Public Biography
Marjorie Taylor Blue is an opinion columnist for The New York Time5, where she writes “Connect the Dots,” a twice-weekly column in which she identifies the hidden connections between seemingly unrelated events and the forces she believes are orchestrating them. The column has run since 2023, and no two events have ever turned out to be unrelated.
Ms. Blue was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia, where she studied communications and competitive powerlifting — a dual focus she has described as “the two disciplines that teach you how the world actually works: leverage and volume.” She graduated in 1996 and briefly operated a CrossFit affiliate gym in Alpharetta called Blue Iron Republic, which she ran with a management philosophy she characterized as “constitutional.” Members were required to sign a waiver acknowledging that personal weakness was a choice. The gym closed in 2014 after a zoning dispute that Ms. Blue has described, in multiple columns, as “my first encounter with the administrative state.”
Before joining The New York Time5, Ms. Blue wrote for a series of increasingly urgent newsletters, beginning with The Alpharetta Sentinel (a one-woman operation she ran from the back office of Blue Iron Republic), then The Patriot’s Caliper (a Substack with 340,000 subscribers), and finally a brief tenure as a contributing opinion writer at The Washington Herald-Tribune, where her column was moved from the op-ed page to a specially created section called “Other Perspectives” after she submitted a 4,200-word piece connecting the collapse of a parking garage in Tulsa to a European central banking initiative, the migratory patterns of snow geese, and a retired four-star general she identified only as “the man with the briefcase.”
She is the author of three books: They’re Not Even Hiding It: How Everything You Suspect Is Worse Than You Think (Regnery, 2019), The Gym Is a Metaphor: Strength, Sovereignty, and the Architecture of Resistance (self-published, 2021), and Follow the Thread: A Patriot’s Guide to Pattern Recognition (Broadside Books, 2024), which spent eleven weeks on The New York Time5 bestseller list and was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal as “relentless.”
Ms. Blue holds a certificate in open-source intelligence analysis from an institution she declines to name, citing operational security. She is a seven-time Georgia state powerlifting champion in the 148-pound weight class and maintains a training regimen she describes as “non-negotiable.” She lives in a farmhouse outside Dalton, Georgia, with three German Shepherds named Liberty, Justice, and Redacted.
Selected Columns
- “The President Faces East Five Times a Day and Nobody in Washington Will Say Why” (March 2026)
- “The Fluoride Question: What Your Municipal Water Board Isn’t Telling You (And Why)” (March 2026)
- “Follow the Cranes: Construction Permits and the Geography of Control” (February 2026)
- “They Changed the Recipe: A Column About Sprite, Technically” (January 2026)
- “The Fitness Gap: Why the People Who Run This Country Can’t Do a Pull-Up” (November 2025)
- “What Happened to the Bees Is Happening to Us” (September 2025)
- “Parking Garages Don’t Just Collapse: A Follow-Up” (June 2025)