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Artist · Photographer · Writer (he/him) — We Have Friends Everywhere ✊🏼
Sedona, Arizona
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇸
Substack → wehavefriendseverywhere.substack.com
kelliklymenko.com • sedonaincense.com • sedonamagic.printify.me Kelli Klymenko is an artist, storyteller, photographer, teacher, yogi, husband, father, science aficionado and free thinker - experiencing life in one of the most inspiring and picturesque places on earth with his fabulous wife and children.

“Remember: grow; learn; conserve; preserve; create; question; educate; change; and free your mind.” – KelliKlymenko.com

11/03/2026

We the People.

Not we the wealthy. Not we the powerful. Not we the corporations.

WE THE PEOPLE.

There are so many of us. And today, we have an opportunity to show just how many.

VOTE! We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼

11/03/2026

Election Day is here! Millions of Americans have already voted, and millions more have an opportunity to make their voices heard today.

Our democracy belongs to all of us. Every voice matters. Every vote matters.

VOTE! ✊🏼

11/03/2026

The People’s Voice

More than 54 million Americans have already cast their ballots in this election. That’s an encouraging start, but we have a long way to go. In the 2024 presidential election, nearly 90 million eligible Americans didn’t vote. And historically, even fewer people participate in midterm elections.

Imagine what our democracy could look like if we changed that.

Today, millions more Americans have an opportunity to make their voices heard. And at a moment when so much is at stake, participation has never been more important.

There is something enormously powerful about ordinary people coming together.

I know people are exhausted. I know many feel frustrated, disappointed, or convinced that their individual voice makes no difference.

There are people in power who would prefer that we believe our voices no longer matter. That the decisions have already been made. That the wealthy and powerful control everything, and the rest of us should simply accept it.

But they don’t control everything. They don’t own our votes, our communities, our willingness to stand together, or our right to demand that the law be followed.

And we should never confuse an attempt to seize more power with the authority to do so.

One voice is not the whole story.

A voice becomes a conversation. A conversation becomes a community. Communities become movements.

Our Constitution begins with We the People. Not we the wealthy. Not we the powerful. Not we the corporations.

We the People.

If you’ve already voted, thank you for participating. If you haven’t, today is your opportunity to make your voice heard.

Democracy has never been something we could simply take for granted. It has always depended on people willing to participate in it.

And the remarkable thing is that there are so many of us.

Millions of people, each with a voice of their own.

Today, those voices matter.

We have friends everywhere.

And today, we have an opportunity to show just how many of us there really are.

11/02/2026

Tricksters, Liars, and Thieves

There is a difference between winning an election and manipulating the institutions of government to make sure you get your way regardless of what the American people decide.

And there is a difference between democracy and the appearance of democracy.

For decades, powerful political interests have worked to reshape the American government. From the Supreme Court to the election lies of 2020, January 6, Project 2025, and the restructuring of federal institutions, these events are often discussed separately.

But look at them together.

In 2016, Mitch McConnell refused to consider Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, insisting voters should have a voice. Four years later, he rushed through Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation just eight days before an election.

Then came Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Fraudulent electoral certificates. Pressure on state officials. January 6. Even the copying of sensitive voting software in Georgia.

And now, Reuters reports that senior White House officials have spent months preparing ways to advance their agenda through executive authority if Democrats win control of Congress on Tuesday.

Think about that.

Presidents retain constitutional authority under divided government. But if voters elect a Congress that challenges the president, that’s democracy working. Congressional oversight isn’t an inconvenience to be neutralized.

I see a pattern of people using government institutions to concentrate authority, weaken accountability, and make their political objectives harder to reverse.

I see people more interested in controlling the machinery of government than respecting the limits that make constitutional democracy possible.

Tomorrow, Americans vote.

Whatever happens, protecting constitutional government won’t end when the polls close. There will still be institutions to scrutinize, officials to hold accountable, and decisions that demand our attention.

So participate. Make sure your voice is heard. Call your friends. Text your family. Help someone cast a ballot.

This country belongs to all of us.

Not to the tricksters.
Not to the liars.
Not to the thieves.

To We the People.

11/01/2026

In 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in the United States Congress.

More than a century later, equality under the law is still the subject of a constitutional dispute.

Think about everything women have accomplished in those hundred years. The barriers they’ve dismantled, the opportunities they’ve created, and the institutions they’ve transformed. None of it happened because those in power simply decided to be generous.

It happened because women refused to accept the limitations imposed upon them.

And here we are in 2026, watching political movements work to reverse freedoms that generations fought to secure.

This isn’t happening by accident.

For decades, the Republican Party and its conservative religious allies have worked to build the political and legal power to restrict women’s autonomy. A party that speaks endlessly about individual liberty while supporting laws that allow politicians and their religious convictions to dictate deeply personal decisions.

Donald Trump didn’t create that alliance. He inherited a political movement that had spent decades organizing, influencing institutions, and reshaping the courts.

His Supreme Court appointments helped overturn Roe v. Wade, ending nearly fifty years of federal constitutional protection for abortion.

But this story isn’t about Donald Trump.

It’s about the institutions that have held power for generations, the people who worked to preserve that power, and the consequences when their beliefs become law.

In my latest essay, A Party of Men, I trace that history from the Equal Rights Amendment through Phyllis Schlafly, the rise of the Religious Right, and the political movement that continues to shape women’s lives today.

Generations of women have fought for equality, yet it’s still treated as a request rather than a right.

We should be moving forward, expanding opportunity and equality, not forcing another generation to recover ground that was already won.

10/31/2026

Long before Halloween became a night of costumes, candy, and carved pumpkins, people gathered to mark the changing seasons.

In ancient Ireland, Samhain marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the darker half of the year. Over time, stories emerged of spirits, ancestors, and a boundary between the living and the dead that grew thin, allowing beings from the Otherworld to cross into ours.

There’s something deeply human in those ancient stories. Our desire to remember those who came before us, to remain connected to those we’ve lost, and to believe that the people who shaped our lives don’t simply disappear from them.

The natural world has its own ways of carrying the past into the future.

Leaves fall and become part of the soil. The nutrients they held return to the earth, nourishing roots and supporting life that will emerge in seasons yet to come. What appears to be an ending is also part of something continuing.

Science helps us understand these processes, but understanding them doesn’t make them any less extraordinary.

And perhaps our lives aren’t so different.

We carry the people we’ve loved in our memories, in the things they’ve taught us, in the stories we tell, and sometimes in the smallest habits we don’t even realize we’ve inherited. Their lives continue to influence ours, even long after they’re gone.

Today, I’m giving myself a day to rest and spend time with family. A day to appreciate the changing seasons and remember the people who have been part of my own.

We belong to the earth, and to the generations of life that came before us.

And perhaps that’s a little bit of magic all on its own.

10/30/2026

They spent years screaming about protecting children. Now, when survivors demand accountability, protecting powerful men seems to matter more. The hypocrisy is staggering. And the survivors deserve better.

10/30/2026

They call themselves strongmen. I call them cowards. There’s nothing strong about surrendering your principles, your independence, and your constitutional responsibilities to Donald Trump.

10/30/2026

All They Do is Keep Lying.

There’s something extraordinary about men who spend their lives proclaiming their strength surrendering every ounce of it to another man.

They call themselves alphas. They preach masculinity, dominance, and testosterone.

Then Donald Trump walks into the room, and they drop to their knees to lick his boots.

They surrender their principles. Their judgment. Their constitutional responsibilities.

All of it.

Republicans in Congress swore an oath to the Constitution, not Donald Trump. Yet they’ve confused obedience to one man with loyalty to the United States.

That’s not strength. That’s cowardice.

Trump insults, threatens, and mocks everyone who challenges him. Barack Obama makes one joke about his White House renovations, and the supposed strongman can’t stop whining.

Snowflake.

This is a convicted felon whom a jury found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll. Yet the self-proclaimed tough guys line up to be his very best bootlickers.

They lecture us about Christianity, morality, family values, and protecting children while defending a man whose behavior contradicts everything they claim to believe.

All they do is keep lying.

About their principles. Their motives. Their morals. The Constitution. The people they’re hurting. The country they’re helping to destroy.

And the consequences aren’t abstract.

Ukrainians fighting for survival. Women losing rights. Immigrants detained, families torn apart, people deported to countries they’ve never known. Families struggling to afford food, healthcare, and shelter.

These politicians know what their oaths require. They have made choices.

They want us to reward them with more power.

Absolutely not.

We can vote. We can demand accountability. And any elected official willing to surrender their constitutional responsibilities to one man has no business serving in Congress.

They’re counting on us to abandon our responsibilities because they abandoned theirs.

My new Weekly Reflection, “All They Do Is Keep Lying,” goes much further. Please read it on We Have Friends Everywhere—even if you only read the complete FREE section. This matters too much to reduce to one social media post.

10/29/2026

In 2013, I photographed extraordinary clouds over Sedona. Tera was there. We both saw them. Today, people accuse me of generating those photographs with AI.

Now imagine the evidence isn’t a photograph of clouds. Imagine it’s an attack on civilians in Ukraine.

We’re entering an era when almost anything can be manufactured to look real, while almost anything real can be dismissed as manufactured.

Russia understands exactly how useful that confusion can become.

AI-generated videos targeting Democratic Senate candidates used real people’s identities to spread fabricated allegations. Researchers linked them to a Russian disinformation operation.

Russia has spent years manufacturing lies about Ukraine and undermining democratic institutions. AI makes it faster, cheaper, and more convincing. People can believe things that never happened and reject things that did.

Corporations control what millions see. I’ve watched hostile accounts flood my Facebook posts defending Musk and attacking Ukraine, while my posts barely reach people who chose to follow me.

This goes beyond a screen.

Musk controls a social platform, an AI system, and satellite communications essential to Ukraine’s defense. Trump announces an arrangement involving Russian diesel while pressuring Ukraine to stop attacking infrastructure financing Russia’s war. Satellite restrictions and weapons delays follow. Explanations change. Russia keeps attacking.

From where I’m standing, this sure as hell looks like coordination.

These problems share something fundamental: enormous power over information and communication, with far too little accountability.

And when the stakes are far greater than a sunset over Sedona, we can’t afford to surrender the difference between what happened and what someone wants us to believe.

Truth doesn’t stop being true because someone finds it inconvenient.

But if we stop demanding evidence, investigating claims, and holding powerful people accountable, we make it far easier for the people manufacturing lies to decide what the rest of us believe.

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