Resolute Square

Lisa Senecal

Resolute Square Executive Editor and a Contributor, writer, political activist, and host

About Lisa Senecal

Lisa Senecal is a writer, entrepreneur, political professional and activist, co-host of We're Speaking, and Executive Editor of Resolute Square. Her perspectives and writing appear in a range of media, from NPR Morning Edition and PBS News Hour to The Daily Beast and USA Today. Lisa was appointed to the Vermont Commission on Women by Gov. Phil Scott in 2017 where she has served as Co-Chair and Chair since 2019.

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It's A Gathering For People Who Want To Overthrow Democracy
The GOP convention next week will not be and cannot be treated as though it's a normal political convention. Mark Jacob explains.
July 10, 2024
Push the liars!
When did journalist lose interest in calling out members of Congress for lying to their constituents?
July 10, 2024
Strategy Session with Special Guest Mark Jacob
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

Author and media expert Mark Jacob joined The Strategy Session to break down the media’s complicity in normalizing fascism. Democracy is falling off a cliff, and we need to demand the media call out the lies and the liars.
July 9, 2024
It’s Just Trump Being Trump
Lisa Senecal writes, "The problem isn’t that we don’t believe that everything Trump says or does is 'just Trump being Trump,' it’s that we do believe it. It is Trump. It is who he is. All of it. That’s the f*cking problem!"
May 9, 2024
Is Alabama In the Hospitable Uterus Business?
Alabama's "Embryos are people, too" ruling has lead to complete chaos, uncertainty, and suffering in the state, but Lisa Senecal's biggest question has yet to be answered: What comes next?
March 7, 2024
Ukraine: Two Years Of Giving Russia Hell
ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

Returning special guest Oleksandr Musiienko, head of the Kiev-based Center for Military and Legal Studies, joins Sarah Ashton-Cirillo and Lisa Senecal to dive deep into Ukraine's defense strategy, European support, and the outcomes of the Munich Security Conference. Oleksandr shares expert insights on the critical role of timely military aid, the strategic importance of specific weapons systems, and the impact of European solidarity with Ukraine. Additionally, they explore the challenges and successes of Ukraine's military leadership, the morale of its forces, and strategic decisions on the battlefield, including maritime operations against the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
February 22, 2024
Traitor Trash: How Tucker Carlson Turned On America
ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

On this episode of The ZeroLine, Sarah Ashton-Cirillio connects with executive editor of Resolute Square, Lisa Senecal. This week, Sarah reflects on being named to Russia's terrorist list, considering it as a badge of honor for her investigative work. The two discuss Tucker Carlson, his visit to Moscow, faux-journalism to justify promoting Putin over Ukraine, and his now longstanding willingness to be a Russian stooge.
February 8, 2024
Ukraine: Fighting The War We Thought We'd Won
ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

After stints in Washington DC and Central America, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo is back in Kyiv. On this episode she joins Resolute Square executive editor Lisa Senecal to discuss her personal experiences and military involvement, and the broader geopolitical implications of the strength and stability of the US and NATO. With Ukraine fighting "a war we thought we'd won in 1945," Sarah and Lisa delve into U.S. domestic politics, Congress's stance on Ukrainian aid and the destructive influence of Trump.
February 1, 2024
The Kremlin's Propaganda Playbook
ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

On this episode of The ZeroLine, Sarah Ashton-Cirillio connects with executive editor of Resolute Square, Lisa Senecal to discuss the use of soft propaganda by Russia and its influence war on the West and democracy.
January 18, 2024
ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo
Putin's Propaganda And Lying Liars Echoing It
ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

Ukrainian civilians are under constant threat and attack from Putin's Russia - through both physical weapons and the weapon of propaganda. Through it all, says ZeroLine's Sarah Ashton-Cirillio, civilians are defiant. But the propaganda doesn't end at Ukraine's borders - Sarah talks with Resolute Square executive editor Lisa Senecal about the extremists in the GOP who are carrying Putin's water and endanger democracy at home and abroad.
October 5, 2023
ZeroLine
Understanding The Realities Of Russian Propaganda And Disinformation
ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

ZeroLine with Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo gives an update on the war from Kyiv and shares her experiences being targeted by Russian propaganda. Sarah and Lisa Senecal discuss useful Russian stooges like Tucker Carlson who aid the Kremlin by pushing its disinformation into the US mainstream and social media.
September 14, 2023
Queer Liberation Protest
The Right Is Playing A Dangerous Game With Our Children
Trans children are the preferred target of the far right and Christo fascists today, but the othering of vulnerable groups in society – those with the least social, political, and financial power – is nothing new in America or around the globe, writes Lisa Senecal.
June 15, 2023
Nobody Gets That Mad Because They’re Winning
The Republican party is choosing to hold a sexual predator as the representative of their values and goals.
May 20, 2023
The Poison Of Fascism: America's Kids In Crisis
Lisa Senecal warns that we have to make a decision: Do we value our children's lives enough to do something?
April 20, 2023
desantis chubby cheeks
DeSantis Is The Great Red Wave Of The 2024 GOP Primary
Like the Great Red Wave of 2022, Ron DeSantis's campaign is crumbling right before our very eyes to the chagrin of the Republican media machine and donors ready to move past Trump.
March 31, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene and McCarthy In Toxic Love
A Timeless Story Of Toxic Love
McCarthy pledged, "I will never leave that woman. I will always take care of her." One filthy hand washes the other in this toxic love story.
January 26, 2023
Rick Wilson
Calling Out Crazy
"That's not conservative. That's bleeping crazy."
January 25, 2023
Trump, MAGA, and GOP Hopefuls Are Sharpening Their Knives
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

The attack ads targeting Biden are will be coming fast, furious, and sooner than you think. Rick Wilson and Reed Galen talk Biden vulnerabilities and what Joe and the Democrats must do to win a fight where democracy is on the line.
January 24, 2023
Biden 2024
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

Will he run, and what does the answer mean for Democrats, Republican challengers, and democracy? Strategists Joe Trippi and Stuart Stevens talk Biden 2024 with host Lisa Senecal and her initial techical gremlins.
January 17, 2023
Strategy Session four-box
Strategy Session Lightning Round
Who will be the last two standing in the GOP POTUS Primary?
January 12, 2023
Trump ugly
Trump Sees Weakness As Opportunity
Anyone GOP challenger to Trump in '24 better be prepared to be savaged with lies on the debate stage when he smells weakness.
January 12, 2023
Strategy Session
TONIGHT: Why '23 Will Decide '24
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

Bold GOP Presidential Primary predictions were made in this latest episode of the Strategy Session. Rick Wilson, Reed Galen, and Stuart Stevens, along with host Lisa Senecal, discuss why 2023 will likely decide 2024, and Rick predicts who the last two standing will be - and DeSantis isn't one of them.
January 10, 2023
Insurrection on January 6
An Unhappy Anniversary
The chaos of the Trump presidency culminated in a long-planned violent attempt to end the transfer of presidential power. The efforts to create chaos and weaken our democratic institutions and democracy overall continue, as evidenced this week in the GOP-controlled, but clearly out of control, House.
January 6, 2023
Tucker Carlson racist screed
Americans Are Under MAGA Media Fire
Right-wing and far-right media have become indistinguishable. Lisa Senecal writes that both instill fear and hate with deadly consequences.
December 6, 2022
Women's March
We Won A Battle. Let's Win The War.
Democracy had a good day on November 8. It will need many more to beat back the authoritarian-loving GOP.
November 18, 2022
Joe Trippi: Media's post-lie, midnight fact-checking is a gimmick
Fact-check speed reading through thousands of lies at midnight doesn't absolve the media of its responsibility to call out lies in real time.

Topics

2024 Presidential Election
2024 Presidential Election
The 60th quadrennial presidential election, scheduled for Tuesday, November 5, 2024, is considered to be the most consequential election of our lifetimes where Americans will have the opportunity to protect democracy and democratic norms from extreme right-wing policies, racial violence and growing threat of authoritarianism by Republicans.
US Congress
US Congress
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It comprises the House of Representatives and the Senate
Right Wing media
Right Wing media
The size of the Right Wing and far right media ecosystem has grown in size, power, and its willingness to disregard facts, outright lie, foment conspiracy theories, and abandon all integrity. The goals now are power, influence, and money - democracy be damned.
The threat of Donald Trump
The threat of Donald Trump
Alabama
Alabama
Ukraine
Ukraine
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
Unabashed liar, chief Fox News propagandist, and promoter of the racist, debunked Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Carlson has taken white, male grievance to its most fascistic extreme throwing molotov cocktails on the fire of a dangerous, militant far right movement because being Ivy League educated and heir to a TV dinner fortune still didn't make people like him.
Russo-Ukrainian War
Russo-Ukrainian War
Vladimir Putin’s criminal invasion and ongoing genocide in Ukraine that began in February of 2022. Provoked by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who saw an independent Ukraine’s shift toward democracy and potential expansion of NATO as a threat to his power in the region. Putin’s underestimation of Ukraine’s counter-offensive and global support rallied by Pres. Joe Biden has resulted in a weakening of Putin’s power over the Russian people and the region.