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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 09/09/2026

What Rubio’s leadership looks like after destroying USAID.

The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 05/09/2026

USAID spent decades helping Nepal prepare for earthquakes, floods and disasters. On August 26, catastrophic flooding struck. More than 1,200 people are dead and thousands remain missing. USAID is gone. America’s first response was $500,000. That is the difference.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 02/09/2026

A year after USAID was dismantled, the consequences are no longer theoretical. Lives were disrupted, expertise scattered, programs abandoned, and people left in danger. The latest Foreign Service Journal documents what happened, where the workforce went.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 02/09/2026

USAID 🇺🇸, its purpose, and its place in American history: the final chapter has not yet been written. It came from, and always will be from, the American people.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 12/08/2026

Born enslaved in Tennessee, Mary Fields became the first Black woman known to carry the U.S. mail on a Star Route. Cascade later closed its schools for her birthday. America did not hand her a place in history. She hauled herself into it, one Montana mile at a time. END AUTHORITARIANISM IN AMERICA

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 09/08/2026

We need more people in public life who already show up for their communities. Brad Soles has worked with volunteers serving patients at Springfield Regional Medical Center and has been showing up at Clark County Commission meetings. Public service should begin with service.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 30/07/2026

Hiring diplomats for “cultural fit” is how merit becomes loyalty and expertise becomes ideology. America’s Foreign Service doesn’t swear an oath to a president or a political movement. It swears an oath to the Constitution. Patronage is not reform. It’s institutional decay.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 22/07/2026

For decades, USAID partnered with smallholder farmers to strengthen livelihoods, reduce crop losses, and create opportunity that reached far beyond the orchard. Today, we celebrate the farmers who made every harvest count. 🥭 #RestoreUSAID

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 21/07/2026

Before the politics, there was the work. In 2018, USAID’s Mikolo project in Madagascar reached more than 2.7 million children through growth monitoring and nutrition promotion. The impact lives on in healthier children, stronger families, and more resilient communities.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 19/07/2026

The humanitarian response is welcome. The historical revisionism is not. This administration dismantled USAID, eliminated much of the workforce that built America’s disaster response capability, and now presents humanitarian assistance as though it emerged from nowhere.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 18/07/2026

America is strongest when our military deters wars, our diplomats prevent conflicts, and our development professionals stop crises before they begin. Restore America’s experts to service. Restore the missing pillar of American leadership. Restore USAID.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 16/07/2026

One rule may seem technical. Five rules, moving in the same direction, begin to resemble a pattern documented in democratic backsliding: expanding executive control over the bureaucracy while narrowing institutional checks on personnel decisions. Pay attention.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 15/07/2026

Act now. Vote NO on the Perry amendment. Eliminating all Peace Corps funding would dismantle one of America’s most effective bipartisan institutions. For six decades it has advanced peace, service, and U.S. interests around the world. Protect the Peace Corps.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 10/07/2026

Pope Leo XIV’s visit is a moral rebuke to a world treating hunger as inevitable. As aid budgets collapse and millions face famine, he stood with those abandoned by politics and indifference.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 07/07/2026

Remember the women and men of USAID who made America safer, stronger, and more respected around the world. They fought hunger, disease, conflict, and despair with skill and courage. A mission may end, but their service, sacrifice, and bonds endure. #USAID #RDMAFamily

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 02/07/2026

No political candidate should accept money from a man responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children.

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