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Letters from an American – January 3, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 3, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 04, 2026 Today was the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to submit to Congress a written justification for any documents from the Epstein files that the department had redacted or withheld. But it seems unlikely the Justice Department met this deadline…
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Letters from an American – December 20, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, December 20, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 20, 2025 On November 19, 2025, Congress passed H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and although there was none of the usual publicity and fanfare President Donald Trump enjoys around a bill signing, the White House said that Trump signed it the…
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Letters from an American – December 6, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, December 6, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 06, 2025 On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of nine Japanese torpedoes hit the ship. In the…
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5 Startling Truths Behind the U.S. Showdown with Venezuela – A DWD Special Report
5 Startling Truths Behind the U.S. Showdown with Venezuela Introduction: Beyond the Headlines The news cycle is saturated with reports of escalating tensions between the United States and Venezuela. A significant U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean, officially dubbed “Operation Southern Spear,” is underway, featuring warships, advanced aircraft, and thousands of troops. President Trump has…
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Letters from an American – November 29, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 29, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 29, 2025 In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 strike on a small boat off Venezuela, the Senate…
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Letters from an American – November 24, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 24, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 24, 2025 U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of South Carolina today dismissed the indictments of former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that President Donald J. Trump’s appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim…
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Letters from an American – November 17, 2025 (Monday) – by Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 17, 2025 (Monday) By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 17, 2025 President Donald J. Trump spent the weekend flooding social media with posts claiming that his economic policies are working and that his 34 felony convictions and the investigations into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russian operatives were illegitimate, and posting…
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Letters from an American – November 12, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 12, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 12, 2025 It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews. As Marc Elias of Democracy Docket put it today, while it was…
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Letters from an American – November 11, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 11, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 11, 2025 In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was…
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Letters from an American – November 10, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 10, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 10, 2025 Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S. history. November 10, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Read on Substack Seven Democrats and one Independent voted with all…
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Letters from an American – October 19, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, October 19, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 19, 2025 All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies. G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers partnered with Atlanta-based science newsroom The Xylom to estimate that as many as…
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Letters from an American – October 18, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, October 18, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 18, 2025 Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an administration apparently bent on replacing that democracy with a…
