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      Casey DeSantis wears a leather jacket that reads "Where Woke Goes To Die"

      Woke Is the New Red

      In the 1950s “communist” was the slur of choice to attack those focused on equity, particularly for people of color.

      Frances Moore Lappé
      Aug 20, 2023

      Over half of Republicans agree that “fighting woke ideology in our schools and businesses” is more important than protecting Social Security and Medicare, finds a recent Wall Street Journalsurvey.

      “Florida is where woke comes to die,” brags the state’s governor Ron DeSantis, “woke” is “basically a war on the truth.” Under the banner of anti-woke, he enacted sweeping limitations on what can be taught in public schools, a six-week abortion ban, and America’s cruelest anti-trans policies.

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      Ron DeSantis

      Here's What It Means to Be Anti-Woke: You're Pro-Bigot

      In very simple terms, the word "woke" means being aware of discrimination and social crises and wanting to repair them in order to make a more happy, loving, and egalitarian society.

      Thom Hartmann
      Jun 06, 2023

      Ron DeSantis says he’s going to save America from “wokeness,” proclaiming to a Los Angeles fundraiser:

      “So in Florida, we say very clearly, we will never ever surrender to the woke mob. Our state is where woke goes to die.”

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      National Guard troops stand with bayonets fixed as African-American sanitation workers peacefully march by while wearing placards reading "I AM A MAN."

      Teach History. Democracy Requires It.

      Learning history is partly about understanding injustices past and present. But it’s also about understanding how people came together to fight back.

      Lewis M. Steel
      Apr 13, 2023

      At 85 years of age, having been a civil rights lawyer virtually all my professional life, at times my mind wanders toward despair.

      How as a nation have we fallen into such a place? How have we simply watched as one of our political parties has embraced election deniers who seek to undermine our democracy and mortally weaken our public schools and public universities? How have we watched abortion rights and voting rights come under the gun of right-wing political power?

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