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Billions for Elections. Who’s Putting America First?

The Big Beautiful Bill promised prosperity. Its household costs and the election’s enormous donor spending demand a fairer tax plan—and a public test of “America First.”

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From Issue 001 · At the Table

The race changes. The religion changes. The politics and geography change.

The conversation does not.

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Every Story Starts With a Question.

At Sunday Dinner, we don’t begin with an answer. We begin with a question. We follow it through research, history, experience, and evidence—even when it leads somewhere we did not expect.

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The Blue Wave Arrived. Now Democrats Have to Deliver.

Historic victories changed the balance of power. Democrats now have two years to build a record of accountability, opportunity and practical relief.

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Wisdom from an Elder

Because sometimes the greatest lessons in life are hidden in the stories we thought we already knew.

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Who gets heard—and what disappears when nobody is listening?

Sunday Dinner Media brings reporting, personal experience, historical context, and honest disagreement into the same room.

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History worth preserving

The past is not finished speaking.

Family archives, overlooked institutions, local history, and the lessons communities lose when memory goes unrecorded.

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The Blue Wave Arrived. Now Democrats Have to Deliver.

Historic victories changed the balance of power. Democrats now have two years to build a record of accountability, opportunity and practical relief.

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Work, economics & opportunity

Dignity lives in the work—and in the chance to learn it.

Reporting and conversation about entrepreneurship, trades, labor, economic mobility, business, and working-family life.

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Meta’s new child-safety agreement introduces meaningful safeguards, but it also raises a deeper question about what families have been left to manage alone.

What America Inherits After Donald Trump

What America Inherits After Donald Trump

The election will decide who holds power. The harder question is what kind of government, economy and democracy they will inherit—and whether America should restore the old system or build something stronger.

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The Blue Wave

They saw the wave coming. They heard the warnings. But they kept on surfing. Then election night arrived. Sometimes the loudest voices in politics forget that the voters have a voice of their own. The table is always open. The conversation matters.

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THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT AMERICA

Who built the America we live in—and how much of their work have we inherited without ever learning their names?

Sunday Dinner Media is researching a historical series examining overlooked inventors, builders, workers, knowledge keepers, organizers, and communities whose contributions helped shape the America we inherited.

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