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  • Letters From an American
    Call a Coup a Coup
    January 11, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    January 10, 2021 Unbelievably, it was only a week ago—last Sunday — that we learned Trump had called Georgia’s Secretary of State and pressured him to change the results of the 2020 election. Trump demanded that Brad Raffensperger “find” the 11,780 votes Trump needed to win Georgia. The news of the attempt to get an election official to overrule the will of the people was astonishing: at the time, it was the worst domestic attack on ...

  • Letters From an American
    Fighting for Democracy Itself
    January 5, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    In the storm of news it’s hard to figure out what’s going on, but here’s the bottom line: we are right now fighting over whether or not America will be a democracy.

  • Democracy & Government
    Trump's Coup
    January 4, 2021
    | Steven Harper

    The attack on American democracy is an inside job. Trump’s one-hour rant directed at Georgia officials who have certified President elect Joe Biden’s win isn’t an isolated event. It’s just one front in a battle to make Trump king. The scary part is that he has a lot of people helping him.

  • Letters From an American
    The GOP — Is Not the Party of Lincoln
    November 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Men like Abraham Lincoln organized to overturn the idea that they were mindless workers, doomed to menial labor for life. In 1859, Lincoln articulated a new vision for the nation, putting ordinary men, rather than elite slaveholders, at the heart of national development.

  • Letters From an American
    Marx is Not Around the Corner
    October 28, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    In Florida on Friday, Trump said: “We’re not supposed to have a socialist — look we're not going to be a socialist nation. We're not going to have a socialist president, especially a female socialist president, we’re not gonna have it, we’re not gonna put up with it.”

  • Letters From an American
    Helping Putin to Vote? Russian Hackers Are Back Again
    October 23, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Intelligence officials warned today that Russia recently hacked into our local and state computer networks. This could compromise our voting infrastructure. Intelligence officials believe our adversaries will try to help Trump, possibly by casting doubt on the voting results.

  • Letters From an American
    Scramble at the White House
    October 22, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Democratic candidate Joe Biden is trying to get elected, but in such a storm of crazy that his actual policies are simply not getting much airtime. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is pushing through every agenda item it can.

  • Letters From an American
    The Debate Heard Round the World
    October 1, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today, it feels like Trump’s embrace of white supremacist gangs and his open declaration that he is planning an assault on our democratic process was a turning point for the campaign, and for the nation.



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