Democrats, you need to step up now and get your gerrymander on to protect those Texas Democrats and your rights.
NathKovich
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History, politics, Georgia Tech, Atlanta United, Architecture, stuff #HistoryBio Currently reading: Jose Antonio Navarro; I’m Search of the American Dream in 19th C Texas, McDonald, David, Texas State Historical Association, Denton, 2010
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So he paid some amount of money. That sounds like a key part of a negotiation.
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Most “Americans,” don’t realize that this was an American phenomenon. People from all over the world came to North and South America to find opportunity, and that thousands still move within the western hemisphere searching for a place that fulfills this promise, going both in and out of the U.S.
“American Dream,” was coined in 1931 by James Truslow Adams in his popular history, “The Epic of America.”
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Some of you may scoff at that and say America never was that, but that is not the point. It is a dream of what America should be, and what it could be if we could stop with all the stupid pettiness.
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‘…not a dream of of acquiring material things, but rather one of social order in which each man and woman could attain the most of which they are innately capable and could be respected and valued by others regardless of birthright.’
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“Better and richer and fuller fur every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability OR achievement.”
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“American Dream,” was coined in 1931 by James Truslow Adams in his popular history, “The Epic of America.”
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“…José Antonio Navarro, arguably the earliest Mexican American to have made a lasting contribution to Texas history after 1836.”
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Have read a lot of Civil War books recently, so changing it up and dropping back in time to the Texas Revolution to start a thread on American Latinos.
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The meta-narrative for the pro-democracy forces has to be “Trump is breaking everything and making everything worse to protect and enrich the rich. We need to get rid of Trump, close up the loop holes he exploited, and put the government back to work for average people.”
