@RepWextonStan Look at Oklahoma’s results since 2004. GOP has been between 65% and 66% statewide for six straight elections, even with a lot of changes when you go county by county.
Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!
The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.
LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.
The book definitely has a racist view on reconstruction/freedman, but I was surprised on how the general summary on what happened was mostly the same to what it taught today. They just had 5 pages on the corruption and 2 on the racism/violence while it’s inverse now.
@MattZeitlin I know you post on Democratic Party self historiography and I’m curious in your experience how they covered/changed on Jackson’s Spoils System. Especially given how critical they used to be of Ulysses Grant for his era’s corruption.
For all the (mostly correct) on how American History used to focus much more on the good, I was surprised just how critical that 1910s book was on essentially every president (besides Lincoln) between Jackson and the 1880s for corruption.
Georgia U.S House 14 Special Election
Fully Reported:
🔴 Clay Fuller – 72,304 (55.9%)
🔵 Shawn Harris – 57,030 (44.1%)
This district was Trump+37 in 2024, so Democrats end up with a massive 25 point overperformance.
I guess I'll have to blog about this tomorrow, but "LOL, Trump TACO'ed out" is decidedly not the right reaction as compared to "that kind of brinkmanship is really fucking dangerous".
NASA has shared the first photos from the Artemis II crew's historic lunar flyby, including a stunning image of Earth.
Read more: https://t.co/YEy5ubmb3q
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.