Porch Talk Grit 25: Erosion of Democratic Norms: How Power Tests the Room
Erosion of Democratic Norms: We’re Watching Power Test the Room A Porch Talk Grit with Liberty Lane, joined by Walden Wright I’ve been thinking a lot these past two weeks about how quiet moments work. Not the peaceful kind of quiet. The other kind. The kind where nothing technically “happens,” but something still shifts. The […]
2025 in Review Part 4: What Endured (And Why That Matters)
2025 in Review: Part IV of IV A Walden Wright Essay History does not only record what collapses. It records what remains. Our 2025 in review part 4 has both. In periods of democratic strain, attention gravitates naturally toward failure — the breaches, the abdications, the silences. These matter. They define the terrain. But they […]
2025 in Review Part 3: Silence is a Political Force
2025 in Review: Part III of IV A Walden Wright Essay Silence is often mistaken for absence. In political history, silence is rarely empty. It is weight-bearing. It occupies space. It alters outcomes. And in moments of institutional stress, silence does not merely accompany events — it becomes one of the forces that determines what […]
2025 in Review Part 2: Normalization of the Unthinkable
2025 in Review: Part II of IV A Walden Wright Essay History does not begin with acceptance. It begins with shock. Every society confronted with moral rupture reacts first with disbelief. “This can’t be real.” “This won’t last.” “Someone will step in.” Outrage is loud, immediate, and emotionally expensive. It surges — and then, if […]
2025 in Review: The Year the Guardrails Failed
2025 in Review: Part I of IV A Walden Wright Essay History is rarely experienced as history while it is happening. It arrives disguised as routine. Paperwork. Meetings. Statements read from podiums. Weather reports that feel slightly off. Laws that bend just enough to seem temporary. By the time the textbooks catch up, the moment […]
Porch Talk Sunday Sermon #1 Truth Social and Reality Show Madness Dumpster Fires
Porch Talk Sunday Sermon #1 “WTF Is This Timeline?” — delivered by Walden Wright, keeper of the porch and the pulse Reading from the Book of American Absurdity: “15 Candidates.1 Billionaire.0 Shared Realities.Who will gaslight the nation this time?” Welcome, friends. Pull up a chair, pour something warm, and take a breath.Because this week, the […]
1484 the Witchcraft Bull Patch Notes and American Politics
Witchcraft Bull Patch Notes and American politics by Walden Wright 1484. 2025. Same Empire, New Update. They say history doesn’t repeat —but sometimes it copies, pastes, and hits refresh. In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued the Witchcraft Bull,an official document declaring that the world was under attackby dark forces, heretics, sorcerers, “unruly women,”and anyone who […]
Walden Wright – November Political Recap 2025
November Political Recap 2025 “A Month of Democratic Erosion and GOP Awakening” by Walden Wright (Do What MATAs — Monthly Reflection Series) November came in like a whisper and left like a siren.Across thirty days, America performed its favorite tragic opera:denial, distraction, revelation, and the stubborn flicker of hopethat refuses to go out — even […]
Porch Talk Grit 23 GOOD GRIEF, AMERICA.
Porch Talk Grit 23 “Good Grief, America.” November 26 • Do What MATAs Liberty Lane with Walden Wright Sunrise came in slow this morning.The kind that doesn’t rush you, doesn’t lie to you, doesn’t pretend the world is lighter than it is. Liberty Lane stepped onto the porch with a cup of coffee in her […]
Walden Weekly Recap #13 Democracy is Tested by Trump’s Aggression and Dictator’s Playbook
🌿 Walden Wright Weekly Recap Democracy is Tested by Trump’s Aggression Do What MATAs | October 17 2025 “Empires don’t begin with arches. They end with them.” It’s been a week of marble dreams and moral echoes.Trump unveiled his plan for a “Arc de Trump” — a golden arch to crown Washington like a trophy. […]