#Confederate

When they tell you that the cornerstone of the Confederacy was slavery.But let's go there for just a minute with some logic from a Confederate soldier:“But if slavery was the
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Chilling thread. My fear is Trump will, if he senses he can get away with it, use the federal police-turned-invading army for blunt voter suppression.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1284337917981274115 Cuccinelli's comments just conf
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As a sometimes-social movements scholar, I’m struck by how little civilians understand movement politics. Guys, it’s time for some social movement theory.#Thread 1/ First, know that authorities respond to movements
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1/ So I was doing a little reading and writing about QAnon-friendly freshman GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene today, and as loopy as I knew she was, what I read
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They say that there's a thin line between Bravery and Insanity.But, I don't think that's true at all.Let's rename Fort Lee, after Robert E. Lee, to Fort Doss, after Desmond
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#StatesRights - a :Growing up in Texas, I frequently heard the argument about how important it was that states have their individual rights to set their own policies within the
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In less than 9 months in 1889 into 1890, Congress admitted six new states to the Union. The politics of that outburst of statehood aren't just interesting history. It suggests
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1) I’d like to start a thread chiming in on the marvelous deconstruction of @DineshDSouza and his thesis that the Southern Strategy and subsequent party switch in the 1960s and
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Thread: How the enslaved in Brazil used the u.s. civil war (1861-1865) to force Brazilian slavemasters into the crisis that led to "abolition".First, some very quick background. 1) More slaves
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Everything Old Is New Again, Or Why It's Worth Brushing Up on a 144-Year-Old Electoral Debacle: a threadhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2021/01/1876-election-most-divisive-united-states-history-how-congress-responded/ You hav
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I'm trying to cut down on complaining about Rod Dreher. But he's gone and written a post about the silly, James Lindsay 'when will you confess to having beaten your
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CONTENT WARNING: This thread contains descriptions of murder and language used by racists.1) Identity Dixie member James Lee Ginther III committed a premeditated murder, but his membership in ID was
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If you’re interested in the Capitol events, you might want to read up on the sedition / conspiracy case against the Order in 1988. Reagan’s DOJ was wholly uninterested in
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Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding General of the Union Army that fought and defeated the Confederacy. 18th President of the United States of America. Created the Department of Justice, and prosecuted
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I’m going to quote tweet since @thomaschattwill didn’t tag me in his original post. Thanks for your question, Thomas. My response follows.https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1281595623326744576 First, this:https://twitter.com/ori
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We looked through hours of footage from the Capitol riot to decode the symbols that Trump supporters brought with them, revealing some ongoing threats to US democracy. One symbol
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