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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 08/06/2026

Seventeen years ago today, I was in prison and in Santa Barbara, battling the Jesusita Fire as an incarcerated wildland firefighter. Pictured is myself, an unknown free firefighter, and my sawyer (Mando Perez, who is a firefighter today, as a free man).

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 10/05/2026

She's been there for the good times, and stayed there for the bad times. Happy Mother's Day to the woman who's always had my back. Pictured: Folsom State Prison, 2007.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 03/05/2026

Career opportunity! The apprenticeship application window for inside wiremen (general electrician) in San Mateo County’s IBEW 617 opens on June 1st. First year apprentices start at $30.10/hr & scale up to journeyman wage ($88/hr) over the course of the 5-year apprenticeship.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 17/03/2026

Now, visiting the high school is one of my favorite days of the year. I continue to be inspired by their curiosity, their kindness, and their willingness to change their minds. As always, I walk away with gratitude.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 17/03/2026

I started sharing my story with high school students less than two months after coming home from prison. It was terrifying for me. I had yet to work through my prison-trauma and the intense fear of vulnerability with people. This chair was my friend.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 11/03/2026

IBEW Local 617 Airtrain workers are striking at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Please support our efforts in protesting unfair labor practices and negotiating a fair contract.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 02/03/2026

This was the love that saved my life.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 09/02/2026

Kaiser healthcare workers are striking. 31,000 people strong. #kaiser #healthcare #strike #unionstrong #patients

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 18/01/2026

Ichi-go ichi-e. This particular constellation of delightful people had its moment yesterday, never to gather in this particular way ever again. I really love my people. Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders, January 2026.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 02/01/2026

It seems that I'd passed the letter on to one of the group's volunteers. Here it is:

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 25/12/2025

Admiring the Clark-Hahn-Jerez Family Christmas Tree while wishing a Merry Christmas from our home to yours. In this turbulent world, there is still much to be grateful for and many of you are part of that.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 21/12/2025

Holiday sweater ✅ Festive pajamas ✅ 11 days off work ✅

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 14/12/2025

Nothing quite like having vertigo but still going to the holiday party because I’m Santa.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 12/12/2025

A full circle moment for me. I first learned about the IBEW while incarcerated. It was surreal to share the same message that was shared with me more than 20 years ago: “We don’t care what your past is so long as it stays there.”

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 12/12/2025

I was fortunate enough to represent IBEW Local 617 at Defy Ventures’ Deep Dive Business Coaching Day in CTF Soledad this month. Along with Senator Josh Becker and other volunteers, we joined incarcerated folks for a day of mock interviews, business planning, and community building.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 08/12/2025

A misty evening at San Quentin, where the Buddhadharma Sangha held its celebration of the Buddha’s enlightenment. We honored transformed lives, community, and liberation.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 22/10/2025

At the union hall phone banking for Yes on Prop 50. First time for everything.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 11/08/2025

Otherwise occupation, subjugation, police brutality, dispossession, surveillance, and 'extrajudicial executions,' would be excusable or even necessary." - Mohammed el-Kurd, in Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 10/08/2025

The Weather Underground would like a word.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 10/07/2025

Sworn in. Proud to be of service to the members of IBEW Local 617.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 05/07/2025

On this week’s episode of Flightless Bird with @davidfarrier.bsky.social we talk about fighting fires in prison, where rehabilitation happens behind the walls, and some of my story. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 05/07/2025

I don’t know what’s more wild: - getting propaganda emails from the Social Security Administration, or - having to block the U.S. Department of Justice on Facebook

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 22/06/2025

“I’m not having sex with a couch, I’m having sex with its cushions” - JD Vance, probably

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 11/06/2025

A photo from Inauguration Day, 2017. Journalists curating the spectacle of a protest. When I see images of Los Angeles, I try to remember that none of the uninteresting stuff is being shown to me.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 01/06/2025

It brings me great joy to mentor apprentices and then watch them become journeymen. This man is something special. The future is in good hands.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 26/05/2025

Our President is the embodiment of the root poisons.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 21/05/2025

You are not winning when your entire account and every comment you make is labeled “intolerant”.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 19/05/2025

Official pride and trans flags, coming to a government building near you. . Thank you, Salt Lake City and Boise.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 19/05/2025

Our suffering is a feature, not a failure. . The full talk “Our Pain Is Sacred” is available on Youtube and my website. See link in bio.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 18/05/2025

Coming to terms with the truth of suffering early in my last prison term. . The full talk “Our Pain Is Sacred” is available on Youtube and my website. See the link in bio.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 11/05/2025

She was always there for me. My Mom. Folsom State Prison, 2007.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 09/05/2025

Discovering meditation in prison and finding distance from personal narratives.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 08/05/2025

My trade union has a tool list. It outlines what employees can be expected to bring to the job. EVERYTHING else must be purchased by the employer. This protects the worker from being taken advantage of. Don’t pay for stuff that your employer should be providing for you.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 05/05/2025

There’s a reason Lowrider Magazine was founded in San Jose.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 23/04/2025

Twenty years sober today. Thankfully, I don’t have to live like this anymore.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 22/04/2025

Twenty years ago, I turned myself in for what I thought would be a life sentence in prison.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 21/04/2025

A little bit about my expungement process in California. If it worked me for, it will likely work for folks with felony DUI comvictions.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 21/04/2025

One need not be of the same faith to share a faith. Rest in peace, Pope Francis.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 20/04/2025

Elon Musk’s desire for a legion of offspring is literally something I thought about when I was 17 years old, high on meth, and paying for an “IMMMORTAL” tattoo with a 24-pack of beer. And, yes, I still have the tattoo across my chest. I consider it a good joke for the mortician.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 18/04/2025

Someone in my practice group said this the other night. A good reminder.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/04/2025

Spent the evening watching hockey with an old friend, and then stopped at my favorite spot for a quick photo. And, yeah, security had to chase me off. They don't like nighttime onlookers at Yerba Buena.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 11/04/2025

If you do a search on Instagram about the prison in El Salvador, this is what happens. Trying to learn more about where your government is disappearing folks? Get flagged for this.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 11/04/2025

Today, I’m writing in the garage. The book is coming, y’all.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 05/04/2025

A few more from Cornelius, North Carolina.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 05/04/2025

Hands Off Protest in Cornelius, North Carolina.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 05/04/2025

Hands Off Protest- Cornelius, North Carolina. I can’t lie, I’m pretty proud that my Dad came along.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 05/04/2025

I would spit up a lifetime’s worth of coffee if he said this.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 03/04/2025

Many moons ago, Amy and I met over Zoom in a prepandemic world in order to write supplemental literature for a recovery program. Little did we know that it would become the foundational text for the Recovery Dharma program. . Today, we met in person for the first time.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 30/03/2025

Nature’s Goddess. Yosemite National Park. Turn sideways for original view.

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