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Saturday, July 05, 2025

SIGNED JOHN HANCOCK

A prescient document that amazes when you realize how the framers thought it through ~250 years ago. 

The Declaration of Independence

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Labels: american_history, DEMOCRACY, election, political activism, politics, trump-nomore

Thursday, July 03, 2025

If a picture is truly worth 1,000 words......

 


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