August 2026
Nihilistic Violent Extremism
On the NVE movement, sometimes called “gore groups”—what they are targeting in rural communities, how their recruitment pipeline operates, and what families and practitioners need to know.
Field writing
Dispatches
Essays and observations on rural democratic systems, gender-based violence, firearm violence prevention, and the cultural conditions that undermine access to justice.
August 2026
DARVO
On the three-move script perpetrators use to escape accountability.
July 2026
False accusations
On the prevalence of false rape accusations, what the research actually shows, and what the legal system costs survivors who enter it.
July 2026
Inside the home
On why urban firearm homicide has declined while intimate partner firearm homicide has not, the upstream pattern connecting mass shootings to domestic violence, and the household as the next frontier of firearm violence prevention.
June 2026
Naming femicide
On the political work of naming, the hate-crime question that classification raises, and what the global pattern of intimate partner killing has been telling us in plain numbers.
June 2026
Financial abuse
On financial abuse as the substrate of coercive control, and what financial institutions and donors need to know about it.
May 2026
The half that didn't run
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.
May 2026
Sexual violence and state fragility
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.
May 2026
On Maternal Mental Health Month
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.
May 2026
The Right to Bear Arms
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.