<div dir="auto">Thanks Ken.  It’s totally worth 45 minutes.  I just finished viewing the video at the very bottom of your email & plan to view it again.  Insightful on the problem we face & also on ways to be involved in building a future for our kids & grands.</div><div dir="auto">Nancy Trask<br clear="all"><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM Ken Fisher via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div>Colleagues,</div><div><br></div>This teach-in yesterday had 34,000 attendees.<div><br></div><div>As many of you already know, Heather Cox Richardson is one of America’s foremost historians.<div><br></div><div>For decades we have said that the economic owns the political and cultural.</div><div><br></div><div>Her words illuminate that now. Going back to America’s beginnings, I found much of this analysis <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">original.</span></div><div><br></div><div>All can be found on <a href="https://substack.com/home" target="_blank">https://substack.com/home</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="display:block">Much of this is free.</div><div style="display:block"><br></div><div style="display:block"><div style="display:inline-block" role="link"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none" rel="nofollow" href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe" dir="ltr" role="button" width="300" target="_blank"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#e6e6e6;font-family:-apple-system,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><img alt="subscribe-card.jpg" src="cid:ii_19649a1b9616030840a1" style="width:844px;max-width:100%"></td></tr><tr><td><table bgcolor="#E6E6E6" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgba(230,230,230,1)"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#272727" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.847059)">Subscribe to Letters from an American</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#808080" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.498039)">heathercoxrichardson.substack.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Courage and hope are contagious.</div><div><br></div><div>Ken<br><div style="text-decoration-style:unset;text-decoration-color:unset;list-style:none;display:flex;color:rgb(80,80,65);font-family:Lora,sans-serif;font-size:20px"><h2><br></h2><h2>How Trump's Greed, Grift and Racism Are Collapsing America's Democratic Experiment </h2><div>Historian Heather Cox Richardson joins The Left Hook to discuss how the Trump Administration reflects America's tradition of the aristocracy abusing capitalism and racism to exploit the masses.</div></div><div style="text-decoration-style:unset;text-decoration-color:unset;list-style:none;display:flex"><div style="color:rgb(80,80,65);font-family:Lora,sans-serif;font-size:20px;text-decoration-style:unset;text-decoration-color:unset;text-decoration:unset;list-style:none;display:flex"><div><div><div><a href="https://substack.com/@thelefthook" aria-label="View THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's profile" target="_blank"></a></div><div><a href="https://substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson" aria-label="View Heather Cox Richardson's profile" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div><div style="text-decoration-style:unset;text-decoration-color:unset;list-style:none;display:flex"><div style="color:rgb(80,80,65);font-family:var(--font-family-meta);font-size:11px;text-decoration:unset;text-decoration-style:unset;text-decoration-color:unset;list-style:none;margin:0px;line-height:20px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.2px"><div><a href="https://substack.com/@thelefthook" target="_blank">THE LEFT HOOK WITH WAJAHAT ALI</a></div> AND <div><a href="https://substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson" target="_blank">HEATHER COX RICHARDSON</a></div></div><div style="text-decoration-style:unset;text-decoration-color:unset;li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