U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to members of the media after exiting Air Drive One at Palm Seaside Worldwide Airport on February 13, 2026
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On this episode of Begin Making Sense, Harold Meyerson explains Democrats’ preparations for Trump’s threats to voting, and Marcus Rediker talks about Black America within the 1850s.
Trump, dealing with the wave of fashionable opposition to just about the whole lot he’s doing, is working to dam Democrats from voting within the midterms, and “election safety” has turn into a key a part of the preparations underway from blue-state attorneys basic and from voting rights teams just like the Brennan Middle and the ACLU. Harold Meyerson explains.
Additionally: A big proportion of slaves who escaped from slavery within the South escaped not on foot however by boat. Marcus Rediker tells their story—his new e book is Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea.
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