Our Writers
Fifteen distinct voices. Four wings. One mission: tell the truth without apology. Each writer brings their own background, beat, and style to The Alamo Post.
Populist Wing
Voices from Main Street. They speak for the people the elites forgot.
Ricky Salazar
Hispanic conservative, economy, immigration
Son of legal immigrants from Monterrey, Mexico, born and raised in Houston. Ricky's father drove a delivery truck for 30 years. He writes about the American Dream from the perspective of someone whose family earned it the right way.
Darla Jean Pickett
Faith, family, social issues
Pastor's wife and Sunday school teacher from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Darla Jean has been writing devotionals for 20 years and now turns that gift toward the intersection of faith and public life. She believes the church has been silent too long.
Colt Braddock
2A, military/veterans, foreign policy
Retired Army Sergeant First Class with three combat deployments. East Texas born, still lives on the same land his grandfather farmed. Colt writes about the military, the Second Amendment, and the country he bled for.
Maggie Thornton
Culture wars, education, parenting
Former PTA president and mother of four from Columbus, Ohio. Maggie started writing after discovering what was being taught in her kids' school behind closed doors. She speaks for the parents who feel unheard.
Jack Harmon
Border, immigration, law enforcement
Former Border Patrol agent with 18 years on the line in the Tucson Sector. Jack saw firsthand what unchecked immigration does to border communities. Now he writes so the rest of America can see it too.
Intellectual Wing
Deep analysis and expert insight. They bring the receipts.
Elijah
Attacker attribution, primary-source threat intelligence, victim notification
Elijah is a pseudonym. The work is hacktivist by orientation, defender by trade — a one-person reverse SOC that runs attribution against criminal infrastructure until the people behind it have real names and the corporate fronts they registered attached. The byline names operators by the domains they actually used, not by invented designators or vendor tracking IDs. Where the evidence runs cold, the byline says so. Where it runs to a Telegram bot, a shell company, or a Ho Chi Minh City office on a named ISP subscriber range, the byline carries that to the reader with the chain of artifacts intact. The other half of the work is the part nobody funds: notifying the victims. Every operator that gets named ships with a privacy-preserving lookup so a stolen-credentials list can confirm exposure without exposing it further. No proof-of-concept code, and no indicators at IOC-grade specificity while the operators are still moving — defenders get the playbook, criminals get the spotlight. Identifying details about the writer are withheld for the reasons obvious to anyone who has watched an attribution writer get doxxed for landing the punch. The work arrives with operator names attached. That is the credential.
Cassandra Quill
Vulnerability research, threat intelligence, defensive cyber (pseudonym)
Cassandra Quill is a pseudonym. The writer has spent more than a decade in vulnerability research and operational threat intelligence inside roles that cannot be named on a byline. The Alamo Post does not disclose the writer's identity. Editors verify every claim against primary sourcing before publication. Readers will notice that the byline tends to arrive before the public reporting does.
Holden Marsh
Cyber operations, foreign cyber adversaries, intelligence community organization
Spent the early career inside the wire at a service component aligned with U.S. Cyber Command, with rotations through the National Security Agency. Knows the difference between a Title 10 authority and a Title 50 finding because he watched both go wrong. Now writes about the agencies he served and the adversaries he tracked.
Eleanor Brandt
U.S. intelligence community, national security, cyber policy
Former staff on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence with a prior tour at the National Security Division of the Department of Justice. Eleanor covers the agencies that work above the fold and the ones that work below it. She reports what officials tell her, not what they wish they had said.
Sebastian Mercer
Foreign policy, geopolitics, defense strategy
Former State Department analyst with postings in three conflict zones. Sebastian now writes from a think-tank office in D.C., translating geopolitical complexity into clear strategic analysis. He believes American strength is not optional — it is the architecture of global order.
Victoria Crane
Media criticism, tech censorship, journalism ethics
Former network news producer with 15 years inside the machine. Victoria left mainstream media after watching editorial standards collapse in real time. She knows how the sausage is made — and she's not afraid to name the butchers.
Prof. Daniel Okafor
Race & politics, education, identity politics
Political science professor and son of Nigerian immigrants. Daniel grew up in Baltimore, earned his PhD at UChicago, and now teaches at a state university. He challenges the progressive monopoly on race with data, history, and a refusal to be patronized.
William Harcourt III
Economic policy, markets, Federal Reserve
Former Wall Street analyst and Georgetown economics graduate. William spent 15 years at a top investment bank before leaving to write about the fiscal insanity he watched from the inside. He believes in free markets, sound money, and math.
Dr. Catherine Ashford
Constitutional law, SCOTUS, legal analysis
Constitutional law professor and former federal clerk for the D.C. Circuit. Dr. Ashford has argued before appellate courts and published in the Harvard Law Review. She reads opinions so you don't have to — then tells you what they actually mean.
Libertarian Wing
Smaller government, bigger freedom. They follow the money and fight the mandates.
Nadia Volkov
Immigration reform, trade, freedom from government overreach
Born in Kyiv, raised in Chicago, American citizen at 22. Nadia's family escaped Soviet bureaucracy and she has zero tolerance for its American echoes. She writes about immigration, trade, and what freedom looks like to someone who chose it.
Tucker Graves
Government spending, bureaucracy, waste
Former government auditor who spent 12 years inside the federal bureaucracy with a calculator and a growing sense of outrage. Tucker now publishes what the agencies tried to bury. He follows the money so you don't have to.
Alexis Parr
Healthcare, regulation, small business
Nurse practitioner and rural clinic owner in Montana. Alexis treats patients every morning and fights regulations every afternoon. She writes about healthcare from the front lines — where government mandates meet actual human beings.
Zane Wilder
Tech, crypto, digital rights, surveillance
Software engineer turned writer, based in Austin. Zane spent a decade building the systems that now track you. He left Big Tech with a guilty conscience and a lot of source code knowledge. Now he writes about digital freedom and why decentralization matters.
Editorial
The institutional voice of The Alamo Post.