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Don't know if you've read or listened to historian, professor, and author Heather Cox Richardson. Her near-daily Letters from an American are an excellent way to keep up with what's going on here. The Letters are specifically written for the purpose of recording history. Her twice-a-week talks on Facebook and YouTube veer off into questions people ask, what actions can be taken, etc. In either place, she often draws parallels to what has happened previously in U.S. history, but staying in her lane, she does not make predictions.

I've learned more from her about U.S. history than I ever did in high school or college. She has explained things I never knew about how the people "representing" us in Congress got so unbalanced that we are now basically under minority rule.

Example: California has a population nearing 40 million people. If it were a separate country, it would be the world's fourth largest economy. Number of Senators in D.C.? 2

Wyoming has a population of less than 600,000 people. Number of Senators? 2

That's one of many, many things we need to fix. In my opinion, we need serious campaign finance reform, and we need to ditch the Electoral College.

Mar 17
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