{"id":1349,"date":"2026-03-26T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/tlp-signing-off\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:05:00","slug":"tlp-signing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/tlp-signing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"TLP Signing Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p>After more than five years and nearly 1500 newsletters, this is The Liberal Patriot&#8217;s final post. We tried our best to make a non-profit media organization work with entirely free analysis and commentary published throughout our existence. But it turns out upsetting the partisan applecart on multiple issues is not a particularly good fundraising or business model.<\/p><p>We have no complaints and feel fortunate to have had a place to regularly publish our political and policy ideas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/coming-soon?r=7e8tb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since 2020<\/a>. Hopefully, TLP&#8217;s insights and arguments made some difference in the Democratic Party&#8217;s strategic discourse and in wider political debates&#8212;or at least got people to look at matters in a different light and reconsider some of their positions.<\/p><p><strong>To all our great contributors over the years<\/strong>, thanks so much for the provocative political discussions, nice writing, and interesting policy ideas.<\/p><p><strong>To all our readers<\/strong>, thank you for sticking with us and offering financial support when possible. (We ended paid subscriptions a few weeks ago, and pro-rated refunds were automatically issued to paid subscribers, so we should be all fair and square.)<\/p><p>In the end, TLP&#8217;s mix of economic nationalism and cultural moderation&#8212;or a blend of social and Christian democracy shorn of identity politics and radicalism&#8212;didn&#8217;t really have a home in either political party. Although we&#8217;re not sure what comes next, we&#8217;ll continue to press for TLP&#8217;s &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/pro-worker-pro-family-pro-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-worker<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/pro-worker-pro-family-pro-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/pro-worker-pro-family-pro-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-family<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/pro-worker-pro-family-pro-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/pro-worker-pro-family-pro-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-America<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; agenda across party and ideological lines, whatever we end up doing in the future.<\/p><p>TLP&#8217;s archives will remain open and free to all. Who knows, a few posts might be relevant when the 2028 primaries and general election kick into gear. Thanks again for reading over the past five plus years.<\/p><p>Take care &#8212; John<\/p><div><hr><\/div><div class=\"captioned-image-container\"><figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!8_s0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3f3137a-5323-402f-b8e6-3806ca3ef4dd_1024x768.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"noopener\"><div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!8_s0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3f3137a-5323-402f-b8e6-3806ca3ef4dd_1024x768.jpeg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e3f3137a-5323-402f-b8e6-3806ca3ef4dd_1024x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:768,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:267536,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/i\/191495965?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3f3137a-5323-402f-b8e6-3806ca3ef4dd_1024x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"><div class=\"image-link-expand\"><div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image\"><title><\/title><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image\"><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">TLP signing off. See you on the trail!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalpatriot.com\/p\/tlp-signing-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  www.liberalpatriot.com<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than five years and nearly 1500 newsletters, this is The Liberal Patriot&#8217;s final post. We tried our best to make a non-profit media organization work with entirely free analysis and commentary published throughout our existence. But it turns out upsetting the partisan applecart on multiple issues is not a particularly good fundraising or business model.We have no complaints&hellip;","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}