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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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June 20, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Disturbing Our National Slumber
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June 18, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: This Bigness and This Whiteness
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June 15, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Poor Fiction!
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June 13, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: I Refuse
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June 11, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: War is a Human Invention
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June 8, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: He Builds Walls
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June 6, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: I Commit
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June 4, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Self-Interest Deposed
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June 1, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Obfuscation is the Enemy
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May 30, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Extraordinary Self
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May 25, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: Not Him But Us
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May 23, 2018One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: It Pours Down
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