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Start Here: Why I Write and Who I Write For
Why I write, who I write for, and how faith, doubt, reason, and moral courage shape a life of attention, service, and resistance in uncertain times.
 • Dino Alonso
Life After Leaving Church (7)
Leaving church can cost you community. This essay explores how to rebuild belonging without surrendering your mind or pretending agreement.
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Life After Leaving Church (7)
Belonging Without Agreement
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A Republic Under Strain
What Pressure Reveals About Us
 • Dino Alonso
A Republic Under Strain - The American System Under Pressure - A New Series
A steady reflection on constitutional strain, civic responsibility, and what pressure reveals about our habits as citizens in a divided republic.
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Democratic Perimeter Update for 02/17-20/2026
Governors withdraw from White House meeting as sanctuary churches mobilize and DHS funding wavers, revealing strain in federal-state relations.
 • Dino Alonso
The Puritan Spine: The Framework & Index
A seven-part series tracing how Puritan moral temperament shaped American politics, identity, punishment, and democratic strain.
 • Dino Alonso
The American System Under Pressure - A New Series
A reflective, people-centered examination of America’s constitutional system under strain, blending history, moral clarity, and civic responsibility.
 • Dino Alonso
Democratic Perimeter Update for 02/12-16/2026
DHS funding standoff, 287g expansion, voter ID executive threat, and Europe hedging. A structural look at how federal power is embedding quietly.
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The Spine That Remains (7) - The Puritan Spine of America, a Seven Part Series
A reflective final essay on moral seriousness, discipline, and fear, asking whether America can mature without losing the spine that shaped it.
 • Dino Alonso
Life After Leaving Church (6)
After leaving church, what remains? This essay explores conscience, moral adulthood, and the quiet authority you carry when no one is supervising.
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Democratic Perimeter Update for 02/11/2026
A strategic snapshot of ICE enforcement shifts, county 287g adoption, Minnesota tensions, and US leverage abroad shaping the Democratic Perimeter.
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Life After Leaving Church (5)
Leaving church often means losing people, not just belief. This essay explores how belonging forms again, slowly and honestly, without creed or…
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Democratic Perimeter Update for 02/06/2026
A February 6 Democratic Perimeter update tracking how pressure reshapes power, ICE enforcement refines its posture, and institutions rely on leverage…
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The Punitive Turn (6) - The Puritan Spine of America, a Seven Part Series
How moral seriousness hardened into punishment in American life, tracing how judgment replaced formation, governance weakened, and control came to feel…
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Democratic Perimeter Update for 02/05/2026
An analysis of how political pressure still works, but now reshapes power quietly, refining enforcement and testing democratic limits rather than…
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The Democratic Perimeter Update for 2/4/2026
A 96 hour democratic perimeter update tracking federal enforcement, state resistance, election control pressure, and the quiet erosion of civic…
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