First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, April 12, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: “Today, Heather explains that one year after Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariff announcement — promised as a path to lower prices — Americans are instead facing inflation at 3.3%, unconstitutional tariffs, $175 billion in refunds yet to be returned, and an international economic order that took decades to build now in ruins.”

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First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, April 11, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: “Today, Heather explains that Lincoln's second inaugural address cut to the moral heart of the Civil War with extraordinary clarity — acknowledging that both sides prayed to the same God, but that only one had chosen to destroy the nation rather than yield the institution of slavery.”

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April 10, 2026 It feels like something shifted in the United States this week after President Donald J.

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First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, April 10, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: “Today, Heather explains that Pete Buttigieg is sounding the alarm that Trump's genocidal threat against Gaza marks a dangerous new low — one whose damage to global trust in American stability and decency will long outlast this presidency.”

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First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's “Politics Chat”, April 9, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a black circle on the left. Black text on a blue background reads: “In today's 'Politics Chat', Heather explains that reclaiming American democracy doesn't require starting from scratch — it requires demanding enforcement of the laws we already have, reminding us that a nation which holds no one accountable inevitably becomes one where everyone feels compelled to cheat.”

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First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, April 9, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: “Today, Heather explains how Melania Trump made a startling public appearance at a presidential podium to distance herself from Jeffrey Epstein — a move that, rather than quieting the controversy, thrust the Epstein files and her husband's ties to them back into the national spotlight.”

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First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, April 7, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: “Today, Heather explains how Trump's erratic threats of civilizational destruction against Iran — walked back without a single concession — revealed not a commander-in-chief, but a man willing to hold the entire world hostage to his ego, while a complicit Republican Congress remained on break.”

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First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, April 5, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: “Today, Heather explains how Trump's increasingly erratic social media behavior has prompted a former FBI counterintelligence chief, journalists, and sitting senators to openly question his fitness for office — and how the once-unthinkable prospect of invoking the 25th Amendment is no longer being whispered but said out loud.”

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First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, April 4, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: “Today, Heather explains how Trump's bizarre social media posts — threatening holy war against Iran while going publicly silent and calling an 11 a.m. lid as a missing airman was being searched for — have raised alarming questions about who is actually in control of the presidency, and what reckless action may be coming next.”

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First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, April 3, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: Today, Heather explains how President Truman's vision for NATO — as a voluntary shield of free nations united by shared principles of peace, human freedom, and mutual defense rather than enforced conformity — was designed precisely to prevent the kind of aggression that had already twice plunged the world into catastrophic war.

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Thinking Live with Heather Cox Richardson My conversation with Heather Cox Richardson

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Heavy-hitting historians, Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy Snyder, in conversation.

An inspiring discussion about freedom, authoritarianism, and what we can do to meet this moment.

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March 24, 2026 This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.” Another word for that, he said, is “treason.” The evidence for such a cl...

"This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.” Another word for that, he said, is “treason.”

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Listen to this rambling idiot who is putting Americans across the world in danger:

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Presenting the Heather Cox Richardson drinking game!

Drink when these words/phrases are used 🍻

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2. Bonkers
3. In this moment
4. Wackadoodle
5. [Describes something horrifying]... Is really interesting

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February 26, 2026 A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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from @jbpritzker.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov J.B. Pritzger, Governor of Illinois, in his State of the State Address,
as conveyed by @hcrichardson.bsky.social in her prescient & moving #LettersFromAnAmerican substack
thank you both. you give u.s. hope & help us find the light in these times

by @hcrichardson.bsky.social in saturday’s #LettersFromAnAmerican post, regarding the acute similarities of a buchenwald affiliated nazi camp purchased in ohrdruf, germany in 1945 & an ice facility (which is as large as 7 football fields) purchased by the #unlAWFUL u.s. regime in surprise, arizona :

January 22, 2026 Vice President J.D.

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"'RECORD NUMBERS ALL OVER THE PLACE!” Trump’s social media account crowed tonight. “SHOULD I TRY FOR A FOURTH TERM?'"

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Politics Chat, November 20, 2025 YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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November 23, 2025 “Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum asked ...

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Fantastic interview with @hcrichardson.bsky.social! @nicollewallace.bsky.social, I recommend starting your morning reading with #LettersFromAnAmerican. You benefit most from the previous day's contextualization before the onslaught of breaking news begins.

that's how I get news, along with #DemocraticUnderground and other Independent Media like #DemocracyDocket, #DailyBeans, #LettersFromAnAmerican, #Politiscape, #MaryTrumpMedia, and more.
when watching a video clip I will often fast forward.