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marble falls

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10. Don't give up. It's not easy. They want us discouraged and unfocused by too much anger. ...
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 08:52 AM
Thursday

... channel it and turn it into a cooler grim determination. We've been through worse. The only thing really different is the shit pantsed, dimming bulb in the White House. In a lot of ways he is a diversion. The economic and political interests he serves are using him to focus us on him and not them. To change this this, we need Congress. TACO is on his last legs. His time to walk the earth is limited to months at best.

Look at what the Nixon Attorney Mitchell wanted in the unpassed Crime Omnibus Act that they proposed: Preventive Detention, unfettered wiretapping, death penalty for drug sales (even NY and it's Gov Rockefeller wanted this on a state level), pre ICE ICE like deprtations, shutting down the border just because of pot, using agent orange to spray pot fields in the US and other countries. and more:

https://www.nytimes.com/1969/07/12/archives/congress-gets-nixon-bill-for-preventive-detention-a-bill-for.html

Congress Gets Nixon Bill For Preventive Detention; A Bill for Preventive Detention Submitted to Congress by Nixon



Look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hoovervilles-great-depression/

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We can overcome this evil.


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