It’s often been said and something that has become increasingly important in this moment in our American history: Americans reject the president, not our democracy. That distinction may sound simple, but it’s anything but. Because our democracy is not Donald Trump. Democracy is not Joe Biden. Democracy is not Republicans or Democrats. Democracy is not […]
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, Americans find themselves standing at a crossroads unlike any faced by previous generations. Our nation was born from a revolutionary idea—that ordinary people could govern themselves and that legitimacy flowed not from kings or inherited privilege, but from the consent of the governed. Two and a half […]
On March 28th, Americans will gather across the country for the “No Kings in America” March. The name itself is a provocation, a historical echo and a modern demand. But beyond the signs and the slogans lies a fundamental truth about the nature of our republic: The power to move an issue, to shape the […]
Our American political experiment was fundamentally conceived as a categorical rejection of despotism. The citizens of the newly formed United States, having fought a revolution to escape a monarchy they viewed as tyrannical, deliberately structured our new government with the express purpose of making a seizure of absolute power by a single individual nearly impossible. […]
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