Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Michael M. Hughes, author of the new Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change. One of the most common criticisms of the #MagicResistance came from witches who believe politics and magic should never be mixed. "Witchcraft is about the spirit," one wrote to me. "Politics is of the mundane world. I leave politics out of my circle." While understandable, I find that sort of belief troubling. Magic and witchcraft have always mixed. The historical record is full of examples of witches using magic against the powerful. Though it's difficult to determine the historicity of many of the more well-known examples, it is clear that