So we must continue to have memory, and hold people accountable. While it’s important to move politicians, it’s also important to challenge them in primaries. We don’t have to forgive our leaders for throwing groups under the bus, even if they change their mind. We can still consider it a character flaw to have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do what’s right, to support our neighbors, to refuse to join in the othering. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-07-22/