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Ohas Upadhyay

Cycle Director, Writer

Member since February 2026

San Francisco Independent fighting for a common-sense center. Hannah Arendt Enthusiast. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔰

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“Well, that’s certainly one way to ring in the new year. Operation Midnight Hammer put former Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro in iron shackles in Manhattan. Venezuela has now entered a new era of...”

— What Should Come Next in Venezuela

Articles by Ohas Upadhyay

12 total

Opinion

What Should Come Next in Venezuela

Well, that’s certainly one way to ring in the new year. Operation Midnight Hammer put former Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro in iron shackles in Manhattan. Venezuela has now entered a new era of...

Jan 31, 20265 min read

Opinion

For the Firing Squad: California’s Future

As some of you might know, I live in San Francisco, California. I love California, unabashedly. My state has been a cultural and technological icon of our country for decades, and we have used that po...

9 min read

Opinion

Nick Fuentes and How the Republican Party Lost Me

If you run in Republican circles as I do, you’ve probably heard about online streamer turned political activist Nicholas “Nick” Fuentes over the past week and a half. Fuentes, the leader of the so-cal...

6 min read

Opinion

Why America is Still Worth Fighting For

As of writing, Ukraine is currently embroiled in a corruption scandal. That in and of itself is noteworthy. The corruption in Ukraine was acknowledged as a scandal, that is, opposed to just a fact of ...

7 min read

Domestic Politics

Democrats May Deliver the Goods, but They Need an Answer of the Spirit: the Grabowskis

Jack Grabowski is alienated. His great grandparents immigrated to America in the early 1900s, fleeing the widespread pogroms in the Russian Empire. They initially arrived at Ellis Island before eventu...

14 min read

Opinion

The Real America Doesn’t Want Revolution, it Wants Roads: Alaska, West Virginia, and the Ghost of a Forgotten Country

I was recently in Alaska for a rugged vacation. Starting in Anchorage, I drove up into Fairbanks, took the famous “Dalton Highway” up to the Arctic Circle, and to the truckstop-turned-small-vill...

8 min read

Opinion

Democrats Need to Be Like Tintin

What can a fictional mid-century Belgian reporter tell the DNC? A whole lot more than you’d think.Tintin is the comic book character work of Belgian cartoonist Hérge. Tintin, along with his friends Ca...

6 min read

Opinion

Trump’s Iran Gambit: Disengagement Ought to Be the Goal

President Trump’s brash decision to authorize strikes against three Iranian nuclear sites has the potential to draw us into a broader regional conflict we can ill afford. Full-scale conflict, or war...

5 min read

Domestic Politics

They Went Low, We Went High. They Won, We Lost. What Now?

The 2024 election was clear as day. Trump made no secret of who he was: he used no euphemisms. Yet the voters still delivered him a resounding victory. That alone is shocking to the core. In light of...

13 min read

Opinion

The Conservative Case for Kamala

This year’s DNC broke a lot of records. It featured several notable speakers from almost all realms of American life; former president Obama, poets, congresspeople, workers, and reverends. But 2024’s ...

8 min read

Opinion

The Dems Should Nominate a Conservative

The Dems Should Nominate a Conservative. (This article was written before Kamala Harris was nominated via DNC voice vote and before she had selected Tim Walz to be her runni...)

6 min read

Opinion

America Has Lost Its Role in the World

Today, we don’t know what type of country we want to be, and neither party has a solution. “On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein’s ability to wage war. These are the opening stages of what will be a broad and ...

16 min read