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No time for misplaced idealism and Russian apologism
My journey from a youthful admirer of JFK to Russian apologist and back
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This post marks the end of the California Independence Movement
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Extended remarks on the war in Ukraine as delivered today during a roundtable hosted by the Civic Chamber of Russia
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Why I left Russia after five years as an expat in that country
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The American Experiment: Can education save it, or will Marxism and gender ideology destroy It?
This is an argument for some level of censorship in public schools in order to serve the greater good of developing virtuous citizens.
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With peace borders, national divorce won't divide communities
Partitioning the country between red and blue states isn't the solution but neither is drawing hard borders that divide interconnected urban and…
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Mainstream media is to blame for the rise of CalExit, not Russia
CalExit opponents say Russia was behind CalExit, but it was the mainstream media that provided us with a platform assuming we would use it to attack…
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Flawed research at foundation of CalExit campaign began with California strawberries
I co-founded the CalExit movement with Marcus Ruiz Evans, who toured California promoting a self-published book full of flawed research upon which we…
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No, Alexander Ionov never funded or “exercised direction or control” over me or the California independence campaign
Yesterday the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of Russian national Alexander Viktorovich Ionov for his alleged role in having U.S. citizens…
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Prepare for the use of Russian nuclear weapons in Ukraine
Russia has the means, motive, justification, and enough of a distorted view of the world to transition from conventional to nuclear war.
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The entire invasion of Ukraine is a complete and unmitigated failure
After six weeks of losses, it is hard to see what Moscow stands to gain from its invasion of Ukraine. It raises the question if even saving Donbass was…
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Written by Louis Marinelli, the conservative political activist and founder of the CalExit campaign who moved to Russia and later repatriated back to the United States, the Repatriate covers a wide range of national and international political topics.

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