What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days, plus recommended newsletters from across Substack
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A Second Reign of Terror: Trump’s Blueprint for ICE Home Raids
When Trump was elected, many Americans wondered if we were in for a brutal nationwide reign of terror, or if he’d merely content himself with more tax cuts for billionaires and a repeat of his last term’s personally profitable crony capitalism.
Betrayal of the American Dream: How Democrats Lost FDR’s Middle Class
The great lesson of the election of 2024 is that, to a large extent, class has replaced race as the single most potent political dividing line.
How to Stop the Billionaire Takeover: Democrats Must Declare Class Warfare
If my hypothesis from yesterday — that Democrats best way to win elections and regain political power is to engage in class warfare against the GOP and the billionaires that fund it — the immediate question is, “How?”
Alexander Hamilton’s Nightmare Realized: How Billionaires Hijacked America
Alexander Hamilton thought he (and the others who wrote the Constitution) had it all figured out.
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Saturday Report 11/16/24 - In an authoritarian regime it’s important to cow and control the news, and here we go...
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Recommended Reading
Thom Hartmann also writes three additional separate Substack newsletters. Each has both a free and paid subscription option. Below are links to one free newsletter from each Substack from the past week, plus other Substack newsletters of note that I read and recommend:
