Sunday, May 3, 2026

Did you graduate in 2008?

Your past just resurfaced
 

 
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Saturday, May 2, 2026

You’re getting attention!

High school bestie? Class crush? Old teammate?
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Friday, May 1, 2026

Warped brains

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One of my guests on the Tom Woods Show this week is Cliff Maloney, whose organization Citizens Alliance focuses on the nuts-and-bolts work of politics: they’re knocking on 160,000 doors for Thomas Massie, for example.

Just this week Maloney’s book Run Right, a detailed manual on exactly what is involved in running a winning political campaign, was released, and although I realize running for office sounds like a fate worse than death to many of my readers, for those of you thinking about it this book is truly indispensable.

You don’t know what you don’t know, and when you read this book you’ll realize just how much you didn’t know — and you’ll be glad you know it now.

In the second half of our conversation we talk about the Thomas Massie race in Kentucky.

It blows my mind that I have Massie opponents on my list. I expect FOX News viewers, who live in an alternate universe constructed by neocons (who are not your friends, I should not have to point out), to oppose Massie, whom they think is a “liberal Republican.” I expect better from my subscribers.

Many of you started following me because of Covid. Massie was excellent on Fauci, on masks, on the vaccine mandates, the whole thing. To put it mildly, not all Republicans were.

If there’s anyone in the House better than Massie on guns, I’d like to know who it is.

As I mentioned yesterday, this week everyone is up in arms about the kill switch they just found out is going in everyone’s cars starting in 2027 — the government is going to let AI decide if your car should be disabled because of your driving.

Well, if you’d been following Massie, you’d know he stood practically alone pushing back against the Democrats on this. A significant chunk of Republicans were too busy stabbing us in the back and siding with the Democrats to come to Massie’s aid.

Massie defended Trump through two impeachments, when some Republicans ran and hid, and he grilled Merrick Garland about how many FBI assets were at the Capitol on January 6. Not exactly what an anti-Trump congressman would do.

Just this week Massie scored legislative victories when Congress struck down immunity for pesticides and also started a pilot of Massie's PRIME Act, which strikes down regulatory barriers that have made it gratuitously difficult for consumers and producers alike who would like to make meats like beef, pork, and lamb available for purchase from local farmers. Every last meat eater in America should support that.

Massie has one of the best voting records in U.S. history, in my opinion. And as for presidential war powers, where the FOX News viewer is very unhappy, Massie is merely holding to the views of Senator Robert Taft, who was to the right of all of Massie’s current-day critics, and who for good measure was known in his day as “Mr. Republican.”

If Sean Hannity and Mark Levin hadn’t warped unsuspecting conservatives’ brains for 30 years, they would already know these things.

Even if you oppose Massie here and there on tactics and strategy, you cannot, as an American patriot, allow three outside billionaires to install a nonentity — whom they favor precisely because he’s a nonentity and thus a pushover for what they want.

You cannot support that. That is an insult to you as an American. To make matters worse, the nonentity has ducked all debates, and even public events where there will be questions from the press!

You’re going to let billionaires install someone like that, who is obviously there just to serve them? No way. I refuse to believe that. My readers are red-blooded Americans and would never stand for that.

I don’t care about whatever criticism you may have of Massie: this absolutely cannot stand. 

Your disagreements with Massie are like chewing gum in school. The problems with “Ed Gallrein” are like school shootings.

At any rate, Cliff reported that Massie seems to be up by a few points. Three reputable polls find Massie up by three, up by eight, and down by four, respectively.

It would be demoralizing in the extreme for the outside billionaires to win this one and knock out the best congressman we have — who by my assessment is to the right of Trump on virtually everything.

I remind you that Massie has essentially been blacklisted by FOX News for the past 18 months, so without social media he’d have had a much harder time communicating with the public. So when we’re inclined to denounce it, we need to remember that. 

I’m back to offering my four-week masterclasses, and this latest one is precisely on how to spread ideas and/or make sales and build your subscriber base with social media. Hundreds of millions of people are on these platforms; Ron Paul didn’t refuse to debate on the grounds that the debates were being covered by evil institutions like CBS News and CNN, after all. He wanted to reach people, so he did those debates.

You and I also need to reach people. But social media is frustrating: you post and post and get no traction. Then you see Laura Loomer getting massive traction, and life seems unfair.

Well, this masterclass will show you what actually works, and how knuckleheads figured it out. Your customers, your ideological compatriots, your future subscribers, they’re all out there, and I’ll show you how to find them. Early-bird special is in effect but not for much longer:

https://www.tomwoods.com/socialmediamastery

Tom Woods






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Thursday, April 30, 2026

This headline should win a prize for evil

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Yesterday on Twitter/X, someone posted what he described as the worst headline during all of Covid, on the sixth anniversary of its publication in The Atlantic:
That's a blast from the past for my longtime readers who have been with me since at least back then.

Those readers know that none of the useless government measures did a thing to help anyone, because I showed you all the charts. You cannot tell one state from another.

And if you look within a state, you cannot label on a chart when things like the George Floyd riots occurred, or when a mask mandate was introduced, or when Thanksgiving was.

All of those things, and others besides, should have been glaring on a chart, but they were not.

I told the person who posted that headline from The Atlantic that I consider this headline from the Washington Post, immediately after Iowa repealed its useless statewide Covid restrictions, to be a close runner-up:
Later that year, a chart of health outcomes in the Midwestern states did not show Iowa to have been any kind of outlier, and in fact if the lines representing the various states of the Midwest had been unlabeled, it would have been impossible to tell which state was Iowa.

Needless to say, no apology was ever forthcoming from the Post.

After all those newsletters I wrote to you back then, and all the times we exploded the official myth-making, I couldn't let it all vanish into the ether. Thus I wrote Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania, which features a foreword by the current director of the National Institutes of Health.

I could have hired someone to narrate the audiobook, but I needed my contempt for the insanity to come through the audio, not to mention the sarcasm that accompanied so much of my writing on this.

Treat yourself:
 
Two notes for you:

(1) I've had a cancellation, so I have a single female role available for my Philadelphia murder mystery dinner party on May 20. If you’d like to take that role, you may attend the event for free, as my guest. Just reply to this email to let me know you’d like the role and it’s yours. First come, first served!

(2) My old friend Mark Monoscalco -- he was one of the participants in the Family Feud event at the 2000th episode of the Tom Woods Show, and who introduced himself as being from "the Union of Soviet Socialist Islands," by which he meant Hawaii -- has just written a book on the history of the idea of freedom: The Forbidden Idea.

This book lays out the philosophy and history of that idea, and its subsidiary ideas, in a clear, compelling way. If you want to better understand the principles of a free society, and how they can be advanced in your own life, this book is for you. If you already are confident in your knowledge, it’s a perfect gift for someone who isn’t -- yet.

Check it out: TheForbiddenIdea.com

Tom Woods





 






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👋 Bryan, people have been checking you out 👀

The people you went through it with are still here...
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