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Letters from an American – August 11, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson Aug 11, 2025 President Donald J. Trump’s big announcement today at his press conference—to which he showed up late—was that he is assuming control over the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department and deploying more than 100 agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and about 40 from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
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Letters from an American – August 5, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, August 5, 2025 (Tuesday) By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 05, 2025 Sixty years ago tomorrow, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The need for the law was explained in its full title: “An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, and for…
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Letters from an American – August 2, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, August 2, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 03, 2025 Republicans in the Texas legislature are working to redistrict the state before the 2026 midterm elections. Although state legislatures normally redraw district lines every ten years after the census required by the Constitution, President Donald J. Trump has asked Texas Republicans…
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Letters from an American – July 31, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
July 31, 2025, by Heather Cox Richardson On Monday, at a meeting with U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer in Scotland, President Donald Trump boasted that he was solving all the world’s problems: “I’ve stopped six wars in the last—I’m averaging about a war a month. But the last three were very close together. India and…
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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – July 26, 2025
July 26, 2025, Heather Cox Richardson Ten days ago, ten Republican senators wrote to Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, asking him to release the funds Congress appropriated in March to support education. Vought was a key author of Project 2025, which claims the federal government has been taken over by a radical…
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Letters from an American – July 20, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
July 20, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Read on Substack
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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – July 17, 2025
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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – July 16, 2025
After years of covering Donald J. Trump, I am used to seeing stories that would have sunk any other president simply fade away as he hammers on to some new unprecedented action that dominates the news. So I am surprised by what appears to be the staying power of the recent Jeffrey Epstein scandal. That…
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Letters from an American – July 13, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
By Heather Cox Richardson, Jul 13, 2025 This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world. The conflict began last Monday when the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo saying that it had conducted a thorough review of all the evidence the department had collected about convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein,…
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Letters from an American – July 12, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
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Letters from an American – June 27,2025 -Heather Cox Richardson
See Also: Notes: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1860 Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States of America during the Period of Reconstruction (Washington: Solomons & Chapman, 1875), pp. 75, 78, at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Political_History_of_the_United_Stat/x7HmnHL1OvQC Bluesky: atrupar.com/post/3lslzwd3nc22q and Bluesky: reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lsm3vbj6uk2d
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Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – June 2, 2025
June 2, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson The Republicans’ giant budget reconciliation bill has focused attention on the drastic cuts the Trump administration is making to the American government. On Friday, when a constituent at a town hall shouted that the Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid, the federal healthcare program for low-income Americans, meant that…
