Author: Staff
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National Democratic Redistricting Committee
Gerrymandering poses a critical threat to our democracy, with opponents of fair maps actively undermining redistricting reforms, electing Election Deniers, and threatening mid-decade map redraws.
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ACLU
The ACLU has evolved in the years since from this small group of idealists into the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
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Jared Yates Sexton: Preparing for the Storm
Happy new year to you. I hope in 2024 you found some things of value. Perhaps, like myself, you were both dismayed by what happened but also motivated. As I’ve discussed in a previous Audio From A Collapsing State, moments of immense danger and rising authoritarianism have a tendency to bring clarity.
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Birthright Citizenship
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
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US Capitol Riot – January 6, 2021
On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-president Donald Trump in what several scholars have called an attempted “self-coup”, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.