Like many authors, I’m going to celebrate RedState’s 20th birthday with some words about it, but I’m going to get a little vulnerable with you about it because RedState is such an important part of my story that I can’t talk about my time with it without allowing you to see inside my heart.
Nearly ten years ago, I was on the brink of getting out of politics, a realm where I thought I didn’t belong. Despite having successfully opened the site Misfit Politics and running it with no funding and all volunteers, I’d closed the site down, wanting to move on to new projects. Thanks to the political/cultural war now known as “GamerGate,” I had made friends and contacts within the cultural world and was primed to begin my journey writing for a website called “The Escapist,” a popular cultural website that talked about video games, movies, and all things geek culture.
It was a contract…
