Welcome to American Doom

My name is Justin Glawe and I’m a journalist in the South. I’ve also been a journalist in the Midwest, in Texas, and in lots of other places for hundreds of stories large and small in the last 15 years since I started as a reporter at my hometown paper in Peoria, Illinois. My first book will be released in the spring of 2025 by the University of Georgia Press. It’s called If I am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened and details the violence, unrest and madness I’ve covered across the country over much of the last two decades. This newsletter is a continuation of the stories my book contains, which is to say that what you’ll see here is the story of the downfall of a country I both love and hate. America is doomed but there’s a small chance it could be saved. This newsletter explores both sides of that coin.

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Independent journalist in Georgia covering chaos, corruption, conspiracies + threats to our democracy. From Ferguson to George Floyd, I've reported on violence + unrest in America for the past decade for national and international publications.