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If you’re enjoying Civil Discourse, I hope you’ll consider giving it as a gift to others. It’s a great way to help the people you love stay better informed and since all you have to do to give it is click the button below, it will make your holiday shopping easier!
I believe we’ve got more important work than ever ahead of us. 2024 didn’t go the way we hoped it would. I’m worried, as I know many of you are, about where our country is headed. But I don’t have any intention of giving up. My priority is helping people find a way to stay engaged. The 250th commemoration of the founding of the United States will take place on July 4, 2026. This is no time to give up.
My experience writing Civil Discourse has taught me that people who are armed with the arguments, evidence, and the confidence to have difficult conversations in a direct but respectful manner are the path forward. Readers of the newsletter have conversations that plant the seeds of thoughtfulness. All of that is Civil Discourse, and it’s a quintessential part of what it means to be an American.
When I began Civil Discourse, I planned on writing two to three times a week. Rapidly, that became five or six, and sometimes seven times a week. The times we live in demand it. Often I’m writing about issues of the day almost as they happen, without the time the appellate lawyer in me craves to carefully craft and edit my words, in order to get information and analysis to you while it’s timely and important. I’m really grateful to all of you for your kindness when I fall short, for reading, writing to me, leaving your ideas in comments in the forum, and generally keeping my faith in our country strong despite the setback of this last election. We really are in this together.
Just about a year ago, I wrote a similar message to y’all, and I was struck as I looked back to see what the news was on that day. I quoted from a story Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei at Axios wrote about what Donald Trump had in mind for his next administration if he was reelected. They wrote that those plans included:
targeting and jailing critics, including government officials and journalists;
deporting undocumented immigrants or putting them in detainment camps,
unleashing the military to target drug cartels in Mexico, or possibly crack down on criminals or protesters at home, and
scrapping rules that limit Trump’s ability to purge government workers deemed disloyal.
Here we are just a year later. Those are, in fact, Trump’s plans. Preventing the end of the rule of law and the Republic is our most important job for the next four years. We may be weary, but we are not broken. And as legacy media shows signs of bending the knee before Trump is even inaugurated, independent journalism, like this newsletter, will become even more important.
I hope you’ll consider sharing Civil Discourse with a member of your family, a friend, a colleague, or a neighbor.
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Wishing you a happy holiday season as we prepare for what’s ahead. Never let them steal your joy in life.
We’re in this together,
Joyce
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