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It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

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Local Democrat calls all disaffected New Hampshire voters “white supremacists”

This will win votes, I’m sure: The New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman on Sunday labeled all of that state’s rural and disaffected voters “white supremacists” and “extremists.”

The context is an effort by a conservative get-out-the-vote organization to reach out to these “disaffected” voters, and the response by the local Democratic Party head to that effort.

New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley doesn’t seem thrilled with the development, however, claiming that the disaffected voters Look Ahead will be working with are “extremists” and “white supremacists.”

“The organizing and activating of these extremists, these white supremacists, really could have a detrimental effect on the entire culture of New Hampshire,” Buckley said.

Buckley doubled down on calling these Americans “white supremacists” in a tweet on Sunday night, slamming the Koch Brothers and former Governor John Sununu for bringing Look Ahead to New Hampshire.

Essentially, the Democratic Party’s only position these days is that anyone who disagrees with them must be a “bigot,” a “racist,” a “white supremacist,” or a “Nazi.” No wonder they keep losing elections.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

3 comments

  • Many people noted that after the 2014 elections the Democrats responded to the voter’s rejection by publically abandoning traditional American heritage. Now the Democratic party is the overseas chapter of the European Social Democrats. They are fully in bed with radical Leftists and sbould be ignored. They can throw all the tantrums they want but if they don’t hold office their power is limited. I prefer that they call people names: every time they open thier mouths they prove themselves ignorant, immature jackanapes (strongest language I can use here).

  • hondo

    Losing now – yes.
    but remember what their end goal is.
    To strip these citizens of their voting rights, and criminalize them.
    Then, they don’t have to worry about them anymore.

  • Max

    They could accomplish this with nothing more then getting rid of the representative vote in exchange for a popular vote. Issuing in a true democracy which has always failed.
    Local fluff said something a few months ago that worries me… Without searching for the quote to get it exactly, he basically said, “do we (Europeans) need to come over to the US and help you settle this problem?” (The way we help them during the great wars)
    So I ask myself, who’s side would Europe enter in the conflict on to defend?
    Would it not fight for those who resemble the European union the most? Would they defend the socialist democrat against the Hated, Nazi, racist, earth destroying conservative/Republicans? (The fake news/propaganda seems to be working on the simple minds)

    For arguments sake, say California decided to leave the union. (Of course they would not be allowed too, US would sooner sell California to the Chinese before it letting it leave on its own).
    Would California open its ports to European troops to stage there to protect California? California gets much of its power and oil from neighboring states, would it attack Nevada and Utah just to secure it’s portion of water out of Hoover dam/lake Powell?
    Crazy scenario I know, but these are crazy times…

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