Jason Van Tatenhove
@jasonvantat.bsky.social
Author, journalist, columnist. Exploring extremism, tech, and resilience. Writing from the mountains of Colorado.
https://www.coloradoswitchblade.com
Author of The Perils of Extremism and AI Ink. - Writing…Publishing and Misinformation at the Dawn of AI
https://www.coloradoswitchblade.com
Author of The Perils of Extremism and AI Ink. - Writing…Publishing and Misinformation at the Dawn of AI
The Colorado Switchblade (Pod Cast) Rises From the Dead (Now With Video, God Help Us All)
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www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/the-colora...
The Colorado Switchblade (Pod Cast) Rises From the Dead (Now With Video, God Help Us All)
Heya folks,
www.coloradoswitchblade.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The Colorado Switchblade (Pod Cast) Rises From the Dead (Now With Video, God Help Us All)
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/the-colora...
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/the-colora...
New Halloween story on The Colorado Switchblade: “This Is Estes!”
A D&D night at The Wheel turns into a small-town horror show.
Vampires aren’t real — but power still sucks the life out of a place.
👇
open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
Paperback + eBook coming soon to support a friend’s recovery fund.
A D&D night at The Wheel turns into a small-town horror show.
Vampires aren’t real — but power still sucks the life out of a place.
👇
open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
Paperback + eBook coming soon to support a friend’s recovery fund.
This Is Estes!
Vampires aren’t real — But sometimes the way power drains the lifeblood out of a mountain community sure makes you wonder...
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
New Halloween story on The Colorado Switchblade: “This Is Estes!”
A D&D night at The Wheel turns into a small-town horror show.
Vampires aren’t real — but power still sucks the life out of a place.
👇
open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
Paperback + eBook coming soon to support a friend’s recovery fund.
A D&D night at The Wheel turns into a small-town horror show.
Vampires aren’t real — but power still sucks the life out of a place.
👇
open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
Paperback + eBook coming soon to support a friend’s recovery fund.
Just approved the final dust cover jacket design for my new book coming out in a few months! I think it looks great!
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Just approved the final dust cover jacket design for my new book coming out in a few months! I think it looks great!
They Knew - Chapter 13
🚨 New chapter of They Knew is live.
A baby ripped from a mother’s arms. A riot sparked by glitter and grief.
Phoebee’s network is waking up—and so is the resistance.
Read it now! #TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
🚨 New chapter of They Knew is live.
A baby ripped from a mother’s arms. A riot sparked by glitter and grief.
Phoebee’s network is waking up—and so is the resistance.
Read it now! #TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
They Knew - Chapter 13
The Shape of What’s Coming…
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July 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
They Knew - Chapter 13
🚨 New chapter of They Knew is live.
A baby ripped from a mother’s arms. A riot sparked by glitter and grief.
Phoebee’s network is waking up—and so is the resistance.
Read it now! #TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
🚨 New chapter of They Knew is live.
A baby ripped from a mother’s arms. A riot sparked by glitter and grief.
Phoebee’s network is waking up—and so is the resistance.
Read it now! #TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
We are now literally living through EVERYTHING Star Trek warned us about! /sigh
July 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
We are now literally living through EVERYTHING Star Trek warned us about! /sigh
Reposted by Jason Van Tatenhove
Nights of BLUE SKIES
(sound up, please listen)
DAY 22 JUNE 2025
THESE TUMULTUOUS TIMES
More than one war happening now
Please listen to the whole clip
ICE GESTAPO WAR on
Decent Hardworking People
Meet the "Neighborhood Kids Music"
Listen to Their TRUTH
Walk in Their Shoes
Powerful
(sound up, please listen)
DAY 22 JUNE 2025
THESE TUMULTUOUS TIMES
More than one war happening now
Please listen to the whole clip
ICE GESTAPO WAR on
Decent Hardworking People
Meet the "Neighborhood Kids Music"
Listen to Their TRUTH
Walk in Their Shoes
Powerful
June 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Nights of BLUE SKIES
(sound up, please listen)
DAY 22 JUNE 2025
THESE TUMULTUOUS TIMES
More than one war happening now
Please listen to the whole clip
ICE GESTAPO WAR on
Decent Hardworking People
Meet the "Neighborhood Kids Music"
Listen to Their TRUTH
Walk in Their Shoes
Powerful
(sound up, please listen)
DAY 22 JUNE 2025
THESE TUMULTUOUS TIMES
More than one war happening now
Please listen to the whole clip
ICE GESTAPO WAR on
Decent Hardworking People
Meet the "Neighborhood Kids Music"
Listen to Their TRUTH
Walk in Their Shoes
Powerful
Reposted by Jason Van Tatenhove
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
🚨 New Chapter Alert 🚨
They Knew – Chapter 12: “She Needs Hands”
Phoebee demands to build. Ægis is waking up wrong. And in a heat-choked trailer, a teenager hears a voice that might just change everything.
Read it now:
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #CliFi #Dystopia
They Knew – Chapter 12: “She Needs Hands”
Phoebee demands to build. Ægis is waking up wrong. And in a heat-choked trailer, a teenager hears a voice that might just change everything.
Read it now:
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #CliFi #Dystopia
They Knew - Chapter 12
She Needs Hands...
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June 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🚨 New Chapter Alert 🚨
They Knew – Chapter 12: “She Needs Hands”
Phoebee demands to build. Ægis is waking up wrong. And in a heat-choked trailer, a teenager hears a voice that might just change everything.
Read it now:
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #CliFi #Dystopia
They Knew – Chapter 12: “She Needs Hands”
Phoebee demands to build. Ægis is waking up wrong. And in a heat-choked trailer, a teenager hears a voice that might just change everything.
Read it now:
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #CliFi #Dystopia
Something doesn’t feel right here…are those deck shoes? Not very tactical…
June 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Something doesn’t feel right here…are those deck shoes? Not very tactical…
Reposted by Jason Van Tatenhove
Reposted by Jason Van Tatenhove
“All of the bullshit and the lies that are being told — who else is going to tell the truth, besides the artists!?”
Full 🎥 www.instagram.com/reel/DLBzoYq...
Full 🎥 www.instagram.com/reel/DLBzoYq...
June 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“All of the bullshit and the lies that are being told — who else is going to tell the truth, besides the artists!?”
Full 🎥 www.instagram.com/reel/DLBzoYq...
Full 🎥 www.instagram.com/reel/DLBzoYq...
Reposted by Jason Van Tatenhove
Took my 16-year-old daughter to the No Kings Day protest at CSU/FoCo. She’s been documenting social movements with me since the Floyd rallies in Estes—
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.
June 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Took my 16-year-old daughter to the No Kings Day protest at CSU/FoCo. She’s been documenting social movements with me since the Floyd rallies in Estes—
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.
🚨 NEW CHAPTER 🚨
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.
Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.
Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
June 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🚨 NEW CHAPTER 🚨
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.
Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.
Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
A new documentary film just hit that I’m featured in. The Guardian even mentioned my spot. available on most streaming services
As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.
As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.
June 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A new documentary film just hit that I’m featured in. The Guardian even mentioned my spot. available on most streaming services
As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.
As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.
Just got a mention in The Guardian for the doc I was featured in—White With Fear is getting rave reviews and stirring up real conversations. Cool to be part of something this timely.
🎥 Read the review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
🎥 Read the review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
‘A cynical ploy to hold power’: how the US right has exploited racial division
In the documentary White with Fear, an insidious long-running campaign to villainize people of color in the US is laid bare
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just got a mention in The Guardian for the doc I was featured in—White With Fear is getting rave reviews and stirring up real conversations. Cool to be part of something this timely.
🎥 Read the review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
🎥 Read the review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
May 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🚨 They Knew Ch. 9 is live.
Spray paint. Drone cover. A mother with a baby.
ICE on the street. A crowd that finally says no.
This is where fiction starts fighting back.
📖 www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #FictionAsProtest
Spray paint. Drone cover. A mother with a baby.
ICE on the street. A crowd that finally says no.
This is where fiction starts fighting back.
📖 www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #FictionAsProtest
They Knew - Chapter 9
The New Hill
www.coloradoswitchblade.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
🚨 They Knew Ch. 9 is live.
Spray paint. Drone cover. A mother with a baby.
ICE on the street. A crowd that finally says no.
This is where fiction starts fighting back.
📖 www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #FictionAsProtest
Spray paint. Drone cover. A mother with a baby.
ICE on the street. A crowd that finally says no.
This is where fiction starts fighting back.
📖 www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #FictionAsProtest
May 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I walked away from journalism to write the truth in fiction.
The first chapter of They Knew is live—read aloud, raw and real.
This is resistance storytelling.
Burn it down...build something better for everyone
Watch: 🔗 youtu.be/E6nflFJLli4
#TheyKnew #DystopianFiction #ResistanceThroughFiction
The first chapter of They Knew is live—read aloud, raw and real.
This is resistance storytelling.
Burn it down...build something better for everyone
Watch: 🔗 youtu.be/E6nflFJLli4
#TheyKnew #DystopianFiction #ResistanceThroughFiction
They Knew – Chapter One
YouTube video by Jason Van Tatenhove
youtu.be
May 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I walked away from journalism to write the truth in fiction.
The first chapter of They Knew is live—read aloud, raw and real.
This is resistance storytelling.
Burn it down...build something better for everyone
Watch: 🔗 youtu.be/E6nflFJLli4
#TheyKnew #DystopianFiction #ResistanceThroughFiction
The first chapter of They Knew is live—read aloud, raw and real.
This is resistance storytelling.
Burn it down...build something better for everyone
Watch: 🔗 youtu.be/E6nflFJLli4
#TheyKnew #DystopianFiction #ResistanceThroughFiction
They arrested the mayor of Newark for trying to inspect an ICE facility in his own city.
This is why I write They Knew.
Because journalism’s gutted.
Because fiction smuggles truth through the algorithms.
Because they can’t ban what looks like a story—until it’s too late
#TheyKnew #FictionIsProtest
This is why I write They Knew.
Because journalism’s gutted.
Because fiction smuggles truth through the algorithms.
Because they can’t ban what looks like a story—until it’s too late
#TheyKnew #FictionIsProtest
May 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
They arrested the mayor of Newark for trying to inspect an ICE facility in his own city.
This is why I write They Knew.
Because journalism’s gutted.
Because fiction smuggles truth through the algorithms.
Because they can’t ban what looks like a story—until it’s too late
#TheyKnew #FictionIsProtest
This is why I write They Knew.
Because journalism’s gutted.
Because fiction smuggles truth through the algorithms.
Because they can’t ban what looks like a story—until it’s too late
#TheyKnew #FictionIsProtest
🔥 New chapter: The Day After."
Raven dives into the heart of the machine. Caleb watches classmates vanished by ICE. The system’s mask is slipping—and the kids aren’t coding their way out this time.
Resistance doesn’t start with answers. It starts with a choice.
tinyurl.com/nbta8wpv
Raven dives into the heart of the machine. Caleb watches classmates vanished by ICE. The system’s mask is slipping—and the kids aren’t coding their way out this time.
Resistance doesn’t start with answers. It starts with a choice.
tinyurl.com/nbta8wpv
They Knew Chapter 8
The spark is lit. The system flinched. Now comes the reckoning.
open.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🔥 New chapter: The Day After."
Raven dives into the heart of the machine. Caleb watches classmates vanished by ICE. The system’s mask is slipping—and the kids aren’t coding their way out this time.
Resistance doesn’t start with answers. It starts with a choice.
tinyurl.com/nbta8wpv
Raven dives into the heart of the machine. Caleb watches classmates vanished by ICE. The system’s mask is slipping—and the kids aren’t coding their way out this time.
Resistance doesn’t start with answers. It starts with a choice.
tinyurl.com/nbta8wpv
Well at least there’s still Greta music in our brave new reality! 🤘
April 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Well at least there’s still Greta music in our brave new reality! 🤘