Author Archives: Pastora Tori Matthews

Trump Dividend: Why the $5,000 Promise Needs a Law

An open, empty ledger on a marble table with a brass key across the blank page, picturing the Trump $5,000 dividend as a promise with no appropriation written yet

A promise is not a check. It is not an appropriation, and it is not a law. On October 3, the President of the United States posted: “If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 Midterm Elections, I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America, […]

Michigan Sex Offender Registry: 20,000 Names Removed

An open ledger with a strip of lines lifted away, picturing the Michigan sex offender registry after 20,000 names were removed

In two days, more than 20,000 names disappeared from the Michigan sex offender registry. Larry Nassar’s was one of them. He is still in prison. The ruling behind the removals was unanimous. It rests on a constitutional rule that Michigan lawmakers have now run into twice, and that courts in other states have applied too. […]

The Alarms Still Go Off: A 9/11 Remembrance at Twenty-Five Years

9/11 remembrance: Tribute in Light beams rising over lower Manhattan on the 25th

The Alarms Still Go Off: A 9/11 Remembrance at Twenty-Five Years The first alarm goes off at 8:46 in the morning. I stop whatever I’m doing. It doesn’t matter where I am or who I’m with. I bow my head and I pray for the people who were on American Airlines Flight 11, for the […]

Why I Built the Bloom Charter — And Then Locked Myself Out of It

Two empty chairs facing each other in a bare room — a heavy conference chair and a light plastic waiting-room chair

Two Rooms I have spent most of my adult life inside two rooms that most people never have to enter at the same time. The first was the boardroom. I built a company from nothing into something that moved fifty million dollars a year. I sat at the table where things got decided. When I […]

Press Release: The Bloom Charter Launches — A Rights Document Its Founder Cannot Edit

The Bloom Charter launch — an open bound document on a plain table beside a gold seal whose ring is deliberately broken and rejoined

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SALEM, Ore. — August 26, 2026 — Bloom Ministries today launched the Bloom Charter, a public declaration of rights for transgender, disabled, and marginalized people, built so that no single person — including its founder — can quietly change it. What the Bloom Charter Is The Bloom Charter is available now at […]