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• John Stoehr
There are now so many people who are using artificial intelligence to generate their writing that Substack* now offers a service to scan for it. I am happy to report the results of a recent scan of my own writing. You will not be surprised to learn that it was
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• John Stoehr
They're part of a broader effort to salt the earth of public trust.
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• John Stoehr
But it didn't begin with his war. It began with his reelection.
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• John Stoehr
Plus: What anti-Black racists fear about a Black Helen.
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• John Stoehr
Plus: Kentucky's Andy Beshear isn't going to vacate Mitch McConnell's seat; and "everybody knows it": Hunter Biden outs the late Lindsey Graham as gay.
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• John Stoehr
It's been a couple of weeks but progressives have already forgotten.
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• John Stoehr
![Trump and the GOP are 'slowly starving [Obamacare] to death'](https://storage.ghost.io/c/24/37/24374d22-05d6-4a81-a2e2-48722471a1dd/content/images/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-12-12.46.16-PM.png)
Charles Gaba says those who remain are sicker and paying more for less.
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• John Stoehr
Stephen Robinson thinks they are not taking it personally enough.
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• John Stoehr
In fact, Trump is creating a cartel and he's the boss.
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• John Stoehr
He sold courage, but delivered impunity.
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• John Stoehr
Looks like she saw a chance to build a fifth column and it blew up in her face.
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• John Stoehr
Jenny Racicot slapped fellow progressives back into adulthood.
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• John Stoehr
It lifts up losers, brings down winners.
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• John Stoehr
Small-r republican liberalism is having a day.
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• John Stoehr
The GOP has taken a maximal position that requires a maximal counter-position.
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• John Stoehr
No democracy can endure when justices are untouchable.
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• John Stoehr
To change America, change the court.
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• John Stoehr
GOP operatives are in denial.
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• John Stoehr
Some progressive challengers knocked off some progressive incumbents.
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• John Stoehr
The Republicans are seen as legitimate. The Democrats are not. That explains the difference between the press corps' treatment of Joe Biden versus Donald Trump.
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• John Stoehr
If they win, Trump will punish them. If they lose, Trump will punish them.
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• John Stoehr
It's too easy to blame Trump.
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• John Stoehr
He deliberately lost in the hopes of making the problem go away.
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• John Stoehr
They will respond to gestures of power.
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• John Stoehr
A subscriber urges us to take the fight to the right.
