'm going to need you all to pray for me because I'm struggling.
Yesterday at Bible study, a woman I adore started giving her glowing review of the work of a group called "The White Rose Resistance." It's an abortion abolition group, and it's led by a very charming guy named Seth Gruber.
Seth is a grifter. He's a misogynist, and he's as manipulative as the day is long. He will wrap a brick in velvet, throw it at your face, and convince you he was helping you build character. By the end of the conversation, you'll somehow find yourself apologizing to him for getting blood on the carpet.
I know this from personal experience. He once called me on the phone to try to convince me to edit a blog to preserve the image of his anti-semitic assistant. Now Seth is spearheading a "feminism is cancer" conference. He believes it's time to push women to the sidelines of the pro-life movement so that men can take over, and he jokes about repealing the 19th amendment but gives himself strategic plausible deniability by insisting it's just a joke.
It's not an effing joke.
Is there a Christian way to tell people in my camp to grow the hell up? You have to stop this. It is counter intuitive. It is doing harm. You are not going to repeal the 19th amendment. You are going to continue alienating the very women whose minds need to change about abortion. I've spent the better part of the past 10 years building alliances with feminists, and a lot of them have really valid insights, really keen observations that could illuminate our own blind spots and help us identify the very gaps in our own activism that have made it so difficult to reach women in the first place.
And instead of listening, learning, and looking for opportunities to build bridges, we're handing microphones to men who think the answer is to put women back in their place.
Do you have any idea how spectacularly stupid that is?
Women are not an obstacle to overcome in the fight against abortion. They are the people we desperately need to reach. And when you make contempt for women a feature of your activism, you shouldn't be surprised when women conclude that your concern for them begins and ends with their reproductive capacity.
You cannot spend your weekends mocking women's rights and expect women to believe you care about theirs. You cannot preach about the inherent dignity of every human being while treating half the human race like a problem that needs to be managed.
And you certainly cannot convince me that you're defending God's design for womanhood when your favorite pastime seems to be humiliating women who refuse to submit to you.
I am so tired of watching Christians mistake arrogance for courage, cruelty for conviction, and charisma for godly character. I'm tired of watching good, sincere people get swept up in movements because the guy holding the microphone knows how to make contempt sound like righteousness.
I believe unborn children deserve protection. I believe women deserve dignity. I refuse to accept that one of those convictions requires sacrificing the other.
And I am begging my fellow Christians to develop enough discernment to recognize that a man can say all the right things about protecting babies and still be doing tremendous damage to the cause.
We do not need more men telling women to sit down and shut up. We need more Christians willing to listen when women tell us why they stopped trusting us in the first place.
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A lot of questions about this a couple days later...
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Some personal news:
Yesterday was my last day at Microsoft.
Today, I started a brand new job at the FAA and things are going pretty well!
This is so beautiful!
بعد وفاة أبوي غيرت كلمة مرور شبكة الواي فاي في البيت
وفي اليوم الثاني دق الجرس وكان جارنا كبير في العمر
فتحته ولقيته واقف عند الباب وقال لي:
«سامحني على الإزعاج يا ابني.. زوجتي ما قدرت تحكي مع بنتنا ومحتاج أسألك عن شبكة النت»
كنت على وشك أعطيه كلمة المرور الجديدة
لكنه طلع ورقة صغيرة من محفظته فيها كلمة المرور القديمة
وتحتها كان مكتوب:
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What about this is supposed to be appealing? The old cars? The crappy old strollers? Old cheap motels and strip malls?
Oh I get it. It’s the whiteness. That’s what they want.
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We have detected speed restrictions on Starshield on our Ukrainian territory – in the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine. The speed limit is back at 161 kilometers per hour – that’s 100 miles per hour.
This directly affects our ability to intercept Russian jet-powered “shahed” drones. These drones come from those areas, and because of the speed restrictions, we simply cannot catch up with them in time.
Near the frontline, we cannot use our aircraft. Only drone interceptors can operate there. And without the speed we need, shooting down these “shaheds” becomes much harder.
This means more Russian strikes get through, and more of our people are killed by Russia. We are trying to get the details from the American side, but so far, we know very little.
If someone in America is making decisions that basically treat Ukrainian territory as if it is not Ukrainian, then this tells us where things are going. We need to be clear and never recognize Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory in any way.
From an address at the 9th European Political Community Summit. (3/3)
A conservative friend read my immigration piece and asked me a fair question: what are my concrete action steps right now? My answer isn't "vote Democrat." It's five things, including one bipartisan bill to call your representative about before the lame-duck session ends.
"What Now?" is a short post on Wide Angle. The bill is @RepMariaSalazar's Dignity Act (H.R. 4393): joshbrahm.substack.com/p/wha…
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Well done, Mr. President!
What you described on 60 Minutes is what the Dignity Act is all about.
A Republican-led immigration bill with BIPARTISAN support.
“Get the killers out.” You said it. ABSOLUTELY!
You said it: Keep “good people working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel” who have been contributing to America for years.
You said it: Those who have been here for 10 or 15 years: “Work a deal for them.”
That’s the core of the Dignity legislation.
Immigration is not just border security. It’s about the ECONOMY and AFFORDABILITY: housing, groceries, healthcare, manufacturing.
Mr. President, I have said it repeatedly. YOU can bring Republicans and Democrats together to finally fix our broken immigration system.
A 40-year problem.
You can surpass Reagan’s legacy by delivering a historic immigration reform.
This is your moment.
President Trump says his administration’s deportation policy was “too tough.” cbsn.ws/4k5CJfU
What the actual fuck has happened to our country? America kept careful track of (most) everyone in the Japanese internment camps; now we’re literally disappearing people.
NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.
30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.
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Stephen Miller wanted to trigger a full-blown constitutional crisis by having Trump suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
Other top White House officials opposed the idea and Trump never pulled the trigger.
Now Miller is chief of staff.
Stephen Miller publicly said Trump was considering suspending habeas in May 2025.
John Yoo told me at the time that suspending habeas would provide "much stronger ground for impeachment than Trump’s first two" impeachments.
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Jonah is right.
Chris this is horseshit. This has nothing to do with Charlie Kirk. It has to do with the TPUSA today. I didn't mention Kirk, Have not spoke ill of him since he was murdered, and I think 14 months later, it's perfectly legitimate to criticize TPUSA and the extended MAGA industrial complex -- which you are a part of and occasional apologist for --for the utter and complete ruin of the GOP and the failure to execute on the things TPUSA & Co. promised. You guys have repelled more young people and voters then you have attracted. You discredited ideas I care about dearly. And you have claimed to be doing it in the name of a more "serious" understanding of politics and power. Nixonmaxxing my ass.
I am sorry if people sincerely took this as an insult to Kirk or mockery of his heinous murder. But they are mistaken. I am not sorry for calling out the bullshit opportunism and bad faith of people projecting false motives on me in order to have a comfortable talking point to distract from their abject political and ideological failures on display this week.
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I spent two years working with Stephen Miller.
His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic.
I say that without reservation.
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This is tremendous from @DavidAFrench and reflects the anger & betrayal so many people have felt under Trump. I'm often critical of presidential policies, but this is the first time in my life that my government seemed to truly hate its own citizens.
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/opini…
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Fascist white nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that the Christian nationalist plan to seize power "does not require a majority vote": "I'm not saying that we will win through democracy. I'm just saying that we'll win."
Racist white nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says his upcoming conference will begin the process of laying out "battle plans" for "Christian nationalists on the right to be able to seize power": "This is here to stay. And it's not if we win, it's when we win" peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…
I’ve heard some good and bad takes on the midterm results. This is a very good take. If you’re pro-life and feeling confused or betrayed by my recent political shift, this piece will help you understand a big part of it.
matthewdtaylor.substack.com/…
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