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Bought With a Price
A Memorial Day Reflection May 25, 2026 From Confusion to Clarity There are men in the ground today who never got to be old. They never got to watch their children grow up. They never got to build the business, write the book, or sit on the porch they always imagined. They went into the ground at nineteen and twenty-two and thirty-one, and the country they died for kept moving, and most of us, on most days, do not think about them at all. Today we are supposed to think about t
Jun 86 min read
They Invented the Weapon. Now They Are Shocked Someone Picked It Up.
Clayton S. Wood May 19, 2026 The left is in full outrage this week over the Trump administration’s creation of the $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund. They are calling it a slush fund. They are calling it corruption. Senator Elizabeth Warren called it an insane level of corruption. Representative Jamie Raskin called it a political grievance fund. Ninety-three House Democrats filed an amicus brief calling it the specter of corruption unparalleled in American history. There
Jun 819 min read
The Map Is the Message
How the 2030 Census, a Collapsed Legal Firewall, and the Death of the Obama Coalition Are Building a Republican Structural Lock on American Political Power by Clayton Wood There is a version of this essay that is partisan cheerleading. I am not interested in writing it. What I am interested in is describing, as accurately as I can, the structural trajectory of American political power over the next decade, because I believe that trajectory is now moving faster and in more dur
May 1914 min read
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