This short and very readable book, published in 2023, argues democracy works best when citizens recognize their rights and their duties.

A no-holds-barred plan for Democrats to win elections. The author will be the keynote speaker at the Washington State Democratic Convention in June 2024.

The fix was in even before Chief Justice Roger Tane announced the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford on March 6, 1857. Of the nine Justices on the bench, seven had been appointed by pro-slavery Presidents, and five, including Taney, were either current or former slaveholders. Dred Scott, the enslaved Black man who sought his freedom before the highest tribunal in the land, never had a fighting chance.

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