Believer. Executive editor of @thedispatch, editor of Dispatch Faith newsletter. Married to a wonderful woman. Father to three boys and a little girl.
Greeneville, Tennessee
Joined April 2009
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#HurricaneHelene inundated much of southern Appalachia nearly a month ago. For @thedispatch, I've been talking to everyday folks at the center of response and recovery efforts, which in many ways look unique to this region.
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The questions surrounding Nvidia/Huang, China, the Commerce Department (Lutnick), & Trump are one of many reasons why the US government shouldn't have a financial stake - a cut of overseas sales, equity stakes, etc - in the same firms it regulates.
Today it has DOZENS.
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Before Stephen Miller became White House chief of staff, some reporters dreaded taking his calls. On The Dispatch Podcast, @stephenfhayes discusses Miller’s rise to one of the most powerful positions in the administration.
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A person can have good character and be a disastrous leader. Character is not enough. Good judgment and other qualities are also needed. But no one lacking in character can be a good leader. Character really is destiny--a man's, a party's, a nation's.
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White voters comprised 73% of the electorate in 2026, compared to 72% in Trump’s first midterm in 2018.
But the share of white voters without a college degree decreased.
In 2018, they outnumbered white college graduates by a 10-point margin—41% to 31%—but that edge shrunk to 3 points in 2026.
Non-college white voters favored Republicans by 24 points in 2018 and 21 points in 2026.
White college graduates backed Democrats by 8 points in 2018 and 19 points in 2024. thedispatch.com/article/midt…
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So embarrassingly stupid. Guy who defends race nationalism dumping on classically liberal American conservative for objecting to obvious racists blathering about “race communists.”
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“Voters did not reject vague ‘elites’ or some ill-defined synecdoche for the status quo called ‘Washington.’ Americans rejected Donald Trump, his Republican Party, and its works.” | Dispatch Editors
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"What is the Republican Party?
From its fundraising operations to its governing philosophy, it has become an organization built around and for one man, hollowed out over the past decade and purged of anyone or any idea independent of the current president.
Any remaining attachment to free markets, limited government, the rule of law, a culture of life, or family values has been superseded by Trump’s own desires, impulses, enrichment, and peculiarities."
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New @thedispatch editorial after yesterday's historic elections:
"A country facing the kinds of challenges the United States is facing—many of them, it must be said, of our own making—will need not only wise leaders, but good ones, too."
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New @thedispatch editorial just dropped. thedispatch.com/article/midt…
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Election results are rolling in. At 9 p.m. ET, co-hosts Steve Hayes and Sarah Isgur make sense of them on Dispatch Live, joined by voices from across the newsroom (and some special guests). Open to all viewers, here on X and on YouTube.
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Happy Election Day! Make sure to vote. We hope you’ll join co-hosts @stephenfhayes and @whignewtons for a special election night edition of Dispatch Live at 9:00 p.m. ET on YouTube. They’re eager to unpack the election results, answer your questions, and talk with special guests.
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Also joining: @DavidAFrench, @asymmetricinfo, @stephen_richer, Kevin D. Williamson, @McCormackJohn, @MichaelRWarren, et al.
9PM ET, Tuesday.
The midterm elections are finally upon us. Join @stephenfhayes and @whignewtons on Tuesday, November 3, at 9:00 p.m. ET for a Dispatch Live unpacking Tuesday’s midterm election results and answering subscribers' questions. The co-hosts will be joined by voices across the newsroom and some special guests. You won’t want to miss this livestream!
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It seems that Vance and his team are message-testing this riff on “sovereignty.”
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New issue of Next Right @thedispatch is out. I spent a couple days on the trail watching @JDVance make his closing pitch for the 2026 midterms—and workshop his own 2028 pitch to primary voters at the same time.
With reporting from MONTANA and MICHIGAN.
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I’m in Belgrade, Montana, where @JDVance will be the special guest at a rally for Republicans later today. There’s a competitive House race here and a potentially competitive Senate race, too.
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I sincerely hope as many people as possible watch this clip because of what it so clearly reveals about so-called “Christian Nationalism.”
This fellow contends that Christ’s command to love our enemies is not central to Christianity and “is not a public policy prescription.”
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A revealing exchange with Christian nationalist @WilliamWolfe on whether Christianity involves loving one's enemies:
Matthew Kaemingk: Center of the Christian faith — loving your enemies. Who is your enemy, and how are you called to love them? Finish us off with that.
Wolfe: That’s not the center of the Christian faith. The center of the Christian faith is repenting and believing in Jesus. Matthew, I’m not going to accept your framing there. It is not the center of the Christian faith. Not even close. Christ actually defeated his enemies and he’s going to put them all under his feet. So it’s like, I’m sorry, I can’t accept that. So you want to try that question again?
Kaemingk: No, I think that’s a great way to end.
Wolfe: Well, no, I mean, that doesn’t mean we don’t love our enemies. I’m not going to accept the—I think that’s actually quite a liberal vision of Christianity, that the center of it is loving our enemies, when we worship and serve a risen, resurrected, and reigning Christ who’s going to return with a sword to put all of his enemies under his feet, the ones who do not repent and believe.
Kaemingk: I still think we should love our enemies.
William Wolfe: Absolutely. But I will say this: loving your enemies is not a public policy prescription, right? I’ve said this before, you’re not a very good Christian if you don’t help somebody broken down on the side of the road because you think they’re an illegal immigrant. You, of course, you should help them, right? Like, that’s not how we should be carrying ourselves. But we can also still enforce our immigration laws, and I see no contradiction between the two.
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This is also weird. Why does paying money to see a movie mean you “support” it? I buy books I disagree with all the time. Buying a thing doesn’t mean you “support” it. It means you’re curious about what’s inside and willing to pay the price of admission to see what’s happening.
Must-read stuff from @EWErickson if you care about what's happening on the right: "Conservatives spent sixty years arguing that the family and the local community, not the state, should decide what the good life looks like ...
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... The socialist left rejected that because it loves the collective. The postliberal right now rejects it because it is certain it knows better than your household does. " ewerickson.substack.com/p/th…
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