A journalist for Monocle, Politico, and others. Author of books including @Engagement_Book, @victorylab and (out now) THE LIE DETECTIVES.
Sep 9 • 27 tweets • 10 min read
I’ve got a story to tell you.
It’s about the largest election-fraud conspiracy in American history (until now) and the churchgoing suffragist who partnered with a reformed-murderer-turned-crusading-prosecutor to expose it and send 116 men to prison. —> smithsonianmag.com/history/trailb…
Terre Haute, Indiana, was famous for three things in 1913: @thbcbeer’s Champagne Velvet, Eugene V. @DebsMuseum, and a saloon district whose lively gambling rooms and brothels led an East Coast newspaper to named it “the most wicked city in the country." —>
Nov 7, 2021 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
If you want to understand why former Green Party campaigner @kyrstensinema is so enamored with bipartisanship and has such disdain for lefty activists, I have a story for you about something that happened #OnThisDay 15 years ago. —>
Between 1998 and 2006, 27 states passed ballot measures amending their Constitutions to ban same-sex marriage. Nearly all passed safely, many by lopsided margins. On November 7, 2006, Arizona became the first state to vote down a gay-marriage ban. —>