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Stories that tied into the plot.
The SUM of ALL OUR ANGER: CIVL WAR 2.0
It was sobering to write this novel and have so many themes in the storyline pop up in the national news as I wrote the manuscript. Some storyline touch points were indirect; others were spot on. Most themes were already typed up, and then a news story would appear that mirrored the theme in part or in whole. It was uncanny and unnerving at the same time. Some of the articles below came out before I typed the first words, but the theme was already in my mind to include them. I only included the list below as an afterthought for the reader to explore. The list below is by no means exhaustive. There are new stories almost every week that, in small or large ways, touch upon themes in the novel.
There are two sets of links. The first set, shown just below, is from after the novel's publication. The second set starts after the long row of hash marks and is listed not only here, but also in the back of the book. eBook readers get the added convenience of clicking the link.
(ps. For our Liberal friends, none of the links below are from Fox News.)
Post book publication stories relevant to the plot line...
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01/11/2026
Although not a news story, this well-written and documented essay ties back to a major tenet of my novel.
The Communist Infiltration of American Universities
01/01/2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/nyregion/mamdani-quran-inauguration-muslim.html
https://nypost.com/2026/01/02/us-news/zohran-mamdani-proudly-stands-by-executive-order-changing-definition-of-antisemitism-after-backlash/
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-mayor-zohran-mamdani-key-quotes-speech-2026-1
In a case of Life imitating Art, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (Socialist/Marxist) started making waves on his first day in office.
He canceled EVERY SINGLE ONE of his predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams Executive Orders (including one that specifically targeted New York's growing anti-semitism crisis). Then, in one of his first speeches after taking the oath of office with the Quran, he spoke of ridding the city of "rugged individualism" and replacing it with "the warmth of collectivism." The phrase "collectivism" is directly tied to Communist ideology and has a very long, violent, sad, and failed past.
Thankfully, he cannot run for President due to his foreign birth. What was incredibly eerie about Mandani's emergence during the Mayoral race last year (a full year after the publication of my novel) is that I immediately recognized him as a prototype of the character Devin Cyrus (in my book), who is the newly elected Socialist President of the US, and who also happens to be a New Yorker.
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11/06/2024
NBC Chicago
7 Illinois counties vote to explore seceding from state.
09/27/2024
Mediate
Leftist author Fran Lebowitz calls for "King Biden" to summarily "dismiss" the U.S. Supreme Court.
09/25/2024
National Review
VP nominee Tim Walz Education Appointee Calls for the Overthrow of the U.S.
09/23/2024
The New Yorker
Is it time to torch the Constitution
09/23/2024
YouTube
Kamala's use of the phrase: "What can be unburdened by what has been." Is right out of Karl Marx books.
Check out this video!
08/27/2024
American News Wire
Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson urged people to "reimagine" freedom and democracy beyond the Founders' "little piece of paper" at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last week. Essentially calling the Constitution 'obsolete' and a "little piece of paper."
### Links in the back of the novel ###
04/11/2024
New York Post
Seattle dance squad says they were told American flag shirts made audience members feel ‘triggered and unsafe’
04/08/2024
Detroit News
Death to America’ chants in Dearborn echo across social media, draw local condemnation.
03/13/2024
NBC News
College Park, Maryland DEI Officer Kayla Aliese Carter “Already planning (BEEN PLANNING) for how we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down.”
03/10/2024
Air Force Times
Pentagon Developing Combat AI Drone Aircraft.
03/04/2024
The Hill
Former MSNBC on-air personality Keith Obermann calls to dissolve the United State Supreme Court.
02/07/2024
New York Post
‘Woke Kindergarten’ founder Aliea ‘Ki’ Gross calls for the destruction of the United States and Israel.
01/11/2024
NBC News
Texas Governor Abbot wields ‘Commander in Chief’ pen in ordering Texas National Guard to secure the border at Eagle Pass, TX.
01/08/2024
Associated Press
National Park Service to remove William Penn statue, (Founder of Pennsylvania), from Philadelphia Park.
(After a huge outcry, they rescinded the order.)
12/15/2023
Associated Press
Minnesota edges closer to picking new state flag to replace design offensive to Native Americans.
(Another news organization showed some of the early submitted entries included the hammer and sickle.) Thankfully, the final redesign has been narrowed down and does NOT include the Hammer and Sickle.
11/15/2023
Texas Tribune
Texas secessionists feel more emboldened than ever.
10/20/2023
UVA News
University of Virginia Center for Politics poll shows alarming findings mentioning surrendering certain Constitutional rights, support for secession, and violence.
10/11/2023
NBC News
US House of Representative Shri Thanedar (D-Michigan) renounced his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America over the DSA support for the International Terrorist Organization Hamas.
10/06/2023
Newsweek
Hillary Clinton’s Cult ‘Deprogramming’ Comments Spark MAGA Outrage
08/07/2023
National Review
American Library Association Leader Surprised by Pushback after Publicly Identifying as ‘Marxist.’
06/19/2023
The New Civil Rights Movement
Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick Says, ‘Black Liberation Isn’t Possible Under Capitalism.’
05/22/2023
Denver Gazetter
Colorado teachers’ union adopts anti-capitalist polemic.
02/15/2023
Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho State House passes nonbinding measure calling for formal ‘Greater Idaho’ talks.
11/14/2022
The Center Square
Movement to create a new state in southern Illinois gaining momentum.
11/07/2022
Harvard Politics
The American Flag: A Symbol for Some or All?
08/19/2022
New York Times
Law Professors Dr. Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard Law School and Dr. Samuel Moyn of Yale Law School, in a “Guest Essay” in the New York Times write that “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed.”
07/07/2022
Red Fault
Creating a Socialist Vision for Public Libraries: A Conversation with Emily Drabinski. (Author's note: Emily was elected in 2023 as the President of the American Library Association. Their policies and advocacy reach public libraries in every state in the Union.
06/20/2022
The College Fix
Student activists seek to remove Lincoln statue at University Wisconsin–Madison.
07/21/2021
NBC News
KGW8 Portland (NBC News Affiliate) Protesters tore down 3 statues of US presidents in Portland last year. What happened to them? (Washington, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt)
01/19/2021
CBS News
Most Americans don’t know what’s in the Constitution: “A crisis of Civic education.”
07/03/2020
NDN Collective
The LANDBACK Organization fights to permanently close Mt. Rushmore and have the entire Black Hills region returned to the Lakota Sioux. https://ndncollective.org/ndn-collective-calls-for-closure-of-mount-rushmore-and-for-the-black-hills-to-be-returned-to-the-lakota/
06/26/2020
Associate Press
Black leader wants Abraham Lincoln statue at UW-Madison removed.
06/19/2020
CNN
Protesters tore down a George Washington statue and set a fire on its head.
There are two sets of links. The first set, shown just below, is from after the novel's publication. The second set starts after the long row of hash marks and is listed not only here, but also in the back of the book. eBook readers get the added convenience of clicking the link.
(ps. For our Liberal friends, none of the links below are from Fox News.)
Post book publication stories relevant to the plot line...
*************
01/11/2026
Although not a news story, this well-written and documented essay ties back to a major tenet of my novel.
The Communist Infiltration of American Universities
01/01/2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/nyregion/mamdani-quran-inauguration-muslim.html
https://nypost.com/2026/01/02/us-news/zohran-mamdani-proudly-stands-by-executive-order-changing-definition-of-antisemitism-after-backlash/
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-mayor-zohran-mamdani-key-quotes-speech-2026-1
In a case of Life imitating Art, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (Socialist/Marxist) started making waves on his first day in office.
He canceled EVERY SINGLE ONE of his predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams Executive Orders (including one that specifically targeted New York's growing anti-semitism crisis). Then, in one of his first speeches after taking the oath of office with the Quran, he spoke of ridding the city of "rugged individualism" and replacing it with "the warmth of collectivism." The phrase "collectivism" is directly tied to Communist ideology and has a very long, violent, sad, and failed past.
Thankfully, he cannot run for President due to his foreign birth. What was incredibly eerie about Mandani's emergence during the Mayoral race last year (a full year after the publication of my novel) is that I immediately recognized him as a prototype of the character Devin Cyrus (in my book), who is the newly elected Socialist President of the US, and who also happens to be a New Yorker.
**************
11/06/2024
NBC Chicago
7 Illinois counties vote to explore seceding from state.
09/27/2024
Mediate
Leftist author Fran Lebowitz calls for "King Biden" to summarily "dismiss" the U.S. Supreme Court.
09/25/2024
National Review
VP nominee Tim Walz Education Appointee Calls for the Overthrow of the U.S.
09/23/2024
The New Yorker
Is it time to torch the Constitution
09/23/2024
YouTube
Kamala's use of the phrase: "What can be unburdened by what has been." Is right out of Karl Marx books.
Check out this video!
08/27/2024
American News Wire
Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson urged people to "reimagine" freedom and democracy beyond the Founders' "little piece of paper" at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last week. Essentially calling the Constitution 'obsolete' and a "little piece of paper."
### Links in the back of the novel ###
04/11/2024
New York Post
Seattle dance squad says they were told American flag shirts made audience members feel ‘triggered and unsafe’
04/08/2024
Detroit News
Death to America’ chants in Dearborn echo across social media, draw local condemnation.
03/13/2024
NBC News
College Park, Maryland DEI Officer Kayla Aliese Carter “Already planning (BEEN PLANNING) for how we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down.”
03/10/2024
Air Force Times
Pentagon Developing Combat AI Drone Aircraft.
03/04/2024
The Hill
Former MSNBC on-air personality Keith Obermann calls to dissolve the United State Supreme Court.
02/07/2024
New York Post
‘Woke Kindergarten’ founder Aliea ‘Ki’ Gross calls for the destruction of the United States and Israel.
01/11/2024
NBC News
Texas Governor Abbot wields ‘Commander in Chief’ pen in ordering Texas National Guard to secure the border at Eagle Pass, TX.
01/08/2024
Associated Press
National Park Service to remove William Penn statue, (Founder of Pennsylvania), from Philadelphia Park.
(After a huge outcry, they rescinded the order.)
12/15/2023
Associated Press
Minnesota edges closer to picking new state flag to replace design offensive to Native Americans.
(Another news organization showed some of the early submitted entries included the hammer and sickle.) Thankfully, the final redesign has been narrowed down and does NOT include the Hammer and Sickle.
11/15/2023
Texas Tribune
Texas secessionists feel more emboldened than ever.
10/20/2023
UVA News
University of Virginia Center for Politics poll shows alarming findings mentioning surrendering certain Constitutional rights, support for secession, and violence.
10/11/2023
NBC News
US House of Representative Shri Thanedar (D-Michigan) renounced his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America over the DSA support for the International Terrorist Organization Hamas.
10/06/2023
Newsweek
Hillary Clinton’s Cult ‘Deprogramming’ Comments Spark MAGA Outrage
08/07/2023
National Review
American Library Association Leader Surprised by Pushback after Publicly Identifying as ‘Marxist.’
06/19/2023
The New Civil Rights Movement
Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick Says, ‘Black Liberation Isn’t Possible Under Capitalism.’
05/22/2023
Denver Gazetter
Colorado teachers’ union adopts anti-capitalist polemic.
02/15/2023
Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho State House passes nonbinding measure calling for formal ‘Greater Idaho’ talks.
11/14/2022
The Center Square
Movement to create a new state in southern Illinois gaining momentum.
11/07/2022
Harvard Politics
The American Flag: A Symbol for Some or All?
08/19/2022
New York Times
Law Professors Dr. Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard Law School and Dr. Samuel Moyn of Yale Law School, in a “Guest Essay” in the New York Times write that “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed.”
07/07/2022
Red Fault
Creating a Socialist Vision for Public Libraries: A Conversation with Emily Drabinski. (Author's note: Emily was elected in 2023 as the President of the American Library Association. Their policies and advocacy reach public libraries in every state in the Union.
06/20/2022
The College Fix
Student activists seek to remove Lincoln statue at University Wisconsin–Madison.
07/21/2021
NBC News
KGW8 Portland (NBC News Affiliate) Protesters tore down 3 statues of US presidents in Portland last year. What happened to them? (Washington, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt)
01/19/2021
CBS News
Most Americans don’t know what’s in the Constitution: “A crisis of Civic education.”
07/03/2020
NDN Collective
The LANDBACK Organization fights to permanently close Mt. Rushmore and have the entire Black Hills region returned to the Lakota Sioux. https://ndncollective.org/ndn-collective-calls-for-closure-of-mount-rushmore-and-for-the-black-hills-to-be-returned-to-the-lakota/
06/26/2020
Associate Press
Black leader wants Abraham Lincoln statue at UW-Madison removed.
06/19/2020
CNN
Protesters tore down a George Washington statue and set a fire on its head.