Alan Elrod

Arkie. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contributing Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com

Other words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net

Writing a book on right-wing Christianity (Broadleaf)

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Last Notes

2026-05-14 15:07:32 UTC

A phenomenal breakdown of the bias in how the NYT treats the Trump family’s corruption vs how it has treated Democrats in the past
#nevent1q…6qsa

2026-05-14 06:27:28 UTC

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment.
The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future.
My latest:
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
Democrats Need to Realize What...

2026-05-13 18:33:10 UTC

What is the purpose of a life together? Surely it’s about the soulful rewards of time and companionship?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Single women are buying more h...

2026-04-30 14:14:12 UTC

When I was in junior high, the Klan pamphleted on my town square. This was in the 21st century.
The Supreme Court’s decision this week to gut the Voting Rights Act treats the Civil Rights Era like the distant past.
But it’s not. My column:
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court Delivers Ano...

2026-04-16 12:24:25 UTC

I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán:
1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee
2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win
My latest for @liberalcurrents.com@bsky.brid.gy www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...
Two Lessons from Hungary for 2...

2026-04-11 20:34:57 UTC

May 8-9. Charlottesville. $0.
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www.pulaskiinstitution.org/events/for-g...
For Good Conference — The Pula...

2026-04-10 12:42:53 UTC

It’s been a dark week. Our president is mentally and morally deranged. But the truth is we put him there.
In this moment, Americans need to face hard truths. And that’s what Jimmy Carter tried to offer back in 1979. Maybe this time, we’ll listen. My latest:
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...
After a Dark Week, Americans S...

2026-04-07 23:06:10 UTC

We can’t unring the bell of an American president threatening to do genocide

2026-04-02 19:38:06 UTC

This is a great piece and a great comp
#nevent1q…2qu4

2026-04-02 12:33:22 UTC

Male supremacists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd want women to “shut up.”
I wrote about this and the abuser politics on the right.
www.liberalcurrents.com/abuser-polit...
Abuser Politics: Christian Mal...

2026-04-01 16:27:11 UTC

I am adopted. Like many adoptees from my era and before, I have no information about my biological parents and access to my original birth certificate.
This is my contribution to the birthright citizenship debate:
www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-bel...
Adoption, Belonging, and the Q...

2026-03-27 19:15:09 UTC

The fact that “character attacks are not persuasive anymore” is at the heart of our present crisis in this country.
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2026-03-26 13:26:37 UTC

With another No Kings coming up, a reminder that irony and coolness will never save us. Cringe is good. www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...
Cringe is Good, Earnestness is...

2026-03-25 22:39:02 UTC

“But would Iran want to end the war now? In hard power dynamics, this is the strongest position the Islamic Republic has ever been in, the most leverage they have over the United States since the 1979-80 hostage crisis.”
Must-read analysis from @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
#nevent1q…u0gk

2026-03-19 13:39:55 UTC

Slopulism–and all populism, really—is terrible for democratic politics.
But I won’t condescend to anyone by pretending individuals don’t have agency. We re-elected Trump. We have to live with that. www.liberalcurrents.com/iran-slopuli...
Iran, Slopulism, and the Etern...

2026-03-05 14:12:37 UTC

Trump and his ilk are positively obsessed with bodies—with their mangling, their alteration, their sexuality, and their destruction.
I wrote about it for @liberalcurrents.com@bsky.brid.gy
www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...
Pervert Politics: Trumpism’s B...

2026-03-01 15:38:02 UTC

“The most relevant question is “will this use of military force make things better, enough to be worth the death and suffering it’ll impose?””
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy with a must-read today at @liberalcurrents.com@bsky.brid.gy www.liberalcurrents.com/internationa...
International Relations Is Not...

2026-02-26 14:21:59 UTC

What we saw Tuesday night from the Republican Party was the legislative counterpart to what ICE is doing in the streets. Bullying. Menacing. Illiberal.
The party is just a fascist gang.
www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...
Trump’s State of the Union Rem...

2026-02-25 03:55:08 UTC

I actually think the behavior of the Republicans in the audience has been more noteworthy than Trump’s speech itself.
The braying, boorish jeers and yawps of a party fully given over to fascism.

2026-02-25 02:15:13 UTC

Look, it’s incredibly far down the list, but what a pathetic thing to have this narcissist’s free-associating, fascist grandpa rhetoric ring in our 250th year

2026-02-09 21:33:40 UTC

So I just listened to @ariberman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy articulate the same theory @jvl.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy has: that there’s a real chance the Trump admin is going to lean on Maduro or offer him some sort of deal to say Venezuela did interfere in the 2020 elections.
open.spotify.com/episode/1cPG...
Trump Starts the Steal

2025-03-31 11:59:44 UTC

I wrote about the Kristi Noem’s El Salvador prison video and its relationship to the horrific practice of lynching postcards. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-...
Kristi Noem Made A Lynching Po...