Kirk Swearingen

Kirk Swearingen is a poet and independent journalist. He is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, and his work has appeared in Delmar, MARGIE, Bloom, the American Journal of Poetry, Riverfront Times, Medium and Salon.

Tucker Carlson
Let's talk about Tucker Carlson's obsession with "legacy Americans" Kirk Swearingen
Marjorie Taylor Greene; Josh Hawley
No country for insurrectionists: Will the Republican traitors finally face the music? Kirk Swearingen
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis' war on "woke" Disney is really an attack on core American values Kirk Swearingen
Rick Scott
Rick Scott's loony-tunes 11-point plan: Classic GOP projection, and a roadmap to theocracy Kirk Swearingen
A student holds up a sign against banning CRT holds up a sign as members of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Board meeting
Stealth school board candidates are everywhere: But "Stop the Steal" isn't working for them Kirk Swearingen
Marina Ovsyannikova; Russian Channel One
Won't someone, anyone stand up to protest Tucker Carlson, Putin's biggest fanboy? Kirk Swearingen
The People's Convoy; Kremlin
A "Freedom Convoy" we can all support: Send the truckers to Russia! Kirk Swearingen
Vladimir Putin; Trailer Park
NATO-shmato! Here's the diplomatic solution: Red-state America can join Putin's CSTO Kirk Swearingen
Love Heals
My friend recently became a nurse — what timing, right? Kirk Swearingen
Rudy Giuliani
Boy, do we need a "deep state" now — but not the way the Trumpers mean it Kirk Swearingen
Rush Limbaugh; Donald Trump; Newt Gingrich
Are we normalizing the "death of democracy" by talking about it so much? Definitely not Kirk Swearingen
Firefighters survey tornado damages in downtown Mayfield
Despite all the chaos and discord of 2021, Americans still need each other Kirk Swearingen
Alexander Hamilton; Clarence Thomas
The Federalist Society built this Supreme Court — but how did it get its dishonest name? Kirk Swearingen
Lynyrd Skynyrd
What exactly has gone wrong in America? Frat boys, light beer or Skynyrd? IDK Kirk Swearingen
Confederate memorial
White America's "hidden wound" threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time Kirk Swearingen