Two years ago today, I started the warning, and it's grown into a vibrant community

where tens of thousands of people are engaged in what's happening to our country, around the

world, understanding and orienting towards the events of the day, making sense of them,

without having to wait for a corrupted journalist's book

deal to find out the news you needed yesterday two years from now. I started the warning because

there needs to be fearless voices who are not intimidated by a growing menace and fascism,

who are indifferent to being patted on the head in the green room,

who don't aspire to sit at the head table of the White House correspondence dinner,

who understand that the purpose of political power is the public interest in public good.

The warning is a place where you can find reality,

truthfulness as a first quality, pragmatism as an essential virtue. This dangerous moment

has not arrived overnight. It is not a building block of disconnected events like a giant jenga game that has sprawled up from the ground, spontaneously generated from nothing.

We are on a river with the current, and we have moved far down it over these last nine years.

Donald Trump, for nearly a decade, has been America's dominant political and cultural

figure. He is the biggest star there is. The national media can't look away. The politicians

who were appalled by him now lay prostate at his feet. The warning is a place where I will try to make sense of it all

for you, to lay it all out in fearless and direct terms, to connect it to history, to talk about

what's coming, how to prepare for it, and how to stop it while there's still time left. But no

matter what happens, two years from now,

the warning will be here, and it will be growing. And it will be a voice in the constellation of

American voices that advocate for liberty, for justice, for all people, for all Americans.

We live in a consequential time, and during my adult

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