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 Our 46th President!
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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted January 20, 2021

Our 46th President!

Shonnie, Gracelyn, and I held hands and watched intently as President Biden repeated the final words of the oath of office: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of [...]

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 What Happens in 2020 Stays in 2020!
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By Bruce Mulkey
In Be happy now, Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted December 30, 2020

What Happens in 2020 Stays in 2020!

2020 has undoubtedly been a year of tremendous challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic resulting in more than 340,000 deaths so far, a severe economic downturn, and disruption of our daily lives. The [...]

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 Get Out & Vote!
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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted September 28, 2020

Get Out & Vote!

The 2020 general election is upon us and could prove to be the most important election in the history of the U.S., an opportunity to uphold our democratic values and stop the slide toward [...]

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 Seventy-eight years ago today . . .
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By Bruce Mulkey
In My personal path, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted December 7, 2019

Seventy-eight years ago today . . .

Seventy-eight years ago today, Sunday, December 7, 1941, my dad, Mack Mulkey, a recent college drop-out working at the local Dr Pepper plant, drove a borrowed pickup truck the fifteen miles down [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, My personal path, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted June 5, 2018

Bobby Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago today.

"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."

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 We shouted out, “Who killed democracy?” when after all, it was you and me.
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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, My personal path, Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted May 9, 2017

We shouted out, “Who killed democracy?” when after all, it was you and me.

I believe we, the citizens of this nation, have been asleep for the past several decades. We began to pay more attention to our TV shows, our favorite celebrities, our sports teams, our fancy [...]

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 We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted February 2, 2017

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

An essay I wrote during the Bush administration in 2003 that's highly relevant today.

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 Presidential inaugurations I’ll always remember
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By Bruce Mulkey
In My personal path, Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted January 20, 2017

Presidential inaugurations I’ll always remember

The first presidential inauguration I attended was Richard Nixon’s in 1969. Well, I guess I should say that I was actually there for the counter-inauguration . . .

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 Talking the 2016 post-election blues
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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted November 28, 2016

Talking the 2016 post-election blues

On a warm Texas morning on Wednesday, November 3, 1948, I remember my mom, Sue Mulkey, a life-long Democrat, gleefully asking our next-door neighbor, “Well, how do you like our new president?” [...]

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 Donald Trump’s hyper-masculine facade
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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted November 16, 2016

Donald Trump’s hyper-masculine facade

One might think that Donald Trump is brimming with high self-esteem. He is not. What Donald Trump demonstrates is pseudo-self-esteem. He unconsciously hides his fears, insecurities, and [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted September 11, 2016

In the wake of 9/11 how will we choose to be?

I wrote this op-ed for the September 15, 2001 edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times. As you read this my wife, Shonnie, will finally be home. That will never be said again for thousands of our [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted July 15, 2016

Can The United States Transcend White Supremacy? by Robert Jensen

Facing what seems like an endless stream of news about racialized conflicts and violence, many people call for us to get beyond our history and find solutions for today, concrete actions we can [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, My personal path, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted June 17, 2016

Letting go of fear, ill will, and my trusty six-gun–reposted

Well, they didn’t pry it out of my cold, dead hands. But my only remaining firearm has just left the premises. Having grown up and lived in the South I’ve owned shotguns, .22 rifles, and an [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted June 7, 2016

My thoughts on the 2016 presidential election

Last evening Shonnie, Gracelyn and I were in the kitchen cooking dinner and listening to This Land is Your Land: Songs of Freedom. Buffy Sainte-Marie and her rendition of “The Universal [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted April 4, 2016

What Was Really Behind North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Bill

It was, in the end, about a 21st century governor who joined a short, tragic list of 20th century governors. You know at least some of these names, probably: Wallace, Faubus, Barnett. They were [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted March 20, 2016

A few illogical arguments for the elimination of Saddam Hussein, 10/12/02

The relentless march to war by the Bush administration and camp followers proceeds. Congress has folded like a cheap suit, giving the President the authority to bully another second-rate power [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted January 30, 2016

I support Jasmine Beach-Ferrara for Buncombe County Commission

Below is my recent letter to the Asheville Citizen-Times backing Jasmine Beach-Ferrara for Buncombe County Commission. BACKING BEACH-FERRARA FOR SEAT ON COMMISSION When Amendment One passed in [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted January 18, 2016

May the dream become reality.

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted December 25, 2015

Christmas in the Trenches

Poignant song about the spontaneous 1914 Christmas Truce between the British and German troops, a song written and performed by John McCutcheon. What if we realized our so-called [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy
Posted June 22, 2014

The insanity of intervention in Iraq

In 2003, George W. Bush hornswoggled this nation into an “illegal, immoral, ill-conceived war against Iraq.” A few years into the occupation when public opinion was turning against [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy
Posted June 13, 2014

We the people want our soldiers home, April 27, 2007

In light of current events in Iraq, I’m reposting a piece I wrote in 2007. George W. Bush’s ill-fated decision to frighten this nation into an illegal, immoral, ill-conceived war against [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Caring for our children, Just for laughs, My personal path, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted January 2, 2014

The books that have had the greatest influence on me

Here is a list of the 20 books that have had the greatest influence on me.

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted August 29, 2013

Old white men struggle to turn back clock

What we’ve been witnessing at the General Assembly in Raleigh the past few months is the futile attempt by fearful, old, white men to hang on to the power and control to which they assume they’re [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy
Posted July 24, 2013

Welcome to West Carolina by David Cohen

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Embracing our connection, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted May 19, 2013

“Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” published 50 years ago today

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested while leading coordinated marches and sit-ins against racism and racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1963. Dr. King wrote “Letter [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy
Posted April 12, 2013

Bill Moyers Essay: The United States of Inequality

“A petty, narcissistic, pridefully ignorant politics has come to dominate and paralyze our government while millions of people keep falling through the gaping hole that has turned us into [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy, Shifting cultural paradigm
Posted March 23, 2013

What Noam said

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy
Posted March 20, 2013

A 2002 piece I wrote opposing the invasion of Iraq

A few illogical arguments for the elimination of Saddam Hussein October 12, 2002, Asheville Citizen-Times By Bruce Mulkey “After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad.” [...]

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Reclaiming Democracy
Posted February 20, 2013

I’m back!

Yes, after a one-year hiatus with Patsy Keever’s campaign for Congress, I’m back to blogging. And though I thought seriously about retiring from politics entirely after that intense effort, I’ve [...]

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 My time as an organizer for Barack Obama in southern Ohio
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By Bruce Mulkey
In My personal path, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted December 4, 2008

My time as an organizer for Barack Obama in southern Ohio

'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.' –Barack Obama

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By Bruce Mulkey
In Media savvy, Reclaiming Democracy
Posted April 5, 2003

Between Iraq and a hard place: The use of propaganda during wartime

Propaganda: Information, ideas, opinions or images, often only giving one part of an argument, which are broadcast, published or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing [...]

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