Porch Talk Grit 16 Voting Rights Matter at the Ballot Box
Porch Talk Grit: When voting rights matter most who gets to guard the ballot box? By Liberty Lane & Colonel Ezra Stone (Ret.) — Do What MATAs Blog Ezra The Justice Department has gone to court against Oregon and Maine. Their demand? Hand over complete voter registration rolls. Every name. Every address. Every record. On […]
Porch Talk Grit 15 Independence Day in a Crossroads Moment and Republicans Sold Out
Porch Talk Grit #15: “Independence Ain’t a Firework Show, Independence Day Is” By Liberty Lane Let me set the scene for y’all. It’s July 4th weekend. The sky’s poppin’ with color. Flags are flyin’. Kids are holdin’ sparklers. And while most folks were lookin’ up, dazzled by fireworks, a pen scratched its way across a […]
Porch Talk Grit 14 Juneteenth Holding the Line Between Two Flags, Two Parades, and No Kings
Porch Talk Grit 14: Holding the Line Between Two Flags By Liberty Lane with Ezra Stone – June 19, 2025 It’s Juneteenth. The day we celebrate the long-delayed arrival of freedom for enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. A day of joy, memory, resistance, and reflection. […]
Porch Talk Grit #11 Protect the Truth. Stand with Harvard.
Protect the truth. Stand with Harvard. By Liberty Lane & Daisy Justice Liberty:We are up to Porch Talk Grit #11. Can you believe it? Just me trying to protect the truth. It started with the headlines this time. Then the smear campaigns. Then the donors storming off like they just discovered history wasn’t a fairy […]
Porch Talk Grit #9 We Will Not Be Silent
The MAGA Patriarchy Wants Our Silence—the Women’s Resistance will not Abide. Why we will not be silent with Liberty Lane and Daisy Justice. Welcome back to Porch Talk Grit LIBERTY:I was raised on the porch. Some folks were raised in pews, some in protests—I had both. But it was the porch where we passed down […]
Porch Talk Grit #8 Teachers Matter, Teacher Appreciation Week & Cinco de Mayo
Who’s Still Holding the Line? Who still believes Teachers Matter during Teacher Appreciation Week? Welcome to Porch Talk Grit #8 by Liberty Lane & Daisy Justice Liberty:This is Teacher Appreciation Week. Yesterday was Teacher Appreciation Day. And I found myself thinking not just about the teachers who shaped me, but the ones who still show […]
Porch Talk #7: The Grifting of America Part 2
Porch Talk Grit is back with more on the Grifting of America with Liberty Lane & Colonel Ezra Stone “100 Days In — and the Fear Fair is still rolling.” “Silence is no longer passive. It’s an accomplice.”— Colonel Ezra Stone, Ret. We’re a hundred days into Trump’s second term, and the smoke hasn’t cleared […]
Porch Talk Grit #6 – Liberty and Ezra on the Trump Harvard Deal
Prestige Ain’t Principle: A Porch Talk on the Trump Harvard Deal By Liberty Lane, with Colonel Ezra Stone (Ret.) Let me tell y’all something that’s been sitting heavy on my chest. I read the news this week that Harvard University—yes, that Harvard—has entered into a formal research partnership with former Trump officials to “study business […]
Porch Talk Grit #5: Harvard and the Long Road Back to Trust
Walking Back the Long Road of Trust With Liberty Lane and Colonel Ezra Stone (Ret.)“The Constitution don’t work if we’re too busy to care.” Liberty:Well y’all, here we are again. Watching the institutions we were taught to trust trip over their own shoelaces. Only this time, somebody stood up straight. Harvard — of all places […]
Porch Talk Grit No. 4: An Undocumented LGBTQ Resistance Leader Speaks Out
“Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unashamed” By Liberty Lane & Joe Bob Justice Today’s Porch Talk Grit #4 is going to be a POINT/EXTRA POINT format: POINT – Liberty Lane When I heard that young woman in D.C. say, “I am undocumented, unafraid, queer, and unashamed,” I didn’t flinch. I nodded. I didn’t know her name at the […]