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Indictment Suggests SPLC May Have Fueled The Division It Claimed To Fight

27Apr

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Fox News, Approved, Commentary, National

Indictment Suggests SPLC May Have Fueled The Division It Claimed To Fight

By Mike Davis | Commentary, Fox News Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel secured the indictment against the civil rights organization. Since the 1970s, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has characterized itself as an organization that combats extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). This week, because of an indictment that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel secured through stellar leadership, we learned that SPLC wasn’t fighting the Klan — but funding it using generous donations from people who thought they were helping fight racism. James Alex Fields, a White supremacist, ran over and killed a Jewish woman named Heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. ...

“Look at me, not the facts”: How outrage culture drowns out truth

28Jan

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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, National, Top Stories

“Look at me, not the facts”: How outrage culture drowns out truth

By Mike Hancock | Guest Commentary, Undercurrent Chants are designed to sound simple, righteous, and urgent. They compress emotion into rhythm and repetition. They feel communal. They feel moral. They feel inevitable. When shouted in unison, they create the illusion of truth through volume alone. But chants are rarely the message. They are the cover. Beneath them—almost always—lies something far more dangerous. Today’s chants may vary in wording, but they all orbit the same gravitational center: Look at me. Listen to me. Ignore the facts. That is the lie beneath the chants. And it is not accidental. On the surface, chanting projects moral urgency. It insists that something is so unjust, so unbearable, that ordinary rules must be suspended. Proces...

Voices From the Frontlines: The 2025 Guest Pieces That Shook Colorado Readers

30Dec

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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, State, Top Stories

Voices From the Frontlines: The 2025 Guest Pieces That Shook Colorado Readers

By RMV Editorial Board This list wasn’t shaped by editors or ideology. It took shape because readers kept stopping, reading, and sharing these guest commentaries. After the list, we step back and look at what that pattern tells us—and why it matters going into the new year. 1. Undercover as a 13-year-old, an officer finds what parents fear most By John DiGirolamo, a Christian author and speaker writing about child safety, online exploitation, and human trafficking. What followed was hard to ignore. Ordinary online conversations slid into grooming faster than most parents would expect, and the response made clear how many families are actively trying to understand those risks—more than 10,000 views and tens of thousands of interactions. 2. Tin...

Grama’s Magnifying Glass: Refocusing the Voice of Colorado

5Nov

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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, State, Top Stories

Grama’s Magnifying Glass: Refocusing the Voice of Colorado

By Drake Hunter | Commentary, RMV NE CO Newsroom, Rocky Mountain Voice While sitting in the waiting area at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, I heard the characteristic sounds of hospital life—beeping machines, nurses moving quietly, and families whispering prayers of hope. My wife, Sherrie, underwent brain surgery with advanced laser technology, prompting me to reflect on the importance of focus—its influence not just on medical results but on the core of our lives. As a boy, I often borrowed my grandmother’s magnifying glass — the one she used for reading mail, books, and sometimes the Bible and fine print. Outside in San Diego’s bright sun, where I lived during my teen years and until I joined the military, it became something different. I’d arrange dry leaves or pieces of pap...