Tad Stoermer
@tadstoermer.bsky.social
Author of A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Steerforth Press, 2026)
Johns Hopkins University / University of Southern Denmark
Literary Rep: Rachelle Gardner/Gardner Literary
Johns Hopkins University / University of Southern Denmark
Literary Rep: Rachelle Gardner/Gardner Literary
Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.”
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
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Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
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Ken Burns’ American Revolution: 1950s History for a 2026 Audience
Ken Burns’ The American Revolution might seem new and refreshing to audiences, especially on the left, because it acknowledges slavery’s brutality, includes women and Indigenous people, and presents t...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.”
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
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Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
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Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Book's done. Goes to copyedit now. Out of my hands.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
There's something in there to tick off just about anyone - at least if you rely on bad principles, bad politics, and bad history to get you through.
For everyone else: American resistance has a way, and that way has a history. This book is it.
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A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
There is no greater symbol of the collapse of the post-World War II order than the prevailing narrative that the only ways to hold authoritarians accountable is with…other authoritarians.
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
There is no greater symbol of the collapse of the post-World War II order than the prevailing narrative that the only ways to hold authoritarians accountable is with…other authoritarians.
I’ve never liked “cover reveals.” I understand why they matter to publishers, but this one had to tell the truth: no heroes, no marble—just struggle, endurance, and the fight to make freedom real and enduring.
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I’ve never liked “cover reveals.” I understand why they matter to publishers, but this one had to tell the truth: no heroes, no marble—just struggle, endurance, and the fight to make freedom real and enduring.
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people
A timeline of false "gender ideology" claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
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September 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.
This is an honest takeaway:
If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.
It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.
If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.
It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.
Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.
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The Absolutist Trap: How "Free Speech" Became Anti-Democratic
Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals how we've abandoned democratic thinking about discourse—and why that might be as dangerous as the violence itself
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September 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is an honest takeaway:
If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.
It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.
If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.
It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.
Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.
tadstoermer.substack.com/p/the-absolu...
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The Absolutist Trap: How "Free Speech" Became Anti-Democratic
Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals how we've abandoned democratic thinking about discourse—and why that might be as dangerous as the violence itself
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September 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.
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just watched the first episode of Girls and got so viscerally angry at the 2012 innocence of it all, I had to turn the TV off. like they have no idea who Pete Hegseth is.
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
just watched the first episode of Girls and got so viscerally angry at the 2012 innocence of it all, I had to turn the TV off. like they have no idea who Pete Hegseth is.
The salt trucks and snow plows aren’t coming, folks. But that doesn’t mean the viral video doesn’t matter. Just not in the way that you might think.
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The Snow Plows Aren't Coming
How fake resistance videos might reveal sophisticated counter-resistance in action
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September 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The salt trucks and snow plows aren’t coming, folks. But that doesn’t mean the viral video doesn’t matter. Just not in the way that you might think.
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We’re not just seeing the end of history, but the end of history’s ends.
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The End of History’s Ends
When “Defense” is stripped for “War,” democracy loses its shield.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We’re not just seeing the end of history, but the end of history’s ends.
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So many of you have been asking about A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES that Barnes & Noble put it up months early.
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A Resistance History of the United States|Paperback
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September 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
So many of you have been asking about A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES that Barnes & Noble put it up months early.
Preorder now through tomorrow for 25% off (paperback, audiobook, or e-book) with code PREORDER25.
#BNPreorder #resistancehistory
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Preorder now through tomorrow for 25% off (paperback, audiobook, or e-book) with code PREORDER25.
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Donald Trump’s “takeover” of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery. It’s a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism.
Breaking down the White House's lies and distortions about crime in DC
How to manufacture a crisis.
www.motherjones.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Donald Trump’s “takeover” of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery. It’s a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism.
Resistance History is Substack’s #1 Rising in History.
There is a sign of the times.
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There is a sign of the times.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Resistance History is Substack’s #1 Rising in History.
There is a sign of the times.
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There is a sign of the times.
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Brandon Johnson vs Donald Trump: It’s the best American resistance tradition.
“Resistance is never about winning the war in a day. It’s about making the exercise of abusive power difficult, expensive, and a logistical nightmare.”
“Resistance is never about winning the war in a day. It’s about making the exercise of abusive power difficult, expensive, and a logistical nightmare.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's Resistance and the American Tradition of Saying No
From the Fugitive Slave Act to sanctuary laws today, resistance begins with denying abusive authority. The Personal Liberty Laws show us how.
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August 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Brandon Johnson vs Donald Trump: It’s the best American resistance tradition.
“Resistance is never about winning the war in a day. It’s about making the exercise of abusive power difficult, expensive, and a logistical nightmare.”
“Resistance is never about winning the war in a day. It’s about making the exercise of abusive power difficult, expensive, and a logistical nightmare.”
We should be glad that “Heaven was silent” when his 1784 proposal to ban slavery in the Northwest Territory was defeated.
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Stripping (More) Myths off Thomas Jefferson
He never proposed to end slavery — he lied about it, and the lie stuck.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We should be glad that “Heaven was silent” when his 1784 proposal to ban slavery in the Northwest Territory was defeated.
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So hoist a pint to Aaron Burr. 😀
Today was Hamilton Death Day.
Just felt the need to register that before I fall asleep.
Just felt the need to register that before I fall asleep.
July 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
So hoist a pint to Aaron Burr. 😀
Victory.
When we say, "Democrats won't save us", this is what we mean. #termlimits #corporatedemocratsarecomplicit
#Demleadershipispathetic
#Demleadershipispathetic
July 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Victory.
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Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled.
Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.
This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.
This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
June 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled.
Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.
This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.
This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
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The Trump Admin has shown it will exploit any opening given it by this SCOTUS. Lifting the nationwide injunction on enforcing the birthright citizenship EO will be no exception. That’s why SCOTUS majority’s failure to address the unconstitutional EO is so cowardly. @andersoncooper360.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The Trump Admin has shown it will exploit any opening given it by this SCOTUS. Lifting the nationwide injunction on enforcing the birthright citizenship EO will be no exception. That’s why SCOTUS majority’s failure to address the unconstitutional EO is so cowardly. @andersoncooper360.bsky.social
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Black Dandy Exhibit at the Met. Second photo is of Frederick Douglass’s clothing. Wow. Was surprised at how affecting it was to just see them and know he wore these things. Du Bois’s photo powerful, but in a different way.
June 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Black Dandy Exhibit at the Met. Second photo is of Frederick Douglass’s clothing. Wow. Was surprised at how affecting it was to just see them and know he wore these things. Du Bois’s photo powerful, but in a different way.
The reaction to Mamdani shows how broken America’s political culture is.
In any sane democracy, child care, public transit, and housing are center-left policy.
For most of his policies, Mamdani is not far left. But because both parties are on the right, he gets framed that way. It’s insane.
In any sane democracy, child care, public transit, and housing are center-left policy.
For most of his policies, Mamdani is not far left. But because both parties are on the right, he gets framed that way. It’s insane.
June 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The reaction to Mamdani shows how broken America’s political culture is.
In any sane democracy, child care, public transit, and housing are center-left policy.
For most of his policies, Mamdani is not far left. But because both parties are on the right, he gets framed that way. It’s insane.
In any sane democracy, child care, public transit, and housing are center-left policy.
For most of his policies, Mamdani is not far left. But because both parties are on the right, he gets framed that way. It’s insane.
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If you want to know why every single person who went to public school is ready to run riot, this is the “surrender of the judiciary” shit topping over the DISAPPEARANCE OF FUCKING CONGRESS DICTATOR CAKE
Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.
Me, via “One First”:
Me, via “One First”:
161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
If you want to know why every single person who went to public school is ready to run riot, this is the “surrender of the judiciary” shit topping over the DISAPPEARANCE OF FUCKING CONGRESS DICTATOR CAKE