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All Money Ain’t Good Money

By Desi Cortez Columnist

So sure, go ahead. Kill the penny if you must. But don’t act like this is about economics. This is about ego-nomics.

This ludicrous Penny Purge of 2025 - hailed as some bold, courageous act - comes to you courtesy of a man currently juggling more indictments than…

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A Black Princess Flying a Black Lives Matter Flag Over Cinderella’s Castle

By Desi Cortez Columnist

So here we are - a theme park ride as a cultural Rorschach test. To some, it’s progress. To others, it’s a provocation.

Disney’s “Tiana’s Bayou Adventure” is supposed to be a celebration - a splashy, jazzy nod to progress and inclusion, those elements of a civilized land Dr.…

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White Attitudes Toward Black People

By Desi Cortez Columnist

So while the national fairy tale says, “The South had racism, the North had conscience,” the actual map looks more like this: the South specialized in lawful racial terror; the North specialized in polite racial exclusion.

America’s favorite bedtime story about race goes something like this: Daddy, tell me a bedtime story? Well sugar pie, once upon a time, there was a…

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“Lift Every Voice and Sing” Sounds Just a Tad Too Patient

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Lift is the morning prayer. Say It Loud is the afternoon march. Both sacred - one louder. We can carry a hymnal in one hand and a Bluetooth speaker in the other.

If these times we are living in had a soundtrack, I’d venture to say, it wouldn’t be a hymn. It wouldn’t be a slow gospel swell…

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MAGA’s Alpha-Male Meltdown: Replacement Theory in Cleats and Culture

By Desi Cortez Columnist

When power slips, fear takes the field.

America’s “Great Replacement” panic isn’t truthfully about immigrants - it’s about cultural impotence. It’s a certain brand of White man realizing he’s no longer the centerfold…

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The Real Test of This Nation

By Desi Cortez Columnist

He mocks the hungry, scapegoats the poor, and blames immigrants for the chaos his own greed creates. He doesn’t dog-whistle; he foghorns. He doesn’t hint at evil; he advertises it in 4K.

You know the look: evil in evening wear - pure, uncut, lab-grade. Not the convenience-store stuff. It doesn’t knock; it shoulder-checks the door, flings its coat…

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The White House Was Built by Slaves—Now It’s Being Rebuilt for a King

By Desi Cortez Columnist

So let’s stop pretending this is just a renovation. It’s desecration. The physical manifestation of a republic being hollowed out, brick by brick, truth by truth, right before our eyes.

America built its cathedral to liberty with shackled hands and broken backs. That’s not a metaphor - it’s the crime scene that started this country. The…

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America’s Moral Majority Is Being Mugged by Reality — and the Left Is Still

By Desi Cortez Columnist

They believed the United States of America had matured past fascism, that education and empathy were vaccines against hate, that a few indictments could save democracy.

To the modern MAGA mind, the Left isn’t just a political ideology - it’s the enemy of White people. That’s the translation, no “JohnnyQuest” decoder ring…

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America Is Lost

By Desi Cortez Columnist

greatness isn’t a birthright but a practice.

America - the White man’s America, the stars-and-bars-in-the-garage America, the citizens who kneel before Trump like he’s Caesar at a NASCAR tailgate - you are lost.…

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A Five-Point Program To Save Democracy (and Maybe the Planet)

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Five words. Five points. Five reasons not to roll the dice on authoritarian cosplay.

If - and it’s a very shaky if - the United States of America is still recognizable as an actual country by the time the 2026/28…

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