A few days ago, I wrote that the warning lights were getting brighter for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterms.

If you have been following my previous updates on the 2026 midterms, you already know that I have been watching these numbers with one rule in mind: ignore the political cheerleading and follow the data.

There is a tendency in American politics to look at a map, see red counties and blue counties, and assume the political story has already been written.

For years, we’ve been told that America is hopelessly divided into two political camps.

There is something I think we need to talk about in Bay County, and it has almost nothing to do with Washington.

We are officially getting to the point in the 2026 midterm election cycle where I start paying considerably less attention to individual polls and considerably more attention to patterns.

There are moments in American history when fear changes government almost overnight.

There is a difference between supporting a politician and surrendering your principles to one.

There is a strange thing that happens in American politics whenever a major foreign-policy announcement is made.

There is something fundamentally wrong with a government telling a young man that his education was legitimate enough to satisfy the state’s education laws, legitimate enough for him to become a state-licensed EMT, and apparently no obstacle to serving his community as a volunteer firefighter—but somehow not legitimate enough for him even to get a fair shot at becoming a paid firefighter for a city.

There is a reason I have paid close attention to the debate surrounding DeFlock Lynn Haven.

There is a frustrating habit in American politics that shows up almost every time a complicated issue enters the national conversation.

For decades, when Americans talked about Israel’s political influence in the United States, the conversation almost always began and ended in Washington.

There is a question Washington needs to answer, and after nearly seven months of war, it is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid:

I write about government quite a bit.

There is a question I think Americans should be asking far more often than we do:

Digital advocacy is one of those things that looks incredibly easy from the outside.

There is a mistake people make when they hear the words grassroots organizing.

There is a strange thing that happens in grassroots organizing.

There is something happening in digital marketing right now that I don’t think enough small-business owners—or, frankly, enough marketers—fully appreciate yet.

There is a strange problem in digital marketing today.

There was a time when your professional reputation mostly lived in other people’s heads.

Digital advertising has never been more powerful.

From the first idea to launch day and your first year in business, here’s a practical roadmap for turning an idea into something real.

There is a version of entrepreneurship that looks absolutely incredible on social media.

There is a conversation happening around kitchen tables all across Florida right now that cannot be captured by one statistic.

There are certain buildings that become so woven into a community that eventually they stop being just buildings.

For generations, Florida politics had a reputation.

There is something almost unbelievable about the political relationship between Ireland and Irish America when you really stop and think about it.

There are political victories, and then there are moments when an election becomes something much bigger than politics.

There is something almost effortless about the Florida we know today.

There is something almost irresistible about watching an American president stand in Ireland and talk about the Irish contribution to America.