About this site
From 2005 to 2008, PubDef.net was St. Louis’ pioneering political blog — one man with a camera, beating the legacy media to the story with more than 1,200 articles and 500 YouTube videos.
The site vanished from the web for years. In 2026 it was fully restored from the Internet Archive and Common Crawl. What you’re reading is the real thing, as it ran.
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