John W Peace II

I will tell you right from the start, I think voting is the most American thing a person can do. I never miss an election. Big race, small race, even if dogcatcher is on the ballot, I show up. But this time I wanted to step outside my own habits

The ROMEO Club Ain’t What It Used to Be If you're from an urban or suburban upbringing, you might ask, “What is a ROMEO Club?” Out here in rural America, every small town has one. They might not call it a club, and it’s not official

Inside the Alt Right World Democrats Keep Missing The morning after Charlie Kirk was gunned down, a Democratic official with thirty years in office looked at me across the table. He shook his head, still working it out. “Until yesterday,” he said, “I had never heard of Charlie Kirk.” The

You remember 2016, right? That was the year the Republican Party slapped on a red hat and gave itself a whole new personality—Make America Great Again.  Now look, if the hat had just said Make America Great, well hell, that’s a message anybody could get behind. Sounds like

I remember the first Sunday after the 2020 election like it just happened. Joe Biden had beaten Donald Trump, and instead of a concession, Trump gave us talk of stolen votes, rigged machines, and conspiracies thick as molasses. No proof, mind you. Just the usual, “A friend of a friend

"I TOLD YOU SO!!!".... that’s the text I got from a MAGA buddy, all caps, with a link stuck under it like a tick on a hound. Now, when you live in a small rural town that went 85 percent for Trump last election, you are not