Dawson Barrett
Dawson Barrett is assistant professor of U.S. History at Del Mar College. He is the author of "Teenage Rebels: Successful High School Activists, from the Little Rock Nine to the Class of Tomorrow" (Microcosm Publishing, 2015) and "The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America" (New York University Press, May 2018).
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Whether it's the refusal to release all the Epstein files, the failure to punish Trump for his anti-democratic actions, or the launching of the war in Iran, the United States is becoming as unaccountable as Russia under Putin.
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To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.
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