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We now have an official date and time for my zoom conversation with Thomas Zimmer that I previewed in my most recent newsletter. It’ll be next Tuesday night, July 25, at 6pm Pacific time (9pm Eastern). I’ll send the zoom link out to paid subscribers on Tuesday morning.
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I do obviously...but it's worth being precise about why and how we should care and what this fake quote kerfuffle actually tells us about the American right.
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Or, why Mark Hatfield memory-holed that time in 1962 when a Walter Huss-led protest at his house scared the crap out of his wife and young children
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I’ve acquired many new subscribers over the past week (thanks, I think, to a recommendation from Kevin Kruse who recently joined Substack), so for those newcomers, here’s a quick description of what this newsletter is about. I’ve spent the past two years researching the career of Walter
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Some observations on yesterday's failed effort to recall Oregon Republican National Committeeman Solomon Yue
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Or, why we should think of "backlash" not as a force of nature, but as the consequence of political mobilization
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[Spoiler Alert: It didn't work.]
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The last chapter of Walter Huss’s 40-year career as a right wing activist in Oregon came in the 1990s when he launched several unsuccessful efforts to get a ballot measure passed that would have eliminated all property and income tax in the state and replaced them with a 2%
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“There is a CONSPIRACY in this country to limit public comment and discussion to what a small but powerful clique has predetermined to be 'acceptable.' The moment anyone attempts to introduce an idea that is 'unacceptable,' nationwide forces are mobilized to silence the 'heretic'
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On the challenges of writing a democratic history of an anti-democratic movement