Steward Beckham
@www.stewonthis.com
Son. Brother. Baltimorian. Marylander. American.
I wrote today from a place of contradiction, which is loving an idea of America that has never fully loved me back, while watching people in Iran risk everything for something we treat casually.
Not answers. Just tension. Open to your thoughts.
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Not answers. Just tension. Open to your thoughts.
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We Need to Talk About Iran
Iran has long been the site of humanitarian abuses beyond imagination.
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January 12, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I wrote today from a place of contradiction, which is loving an idea of America that has never fully loved me back, while watching people in Iran risk everything for something we treat casually.
Not answers. Just tension. Open to your thoughts.
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Not answers. Just tension. Open to your thoughts.
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A brief response to our sitting president claiming that civil rights gains of yesterday have caused White Americans to be treated very badly and why the legacy of racism has pushed America into a crisis of democratic legitimacy no matter what the nation’s marketing says.
January 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
A brief response to our sitting president claiming that civil rights gains of yesterday have caused White Americans to be treated very badly and why the legacy of racism has pushed America into a crisis of democratic legitimacy no matter what the nation’s marketing says.
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not getting shot in the face by a government thug after dropping your kid off at a school is a kitchen table issue, probably the most talked about issue at kitchen tables right now honestly
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
not getting shot in the face by a government thug after dropping your kid off at a school is a kitchen table issue, probably the most talked about issue at kitchen tables right now honestly
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an unspoken truth is that “conservative” is coded “white” which is why the media reports on them like their grievances are the only ones coming from “real america”
A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
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The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
an unspoken truth is that “conservative” is coded “white” which is why the media reports on them like their grievances are the only ones coming from “real america”
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December 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Gave centrist media like The Bulwark and Pod Save a long leash, and it looks like that leash led us into disaster for marginalized communities. The 2024 failure wasn’t “woke,” it was myopic strategy. @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @wajali.bsky.social are spot on!
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LIVE NOW: Trump's American Hunger Games
THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali on Substack
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December 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Gave centrist media like The Bulwark and Pod Save a long leash, and it looks like that leash led us into disaster for marginalized communities. The 2024 failure wasn’t “woke,” it was myopic strategy. @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @wajali.bsky.social are spot on!
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The Epstein stories from today are so gross and should make men really think about what women have to go through in this world.
Full video available on my page!
Full video available on my page!
December 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The Epstein stories from today are so gross and should make men really think about what women have to go through in this world.
Full video available on my page!
Full video available on my page!
Trump’s “down period” is a media fantasy. The gears of power, like militancy, donor loyalty, and global despotism, are turning just fine. I wrote about why we’re not in a news cycle. We’re in a slow coup.
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When the News Stops Mattering
BONUS: A personal-political journey through race, respectability, and the failure of the American center.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump’s “down period” is a media fantasy. The gears of power, like militancy, donor loyalty, and global despotism, are turning just fine. I wrote about why we’re not in a news cycle. We’re in a slow coup.
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Black joblessness ticked up. A reminder that people vote for hierarchy. It’s a hard truth but makes sense.
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Black joblessness ticked up. A reminder that people vote for hierarchy. It’s a hard truth but makes sense.
Wrote about Trump’s Reiner comments and what it means when a fading man becomes a lasting myth.
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On Trump, Reiner, and What Passes for Civic Discourse
BONUS: Are new lows the new normal?
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December 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Wrote about Trump’s Reiner comments and what it means when a fading man becomes a lasting myth.
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Trump the individual is becoming irrelevant. It’s Trump, the idea, the vessel for grievance, the power, and the fear that endures. And whether his actions are strategic or delusional, they shape the culture and the country in ways we’re only beginning to grasp.
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trump the individual is becoming irrelevant. It’s Trump, the idea, the vessel for grievance, the power, and the fear that endures. And whether his actions are strategic or delusional, they shape the culture and the country in ways we’re only beginning to grasp.
Jasmine Crockett brings fire. Centrist Dems bring a wet blanket. Then blame the base when democracy loses.
It’s a doom loop, and they keep spinning it.
It’s a doom loop, and they keep spinning it.
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Jasmine Crockett brings fire. Centrist Dems bring a wet blanket. Then blame the base when democracy loses.
It’s a doom loop, and they keep spinning it.
It’s a doom loop, and they keep spinning it.
Been thinking a lot about how centrist Never Trumpers spent the last year blaming “wokeness” and young people—when it was their own failed strategy that lost 2024. They chased a mythical middle, sidelined the base, and punched left harder than they did authoritarianism. Let’s talk about it.
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Been thinking a lot about how centrist Never Trumpers spent the last year blaming “wokeness” and young people—when it was their own failed strategy that lost 2024. They chased a mythical middle, sidelined the base, and punched left harder than they did authoritarianism. Let’s talk about it.
Is this a fair or unfair statement from my latest blog post?
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December 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Is this a fair or unfair statement from my latest blog post?
www.stewonthis.com/p/america-co...
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Used to listen to Pod Save, The Bulwark, and all the “pro-democracy” brain trust. But over time, I couldn’t unsee how often marginalized voices were minimized or missing, especially when it came to race, hierarchy, and American power.
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America Continues to Declare War on International Multiculturalism
Plus: My experience being disillusioned with centrist and donor-driven media.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Used to listen to Pod Save, The Bulwark, and all the “pro-democracy” brain trust. But over time, I couldn’t unsee how often marginalized voices were minimized or missing, especially when it came to race, hierarchy, and American power.
www.stewonthis.com/p/america-co...
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We won’t understand Trump 2.0 by defending the system that gave us Trump 1.0. The voices that told us ‘this isn’t who we are’ had their turn. Now we need truth-tellers, not myth-builders.
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We won’t understand Trump 2.0 by defending the system that gave us Trump 1.0.
YouTube video by Steward Beckham
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December 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We won’t understand Trump 2.0 by defending the system that gave us Trump 1.0. The voices that told us ‘this isn’t who we are’ had their turn. Now we need truth-tellers, not myth-builders.
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When a country turns its myths into policy, women pay the price.
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
When a country turns its myths into policy, women pay the price.
Trump’s remarks about Somali Americans reflect so much of what is wrong about our understanding of history and the way we are all connected by it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Trump’s remarks about Somali Americans reflect so much of what is wrong about our understanding of history and the way we are all connected by it.
Don’t confuse headlines for history. A lot of pundits are selling hope but ignoring structural reality. We are still only in year one.
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Don’t confuse headlines for history.
YouTube video by Steward Beckham
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December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Don’t confuse headlines for history. A lot of pundits are selling hope but ignoring structural reality. We are still only in year one.
youtube.com/shorts/YetGK...
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Trump didn’t just pardon a drug trafficker. He pardoned his own foreign policy. This isn’t justice gone wrong; it’s the American empire doing exactly what it was built to do. Shout out to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social and his point about the root causes of immigration flows.
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Trump didn’t just pardon a drug trafficker. He pardoned his own foreign policy. This isn’t justice gone wrong; it’s the American empire doing exactly what it was built to do. Shout out to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social and his point about the root causes of immigration flows.
Silence helps no one: ICE detained the Brazilian-born mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, a former DACA kid, showing Trump’s crackdown now hits his own inner circle.
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Silence helps no one: ICE detained the Brazilian-born mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, a former DACA kid, showing Trump’s crackdown now hits his own inner circle.
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The Trump administration's Russia-Ukraine "peace" efforts "skip the victim, flatter the aggressor, and enrich the brokers," argues @www.stewonthis.com in this brief video, including references to my breakdown of the 28-point-plan.
(I won't hold the Baltimore sports fandom against him.)
(I won't hold the Baltimore sports fandom against him.)
The Peace Plan that Wasn't
When peace talks skip the victim, flatter the aggressor, and enrich the brokers, it’s not diplomacy, it’s a deal.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Trump administration's Russia-Ukraine "peace" efforts "skip the victim, flatter the aggressor, and enrich the brokers," argues @www.stewonthis.com in this brief video, including references to my breakdown of the 28-point-plan.
(I won't hold the Baltimore sports fandom against him.)
(I won't hold the Baltimore sports fandom against him.)
Ukraine is being treated like a broken asset ripe for exploitation.
For the full video: www.stewonthis.com/p/28-points-...
For the newsletter version: www.stewonthis.com/p/ukraine-an...
For the full video: www.stewonthis.com/p/28-points-...
For the newsletter version: www.stewonthis.com/p/ukraine-an...
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Ukraine is being treated like a broken asset ripe for exploitation.
For the full video: www.stewonthis.com/p/28-points-...
For the newsletter version: www.stewonthis.com/p/ukraine-an...
For the full video: www.stewonthis.com/p/28-points-...
For the newsletter version: www.stewonthis.com/p/ukraine-an...