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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

"A Liberal Dose" July 2026 "Don't You Think It's Time for a Change?"

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  A Liberal Dose, July 2026 Troy D. Smith “Don’t You Think It’s Time for a Change?”   July 11 was the annual dinner for the Putnam C...
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Monday, July 6, 2026

A Liberal Dose, July 6, 2026 "What Has Made America Unique, What Has Made it Great?"

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 "What Has Made America Unique, What Has Made It Great?" I have returned to my newspaper column, but it is only monthly now instea...
Friday, June 26, 2026

A Liberal Dose, June 26, 2026 "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around"

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  A Liberal Dose “We Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around” Troy D. Smith   Below is the text of a speech I gave at the Spencer June...
Monday, May 25, 2026

A Liberal Dose, May 22, 2026 "Why Republicanism Matters So Much"

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  A Liberal Dose Troy D. Smith “Why Republicanism Matters So Much”   When I say republicanism, I don’t mean the Republican Party -wh...
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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Troy D. Smith Election Bio

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 April 30, 2026 I am still on the ballot to serve as TNDP executive committeeman in TN district 15 (White, Putnam, Cumberland, Van Buren, Ja...

My Announcement on March 26, 2026, Regarding the Issues Dividing the Party

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  I posted this on March 26, right after the end of the meeting when the TNDP Executive Committee, on which I served, voted to remove our fo...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

A Liberal Dose, April 24 2026 "Too Fast to Be Furious: The Temperamental Drift"

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  A Liberal Dose              April 24, 2026 “Too Fast to Be Furious: The Temperamental Drift” Troy D. Smith   Historians are traine...
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Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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