AFelection.info has moved to Substack
If you’re reading this as an e-mail, it’s because you subscribed to receive new posts at AFelection.info. we transferred that address list to this Substack publication, in case you still want the information and commentary. Your subscription is free, it’s easy to unsubscribe, and we still won’t give or sell your e-mail address to anyone else.
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I am a subscriber to several paid substacks (usually $5 or $6 per month) and some free ones. You might wonder if this Substack will move to paid subscriptions eventually. The answer is no. We want the widest possible distribution (among American Fork voters). As a bonus, if it’s free, you can’t claim it wasn’t worth the money you paid for it. Thanks for giving it your time, though.
You can expect at least a few posts during every American Fork election season, whenever there are local races. In between, you can expect mostly crickets.
AFelection.info began in October 2015. We’ve offered information and commentary ever since, and we try to be clear about which is which. Many of our readers want information, not commentary and analysis. In fact, year after year, the informational posts tend to see more traffic than the commentary.
In any given local election season, we had readers from between 1,200 and 2,500 households in and around American Fork, according to our analytics. And the average time on page was measured in minutes—meaning people stopped and read.
The commentary and analysis was often my own, but we welcomed some excellent guest posts in past years and published John Mulholland’s candidate interviews too. I’ll love to post more writers here, including other (even opposing) viewpoints.
I won’t guarantee to post anything anyone submits, and anything posted here will have seen at least a light editorial hand—to enhance readibility, not to enforce or suppress any viewpoint—but, seriously, if you have something to say, write up it and send it along. Message me here in Substack for details or catch me about town (except at church, please).
A glimpse behind the curtain
Why the change? Several reasons, in case you’re curious.
Much of the best social and political journalism has moved to Substack in the past few years, to escape the ideological tyranny at major US legacy media outlets. I recommend a paid subscription to The Free Press, to start. I disagree with some of what I read there—this is inevitable and useful—but they’re serious and they do good work.
I’ve had a good experience with Substack myself, since moving my Freedom Habit commentary here. Granted, I haven’t posted any of that in several months, for want of time, not a lack of things to say.
Social media is another reason. I never tried to establish AFelection.info as a Facebook presence; Facebook is increasingly useless for anything political. And X (formerly Twitter) doesn’t quite suit this effort. Substack is a form of social media which, at least so far, emphasizes substance. It is sufficiently easy to use, and unlike Medium it allows for free subscriptions.
Behind the scenes, while I enjoy WordPress in a lot of ways—all my current sites use WordPress—I grow tired of trying to block AI bots crawling my website content, which eat up the hosting bandwidth I can afford and put my little websites offline for at least a few minutes, most days. Life’s too short to spend endless hours in mostly-futile games of high tech whack-a-mole, and you deserve better than a 530 error when you try to visit.
So welcome to this Substack—to Substack generally, if it’s new to you. Let’s discuss and disagree!