December 21, 2025 A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Great response to JD Vance’s assertion that the United States is, and always has been a Christian nation. Obviously he never read the Constitution because he didn’t even get through the 16th chapter of the first amendment. #VanceRewritesHistory
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'Cozying up to Putin': Trump’s VP scorched for promoting Russia’s rewrite of world wars Vice President JD Vance is facing criticism for reshaping the historical record of the past century of wars in a way seen as aiding Vladimir Putin, and for appearing to defend Russia by refusing to de...

JD Vance’s historical revisionism is not naïveté—it is allegiance. To recast surrender as “negotiation” is to launder Putin’s aggression through the language of diplomacy. This is not scholarship; it is propaganda. #VanceRewritesHistory #PutinsApprentice