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Governors are already saying….ahhh, NO! We’ll enact State Laws to block trump. Let’s get a Blue state coalition going as was started in order to go around the electoral college…play it like rescumliCons now!

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Is there a direct link to purchase your book? I hate to use Amazon if I can avoid it. He'll, I'd drive down to Cincinnati to purchase from you directly.

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Thank you for asking! I feel the same way. I hope more authors will provide several options instead of just the one link. I'm finding a lot of books I want to order but I'm on a tight budget so I often ask the local library to order it so it will be on the shelf after I read it. This is another way to get it in front of folks unaware of it. Where I live the library doesn't always order these books. Not because they don't want to but they likely don't know. The other positive is it supports our local public libraries which also need support. However, if I'm going to pay for it I'd much rather support other businesses.

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Thank you, David. I’m ready to dive into your book. The more we know, the more we can resist.

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I bought your book (here in Canada) after you first spoke about its publication - and applied some of the deep reading techniques I learned from responses to an "Atlantic" article that compiled some of the shock of college profs who were receiving students who had never read a full-length book during their previous schooling. Your novel is mind-opening, deeply involving, and sometimes disturbing to read. How do we thank an author who risks everything to capture our reason and emotion to teach our hearts?

It struck me (selfish thought from a retired English teacher...) that through all the campaigning, we heard anger and fear, we measured how much support candidates got from second-rate songwriters, rap stars, and football players- and not one ever mentioned a book that had formed their character.

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When the body count starts to rise concurrent with RFK Jr.’s taking the reins of healthcare in the USA, they’ll need to close ranks and start lying about the heightening body count, and come up with new ways to hide the bodies, and blame it on the libs or brown illegals… maybe make it illegal to count bodies. Prepare to object loudly in some way that won’t give them excuse to imprison you, unless it becomes time for mass, peaceful civil disobedience.

I’ll bet the prison industry has broken ground already this week on new construction of several facilities to manage many kinds of enemies of the state. R’s would consider this a “buy” signal.

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You are prescient- they already HAVE. I subscribe to "Your Local Epidemiologist" and her newsletter this morning pointed out a few things about matters that have been derided by some states - "where they should have been", according to Trump. And RFK Jr. is taking on this portfolio?

1. Last month, 6 counties in Idaho outright banned the availability of Covid-19 vaccines.

2. Texas doesn’t allow public health departments to educate about Covid-19 vaccines.

3. Missouri has removed the ability for public health departments to report data to WHO (and thus, CDC).

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Hi David, thank you and please help us understand how to fight back. This is quite terrifying.

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This is where I’d like to focus - strategies for resistance. I look forward to these exchanges.

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I wish you would join Threads.

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What do you mean we must act? What actions are even at our disposal??

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"Trump's Project 2025 is already underway in Argentina and it's terrifying" opendemocracy.net

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We are ALL (including the naive Trump voters who are about to get burned baby burned by their Dear Leader as the billionaires take over and leave them in the dirt) about to enter into the Project 2025 nightmare. For a taste of what is to come check out the Common Dreams article about what is NOW happening in Argentina courtesy of the Heritage Foundation. It is as bad as you think and worse.........

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