American Democracy Has Never Been Easy to Keep

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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. – The New York Times

               “Those of us who have lived in countries terrorized by a secret police force can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.”

Economic Precarity among Single Parents in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Zachary Parolin, Emma K. Lee, 2022

Majority of Americans Live Paycheck To Paycheck – Forbes Advisor

It’s Not an “Audit”. It’s a Grift! – The Mad Sociologist Blog

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Twain, Mark, and Charles Dudley Warner. 1873. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company.

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Beard, Charles A. 1913. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York: Macmillan.

Voting Rights Milestones in America: A Timeline | HISTORY

Noam Chomsky / The Common Good — 1997

Hogeland, William. 2022. The Hamilton Scheme. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Reporters Without Borders Sounds Alarm on US Press Freedom Under Trump | Truthout

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Klein, Naomi. 2007. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Two Years After Occupy Wall Street, a Network of Offshoots Continue Activism for the 99%

Bird lands on Sanders’ podium during Portland rally