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One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism
Since the 2016 election, reading the news each day can send even the most placid among us into a paralyzing apoplexia. We are enraged, we are bewildered, and then we get nothing done all day. We go to bed with teeth clenched, wake up, and it begins again.
But we have a solution. From now until the 2018 midterm elections — and likely beyond — we will be featuring essays by powerful voices, from poets and novelists to actors and activists, giving voice to their state of mind — and possibly yours, too.
And then, most crucially, these writers will offer one simple thing you can do that day to take action, to address those concerns, to feel a little less powerless. Maybe it’ll be an organization or charity they find worthy of your donation, a volunteer opportunity worth your time, or an issue that deserves greater awareness. Maybe it’ll be a simple commitment to vote this November. Whatever it is, we hope it will help remind all of us of the big and small things we can do to work toward justice and change.
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November 6, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: From One, Many
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November 5, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Think Small
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November 2, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Exponential
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November 1, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: More Bad Than Good
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October 31, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: An Excerpt from All the Yellow and Red Cards issued to Donald Trump from January 20, 2017 to January 19, 2018
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October 29, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Choices and Decisions
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October 26, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Notes from a Shithole
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October 24, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: A Falling Tide
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October 22, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Avoid the I Word
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October 19, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Levelers and Sharpeners
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October 17, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: “Us” and “Them”
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October 15, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Travesty
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