Mother’s Day: Celebrate the Mothers Who Stayed
We Celebrate the Mothers Who Taught Resilience, We Celebrate Mothering by Walden Wright Yesterday we celebrated Mother’s Day. Today we remember. And maybe that’s the deeper work. We still celebrate. Just differently. It is about mothering. And revolutions. Women who stayed. Mother’s Day comes with its bouquets and brunches, but the Monday after? That’s where […]
Walden Recap #5 Glendale Cinco de Mayo Shooting, firing at FEMA, purging Patriots
The firing at FEMA and Purging Trans Folks are more signs of a weak President By Walden WrightDo What MATAs | Friday Reflection We began this week with music. Cinco de Mayo parades, classrooms draped in posters for Teacher Appreciation Week, a few flags, a few fireworks. But as the days passed, the sound shifted. […]
Walden Recap #4: The Photoshop Deep Fake, Rachel Maddow, and Colonization in 2025
This week’s weekly recap on Photoshop Deep Fake – craziness, Rachel Maddow for the win, and Colonization is the fail, this week is otherwise known as: The Facepalm Heard ‘Round the Lake By Walden WrightFriday Recap | May 3, 2025 This week, I stepped away from the noise and walked down to the edge of […]
Weekly Recap #3 from Walden: A Strong Constitutional Stand Against Authoritarianism
A Constitutional stand on DEI, Trans Rights, and the Courts: This Week’s Fight for Freedom The System Held — For Now Walden Wright’s Friday Reflection on Liberty, Law, and the Fragile Line Between Them We do not often get victories in the open. More often, resistance feels like erosion slowed—quiet, procedural, half-wins that come not […]
Walden Recap #2: When Silence Becomes Complicity – Protests, Power, and the Courts
The Real Cost of Quiet: Protests, Judges, and the Fight for Our Future in Federal Courts This week the system said the quiet part out loud. This week, I found myself staring at three headlines and a TikTok clip of the Secretary of Education mistaking “AI” for “A1 steak sauce.” I wish I could say […]
Why H.R. 1526 Should Scare Every American
Who Stops the Steamroller? H.R. 1526 Defies Democracy By Walden Wright | April 17, 2025 “A nation that fears its judges more than its kings has already forgotten its founding.” There are moments in American history when the most dangerous bills don’t arrive in the dark — they arrive dressed in civility, cloaked in order, […]
Harvard Heroes: #1 in Standing Up for the Truth
A Line in the Ivy: Why Harvard’s Stand Must Not Stand Alone By Walden Wright “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”— Ronald Reagan This week, a quiet line was drawn through the ivy-covered halls of Harvard — one that may come to define the future of American intellectual freedom. In a […]
Walden Recap #1: The Cracks of Treason Are Forming
The Cracks Are Forming: Historical Weekly Recap #1 from Walden Wright on Free Speech, Tariffs, and the Erosion of Democracy This weekly recap reminded me of a phrase I once read carved into a war memorial: “Freedom doesn’t fade. It fractures.” 🕯️ That line’s been ringing in my ears ever since Amber Ruffin was quietly […]
Tariffs: What We Pay for with the 3rd “Liberation Day”
History shows us that Liberation Day is just repeating poor tariffs ideology that ultimately increases things we pay for. This week, the word “patriotism” was auctioned off once again—this time to the highest tariff. On April 2nd, President Trump declared a so-called “Liberation Day,” slapping 10% tariffs on everything imported into the United States, with […]
Silenced at the Border: The Fragile Line Between Freedom and Fear
The Fragile Line Between Freedom and Fear By Walden Wright The strength of a democracy lies not in the volume of its flags 🇺🇸 but in the voices it protects — especially when those voices challenge the status quo. Today, that strength is being tested. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has launched a troubling […]