# The U.S. Politically In 20 Years Ashes Of The Republic From James Chesterton

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Published: 2026-05-30T10:00:03+00:00
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In James Chesterton’s dark and thrilling futuristic satire, ASHES OF THE REPUBLIC (Broken Ledger Press; April 28, 2026), it’s the year 2046 and Christian Nationalism has fully consolidated power. Evidence of liberalism is subject to punishment, women’s bodies are governed by data, medical professionals have been replaced with AI, and the blueprint for authoritarian rule is no longer theoretical—it’s fully operational. At the center of the story is Lily Osbourne, a gifted technologist who once helped build the very systems that now govern daily life. After crossing her employer, Dennison Robotics CEO Iwanna Dennison, Lily is cast out of power and retreats into quiet anonymity. That fragile invisibility shatters during a routine airport screening when a TSA agent informs her that she is pregnant—which is strictly controlled by the government. In the Republic, all unregistered pregnancies are flagged. Her fetus is issued a Social Security number. The state is notified. Her body is no longer her own. She and her boyfriend Jeff Maslow, a former professor once arrested for reading Walt Whitman, must now find a way to survive, even as Iwanna Dennison claws her way to the highest reaches of power, the focus of her psychotic ambition. Deeply rooted in current events, Ashes of the Republic draws from real-world debates surrounding reproductive surveillance, the fusion of religion and state power, the erosion of privacy, and the expanding role of data and AI in governance. Policies and ideas that felt speculative during the novel’s early drafts have since emerged as court rulings, legislative proposals, and political platforms. This is not distant dystopia or traditional science fiction. Nearly every mechanism of control depicted in the novel already exists today, waiting only fo…

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