Sitting high on a bluff over the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, there was a forgotten grave in a disgracefully maintained national cemetery of an unknown soldier:
BE PREPARED and EDUCATE Democrats: 2026 Midterm Elections DISENFRANCHISING VOTERS
Don’t be distracted PEOPLE There won’t be any more free and fair elections after 2024 according to Trump https://bit.ly/3FqVCYa July 27, 2024
This bit.ly/41UelTx will open your eyes as to a RIGGED ELECTION by Republican power brokers Since they were successful in 2024 they now have a plan for all future elections And Trump has removed all agencies that would protect future elections CISA(Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency), EI-ISAC (Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center), EAC(Elections Assistance Agency), FEC(Federal Election Commission)
Vigilante Inc America’s New Voter Suppression Hitmen https://bit.ly/3DM7d3F outlines a voter stealing project originating out of the Georgia Republican party but now spreading to many states and by state legislative actions that led up to the rigged 2024 election(in 2024 9 states had laws allowing vigilante voter rejection….4 of them swing states) The vigilante movement’s sole purpose was to deny voters particularly Black voters their right to vote It’s out of the 1946 KKK violent Black voter suppression playbook with a contemporary 21st century twist that evolved out of the Big Lie movement after 2020 In the 2024 election the removal of 3.5million with voting rights by an estimated 40,000 vigilantes worked to knowingly eliminate voters This 3.5m votes would have been enough for Harris/Waltz to be elected
Voter intimidation by creating fear amongst the electorate particularly among the Black leads to voter suppression It would not be surprising that part of Trump’s pardoning of the J6 insurrectionists among many others is to use them as vigilantes or an armed militia to suppress not only the Black vote but the white Democrat vote This is probably in full swing as you read this
Don’t be naïve Don’t vote provisionally because it won’t be counted Vote early to be sure that the voter registration is secure and be wide awake We are reliving the beginnings of Hitler's Nazi Germany
The Electoral College will always give MAGA an advantage that will be difficult to overcome unless this country goes to what democracy is: one person, one vote. Remember the most important truth about the Electoral College: it exists because of slavery. And it will haunt the rest of our days.
… The Lost Cause during Reconstruction still haunts the Union.
Well, I don’t want to be in the Union with any State of the Confederacy. Let them form their own Jesusland He-Man Womanhaters Nuevo Confederacy. For Chrissake, IT NEVER WENT AWAY!
Had we hanged Lee and the hundreds of US officers who broke their oath (186 from West Point alone) we might have demonstrated our seriousness as a people, instead of naming bases after them. Braxton Bragg?! Are you fucking kidding me?!
We have been kowtowing (sorry, racist reference) to what Lincoln called The Slave Power since the founding of the United States. The shame of our righteous insistence on justice being overwhelmed by
Population increases in the South will bring further power here and make it much for difficult for Democrats nationally. When you have voters here electing people like Tommy Tuberville or Marsha Blackburn or Katie Britt, it puts the nation at great risk.
Excellent piece today. As a 78 year old proud southerner by birth, I thank you. The civil rights movement occurred during my teenage years and early 20s and I appreciate all those fellow Americans who gave so much to get us past the bad old days of legal segregation. Among the things I dislike the most about the MAGA crowd and our current President are the intentional actions to erode the progress we have made on race relations in this country. As has been written, slavery was the original sin of our great nation and we have not yet erased all elements of racism in our culture and our norms, if not our laws. Bob Szabo
Steve, one of your best articles. I keep reminding my Senators Cruz and Cronyn they approved these cabinet members in a letter every week you wrote it for me this week-thanks.
Your admiration for Medgar Edwards is something you & I have in common Steve Schmidt. He was truly a great man who loved his wife & children, & country.
THANK GOODNESS YOU WROTE THIS. IT IS CLEAR THAT THIS ADMINSTRATION IS TRYING TO RE-WRITE HISTORY. DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT. BUT IT'S STILL MIND BOGGLING, TAKING HOLOCAUST OFFTHE PENTAGON SITE, WOMEN, BLACK HISTORY---AMERICANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON HERE. YOU'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOREVER.
PROJECT 2025 IS NO JOKE AND IT'S NOT BEING BROUGHT UP ENOUGH AS THE HANDBOOK FOR WHAT IS GOING ON. THANK YOU STEVE.
Me too…in tears. The real awfulness of what is happening hits me harder every day and this essay slugged me. Medgar Evers could have left Mississippi. He stayed. Do any of you know why Tim Snyder has moved to Canada? U of Toronto made him an offer, but why did he accept? “Do not obey in advance” is one of Snyder’s key contributions to the fight against autocracy and I do not understand his leaving us.
I was raised in segregated Dallas. My history book had a page dedicated to a famous painting, “Slaves Dancing in the Field”. My teacher brought in his grandpappy’s KKK hood. The class was in awe. When segregation was mentioned in 1962 the boys in my school walked out of class and marched thru the halls yelling “ 2, 4, 6, 8, we refuse to integrate!” At Homecoming they paraded a casket with a black dummy in it.” Nothing was done. My parents and I drove up to New York to visit family. At one point a man stopped our car and peered inside. He was Byron De La Beckwith and he was running for governor. He proudly told my dad he was the brave Southerner who killed the “n….l Medgar Evers. My dad was scared to death but didn’t want to antagonize him, so muttered something and pointed to our Texas plates, and we drove on. Decades later, now married and living in New Jersey, I met Michael Goodman’s parents. Very few knew this story of their murders. I taught US history for 25 years and told my students what life was like in The South. How I went to a Ray Charles concert where whites sat in the orchestra and Blacks in the balcony; how at segregated Tulane University a Black man had a heart attack right outside a “white” hospital and they refused to treat him until a “colored” ambulance arrived. But by then he was dead. I completely agree this is Civil War 2.0. The North never completed Reconstruction and the world is paying the price.
Thank you Steve. My wife and I had a long conversation this morning about MAGA's attempt to erase our history, especially Native Americans and African-Americans. And all the genuine contributions they have made to our country. We believe it is to bury the shame our history contains. We embrace the shame and the great accomplishments and advances we have as a society achieved. While MAGA attempts to expunge our history we will continue to fight to retain all of it. The good and the bad. We stand with you and all brave Americans in this period of danger, moral decline and stupidity. Thank you again for all you do.
If you're doing a Civil Rights tour of the South, you may want to stop at the cemetery outside Marion, Alabama (near Selma). At the grave of Civil Rights martyr Jimmie Lee Jackson, you can see the bullet marks on his grave where racists have used it for target practice. If, instead of east, you are headed due south to New Orleans, you should consider a visit to the WWII museum and the Battle of New Orleans site, and its cemetery holding graves of soldiers of nearly every American war.
Then head north to Western South Dakota and visit the Wounded Knee mass grave of around 400 American men, women, and children; murdered by Custer's old regiment, the 7th Cavalry.
Having lived and worked in Mississippi for 14 years I can taste the flavor of your post Steve. It never failed to amaze me the number of otherwise good “god-fearing”people that could not shake the “lost cause” mentality. As recently as the year 2000, one of my son’s teachers held the belief that all would have been better if the south had won!
It may have been more than 60 years since the assassination of Medger Evers, so much has changed and there is so much that has not. The one evil of our past that still lingers is racism. It has been given a new birth and is flourishing in the hearts of small men and women. Trump and his Regime are these small men. They may try to rewrite history and scrub the hard fought achievements of some so they may feel better than. It will not be successful because there are too many people will remember and will put back the markers on graves and websites. These true Americans will restore the history that was forbidden to be taught and remember the stories of the brave men and women who stood up when oppression knocked them down. Donald is a small man with closed mind. Therefore, he has no vision of what makes America great, then or now.
BE PREPARED and EDUCATE Democrats: 2026 Midterm Elections DISENFRANCHISING VOTERS
Don’t be distracted PEOPLE There won’t be any more free and fair elections after 2024 according to Trump https://bit.ly/3FqVCYa July 27, 2024
This bit.ly/41UelTx will open your eyes as to a RIGGED ELECTION by Republican power brokers Since they were successful in 2024 they now have a plan for all future elections And Trump has removed all agencies that would protect future elections CISA(Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency), EI-ISAC (Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center), EAC(Elections Assistance Agency), FEC(Federal Election Commission)
Vigilante Inc America’s New Voter Suppression Hitmen https://bit.ly/3DM7d3F outlines a voter stealing project originating out of the Georgia Republican party but now spreading to many states and by state legislative actions that led up to the rigged 2024 election(in 2024 9 states had laws allowing vigilante voter rejection….4 of them swing states) The vigilante movement’s sole purpose was to deny voters particularly Black voters their right to vote It’s out of the 1946 KKK violent Black voter suppression playbook with a contemporary 21st century twist that evolved out of the Big Lie movement after 2020 In the 2024 election the removal of 3.5million with voting rights by an estimated 40,000 vigilantes worked to knowingly eliminate voters This 3.5m votes would have been enough for Harris/Waltz to be elected
Voter intimidation by creating fear amongst the electorate particularly among the Black leads to voter suppression It would not be surprising that part of Trump’s pardoning of the J6 insurrectionists among many others is to use them as vigilantes or an armed militia to suppress not only the Black vote but the white Democrat vote This is probably in full swing as you read this
Don’t be naïve Don’t vote provisionally because it won’t be counted Vote early to be sure that the voter registration is secure and be wide awake We are reliving the beginnings of Hitler's Nazi Germany
STOP REPUBLICAN ELECTION SUBVERSION
Can you restock this information?
How are you able to monitor all this? Can you recommend a source that I can bookmark?
Don't have a single bookmark Start with the Vigilante documentary and take notes
The Electoral College will always give MAGA an advantage that will be difficult to overcome unless this country goes to what democracy is: one person, one vote. Remember the most important truth about the Electoral College: it exists because of slavery. And it will haunt the rest of our days.
… The Lost Cause during Reconstruction still haunts the Union.
Well, I don’t want to be in the Union with any State of the Confederacy. Let them form their own Jesusland He-Man Womanhaters Nuevo Confederacy. For Chrissake, IT NEVER WENT AWAY!
Had we hanged Lee and the hundreds of US officers who broke their oath (186 from West Point alone) we might have demonstrated our seriousness as a people, instead of naming bases after them. Braxton Bragg?! Are you fucking kidding me?!
We have been kowtowing (sorry, racist reference) to what Lincoln called The Slave Power since the founding of the United States. The shame of our righteous insistence on justice being overwhelmed by
Population increases in the South will bring further power here and make it much for difficult for Democrats nationally. When you have voters here electing people like Tommy Tuberville or Marsha Blackburn or Katie Britt, it puts the nation at great risk.
Excellent piece today. As a 78 year old proud southerner by birth, I thank you. The civil rights movement occurred during my teenage years and early 20s and I appreciate all those fellow Americans who gave so much to get us past the bad old days of legal segregation. Among the things I dislike the most about the MAGA crowd and our current President are the intentional actions to erode the progress we have made on race relations in this country. As has been written, slavery was the original sin of our great nation and we have not yet erased all elements of racism in our culture and our norms, if not our laws. Bob Szabo
The genocide of the native people is, imho, the original sin of America.
Steve, one of your best articles. I keep reminding my Senators Cruz and Cronyn they approved these cabinet members in a letter every week you wrote it for me this week-thanks.
Your admiration for Medgar Edwards is something you & I have in common Steve Schmidt. He was truly a great man who loved his wife & children, & country.
THANK GOODNESS YOU WROTE THIS. IT IS CLEAR THAT THIS ADMINSTRATION IS TRYING TO RE-WRITE HISTORY. DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT. BUT IT'S STILL MIND BOGGLING, TAKING HOLOCAUST OFFTHE PENTAGON SITE, WOMEN, BLACK HISTORY---AMERICANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON HERE. YOU'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOREVER.
PROJECT 2025 IS NO JOKE AND IT'S NOT BEING BROUGHT UP ENOUGH AS THE HANDBOOK FOR WHAT IS GOING ON. THANK YOU STEVE.
Ironic that Yankee Don leads the Neo Confederacy
Steve, your incredible writing had me in tears this morning. Thank you for all you are doing. With deepest respect from New Zealand.
Me too…in tears. The real awfulness of what is happening hits me harder every day and this essay slugged me. Medgar Evers could have left Mississippi. He stayed. Do any of you know why Tim Snyder has moved to Canada? U of Toronto made him an offer, but why did he accept? “Do not obey in advance” is one of Snyder’s key contributions to the fight against autocracy and I do not understand his leaving us.
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Bless you Steve
Indeed.
I was raised in segregated Dallas. My history book had a page dedicated to a famous painting, “Slaves Dancing in the Field”. My teacher brought in his grandpappy’s KKK hood. The class was in awe. When segregation was mentioned in 1962 the boys in my school walked out of class and marched thru the halls yelling “ 2, 4, 6, 8, we refuse to integrate!” At Homecoming they paraded a casket with a black dummy in it.” Nothing was done. My parents and I drove up to New York to visit family. At one point a man stopped our car and peered inside. He was Byron De La Beckwith and he was running for governor. He proudly told my dad he was the brave Southerner who killed the “n….l Medgar Evers. My dad was scared to death but didn’t want to antagonize him, so muttered something and pointed to our Texas plates, and we drove on. Decades later, now married and living in New Jersey, I met Michael Goodman’s parents. Very few knew this story of their murders. I taught US history for 25 years and told my students what life was like in The South. How I went to a Ray Charles concert where whites sat in the orchestra and Blacks in the balcony; how at segregated Tulane University a Black man had a heart attack right outside a “white” hospital and they refused to treat him until a “colored” ambulance arrived. But by then he was dead. I completely agree this is Civil War 2.0. The North never completed Reconstruction and the world is paying the price.
Thank you Steve. My wife and I had a long conversation this morning about MAGA's attempt to erase our history, especially Native Americans and African-Americans. And all the genuine contributions they have made to our country. We believe it is to bury the shame our history contains. We embrace the shame and the great accomplishments and advances we have as a society achieved. While MAGA attempts to expunge our history we will continue to fight to retain all of it. The good and the bad. We stand with you and all brave Americans in this period of danger, moral decline and stupidity. Thank you again for all you do.
One of your finest pieces, Steve, thank you.
Those who seek to erase and airbrush out the crimes of history are accomplices after the fact.
If you're doing a Civil Rights tour of the South, you may want to stop at the cemetery outside Marion, Alabama (near Selma). At the grave of Civil Rights martyr Jimmie Lee Jackson, you can see the bullet marks on his grave where racists have used it for target practice. If, instead of east, you are headed due south to New Orleans, you should consider a visit to the WWII museum and the Battle of New Orleans site, and its cemetery holding graves of soldiers of nearly every American war.
Then head north to Western South Dakota and visit the Wounded Knee mass grave of around 400 American men, women, and children; murdered by Custer's old regiment, the 7th Cavalry.
What a wonderful article.
Having lived and worked in Mississippi for 14 years I can taste the flavor of your post Steve. It never failed to amaze me the number of otherwise good “god-fearing”people that could not shake the “lost cause” mentality. As recently as the year 2000, one of my son’s teachers held the belief that all would have been better if the south had won!
It may have been more than 60 years since the assassination of Medger Evers, so much has changed and there is so much that has not. The one evil of our past that still lingers is racism. It has been given a new birth and is flourishing in the hearts of small men and women. Trump and his Regime are these small men. They may try to rewrite history and scrub the hard fought achievements of some so they may feel better than. It will not be successful because there are too many people will remember and will put back the markers on graves and websites. These true Americans will restore the history that was forbidden to be taught and remember the stories of the brave men and women who stood up when oppression knocked them down. Donald is a small man with closed mind. Therefore, he has no vision of what makes America great, then or now.