Recent Emails

168 people killed at a school — sign to impeach Pete Hegseth

Six months later and no accountability. Friends,   On February 28, the first day of Trump’s illegal war on Iran, a U.S. airstrike killed 168 people at the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab.   The people killed were students, teachers, and parents. They...

See if your city made the list

We're not stopping at half the stations. Friends,   It's official — this fall, our documentary, Who's the We?, will reach living rooms across the country on public television. So far, the list includes about half of those we intend for the film to...

These two messages made me think

These could not have been more different. Friends,   I recently got a couple of messages from folks about the problem of having lost faith voters to MAGA, and they could not have been more different.   One came from a woman in Ohio. In her state, a MAGA...

Half of evangelicals voted for a Democrat in 1976. What happened?

We need to get to work. There isn't much time. Friends,   In 1976, Jimmy Carter won about half of white evangelical voters, running as a born-again Baptist who talked openly about his faith. Democrats haven't come close to that since.   For a long time, we...

A father is dead and ICE bought shock gloves to keep going

What happened in Biddeford today. Friends,   This morning in Biddeford, Maine, Karolina Rojas stood in front of a room of neighbors and members of Congress and talked about what it's like to raise their daughter without her husband, Johan Sebastian Durán...

New documents: DHS spied on Minnesota churches, unions, nonprofits

They wrote down license plates and built a file on every name. Friends,   Four days after Alex Pretti was killed while filming federal agents in Minneapolis, a few miles from my home, the Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation.   Not into...