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The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual. He is an expression of the national state of mind. <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/podcast-bill-moyers-talks-with-dr-bandy-lee-donald-trump-violence-contagion-trumpism/" class="readmore uppercase">Read More <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></a></p> </article></div><div id='p1'><article class="blog-post"> <h1><a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/march-30-2021/">March 30, 2021</a></h1> <a href='https://billmoyers.com/story/march-30-2021/'><img width="1200" height="675" src="https://billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GettyImages-665348204-1024x675.jpg" class="imgmax wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a> <p class="details"> <strong>BY <a href="https://billmoyers.com/author/heathercoxrichardson/" title="Posts by Heather Cox Richardson" class="author url fn" rel="author">Heather Cox Richardson</a></strong> | <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/march-30-2021/" title="9:52 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">April 7, 2021</span></a> | <a href='/topics/today-with-heather-cox-richardson/'>Letters From an American</a> </p> <p>It feels like the banking under the Republican Party from the Trump years is starting to erode. <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/march-30-2021/" class="readmore uppercase">Read More <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></a></p> </article></div><div id='p2'><article class="blog-post"> <h1><a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/stop-attacks-on-asian-americans-now/">Stop Attacks on Asian-Americans NOW!</a></h1> <a href='https://billmoyers.com/story/stop-attacks-on-asian-americans-now/'><img width="1200" height="675" src="https://billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Becoming-American-The-Chinese-Experiencex640x360-640x360.jpg" class="imgmax wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a> <p class="details"> <strong>BY <a href="https://billmoyers.com/author/billmoyers-com-team/" title="Posts by BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM" class="author url fn" rel="author">BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM</a></strong> | <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/stop-attacks-on-asian-americans-now/" title="10:40 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">March 30, 2021</span></a> | <a href='/topics/history/'>History</a> </p> <p>Over the past weeks the US has seen a growing number of attacks on Asian-Americans. Those who perpetrate them should learn a little about history and a lot about our democracy. <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/stop-attacks-on-asian-americans-now/" class="readmore uppercase">Read More <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></a></p> </article></div><div id='p3'><article class="blog-post"> <h1><a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/justice-on-trial/">Justice on Trial</a></h1> <a href='https://billmoyers.com/story/justice-on-trial/'><img width="1200" height="675" src="https://billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/49954463491_b175862202_k-1200x675.jpg" class="imgmax wp-post-image" alt="Chicago Car Caravan - Justice 4 George Floyd, Illinois, USA on May 30, 2020 Credit: Flickr, risingthermals)" loading="lazy" /></a> <p class="details"> <strong>BY <a href="https://billmoyers.com/author/heathercoxrichardson/" title="Posts by Heather Cox Richardson" class="author url fn" rel="author">Heather Cox Richardson</a></strong> | <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/justice-on-trial/" title="10:10 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">March 30, 2021</span></a> | <a href='/topics/today-with-heather-cox-richardson/'>Letters From an American</a> </p> <p>Prosecutors showed a 9-minute 29-second video of the murder, and told jurors to “believe your eyes.” <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/justice-on-trial/" class="readmore uppercase">Read More <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></a></p> </article></div><div id='p4'><article class="blog-post"> <h1><a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/silencing-black-voters-again/">Silencing Black Voters, Again</a></h1> <a href='https://billmoyers.com/story/silencing-black-voters-again/'><img width="1200" height="675" src="https://billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/confederate-flag-flying-1200x675.png" class="imgmax wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a> <p class="details"> <strong>BY <a href="https://billmoyers.com/author/heathercoxrichardson/" title="Posts by Heather Cox Richardson" class="author url fn" rel="author">Heather Cox Richardson</a></strong> | <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/silencing-black-voters-again/" title="2:30 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">March 29, 2021</span></a> | <a href='/topics/today-with-heather-cox-richardson/'>Letters From an American</a> </p> <p>Today, Republicans talk about “election integrity,” but their end game is the same as that of the former Confederates after the war: to keep Black and Brown Americans away from the polls to make sure the government does not spend tax dollars on public services. <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/silencing-black-voters-again/" class="readmore uppercase">Read More <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></a></p> </article></div><div id='p5'><article class="blog-post"> <h1><a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/americas-longest-war-winds-down/">America’s Longest War Winds Down</a></h1> <a href='https://billmoyers.com/story/americas-longest-war-winds-down/'><img width="1200" height="675" src="https://billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/AP100129145122-640x360.jpg" class="imgmax wp-post-image" alt="In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)" loading="lazy" /></a> <p class="details"> <strong>BY <a href="https://billmoyers.com/author/andrewbacevich/" title="Posts by Andrew Bacevich" class="author url fn" rel="author">Andrew Bacevich</a></strong> | <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/americas-longest-war-winds-down/" title="2:24 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">March 29, 2021</span></a> | <a href='/topics/democracy-government/'>Democracy & Government</a> </p> <p>No bang, no whimper, no victory. <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/americas-longest-war-winds-down/" class="readmore uppercase">Read More <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></a></p> </article></div><div id='p6'><article class="blog-post"> <h1><a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/us-sinks-to-new-low-in-rankings-of-worlds-democracies/">US Sinks to New Low in Rankings of World’s Democracies</a></h1> <a href='https://billmoyers.com/story/us-sinks-to-new-low-in-rankings-of-worlds-democracies/'><img width="1200" height="675" src="https://billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/GettyImages-153031204-1200x675.jpg" class="imgmax wp-post-image" alt="USA fans cheer at the first hole during the Morning Foursome Matches for the 39th Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club on Sept. 29, 2012 in Medinah, Illinois. (Photo by Montana Pritchard/PGA of America via Getty Images)" loading="lazy" /></a> <p class="details"> <strong>BY <a href="https://billmoyers.com/author/slevine/" title="Posts by Sam Levine" class="author url fn" rel="author">Sam Levine</a></strong> | <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/us-sinks-to-new-low-in-rankings-of-worlds-democracies/" title="2:22 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">March 29, 2021</span></a> | <a href='/topics/today-with-heather-cox-richardson/'>Letters From an American</a> </p> <p>The US has slipped 11 points in a decade – below Argentina and Mongolia – according the latest report by a democracy watchdog. <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/us-sinks-to-new-low-in-rankings-of-worlds-democracies/" class="readmore uppercase">Read More <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></a></p> </article></div><div id='p7'><article class="blog-post"> <h1><a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/the-southern-system/">The Southern System</a></h1> <a href='https://billmoyers.com/story/the-southern-system/'><img width="1200" height="675" src="https://billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/evamartinloc-1200x675.png" class="imgmax wp-post-image" alt="Eva Martin, ex-slave, Beaumont Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 (603) LOC" loading="lazy" /></a> <p class="details"> <strong>BY <a href="https://billmoyers.com/author/heathercoxrichardson/" title="Posts by Heather Cox Richardson" class="author url fn" rel="author">Heather Cox Richardson</a></strong> | <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/the-southern-system/" title="10:59 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">March 27, 2021</span></a> | <a href='/topics/today-with-heather-cox-richardson/'>Letters From an American</a> </p> <p>March 26, 2021 Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed his state’s new voter suppression law last night in a carefully staged photo op. As journalist Will Bunch of the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em> pointed out, Kemp sat at a polished table, with six white men around him, under a painting of the Callaway Plantation on which more than 100 Black people had been enslaved. As the men bore witness to the signing, Representative Park Cannon, a Black female lawmaker, was arrested and dragged away from the governor’s office. It was a scene that conjured up a lot of history. Voting was on the table in March 1858, ... <a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/the-southern-system/" class="readmore uppercase">Read More <i class="fa fa-arrow-right"></i></a></p> </article></div><div id='p8'><article class="blog-post"> <h1><a href="https://billmoyers.com/story/voting-rights-is-democracy/">Voting Rights IS Democracy</a></h1> <a href='https://billmoyers.com/story/voting-rights-is-democracy/'><img width="1200" height="675" src="https://billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1862137-scaled-e1597958432570-1200x675.jpg" class="imgmax wp-post-image" alt="Two smiling women stand outdoors and hold signs reading "Vote Baby Vote" and "Voting is People Power," c. 1970. 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That was not a coincidence; over the past four decades, this coalition of Christian nationalists and fossil fuel interests has deliberately kept a low public profile, maintaining both its meetings and its membership under a veil of secrecy. Although it is registered with the IRS as a tax-exempt “educational” organization, it has advanced an unapologetically partisan agenda, promoting Republican candidates from the radical right and purging moderates. 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