Essays and observations on rural democratic systems, gender-based violence, firearm violence prevention, and the cultural conditions that undermine access to justice.
On the May 2026 Methow Valley School District safety review, the substantive criticism that did not make it into local reporting, and a strategic observation about how rural democratic institutions collude in their own non-accountability.
On sexual violence as a tool of political aggression, its function as a leading indicator of state fragility, and the continuum running from the family to the front.
On the asymmetric label of mental illness, the dynamics of coercive control that produce so much of the distress the label catalogs, and the question of where the public conversation about maternal mental health is currently pointed.
A dispatch from a women's only hunter education field skills evaluation in Okanogan County, May 16, 2026, and a note on where firearms instruction sits within the larger architecture of rural public safety.