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My Application for $30 Million From Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund

My Application for $30 Million From Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund

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Jesse Hagopian

Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort”

Trump’s lesson to children was to fear difference, obey power, and treat vulnerable people as threats.

16.05.2026 10

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Jesse Hagopian

500-Year-Old Slave Revolt of 1526 Redefines Freedom as US Turns 250

Before 1776 or 1619, enslaved Africans seized freedom in 1526 on land that would become the United States.

02.05.2026 8

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In Era of Book Bans and War on History, Sinners Reveals What US Tries to Forget

Sinners deserves to win Oscars: It’s a blues poem, a freedom cry, and a love letter to powerful culture.

13.03.2026 10

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The Affordability Crisis Is Real. Only Worker Organizing Can Offer Solutions.

A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty.

31.01.2026 10

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Jesse Hagopian

Coretta Scott King Publicly Opposed Vietnam Before MLK — and Urged Him to Follow

Coretta Scott King's vision shaped MLK's politics and the broader freedom struggle, says historian Jeanne Theoharis.

18.01.2026 60

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In 2025, Educators Didn’t Just Endure Repression. They Built Resistance.

The right wants the teaching of history to no longer indict power or inspire resistance. But our side won’t submit.

26.12.2025 20

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Jesse Hagopian

The Thanksgiving Myth Hides the US’s Inability to Reckon With Its Own History

“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham.

28.11.2025 10

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Jesse Hagopian

If Capital Strikes Against Mamdani, Organized Worker Power Can Strike Back

Let’s study how Wall Street sank Mamdani-style municipal plans back in 1975 — and get prepared for a similar fight.

11.11.2025 10

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Jesse Hagopian

I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.

RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

20.10.2025 10

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Trump Wants to Bury Slavery. My Family Went South to Unearth It. 

Trump wants a populace unaware of the Black freedom struggle — because it is a guide for defeating his fascist plans.

12.09.2025 10

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Jesse Hagopian

Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.

AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.

06.07.2025 10

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Jesse Hagopian

Teachers and Students Are Rising Up to Defend Anti-Racist Education in the US

An intergenerational movement is defending knowledge that challenges the status quo — on campus and in the streets.

07.06.2025 10

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Elites Want to Turn Schools Into Factories of Hopelessness. We Can’t Let Them.

“End times schooling” risks turning schools into graveyards for hope — but they can also be greenhouses for resistance.

26.05.2025 10

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Why the History of the Wilmington Coup Can Help Make Sense of Our American Present

18.04.2025 10

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Jesse Hagopian

Trump’s Education by Indoctrination Must Be Fought With Social Justice Unionism

Trump is advancing fascism not just through violence, but through control over knowledge.

14.04.2025 10

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Jesse Hagopian