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A welder gets $880,000. A director gets $65 billion. Both stories ran the same week.

Notes from the Field — Dispatch, June 12, 2026 Three companies made news the same week for opposite reasons, and the reasons were the same reason.…
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The Warning That Wasn’t Heeded

Block 4, Article 1 — Two Founders, Two Years, Two Hundred Years © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. The founders could see it coming. Washington named it before…
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The trust fund and the tax base are the same number, counted twice.

Notes from the Field — Dispatch, June 9, 2026 Two clocks. One year: 2031. That was the last dispatch’s argument. This week, one of those two…
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Before the Map Is Drawn

Block 3, Article 4 — The Input Was Corrupted First © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. What do a missing census count, a closed newspaper, and a mining…
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The Courthouse Door Closes

Block 3, Article 3 — Three Decisions, Thirteen Years, One Outcome © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. Who decides whether your district is fair? For fifty years after…
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The Architects of the Map

Block 3, Article 2 —The Precision Instrument Deployed © 2026 Steve Sagnotti In early 2010, Republican strategist Karl Rove published a column in the Wall Street…