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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 15, 2026

Heather Cox Richardson

Feb 16, 2026

The Trump administration’s white nationalist project was on full display this weekend at the 62nd Munich Security Conference that took place from February 13 to 15, 2026. The Munich Security Conference is the leading international forum for discussions of security policy. It was begun in 1963, at the height of the Cold War, to be an independent venue for experts and policymakers to discuss the most pressing security issues around the globe.

While the USSR absorbed neighboring countries as satellites, the U.S. and its allies and partners embraced a theory that international relations could achieve permanent peace so long as they emphasized representative democracy, economic interdependence, and international organizations. The equality, shared norms, and costs for wars that this system built, the theory went, along with new mechanisms for negotiation, would prevent global military conflict like those the world had suffered twice in the early twentieth century.

Since World War II, those values have reinforced civil rights and created opportunities for women and people of color, created dramatically higher standards of living around the globe, and prevented global wars. But the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 changed global calculations. Rather than defending the tenets of democracy, American leaders focused on spreading capitalism into the newly accessible states, arguing that democracy and capitalism went hand in hand.

At home, the end of the Cold War meant that the extremist Republicans who hoped to destroy business regulations and slash taxes, as well as halt infrastructure projects and end civil rights protections, no longer had to work with Democrats to stand against the USSR. They focused on getting rid of those they called the American “left,” a term that for them included not just Democrats but also Independents and traditional Republicans in the mold of President George H.W. Bush, who believed the government had a role to play in regulating business, providing a basic social safety net, promoting infrastructure, and protecting civil rights.

Extremist Republicans attacked their opponents as socialists even as their tax cuts and deregulation were moving money dramatically upward: at least $50 trillion moved upward from the bottom 90% to the top 1% between 1975 and 2020. Republican leaders and media figures fed their audiences the story that the middle class was imploding not because of Republican policies but because undeserving Black people, people of color, and feminist women demanded government handouts. This narrative fueled Trump’s political rise. He promised to fix the economic dispossession of those the modern economy left behind, by “draining the swamp,” restoring white men to control, and rebuilding the American middle class.

Once in office, though, Trump continued Republican policies of tax cuts and deregulation, maintaining his hold over his supporters by increasing attacks on racial and gender minorities and on women. As he distanced himself from democratic principles, he cozied up to Arab monarchs and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin. Like right-wing media leaders, he championed Hungarian prime minister Victor Orbán, who had destroyed democracy in Hungary in favor of establishing autocracy.

At the Munich Security Conference last year, just after Trump had taken office for the second time, Vice President J.D. Vance announced the U.S. was switching sides in global affairs. Henceforth, it would work to destroy the values of representative democracy and the global systems of trade and security that the U.S. and partners constructed after World War II.

In their place, officials in the Trump administration and their media allies have embraced the Great Replacement theory that says Brown and Black migration to Europe and the U.S. is destroying “western civilization.” Such migration must be stopped, they argue, and Brown and Black people purged from the U.S. and Europe. The end of equal rights for migrants will enable white Christian men to dominate society and pass laws that reinforce traditional religious and patriarchal hierarchies.

A report the organizers of the Munich Security Conference released before this year’s event named the elephant in the room: “the changing role of the United States in the international system.”

The report looked back to the statement of U.S. secretary of state Dean Acheson, who oversaw the development of the post–World War II global order, that he was “present at the creation.” Now, the report said, we may be present at its destruction. “The world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics. Sweeping destruction—rather than careful reforms and policy corrections—is the order of the day. The most prominent of those who promise to free their countries from the existing order’s constraints and rebuild stronger, more prosperous nations is the current US administration. As a result, more than 80 years after construction began, the US-led post-1945 international order is now under destruction.”

Trump is leading that destruction, the report says, but it’s not clear that he is clearing the ground for new policies that will secure Americans’ safety, prosperity, or freedom. It warns that Trump is building a world based on private transactions that privilege a global elite and replace international cooperation with a few powerful countries. “Ironically,” it says, “this would be a world that privileges the rich and powerful, not those who have placed their hopes in wrecking-ball politics.”

When he opened this year’s conference, German chancellor Friedrich Merz warned the Trump administration that “[t]he leadership claim of the U.S. is being challenged, perhaps already lost,” and that the world of great-power rivalry the U.S. is trying to set up will leave the U.S. alone and weakened. “We Germans know a world in which might makes right would be a dark place,” he said. “Our country has gone down this path in the 20th century until the bitter and dreadful end.”

“The culture war of the MAGA movement is not ours,” Merz said. “Freedom of speech ends here with us when that speech is turned against human dignity and the constitution. And we don’t believe in tariffs and protectionism, but in free trade. We stand by climate agreements and the World Health Organization.”

In his speech to the conference yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was less confrontational than Vance was last year, but the message was the same. He attacked all three of the pillars on which the U.S. has previously stood in foreign affairs. Global trade has ruined the U.S. economy, he said, while international institutions have undermined sovereignty, and “a climate cult” has imposed energy policies that are “impoverishing our people.”

He focused, though, on “mass migration,” which he claimed “threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people.” He called for Europe to join with the U.S. in rejecting the tenets of the post–World War II vision, claiming that “[w]e are part of one civilization—Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.”

His description of that shared heritage reflected the Trump administration’s fantasy past. It was all white and Christian, quite weirdly erasing the Indigenous Americans who were central to the development of a peculiarly “American” identity in the eastern colonies of North America and the reality that the vast majority of the American West was Indigenous, Spanish, and Mexican for hundreds of years before it became part of the United States in 1848.

Rubio’s version of the U.S. did not include Black Americans at all, even though they were among the first inhabitants of the colonies that became the U.S., and even though he called out the Rolling Stones, who built their body of work on that of Black American blues musicians like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, as part of “western civilization.” Rubio even ignored his own family’s arrival in the U.S. from Cuba in 1956, rooting his own heritage not in the modern migration from Latin America to the U.S. that the administration is criminalizing, but in eighteenth-century Spain.

Entirely ignoring the threat of autocratic Russia against Europe, Rubio pushed Europe to abandon the values of democracy in favor of imperialism. He said the U.S. had “no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline” and urged Europe to work with the U.S. for a return to western “dominance.”

From Munich, Rubio will travel to Hungary to visit with Orbán, who is facing an election on April 12, following a stop in Slovakia, whose leader is also a Trump ally.

Rubio’s version of history echoes that of the Nazis during World War II and ignores the strength of the real multicultural history of the United States. European leaders wanted no part of it.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas rejected the ideology behind Rubio’s speech. “Contrary to what some may say, woke, decadent Europe is not facing civilizational erasure,” she said. She noted that other nations want to join the E.U. and those that are already members want the E.U. “to take a stronger role in the world: To defend our values. To take care of our people. To push humanity forwards.”

Kallas disputed the argument that the postwar order is economically backward compared to autocracy, noting that since the fall of the Soviet Union, nations that have joined the E.U. have grown economically more than twice as fast as Russia. She reiterated the value of international trade and security partnerships, and she reminded the audience that “the vast majority of countries also want the same thing: stability, growth, and prosperity for their people. The best way to get there is to go together.”

As Merz had done, Kallas called for Europeans to assert their own agency to protect “not only our excellent living standards, health and happiness, but the lessons we have learnt from our own history.”

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said in Munich that Trump “has betrayed the West, he’s betrayed human values, he’s betrayed the NATO charter, the Atlantic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” and warned he is modeling himself after Putin.

The Trump administration’s attempt to replace the postwar international order with a great-power system driven by autocracy has opened the door for Democrats to suggest a different kind of U.S. foreign policy. A number of elected Democrats traveled to Munich, where they tried to counter administration officials’ message. California governor Gavin Newsom touted his state’s climate policies and signed a memorandum of understanding with Deputy Governor Oleksandr Kulepin of Lviv, Ukraine, to strengthen trade and commercial ties with Lviv Oblast, California’s sister-state.

Representatives Jason Crow (D-CO) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cut more closely to the heart of the crisis that led to Trump’s rise by calling for a U.S. foreign policy rooted in the working class. “We can’t fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries,” Ocasio-Cortez later summarized her argument. “We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.” At Munich, she said: “We want to make sure that we dive deeply into shared innovation, investment, strategic priorities, and trade policies that ensure the benefits of that trade actually benefit working-class people and that we restrain ourselves from the military interventions of our past.”

“Our foreign policy is being turned into an extortion ring for Big Oil, for the Trump family, for elites,” Crow said. ‘They’re bullying our partners and allies.… We want strength and peace, but we don’t want to be extorting and bullying our friends. We want to be a force for good.” “We need a national security and foreign policy that looks like America and has the experiences of the American people [with] partnerships that are rooted in fairness and that deliver for working-class folks everywhere.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Fact-Checking the 'Fact-Checkers'

 The Claim:

COVID-19 is a novel virus that scientists have isolated.

Rating: FALSE!

In order to determine whether a virus exists, it must be isolated, purified, and extracted from the bio-chemical concoction of stuff in which it is alleged to have been located.

This has never been done with COVID.

(1) Jon Rappoport, an investigative journalist who has been writing about epidemics and pandemics for the better part of four decades (and whose work has never been debunked), has shown that while there are indeed those who insist that the virus has been isolated, they use “isolated” in a sense that is nearly the opposite of what it actually means:

“Isolation is absurdly taken to mean: ‘We have the virus in a soup in a dish in the lab.  It is not separated (isolated) from the soup.   The soup contains various cells—human, monkey—and an array of (toxic) chemicals and drugs.  We know the virus is there, because it is infecting and killing some of the cells.’”

Rappoport elaborates:

“A reasonably bright junior high school student would immediately realize this not a description of isolation.

“A reasonably bright junior high school student would point out that there is no proof the virus is infecting and killing cells, because the toxic chemicals and drugs in the soup are sufficient to do the cell-killing.  He might also mention the cells in the soup are being starved of nutrients, and this alone could cause their death.”

He concludes: “Therefore, there is no evidence that ‘the virus’ is actually in the soup.”

(2) David Rowe writes:

“If the virus exists, then it should be possible to purify viral particles.  From these particles RNA can be extracted and should match the RNA used in this test.  Until this is done it is possible that the RNA comes from another source, which could be the cells of the patient, bacteria, fungi, etc. There might be an association with elevated levels of this RNA and illness, but that is not proof that the RNA is from a virus. Without purification and characterization of virus particles, it cannot be accepted that an RNA test is proof that a virus is present.”

(3) The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted that it has no specimens of the virus available.  That among the most powerful, most resourceful government health agencies on the planet wouldn’t have had the virus at its disposal from day one, to say nothing of possessing it nine months into the ubiquitous imposition of “Social Distancing” mandates that have deleteriously affected the lives of as many as one billion men, women, and children throughout the Earth can only mean that COVID-19 has never been isolated, purified, extracted—as viruses are supposed to be.

(4) Citizens ranging from Canada to New Zealand, through the Freedom of Information Act, have requested from approximately 40 health agencies around the world records documenting the process by which COVID-19 has been isolated.

These activist-citizens are intent to preclude from the outset any slippery bureaucrat-speak. Ms. Christine Massey, for example, informs the bureaucrats whom she addresses that she is “using ‘isolation’ in the every-day sense of the word: the act of separating a thing(s) from everything else” (emphasis original).

Massey elaborates to underscore that by “isolation” she most certainly does not mean, “the culturing of something, or the performance of an amplification test (i.e. a PCR test), or the sequencing of something.”

In other words, Ms. Massey, along with an ever-growing number of concerned citizens, is in search of records “describing the isolation of a SARS-COV-2 virus, directly from a sample taken from a diseased patient, where the sample was not first combined with any other source of genetic material (i.e. monkey kidney cells aka vero cells; liver cancer cells).”

Massey waited six months before she received her response, a letter that dodged her request while trying to conceal the fact that the authorities dodged her request. The requested records were nowhere supplied.

This has been the same response with which all such requests have been met.

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David Rowe

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Donald Trump y Estados Unidos, después de las elecciones presidenciales de 2016, según una caricatura de David Rowe de Australia (9 de noviembre de 2016).

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Fake News, Invisible Power

Why the stories that disappear from our screens shape our democracy more than the ones we see

James B. Greenberg

Aug 16, 2025

Trump calls the establishment news “fake news.” He might not be entirely wrong. Not because mainstream outlets are purveyors of lies — Fox has that franchise — but because their definition of “newsworthy” is dictated by audience ratings. Audience size is what they sell to advertisers, so what gets covered is what keeps us watching.

This isn’t just a habit; it’s a system. Most major outlets are owned by corporations with stakes in government policy and lobbying. That structural reality shapes every editorial choice: stories that challenge corporate interests or reveal slow, systemic dangers rarely make it to air. Ratings drive attention; attention drives coverage; coverage rarely confronts power.

Anthropology helps us see the deeper pattern. News isn’t just information; it’s ritual. Daily broadcasts train us to expect spectacle, outrage, and emotional highs. The slow-moving, structurally consequential stories — the ones that shape law, policy, and lives over years — are invisible to us, not because they’re unimportant, but because they don’t fit the emotional rhythm of the broadcast. We come to mistake spectacle for reality, distraction for understanding.

Consider ALEC and the Heritage Foundation, quietly drafting model legislation that reshapes state law to align with a long-term conservative agenda. This work, stretching across decades, laid the groundwork for Project 2025 and the push for an Article V Constitutional Convention. It moved state by state, quietly accumulating power and influence. Most Americans never saw it reported because it wasn’t dramatic — it was incremental, invisible, and enduring.

Or look at environmental disasters. The 2010 Gold King Mine spill in Colorado contaminated rivers with toxic heavy metals. The story made headlines briefly, but coverage rarely explored the decades of lax regulation, the influence of mining interests, or the decisions that allowed contamination to occur in the first place. Hurricanes, floods, and wildfires follow the same pattern: the immediate destruction dominates coverage, while the underlying zoning, policy, and corporate influences are ignored. Political ecology reminds us that disasters are rarely “natural.” They are shaped by human choices — whose land gets protected, whose doesn’t, whose lives are valued.

And then there’s deportation. The first few mass flights under the Trump administration shocked the nation. Cameras captured families torn apart, children crying, human suffering made impossible to ignore. But as thousands more flights followed, the news moved on. The suffering didn’t end; it was normalized through silence. Anthropology names this: normalization. What was once unthinkable becomes routine simply by repeating it out of public view.

History should warn us here. After World War II, many Germans insisted they didn’t know what was happening to their Jewish neighbors. The official story was that people were being “resettled.” The press echoed that line. Few dug deeper. Silence covered what people didn’t want to see. The lesson is stark: when atrocities stop being covered, they are not only hidden—they are normalized.

Trump’s charge of “fake news” contains a kernel of truth, but for the wrong reason. The problem isn’t lies; it’s that coverage narrows public vision. Spectacle replaces substance, silence protects power, and slow, structural crises pass unnoticed. ALEC’s decades-long legislative work, environmental disasters worsened by regulatory choices, and mass deportations all illustrate what happens when news trains us to ignore the invisible.

If journalism is to serve democracy, it must see beyond the drama. It must track the long, quiet arcs of power, expose what is invisible, and insist that what is normalized is not inevitable. Because in the end, what we fail to see shapes our world far more than the fleeting stories we do.

Suggested Readings

Chomsky, Noam, and Edward S. Herman. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon, 1988.

Foner, Eric. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019.

Holman, Craig, and William Luneburg. “Lobbying and the Article V Constitutional Convention.” The Federal Lawyer, May 2016.

Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

Skocpol, Theda, and Vanessa Williamson. The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Tuchman, Gaye. Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality. New York: Free Press, 1978.

Wolf, Eric R. Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

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David Rowe

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Struggling with the news narrative

December 3, 2024

Robert B. Hubbell

Covering the news during Biden-Trump interregnum is a challenge. I am not looking for sympathy; rather, I want to be explicit about my approach. It is guided by “where” readers appear to be in their desire for wholesale engagement with the news versus “Tell me the highlights and avoid depressing me, if you can.” The same spectrum of reactions maps onto the readiness of readers to re-engage in grassroots activities.

Some readers and members of the grassroots movement are itching to get back into the fight and are growing impatient with those of us who are still re-calibrating our compasses after what seems to be a non-sensical election result. Women have suffered a special psychological injury because the majority of the electorate who voted on November 5 told them that they remain second-class citizens under the US Constitution.

Trump's nomination of multiple men accused of sexual assault, rape, and harassment can only be viewed as a form of psychological terrorism directed toward women. Trump seems intent on rubbing women’s faces in his misogyny—classic abusive behavior. So, before you start expressing irritation with people still recovering, try to find out where they are and what they need. Lead by example, not by chastising or exhorting people to act based on the assumption that everyone feels like you do. It is a near certainty they do not.

On Monday evening, the news is dominated by President Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. I am not going to write about the merits of that decision because it has roiled the readers of the newsletter in an uncharacteristic manner. In Concluding Thoughts (below), I address how that decision has affected the emotional state and political outlook of many readers (and, presumably, many Americans).

But here’s the high-level takeaway from the pardon: Fair-minded people are in violent disagreement about the merits of the pardon. Keep that in mind if you express your strongly held views about the pardon in mixed company.

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Additional revelations regarding Pete Hegseth should doom his nomination to lead the Department of Defense

Trump nominated Fox-TV personality Pete Hegseth to serve as DOD Secretary. As with most Trump nominees, Hegseth was not vetted by the FBI before his nomination. That fact explains the ongoing rude series of shocks and surprises regarding Hegseth.

The Department of Defense is home to more than 50% of the US agencies that comprise the US Intelligence Community. Leading the DOD requires impeccable credentials, rock-steady judgment, and personal character that is beyond reproach (and blackmail). Hegseth has none of those attributes. Indeed, he has the opposite of those attributes in spades.

On December 1, The New Yorker magazine published a lengthy article detailing new allegations of sordid behavior by Hegseth. The New Yorker articles is here (paywalled): Pete Hegseth’s Secret History byline Jane Mayer.

A non-paywalled summary can be found at the Huffington Post, Report: Wild Drinking... Vile Racism... Vet Org Hotbed for Misconduct...

Per The New Yorker,

A trail of documents, corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, indicates that Hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran—Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America—in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.

I will spare you the details, but let’s say that the Huffington Post headline is not clickbait. Hegseth has apparently been out of control in his personal and public life for several years (at least).

Hegseth denied the allegations in the story through a “personal advisor” rather than the Trump administration spokesperson. The denial is printed below. A salient fact is that the “denial” denies nothing by stating:

We’re not going to comment on outlandish claims laundered through The New Yorker by a petty and jealous disgruntled former associate of Mr. Hegseth’s. Get back to us when you try your first attempt at actual journalism.

Hegseth’s friend did not deny the allegations, merely calling them outlandish. That is classic defensive behavior designed to avoid being caught in a lie (a false denial) at a confirmation hearing.

If one-tenth of the allegations are true, Hegseth’s nomination should be pulled. But his nomination should have been pulled based on pre-existing reports about alleged rape, public intoxication, and white supremacist tattoos.

Moreover, if Hegseth had been subjected to an FBI background check—or if he had disclosed the damaging information himself—the incoming Trump administration would not have been caught off guard.

Per the author of The New Yorker story, Jane Mayer, she has been deluged with additional reports concerning Hegseth in the 48 hours following the publication of The New Yorker article. It looks like things are only going to get worse for Hegseth. Let’s hope that he is the second nomination to be withdrawn.

Mother Jones reports on Kash Patel’s ties to QAnon

Kash Patel’s nomination to replace sitting FBI Director Christopher Wray is controversial for many reasons. One reason is that Wray is seven years into a ten-year term—after having been appointed by Trump in 2017. By design, the tenure of FBI Directors exceeds the maximum two terms of presidents to de-politicize the FBI. Trump will circumvent that design feature by firing Wray on Trump's first day in office.

Among the many disqualifying factors for Patel is his “QAnon curious” history. As a refresher, QAnon is a cult run by a non-existent “Q” who believes that the federal government is run by an international gang of pedophiles who kill and drink the blood of innocents--which is a core antisemitic slur. See QAnon Backgrounder | ADL

David Corn of Mother Jones takes a look at Kash Patel’s history of courting support from QAnon on Truth Social, podcasts, and public appearances. See Mother Jones, How Kash Patel, Trump’s FBI Pick, Embraced the Unhinged QAnon Movement.

The Mother Jones article documents Patel’s embrace of QAnon to advance support for Trump. Per Mother Jones,

As Media Matters reported: “Patel’s catering to the QAnon community has also gone beyond the @Q account. In July, he posted an image featuring a flaming Q on Truth Social and starting in at least April, he went on numerous QAnon-supporting shows to promote Truth Social—urging [QAnon] viewers to join the platform, praising [QAnon] hosts for being on the platform, and promising to promote the [QAnon] hosts there.”

David Corn concludes his article in Mother Jones with this:

Patel’s relationship with QAnon shows either that he has a severely distorted view of reality or that he will recklessly exploit dangerous, misguided, and false ideas for political benefit. Neither is an approach suitable for the most powerful and important law enforcement agency in the land.

Another reason that Patel’s infatuation with QAnon should disqualify him from the position of FBI Director is that the FBI has, in the past, investigated QAnon as the source of domestic terror threats (although the QAnon belief system has not itself been identified as a domestic terror organization). See FBI director Wray says bureau is not investigating QAnon conspiracy ‘in its own right’ | CNN Politics.

If QAnon is inspiring domestic terror threats, Kash Patel does not seem inclined to investigate them. That should give the US Senate reason enough to reject Patel’s nomination.

Giving Tuesday

Tuesday, December 3, 2024, is Giving Tuesday. I hope everyone will consider supporting their favorite charitable organization at this time of the year. Many organizations depend on year-end donations for the next calendar year.

Two charitable organizations (501(c)(3)) that are especially relevant after the 2024 election are The Civics Center and VoteRiders.

The Civics Center

The Civics Center is on a mission to make voter registration part of every high school in America. They provide free training and resources so high school students can, with the support of their teachers, run peer-to-peer VR drives in school twice a year, every year, regardless of election cycle. In this way, TCC is working to reach all of the 4 million Americans who turn 18 every year, so they’re ready to make their voices heard as soon as they’re eligible. The Civics Center also provides hyper-local registration data, revealing where engagement among 18-year-olds is lacking, and showing the public how High School Voter Registration can improve rates. Because most high schools do not yet accept their responsibility to help all their eligible students register, TCC is urgently working to expand for the 2026 cycle and beyond. The Civics Center is a project of Community Partners, which is a 501(c)(3) organization, so perfect for individual year-end charitable giving, DAFs, IRA withdrawals, and family foundations. A donation link is here.

VoteRiders

Registering voters is just the start. After they register, they must navigate the confusing and onerous “Voter-ID” laws designed to make it difficult to vote. That is where VoteRiders comes in. VoteRiders is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with a mission to ensure that all citizens are able to exercise their freedom to vote. VoteRiders informs and helps citizens to secure their voter ID as well as inspires and supports organizations, local volunteers, and communities to sustain voter ID education and assistance efforts. Check out the VoteRiders website here (VoteRiders: Voter ID Help) or make a donation here: Donate to VoteRiders.

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