Bill Bekkenhuis
@billbekk.bsky.social
A non-toxic (arguably) Christian Theologian, Recovering Republican, founder and sole member of ReunionAmerica (reunionamerica1776@gmail.com), committed to rebuilding American social capital, and possessed of an unfortunate sense of humor.
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Bill Bekkenhuis
@billbekk.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Yes, there are tough days ahead. But now is a time to identify the people and the organizations that are your natural allies and who you want to support (and who will support you and your concerns) as the danger and damage unfolds.
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Liberalism Challenged (2 of 4)
Counter-Enlightenment: Traditionalists push back arguing that pure reason could lead to social disintegration.”
Article [WITH WORKING LINKS @ open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Counter-Enlightenment: Traditionalists push back arguing that pure reason could lead to social disintegration.”
Article [WITH WORKING LINKS @ open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
December 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Liberalism Challenged (2 of 4)
Counter-Enlightenment: Traditionalists push back arguing that pure reason could lead to social disintegration.”
Article [WITH WORKING LINKS @ open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Counter-Enlightenment: Traditionalists push back arguing that pure reason could lead to social disintegration.”
Article [WITH WORKING LINKS @ open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
"Liberals can help facilitate ... cultural tolerance by understanding that the recent radical and worldwide assault on liberalism is neither recent nor radical when seen in the context of human history where authoritarianism and tribalism have always been the norm."
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Liberalism Challenged (One of Four)
The Collapse of Liberalism?
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"Liberals can help facilitate ... cultural tolerance by understanding that the recent radical and worldwide assault on liberalism is neither recent nor radical when seen in the context of human history where authoritarianism and tribalism have always been the norm."
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Intro to ReunionAmerica
We Must Defeat Autocracy, Unite America, and Work Together Towards a Fourth American Founding
TRUMP - AND TRUMPISM - MUST GO!
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We Must Defeat Autocracy, Unite America, and Work Together Towards a Fourth American Founding
TRUMP - AND TRUMPISM - MUST GO!
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Intro to ReunionAmerica
We Must Defeat Autocracy, Unite America, and Work Together Towards a Fourth American Founding
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Intro to ReunionAmerica
We Must Defeat Autocracy, Unite America, and Work Together Towards a Fourth American Founding
TRUMP - AND TRUMPISM - MUST GO!
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
We Must Defeat Autocracy, Unite America, and Work Together Towards a Fourth American Founding
TRUMP - AND TRUMPISM - MUST GO!
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Warfighters: On Refusing Illegal Orders
A Guide for American Warfighters
PART ONE: DON’T BELIEVE THE TRUMPIST LIE...
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PART TWO: PLEASE PROACTIVELY PREPARE YOURSELF IN ADVANCE TO DETERMINE THE LEGALITY OF AN ORDER...
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
A Guide for American Warfighters
PART ONE: DON’T BELIEVE THE TRUMPIST LIE...
*** *** ***
PART TWO: PLEASE PROACTIVELY PREPARE YOURSELF IN ADVANCE TO DETERMINE THE LEGALITY OF AN ORDER...
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Warfighters: On Refusing Illegal Orders
A Guide for American Warfighters
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Warfighters: On Refusing Illegal Orders
A Guide for American Warfighters
PART ONE: DON’T BELIEVE THE TRUMPIST LIE...
*** *** ***
PART TWO: PLEASE PROACTIVELY PREPARE YOURSELF IN ADVANCE TO DETERMINE THE LEGALITY OF AN ORDER...
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
A Guide for American Warfighters
PART ONE: DON’T BELIEVE THE TRUMPIST LIE...
*** *** ***
PART TWO: PLEASE PROACTIVELY PREPARE YOURSELF IN ADVANCE TO DETERMINE THE LEGALITY OF AN ORDER...
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "it's lame duck hunting season."🤣
Alex Wagner on "Deadline: Whitehouse"
Alex Wagner on "Deadline: Whitehouse"
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "it's lame duck hunting season."🤣
Alex Wagner on "Deadline: Whitehouse"
Alex Wagner on "Deadline: Whitehouse"
bethlehemfirefighters
🚨The Data Doesn’t Lie …Bethlehem Is Underfunding Fire Protection 🚨
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🚨The Data Doesn’t Lie …Bethlehem Is Underfunding Fire Protection 🚨
www.instagram.com/p/DRIPyS5kQk...
Bethlehem Firefighters IAFF Local 735 on Instagram: "🚨The Data Doesn’t Lie …Bethlehem Is Underfunding Fire Protection 🚨
Our city administration says it looks to its subject matter experts and we are ...
The city of Bethlehem's fire protection funding is a pressing concern. With a mere 10% allocation in the city budget, it ranks last among comparable Pennsylvania cities. The International Association ...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
bethlehemfirefighters
🚨The Data Doesn’t Lie …Bethlehem Is Underfunding Fire Protection 🚨
www.instagram.com/p/DRIPyS5kQk...
🚨The Data Doesn’t Lie …Bethlehem Is Underfunding Fire Protection 🚨
www.instagram.com/p/DRIPyS5kQk...
We Must Be Stubborn
I am unapologetic about calling for war against the Trump regime because I am equally committed to the rule of law under the US Constitution and reliance on aggressive, sustained nonviolent civil resistance.
www.nonviolenceinternational.net/join?recruit...
I am unapologetic about calling for war against the Trump regime because I am equally committed to the rule of law under the US Constitution and reliance on aggressive, sustained nonviolent civil resistance.
www.nonviolenceinternational.net/join?recruit...
Join Our Growing Global Movement!
www.nonviolenceinternational.net
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We Must Be Stubborn
I am unapologetic about calling for war against the Trump regime because I am equally committed to the rule of law under the US Constitution and reliance on aggressive, sustained nonviolent civil resistance.
www.nonviolenceinternational.net/join?recruit...
I am unapologetic about calling for war against the Trump regime because I am equally committed to the rule of law under the US Constitution and reliance on aggressive, sustained nonviolent civil resistance.
www.nonviolenceinternational.net/join?recruit...
Then they came for Charlotte...😡
The New York Times reported that a Hispanic U.S. citizen had his car window smashed by agents, who were caught on film detaining and handcuffing him. He was later let go.
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/c...
The New York Times reported that a Hispanic U.S. citizen had his car window smashed by agents, who were caught on film detaining and handcuffing him. He was later let go.
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/c...
Border Patrol operation rocks Charlotte with dozens arrested
The operation has caused "unnecessary fear and uncertainty," local officials said in a statement.
www.axios.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Then they came for Charlotte...😡
The New York Times reported that a Hispanic U.S. citizen had his car window smashed by agents, who were caught on film detaining and handcuffing him. He was later let go.
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/c...
The New York Times reported that a Hispanic U.S. citizen had his car window smashed by agents, who were caught on film detaining and handcuffing him. He was later let go.
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/c...
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
CREDO: CIVIL WAR 2 HAS BEGUN!
I BELIEVE strategic non-compliance beats violence.
This “war” will be more a nonviolent civil conflict (at least for our part) and, well, a bit weird. 🙂
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I BELIEVE strategic non-compliance beats violence.
This “war” will be more a nonviolent civil conflict (at least for our part) and, well, a bit weird. 🙂
substack.com/@billbekk/no...
October 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
CREDO: CIVIL WAR 2 HAS BEGUN!
I BELIEVE strategic non-compliance beats violence.
This “war” will be more a nonviolent civil conflict (at least for our part) and, well, a bit weird. 🙂
substack.com/@billbekk/no...
I BELIEVE strategic non-compliance beats violence.
This “war” will be more a nonviolent civil conflict (at least for our part) and, well, a bit weird. 🙂
substack.com/@billbekk/no...
LINK: “Our job: Invite disaffected Trump voters to join Team Democracy”
"It is important that we not give Trump’s lawlessness a “free pass.” Instead, we must restore the Constitution and the rule of law to their rightful places of primacy in American democracy.”
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"It is important that we not give Trump’s lawlessness a “free pass.” Instead, we must restore the Constitution and the rule of law to their rightful places of primacy in American democracy.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Our job: Invite disaffected Trump voters to join Team Democracy
October 15, 2025
substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
LINK: “Our job: Invite disaffected Trump voters to join Team Democracy”
"It is important that we not give Trump’s lawlessness a “free pass.” Instead, we must restore the Constitution and the rule of law to their rightful places of primacy in American democracy.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
"It is important that we not give Trump’s lawlessness a “free pass.” Instead, we must restore the Constitution and the rule of law to their rightful places of primacy in American democracy.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
NO KINGS II --In the heart of the Lehigh Valley! Hosted by Indivisible LVB!; Saturday, October 18, 3 – 5pm EDT
Location
Bethlehem Rose Garden
725 8th Ave
The Rose Garden sits between W. Broad Street and We. Union Blvd. along 8th Ave.
Bethlehem, PA 18018
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Location
Bethlehem Rose Garden
725 8th Ave
The Rose Garden sits between W. Broad Street and We. Union Blvd. along 8th Ave.
Bethlehem, PA 18018
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS II --In the heart of the Lehigh Valley! Hosted by Indivisible LVB! · No Kings
WE HAVE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS! USE THEM WHILE WE STILL CAN Hosted by INDIVISIBLE Lehigh Valley Bethlehem with co-sponsors, Lehigh Co., Northampton Co. and the Bethlehem City Democratic Committiees!...
www.mobilize.us
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
NO KINGS II --In the heart of the Lehigh Valley! Hosted by Indivisible LVB!; Saturday, October 18, 3 – 5pm EDT
Location
Bethlehem Rose Garden
725 8th Ave
The Rose Garden sits between W. Broad Street and We. Union Blvd. along 8th Ave.
Bethlehem, PA 18018
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Location
Bethlehem Rose Garden
725 8th Ave
The Rose Garden sits between W. Broad Street and We. Union Blvd. along 8th Ave.
Bethlehem, PA 18018
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NorCo Dems Building Community Connections meeting [hybrid]
Meeting · Hosted by Northampton County Democratic Committee
Our Building Community Connections team finds ways to connect with other community groups as well as communities where we don't have existing connections.
mobilize.us/s/V2XTl8
Meeting · Hosted by Northampton County Democratic Committee
Our Building Community Connections team finds ways to connect with other community groups as well as communities where we don't have existing connections.
mobilize.us/s/V2XTl8
NorCo Dems Building Community Connections meeting [hybrid] · Mobilize
Our Building Community Connections team finds ways to connect with other community groups as well as communities where we don't have existing connections.
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mobilize.us
October 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
NorCo Dems Building Community Connections meeting [hybrid]
Meeting · Hosted by Northampton County Democratic Committee
Our Building Community Connections team finds ways to connect with other community groups as well as communities where we don't have existing connections.
mobilize.us/s/V2XTl8
Meeting · Hosted by Northampton County Democratic Committee
Our Building Community Connections team finds ways to connect with other community groups as well as communities where we don't have existing connections.
mobilize.us/s/V2XTl8
It is Time for Us to Act
Donald Trump is savaging the Constitution and waging war against our civilian population.
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Donald Trump is savaging the Constitution and waging war against our civilian population.
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.
www.thebulwark.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It is Time for Us to Act
Donald Trump is savaging the Constitution and waging war against our civilian population.
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Donald Trump is savaging the Constitution and waging war against our civilian population.
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
"The army ... must always preserve and maintain the organized military strength of the Reich entrusted to it and place same in loyalty and obedience at the disposal of the Fuhrer given to the nation by the Movement."
der-fuehrer.org/reden/englis...
der-fuehrer.org/reden/englis...
16 September 1935 - Adolf Hitler - two speeches
der-fuehrer.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"The army ... must always preserve and maintain the organized military strength of the Reich entrusted to it and place same in loyalty and obedience at the disposal of the Fuhrer given to the nation by the Movement."
der-fuehrer.org/reden/englis...
der-fuehrer.org/reden/englis...
"The War From Within"
To Judge Young: "“TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS…. WHAT DO YOU HAVE?"
Hegseth and Trump would have better served the nation’s national security posture ... at an Epstein party and leaving America’s generals the hell alone. 😡
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/the-war-fr...
To Judge Young: "“TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS…. WHAT DO YOU HAVE?"
Hegseth and Trump would have better served the nation’s national security posture ... at an Epstein party and leaving America’s generals the hell alone. 😡
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/the-war-fr...
"The War From Within"
To Judge Young: "“TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS…. WHAT DO YOU HAVE?"
thexiansubversive.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"The War From Within"
To Judge Young: "“TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS…. WHAT DO YOU HAVE?"
Hegseth and Trump would have better served the nation’s national security posture ... at an Epstein party and leaving America’s generals the hell alone. 😡
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/the-war-fr...
To Judge Young: "“TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS…. WHAT DO YOU HAVE?"
Hegseth and Trump would have better served the nation’s national security posture ... at an Epstein party and leaving America’s generals the hell alone. 😡
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/the-war-fr...
[Christian Nationalists] “see secular institutions ... not as a way in which we can negotiate differences in values, but as dedicated to a false god, the false god of liberalism, of democracy, of feminism, of equalitarian movements.”
www.theunpopulist.net/p/from-conse...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/from-conse...
From Conservative Civic Nationalism to MAGA White Nationalism: A Conversation with Jason Wilson
The speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Conservatism conference were testimony to this terrifying shift on the right
www.theunpopulist.net
September 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
[Christian Nationalists] “see secular institutions ... not as a way in which we can negotiate differences in values, but as dedicated to a false god, the false god of liberalism, of democracy, of feminism, of equalitarian movements.”
www.theunpopulist.net/p/from-conse...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/from-conse...
Different Dreams: Preliminary Thoughts on Charlie Kirk Vigil; 09/21/2025; Hellertown, PA
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thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/different-...
Different Dreams
Preliminary Thoughts on Charlie Kirk Vigil; 09/21/2025; Hellertown, PA
thexiansubversive.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Different Dreams: Preliminary Thoughts on Charlie Kirk Vigil; 09/21/2025; Hellertown, PA
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/different-...
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/different-...
Charlie Kirk Vigil Planned in Hellertown
Not a fan of Charlie Kirk. But he exercised his First Amendment rights and engaged with his opposition. He did not deserve to be murdered.
I plan to attend and meet some folks who are outside of my bubble and LISTEN to them.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Not a fan of Charlie Kirk. But he exercised his First Amendment rights and engaged with his opposition. He did not deserve to be murdered.
I plan to attend and meet some folks who are outside of my bubble and LISTEN to them.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Charlie Kirk Vigil Planned in Hellertown
(Saucon Voice, 09/18/2025)
substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Charlie Kirk Vigil Planned in Hellertown
Not a fan of Charlie Kirk. But he exercised his First Amendment rights and engaged with his opposition. He did not deserve to be murdered.
I plan to attend and meet some folks who are outside of my bubble and LISTEN to them.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Not a fan of Charlie Kirk. But he exercised his First Amendment rights and engaged with his opposition. He did not deserve to be murdered.
I plan to attend and meet some folks who are outside of my bubble and LISTEN to them.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Fear and Hate
There's a lot of money and power to be had in the marketing of fear and hate. And platformed influencers succumb to that temptation to the point of using increasingly incendiary language implying violence and the threat of death. (more)
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There's a lot of money and power to be had in the marketing of fear and hate. And platformed influencers succumb to that temptation to the point of using increasingly incendiary language implying violence and the threat of death. (more)
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Fear and Hate
There's a lot of money to be made and power or influence or relevance to be had in the marketing of fear and hate to otherwise patriotic Americans on the left and right.
open.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Fear and Hate
There's a lot of money and power to be had in the marketing of fear and hate. And platformed influencers succumb to that temptation to the point of using increasingly incendiary language implying violence and the threat of death. (more)
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
There's a lot of money and power to be had in the marketing of fear and hate. And platformed influencers succumb to that temptation to the point of using increasingly incendiary language implying violence and the threat of death. (more)
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Our ONE American Fascist
Despite - in fact, because of - the recent exhortations to take particular care with language following the horrific political assassination of Charlie Kirk, I will continue to call Donald Trump a fascist.
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Despite - in fact, because of - the recent exhortations to take particular care with language following the horrific political assassination of Charlie Kirk, I will continue to call Donald Trump a fascist.
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Our ONE American Fascist
Despite and, in fact, because of, the recent exhortations to take particular care with language following the horrific political assassination of Charlie Kirk, I will continue to call Donald Trump a f...
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Our ONE American Fascist
Despite - in fact, because of - the recent exhortations to take particular care with language following the horrific political assassination of Charlie Kirk, I will continue to call Donald Trump a fascist.
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
Despite - in fact, because of - the recent exhortations to take particular care with language following the horrific political assassination of Charlie Kirk, I will continue to call Donald Trump a fascist.
open.substack.com/pub/thexians...
I DO NOT approve of Charlie Kirk’s politics.
But to cast his killer as the Second Coming of John Brown is to gift a new reign of terror to today’s children.
You cannot use the tools of death to defeat the power of death. (more)
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/kirks-alle...
But to cast his killer as the Second Coming of John Brown is to gift a new reign of terror to today’s children.
You cannot use the tools of death to defeat the power of death. (more)
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/kirks-alle...
Kirk's Alleged Assassin as John Brown?
Seriously?!
thexiansubversive.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I DO NOT approve of Charlie Kirk’s politics.
But to cast his killer as the Second Coming of John Brown is to gift a new reign of terror to today’s children.
You cannot use the tools of death to defeat the power of death. (more)
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/kirks-alle...
But to cast his killer as the Second Coming of John Brown is to gift a new reign of terror to today’s children.
You cannot use the tools of death to defeat the power of death. (more)
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/kirks-alle...
Reposted by Bill Bekkenhuis
The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.
September 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.
The Fundamental American Decision
Are our families, friends, neighbors, and coworkers adversaries or enemies?
(more)
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/the-fundam...
Are our families, friends, neighbors, and coworkers adversaries or enemies?
(more)
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/the-fundam...
September 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Fundamental American Decision
Are our families, friends, neighbors, and coworkers adversaries or enemies?
(more)
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/the-fundam...
Are our families, friends, neighbors, and coworkers adversaries or enemies?
(more)
thexiansubversive.substack.com/p/the-fundam...