Since January 2017, he’s been publishing a newsletter on Substack, Today’s Edition, but it started accidentally, Hubbell says, as an email for family: “my effort—as a father and husband—to provide hope and perspective… after the unexpected results of the 2016 election.” Hubbell’s entry into political commentary grew organically out of those early family newsletters. In this fragile economy, it’s understandable if many people are too focused on putting food on the table, paying for medicine, or filling their gas tanks to join Robert Hubbell’s democracy brigade.