Excited to share that my new book Minority Rule is out 4/23 from Farrar,Straus&Giroux. Tells story of decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy & entrench their power but also movements to resist it amazon.com/Minority-Rule-…

CNN plays montage of Trump bragging about ending Roe and extreme abortion bans nationwide

More on the historians' brief filed with the Supreme Court regarding presidential immunity --

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Just like the Fugitive Slave Act. Conservatives are not content unless the entire country yields to them.

How many innocents will die tonight because Speaker Mike Johnson is afraid of Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸?

This is evil.

Trump is promising billionaires tax cuts while openly vowing an authoritarian second term.

On the pod, historian Daniel Ziblatt likens this to previous moments where wealthy elites foolishly decided they could work with authoritarian/fascist leaders:
newrepublic.com/article/180564…

Anthony Fauci dared to commit the one mortal sin for which there can never be any forgiveness: he stood in the face of their bloviating, belligerent spray-tanned savior—and he spoke truth that could actually save people's lives.

That's why they hate him.

Dr Faui is a hero.…

BACK TO BACK‼️

#EVERYTHING

Wow--this is fascinating: Nat Turner decided an #eclipse was a reason to start a slave rebellion, so despite what MTG and other GOP are saying, eclipses have woke history in the US.

My piece in TIME madebyhistory:
'The federal govt has long controlled immigration law. Changing that could have catastrophic consequences, both for immigrants and for American foreign policy.' ⬇️⬇️⬇️ time.com/6962871/texas-…

Historian here happy solar eclipse day! Nat Turner took it as a sign to start a slave rebellion in 1831. A copy of his Bible from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

These super wealthy donors are TRAITORS to our Republic. They are not MAGA Morons who Trump conned. They 100% know Trump attempted a coup and incited the Jan 6 attack. They have chosen helping their bottom line over protecting our democracy:

Two words: Dawn Staley

On this day in 1803, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture, revolutionary & advocate for human liberty, died in a jail cell in the Jura Mountains in France. Less than a year later, Haiti would declare its independence, marking the beginning of the end for slavery in the Western Hemisphere