SO THE ELECTION WAS LOST, and we are preparing to enter a new year in the middle of the middle of red America. A lot of things are not good, and a lot of things are probably going to get worse.

But there is hope! There is always hope in every day, bundled in small spaces and often overlooked. There is hope in the things which, we assert, posses an inherent goodness; these are Things That Are True, the things we forget about, the things that we will not let you forget.

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