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The Re-Con

The Re-Con

Inciting Sedition: the inevitable outcome of Trump’s lies

By Randy Koch | January 10, 2021

“What happened that day was the inevitable outcome of his lies and consistently escalating rhetoric over the past four-plus years”

The Re-Con

The blunt declaration in graffiti on the train: RU!N; was it about the state of the country or a warning of what’s barreling down on us like a runaway train?

By Randy Koch | January 6, 2021

The long train was gone and with it, I hope, the diminishing rumble of ruin

The Re-Con

Turning the corner

By Randy Koch | November 3, 2020

The rest of the way home was still all uphill—as it likely is for all of us

The Re-Con

Count me out if being an American perpetuates the racist traditions of exterminating and displacing Native Americans; interning Japanese-Americans; enslaving, lynching, and murdering African Americans; and deporting Mexican, Central American, and South American asylum-seekers

By Randy Koch | September 27, 2020

dt proclaims that he loves the uneducated, and Americans, unable to recognize an insult revel in his and their own ignorance

The Re-Con

The Disappearance

By Randy Koch | August 6, 2020

“Or maybe I’m the one who’s disappeared.”

The Re-Con

The death of a pig

By Randy Koch | July 14, 2020

Even when money is tight, markets are unreliable, and government is incompetent, ranchers and farmers can feed themselves

The Re-Con

Drawing out the long rope of history that swings from the black limbs

By Randy Koch | June 5, 2020

“The powers that be are not just…”

The Re-Con

The Coronavirus: fear, faith, and reminders from home

By Randy Koch | May 19, 2020

God helps those who know themselves for what we are

The Re-Con

The Quick and the Dead: before breathing became dangerous

By Randy Koch | April 6, 2020

COVID-19: the new arbiter for life or death

The Re-Con

And It Was So: through history walls rose from distortions of truth and justice

By Randy Koch | December 30, 2019

Stop this one: rise

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