In which #HeatherCoxRichardson illustrates why #Bidenomics is not only good (great?!) it's a return to the norm before Reagan and she also explicitly states that #Texas is an authoritarian state where citizens have been reduced to subjects over #abortion policing.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-1-2023?r=3d3gr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

The manslaughter murder of the vibrant elder, 98 year old Kansas woman #journalist #JoanMeyer who’s Newspaper was RAIDED (perhaps bc, restaurant owner Kari Newel didn’t want the sordid truth out) has historical context in the 1836 murder of #antislavery journalist, the young #ElijahPLovejoy

Read #heatherCoxRichardson https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-12-2023?r=1j96e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

for the historical perspective of attempts to silence the #fourthestate #freepress #democracy #journalism

1. The #Economy is thriving under #Biden
2. The #MAGA House #GOP want to shut down the govt & impeach Biden, for political theatre
3. & blame the #Democrats for the fall out
4. All while their criminal leader, #trump, screams victim 🙄
5. & their followers will vote gop- as an answer to the problems & fear baiting MAGA CREATES
6. #TrumpIsACrook#MAGAIsACult #GOPIsComplicit
7. Messaging is important in a digital world
8. Idea- gift a substack to a MAGA #heatherCoxRichardson or @JoyceVance

President Biden is fortunate to have Heather Cox Richardson as an interpreter and spokesperson. She speaks clearly, with the strong awareness of the narrative line that marks a skilled historian, and is unambiguous about where the moral center of the story lies — unlike any number of both-sidesist media sorts these days.

Our media, which have royally let us down at this critical moment in history, could use 1,000 Heather Cox Richardsons.

#Biden #HeatherCoxRichardson

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-25-2023

The rallying cry for the pro-democracy anti-autocracy coalition has got to be "A more perfect union" and "All people were created equal." Some encouraging reading for the Fourth!

#LettersFromAnAmerican #HeatherCoxRichardson
#FourthOfJuly
#independenceday

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-3-2023?r=5s750&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://stories.state.gov/dinner-is-served/ This is a really cool link…thank you Heather! Sometimes some of the best and juiciest information is in the footnotes… #HeatherCoxRichardson

From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“The solution to the debt ceiling crisis is a major victory for Biden’s team not only because it happened, but also because it leaves Biden’s key priorities intact, not least because they are popular and Republicans did not want to go into 2024 having demanded unpopular cuts.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-2-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“Republicans brought the nation to the brink of default with their insistence that they opposed runaway government spending, but their demands did not square with that argument.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-1-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“as Josh Marshall pointed out in Talking Points Memo today, the Republican base no longer seems to care much about fiscal issues. Instead, they are pushing the cultural issues at the heart of illiberal democracy: anti-LGBTQ laws, antiabortion laws, anti-immigration laws.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-31-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“the reordering of the economy under Biden and the Democrats has reversed the widening income gap between wage workers and upper-income professionals that has been growing for the past 40 years.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-30-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.’””

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-29-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“in states that are currently dominated by Republicans so thoroughly that they are essentially one-party states, there are indeed systemic corruption problems because there is not the oversight that a healthy opposition party brings.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-26-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“Rhodes told the court that his only crime was standing against those who are “destroying our country.” He says he believes he is a “political prisoner” and that he hopes Trump will win the presidency in 2024. “You are not a political prisoner, Mr. Rhodes,” Judge Mehta said. “You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country and to the republic and to the very fabric of this democracy.””

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-25-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“the Republicans’ insistence that spending is out of control does not reflect reality. In fact, discretionary spending has fallen more than 40% in the past 50 years as a percentage of gross domestic product, from 11% to 6.3%. What has driven rising deficits are the George W. Bush and Donald Trump tax cuts, which will have added $8 trillion and $1.7 trillion, respectively, to the debt by the end of the 2023 fiscal year.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-24-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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Yes! “Biden called for a ban on AR-15-type firearms and high-capacity magazines, and for the establishment of universal background checks, national red-flag laws, required safe storage of firearms, and an end to the immunity from liability that gun manufacturers enjoy. He noted that these commonsense measures are popular. “ #HeatherCoxRichardson

From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“a 2022 study by political economists David Hope and Julian Limberg shows that “tax cuts for the rich…do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment,” but they do “lead to higher income inequality in both the short- and medium-term.””

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-23-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“Since the CHIPS and Science Act became law last August, the White House noted, “private companies have announced nearly $140 billion in investments in semiconductor production, supply chains, and R&D to be made over the next decade.””

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-22-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“The list of 500 banned Americans that Russian president Vladimir Putin released on Friday makes it clear that Putin is openly aligning himself with Trump and today’s MAGA Republicans. The people on the list are not necessarily involved with U.S. policy toward Russia; they are Americans who are standing in the way of the Trump movement’s takeover of our country.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-21-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“The Republicans’ threat to blow up the U.S. economy—and, with it, the global economy—comes at a time when the economy is, in fact, quite strong and President Biden’s measures have significantly reduced the deficit after Republican tax cuts exploded it.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-19-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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From #HeatherCoxRichardson

“The fight between DeSantis and Disney illustrates the dramatic ideological change in the Republican Party in the last two years. No longer committed to keeping the government weak to stay out of the way of business development, the party is now committed to creating a strong government that enforces Christian nationalism.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-18-2023?r=12ull&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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