Matt Bevere

Don't turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who've built a life in Ohio • Ohio Capital Journal Don't turn our backs on our Haitian neighbors who've built a life in Ohio. Haitians are here legally under temporary protected status. Ending that will tear families apart, deepen labor shortages, and...

I co-authored an op-ed with Viles Dorsainvil, a TPS recipient, about the danger he and others would face if TPS protection is cancelled and they are forced to return.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/29/d...

Criticizing ICE for its violent tactics is not anti-law enforcement. The tactics ICE employs endanger local law enforcement officers and divert their attention from keeping the public safe. They also erode trust between local law enforcement and the community, crucial to effective policing.

Excellent book, Tom. Such insightful analysis.

open.substack.com/pub/matthewb...

Trump’s Attack on Immigrants Will Redefine What It Means To Be American The administration’s immigration aims and the meaning of citizenship.

According to USCIS, the administration is seeking to strip citizenship from 100 to 200 naturalized citizens per month.

This will throw the lives of hard-working, law-abiding people into turmoil and put them in harm's way.
www.thenextmove.org/p/trumps-att...

Standing With Our Immigrant Neighbors in a Time of Crisis - National Association of Evangelicals

www.nae.org/standing-imm...

The Ministry of Advocacy: Practical and Prophetic In the world of advocacy, making a compelling case often requires more than just appealing to values or principles.

open.substack.com/pub/matthewb...

An Advent Devotional A Hero Story

All nations have heroes. Heroes demonstrate the power to save their people from oppressive forces.

open.substack.com/pub/matthewb...

The current DEI rhetoric is a dog whistle to the racist and sexist elements within American society.

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. - Martin Buber

"You will never get the truth out of a narcissist. The closest you will ever come is a story that either makes them the victim or the hero, but never the villain."

-Shannon L. Alder, The Minds Journal

“I’m a conservative Republican. I have Democratic friends that think very differently, vote very differently, but they’re still my friend on it. So, just having that ideology, just believing differently than some other American is not illegal, that’s America.”

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.)