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Author, Substack newsletter “To the Contrary.” Host, "To the Contrary" podcast. Dog owner, grandfather. Still Never Trump. No regrets. Website: https://charliesykes.substack.com/

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Darkness Returns to Europe. Americans Will Not Be Silent.
YouTube video by Save America Movement Darkness Returns to Europe. Americans Will Not Be Silent.

WATCH THIS:
Our message to the people of Denmark. (This will air in Denmark next week.)
youtu.be/2YriJ4WEqXI?...

22.01.2026 17:27 — 👍 397    🔁 170    💬 30    📌 16
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Trump's New World Order of Make-Believe A United Nations of misfit toys

Some of you may have been under the impression that it exists to help reconstruct Gaza. But the word “Gaza” does not appear in the group’s proposed charter, which is basically a monument to the Man Who Will Never Ever Win a Nobel Prize.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

23.01.2026 17:45 — 👍 269    🔁 73    💬 21    📌 5
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Trump's New World Order of Make-Believe A United Nations of misfit toys

Indeed, we have not seen such an extraordinary collection of grifters and second-raters since the last meeting of Trump’s cabinet.
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23.01.2026 17:41 — 👍 304    🔁 67    💬 21    📌 4
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Trump's New World Order of Make-Believe A United Nations of misfit toys

Some of you may have been under the impression that it exists to help reconstruct Gaza. But the word “Gaza” does not appear in the group’s proposed charter, which is basically a monument to the Man Who Will Never Ever Win a Nobel Prize.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

23.01.2026 17:45 — 👍 269    🔁 73    💬 21    📌 5
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Trump's New World Order of Make-Believe A United Nations of misfit toys

Indeed, we have not seen such an extraordinary collection of grifters and second-raters since the last meeting of Trump’s cabinet.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

23.01.2026 17:41 — 👍 304    🔁 67    💬 21    📌 4
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Trump's New World Order of Make-Believe A United Nations of misfit toys

Nobody seems to know just what this freak show is all about. Except, of course, Trump’s bottomless narcissism and Will to Power of some sort or other.

The “Coalition of the Willing,” it is not.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

23.01.2026 17:40 — 👍 126    🔁 35    💬 21    📌 1
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Trump's Davos Dump As it absorbs the scene from Davos yesterday, the world seems to be asking two questions: “What is wrong with Donald Trump?” And, “What is wrong with America?”

As it absorbs the scene from Davos yesterday, the world seems to be asking two questions: “What is wrong with Donald Trump?” And, “What is wrong with America?”
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

22.01.2026 17:23 — 👍 400    🔁 95    💬 29    📌 4
Darkness Returns to Europe. Americans Will Not Be Silent.
YouTube video by Save America Movement Darkness Returns to Europe. Americans Will Not Be Silent.

WATCH THIS:
Our message to the people of Denmark. (This will air in Denmark next week.)
youtu.be/2YriJ4WEqXI?...

22.01.2026 17:27 — 👍 397    🔁 170    💬 30    📌 16
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Trump's Davos Dump As it absorbs the scene from Davos yesterday, the world seems to be asking two questions: “What is wrong with Donald Trump?” And, “What is wrong with America?”

As it absorbs the scene from Davos yesterday, the world seems to be asking two questions: “What is wrong with Donald Trump?” And, “What is wrong with America?”
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

22.01.2026 17:23 — 👍 400    🔁 95    💬 29    📌 4
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The MAGA Jesus vs. the Real Jesus A conversation with Peter Wehner

The MAGA Jesus vs. the Real Jesus
DHS is claiming that it is doing God’s work, and even citing the words of Jesus — including the Sermon on the Mount — to justify its tactics and recruit agents. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

22.01.2026 16:59 — 👍 91    🔁 27    💬 8    📌 3
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Peter Wehner: DHS is using Bible verses — including the Sermon on the Mount — to celebrate its tactics and recruit agents. Subscribe to get the full video when it's released.

22.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 97    🔁 28    💬 12    📌 2
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

apnews.com/article/ice-...

22.01.2026 00:25 — 👍 128    🔁 47    💬 15    📌 1
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Trump’s Attempted Greenland Grab Has Turned America Into a Predatory Power His bid might have been thwarted for now, but America will be regarded as a global threat going forward

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22.01.2026 00:14 — 👍 107    🔁 26    💬 4    📌 1
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Full Mad King Yes, it’s real.

Great quote: "...here we are, trapped in a world be-shitted by this infantile man’s insecurities, delusions, and recklessness." Full Mad King by Charlie Sykes. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

19.01.2026 18:59 — 👍 162    🔁 28    💬 3    📌 0
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O Canada! "A Rupture" As Donald Trump celebrated the first anniversary of his Second Coming (Congratulations to all us, by the way, for making it through) … the world recoiled, the alliances cracked, prelates of the Church...

The images are, of course, fake. But this was real: The President of the United States posted these bits of MAGA troll-porn on the eve of the conference in Davos.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

21.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 148    🔁 37    💬 13    📌 1
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Thinking the Unthinkable The Free World without the US. Civil war. Coups.

Thinking the Unthinkable
(1) A Western Alliance without the United States; (2) A cold (?) Civil War, and (3) A second attempted election-related coup. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

20.01.2026 16:49 — 👍 219    🔁 68    💬 11    📌 1
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Lewis & Sykes: No Prize, No Peace A recording from Charlie Sykes and Matt Lewis's live video

Feed: "To the Contrary"
By: Charlie Sykes on Monday, January 19, 2026

19.01.2026 22:32 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Nuremberg with Charlie Sykes When One Death is too many

Nuremberg with Charlie Sykes • When One Death is too many

20.01.2026 14:45 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Revisiting Nuremberg
YouTube video by To the Contrary With Charlie Sykes Revisiting Nuremberg

Joe Klein and Charlie Sykes talk Nuremberg. Very good discussion, another demonstration of how immediately relevant Nuremberg is for what is going down in America, Russia and Ukraine (not to mention Israel/Palestine) today. youtu.be/PDtozq4dQlk?...

20.01.2026 16:36 — 👍 57    🔁 23    💬 5    📌 0
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Thinking the Unthinkable The Free World without the US. Civil war. Coups.

Thinking the Unthinkable
(1) A Western Alliance without the United States; (2) A cold (?) Civil War, and (3) A second attempted election-related coup. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

20.01.2026 16:49 — 👍 219    🔁 68    💬 11    📌 1
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From Judgement at Nuremberg: “It came to that the moment you sentenced an innocent man to death.” Preview of today's 'To the Contrary" podcast w/ the legendary Joe Klein. Subscribe to get the full video when it's released.

20.01.2026 14:32 — 👍 154    🔁 39    💬 4    📌 2
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Preview of today's 'To the Contrary" podcast w/ the legendary Joe Klein.

20.01.2026 14:26 — 👍 61    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1
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Full Mad King Yes, it’s real.

Charlie Sykes: Trump really did write that letter to the Norwegian PM, whining (once again) about not getting the Nobel Prize and declaring that since he didn’t get the Prize, “I no longer feel any obligation to think purely of Peace.”

19.01.2026 17:36 — 👍 148    🔁 44    💬 13    📌 1
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Full Mad King Yes, it’s real.

Every thinking American better get their heads out of their butts and contact their Senators and Representatives NOW to remove the demented old wannabe king or we will find ourselves in a butt of hurt!!

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

19.01.2026 18:02 — 👍 72    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 0
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Full Mad King Yes, it’s real.

Full Mad King

Here we are, trapped in a world be-shitted by this infantile man’s insecurities, delusions, and recklessness. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

19.01.2026 17:52 — 👍 256    🔁 74    💬 23    📌 4
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Charlie Sykes On The Mob-Boss Presidency The Midwestern conservative helps me grapple with the authoritarian crisis. Listen now on the Dishcast.

Charlie Sykes On The Mob-Boss Presidency andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/charlie-sy... #Trump

17.01.2026 00:59 — 👍 44    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0
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The Ugliest Americans Extorting allies, invading cities.

These are fraught days for those of us who have loved our country through sunshine and storms, good times and bad. One does not have to be blind to the many ways our country has fallen short of its ideals to believe that deep down we were somehow exceptional.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

18.01.2026 17:57 — 👍 277    🔁 62    💬 15    📌 3
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The Ugliest Americans

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18.01.2026 17:51 — 👍 211    🔁 67    💬 11    📌 3
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The Ugliest Americans Extorting allies, invading cities.

Undoubtedly, there have been moments when the Ugly American has been uglier. But this weekend, surely, will rank among its most repugnant.

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18.01.2026 17:49 — 👍 271    🔁 56    💬 20    📌 6
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This is the dumbest shit he’s done yet, and that’s saying something.

17.01.2026 17:38 — 👍 4765    🔁 1099    💬 778    📌 187

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