Commonplace

A magazine about what matters in America, from @AmerCompass.

[Commonplace @commonplc]

Check out our new Elections Issue, featuring @TXElectionLaw, @alextarascio, @ddkochel, @AmberLappOH, @EvieSolheim, @SkylerAdleta, and more.

[Brad Pearce @WaywardRabbler]

This is a very well-done look at the human situation in Springfield Ohio that is fair to everyone involved. It's notable though, as ever, that globalism ships the factory overseas and then ships migrants to the post-industrial town and wants you to be glad someone has moved in

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

This reported piece by @AmberLappOH is the most incisive reporting I can remember reading.

It’s about what’s happened to Springfield, Ohio, tied to the end of TPS for Haitian immigrants, and after most of the world moved on from the city’s election-season attention. @commonplc

[Commonplace @commonplc]

https://t.co/tTLqsQTxa0

[Commonplace @commonplc]

"The fall was great, because the town was great.

"Michael Morris, who was born here and stayed, is driving my husband David and I around a barren area that used to be the working-class neighborhoods of Springfield, Ohio. He describes a thriving place where people could walk to work and to church, leave their doors unlocked because they knew their neighbors, get a drink with friends at the bar on the corner. 'They didn’t live elaborately,' he says, 'but they took care of things.' The rows of mansions on a nearby street indicate a socioeconomic integration that drove investment in a shared physical place.

"Now, there are dilapidated houses, boarded-up windows, grime. The remains of bygone industry—piles of broken concrete, sagging buildings among weeds—run parallel to the railroad track in long stretches. As Michael points and narrates, there’s something about it that feels a bit like a crime scene investigation: what happened?" @AmberLappOH reports from Springfield, Ohio, following the end of TPS for Haitian immigrants.

[Oren Cass @oren_cass]

Commonplace's October issue is here -- incredible work by the editorial team producing what has already become the must-read conservative magazine.

This month, the Election Issue, has:

➡️@DrewHolden360 on the sad history of undermining faith in the system,

➡️Former FEC chair Tre Trainor @TXElectionLaw and political gurus @AlexTarascio and @ddkochel on the path to restoring confidence, and

➡️@michaelbd on the ill-advised reforms to avoid.

➡���The Hoover Institution's Ben Ginsberg, national counsel to the Bush-Cheney '00 and '04 campaigns, joins the podcast to discuss what he calls the Fraud-Suppression Industrial Complex and the actual challenges with running clean elections.

Features include:

➡️@AmberLappOH reporting from Springfield, Ohio
➡️@EvieSolheim reporting from the 2026 Women's Convention in Seneca Falls, New York
➡️@Jason_Mangone reporting on volunteer firefighting from Pasadena, Texas
➡️@ChrisChimy explaining the H-1B visa crackdown

And there's:

➡️Gail Slater on AI and Antitrust
➡️@chris_griz on President Trump's $5,000 promise
➡️@SkylerAdleta on Gen Z's Blue-Collar Boom
➡️Brad Littlejohn on the dangers of artificial relationships
➡️and yours truly with a Midterms Exam

If there's a better table of contents than @commonplc in the country this month, DM me -- I'd certainly want to read that too.

[Chris Griswold @Chris_Griz]

Unbelievable piece from the undefeated @AmberLappOH. Read at your peril.

https://t.co/BcZ7kocE05

[Commonplace @commonplc]

https://t.co/EfkisBUvXz

[Commonplace @commonplc]

Check out our new Elections Issue, featuring @TXElectionLaw, @alextarascio, @ddkochel, @AmberLappOH, @EvieSolheim, @SkylerAdleta, and more.

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

@michaelbd @oren_cass https://t.co/04kYCxgv8f

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

At @commonplc, we’re live with our second issue of the magazine, focused on Elections.

Link threaded below to excellent pieces from @AmberLappOH, @TXElectionLaw, @alextarascio and @ddkochel, @EvieSolheim, @SkylerAdleta, and many more.

[RightCount @RightCount]

"People have to believe that showing up makes a difference." https://t.co/bc9fAuvxNb

[Oren Cass @oren_cass]

Spectacular reporting from @AmberLappOH on Springfield Ohio. Hard to pick a favorite line, but I'll go with: "The rows of mansions on a nearby street indicate a socioeconomic integration that drove investment in a shared physical place."

https://t.co/Aiyy11nMPO

[RightCount @RightCount]

RIGHTCOUNT RESEARCH: In @commonplc mag, @cygnal pollster @alextarascio and veteran GOP strategist @ddkochel point to new research showing how false "rigged elections" claims demotivate turnout among key segments of conservative voters.

[Chris Maloney @CHRISMAL0NEY]

Notable piece in @commonplc mag from two wily GOP operatives...data shows that false election claims demotivate turnout among key elements of GOP base.

[Alexander Tarascio @alextarascio]

New piece with @ddkochel in the @commonplc Election issue. Does telling voters an election is rigged boost turnout?

Trump spent much of this year pushing the SAVE America Act, threatened to veto a popular housing bill over it, and gave one of only four prime-time addresses of his term to sell it. The other three were about Iran (twice) and a victory lap in 2025 touting his achievements. Based just on this list, one could assume that the SAVE America Act was Trump's top domestic priority. Is that a good election strategy?

40% of Republicans worry fraud will affect the 2026 results. But the Republicans most fired up about election rules are locked in. The ones who aren’t are traditional conservatives and R-leaning independents, who have higher priority issues (economy) and say they're less motivated to turn out. Telling them their vote might not count just gives them another reason to say "why bother" and stay home.

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

Really encourage you to read this brilliantly reported piece from @AmberLappOH in @commonplc about Springfield, Ohio (site of Trump’s “they’re eating the dogs”) in the wake of the end of Haitian TPS.

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

Really eye-opening piece from @AmberLappOH in @commonplc about what the end of TPS for Haitian immigrants has meant for the city of Springfield, Ohio, site of the “they’re eating the dogs” remark.

[Ivana Greco @IvanaDGreco]

You can read it here: https://t.co/pSS8voWhGf

[Ivana Greco @IvanaDGreco]

This is an incredible piece of reporting by @AmberLappOH on the rise and fall of Springfield, Ohio: an American city hit hard by de-industrialization, and grappling with an influx of Haitian refugees.

Amber does on-the-ground reporting with nuance, sensitivity and care. Huge kudos to her and @AmerCompass for publishing with this degree of investigative care on de-industrializating America … also regarding a hot button topic on the last election.*

No one else does it like them on how these broad economic trends are hitting middle America.

In a just world (and it’s not) this would be an award-winning piece of journalism.

* If you remember the “They’re eating the dogs” viral social media thing, that was allegedly related to this location).

[Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn]

In a stagnant to declining region, places like Springfield are losing out because people and activity migrate to the hubs of success, like nearby Columbus or Cincinnati (or even Dayton, which is much larger). It's a very tough structural problem.