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The Conservative Attempt to Re-Write Our Progressive History
Oklahoma isn't the only state where Republicans are waging war on high school history class.
Conservatives in a handful of other states, including Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and - no surprise here - Texas are now pushing bills that would ban the College Board's AP U.S. history curriculum.
In all seriousness, though, there's a really good reason that conservatives are freaking out about what kind of history curriculum is going to be taught in our classrooms. And that's the simple fact that the history of America is the history of the continuous progressive transformation of this country.
All the great accomplishments of American democracy, from the revolution itself to healthcare reform, have been progressive accomplishments and they've come about because progressives rallied for change and said "no" to the old order. It was progressives who in the 1760s and 1770s took the streets and then the battlefields of America to fight against British tyranny.
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Malcolm X Remembered 50 Years Later (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Screwed: O'Reilly's Combat Experience Lie Just Got Worse- Jeremy Holden, Media Matters 
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Daily Take:The Conservative Attempt to Re-Write Our Progressive History
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Why do conservative hate American history?
Quote: "There is now 1 same-sex married couple in Texas for every 6.4 million uninsured Texans. Guess which "problem" the GOP is trying to solve." - LOLGOP. Quote: "[A conservative is someone who] stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it." " by William F. Buckley Jr.
Quote: " The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" -- Maximilien Robespierre".
Hour Two: Did Europe and the UK underestimate the Ukraine?- Stephen Cohen, The Nation
Tweet: "These northeastern winters are brutal. I'm moving to Alaska:" - Michael E. Mann. Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist. Quote: " WISCONSIN - When asked how history will judge him, Gov. Scott Walker said, "If I have my way, there will be no one to teach history." - Andy Borowitz". Quote: "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell, 1984. Book: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell.>
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