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What the Storytellers Cannot Say
On pundits failing upward and the marginalization of political imagination.
3 hrs ago • Deuce Davis
On Becoming Deuce Davis
A Pen Name and Why
May 21 • Deuce Davis
On Cotton...
...and the American operating system.
May 20 • Deuce Davis
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Bad Polls Don’t Mean a Redeemed Nation
Mar 28 • Deuce Davis
Reality Checking The Bulwark
Jan 31 • Deuce Davis and Evan Stern
Should Black Voters Renegotiate With Democrats?
Mar 4 • Deuce Davis
The Wrong Lesson from Budapest
Apr 13 • Deuce Davis
Does it feel like America hates its women?
Dec 4, 2025 • Deuce Davis
SNAP, Crackle, Gone
Oct 29, 2025 • Deuce Davis

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Polling PTSD
Why the good news doesn't feel like good news.
May 18 • Deuce Davis
A Sort of Autopsy?
Voting Rights, the DNC, and Denial.
May 14 • Deuce Davis
1:17:34
The Enshittified Bulwark
Watch now | Reality Checking the Bulwark – After the Fall
Published on Certain Thoughts • May 7
The Cost of the Comforting Lie
On Louisiana v. Callais and a politics that won't look at itself.
Apr 30 • Deuce Davis
The Seashells Were Never the Point
On the Comey indictment, the commentariat’s sedative, and the architecture being built while we laugh.
Apr 29 • Deuce Davis
The Fraying Seam of American Truth
On the conspiracies forming around the third attempted assassination of President Trump.
Apr 27 • Deuce Davis
A Mythology in Circulation
Why a Carlson podcast may not break the spell of Trumpism. I hope I'm wrong.
Apr 23 • Deuce Davis
1:39:37
Reality Checking the Bulwark – GAME OVER?
Is The Bulwark a malign actor?
Published on Certain Thoughts • Apr 23

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Strange Fruit: Live with Anthony Milian
A recording from Steward Beckham's live video
May 15 • Deuce Davis and Anthony M.
The Enshittified Bulwark
Watch now (79 mins) | “Late-stage capitalism” used to mean something.
May 7 • Deuce Davis and Evan Stern
1:19:22
Reality Checking the Bulwark – Episode 7
Dismantling tweets from Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller
Apr 7 • Deuce Davis and Evan Stern
1:03:20
Hasan Piker and Fissures in the Democratic Coalition
Sarah Longwell gets unwelcome exposure after attacking Hasan Piker.
Apr 6 • Deuce Davis and Evan Stern
1:29:21
Can an American Political Party Prioritize Both The "White" and "Black" Vote
Watch now | On today's news topics, the state of the Democratic Party, and our expanding dystopia.
Apr 1 • Deuce Davis
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Who Gets to Be Taken Seriously?
What Ye and Sarah Longwell reveal about a political culture losing its footing.
Apr 6 • Deuce Davis
Frum, Miller, and the Question of Emphasis
In an age of corruption and asymmetry.
Feb 26 • Deuce Davis
Scoreboard Democracy, Part II
Anticipating myopic State of the Union coverage and punditry.
Feb 24 • Deuce Davis
American Inertia, Part II
When Identity Cohesion Outruns Policy Failure
Feb 23 • Deuce Davis
American Inertia
Why Structural Weakness, Not Activist Excess, Keeps Repeating the Crisis
Feb 19 • Deuce Davis

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Black America in a Jar
On scrutiny, silence-as-unity, and the politics of being watched.
Jan 16 • Deuce Davis
Does it feel like America hates its women?
BONUS: You should watch All Her Fault on Peacock.
Dec 4, 2025 • Deuce Davis
Quiet, Piggie...and Other Tales of Centrist Delusion
BONUS: A House of Dynamite movie reflections.
Nov 21, 2025 • Deuce Davis
Hopium, Myth, and the Monster We Know
Bonus: 30 for 30, American Son, and Trump's America
Nov 20, 2025 • Deuce Davis
You Think Ya Betta Than Me?!
On Expertise, Resentment, and Who Gets to Be Right.
Aug 29, 2025 • Deuce Davis

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The 5th Anniversary of January 6th
And the way lynch culture can be felt in this moment.
Jan 6 • Deuce Davis
America’s First RINO Hunt (Empire of Liberty #12)
The playbook hasn’t changed, only the hashtags have.
Sep 25, 2025 • Deuce Davis
From NATO to Nature (50 Facts #1)
Where America Truly Lost Its Grip
Sep 23, 2025 • Deuce Davis
The Empire of Debt and Liberty (Empire of Liberty #11)
From colonies to companies to states and still paying the bill.
Sep 9, 2025 • Deuce Davis
The Mouse Haunts (The Mouse That Roared #2)
But I still love it.
Jun 5, 2025 • Deuce Davis
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