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It’s Trump’s first year back in office. and the famous east wing of the White House, the site of his past pro-Christmas spectacles, is no more.

With Trump’s war on the American people, does anyone even have time to take up arms for the War on Christmas? We’re doing a call for submissions anyway.

It’s time to reflect on the manufactured “War on Christmas” outrage from all the past years. Whether you’re on the imaginary front lines in the War on Christmas or staying in your bunkered down home drinking hot chocolate until it’s all over, we want to hear your unique take on the holidays and commercialism and fanaticism behind conservatives saying “Merry Christmas” until acquiesce like a dog and say it back.

Go to our Submittable page here and find the Christmas Wars category. Send us your best poems, short fiction and artwork (definitely artwork!) on the theme of “The Christmas Wars” and what it means to you by Sunday, December 21 at midnight.

Whether you’re a gun totting elf or a snowflake praying for global warming to put an end to an the right wing media’s über-white Christmas, we want your work today. Above all, remember to take care of yourselves (and someone else if you can) this holiday season.

The Oddball Staff.