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September 7, 2025 32 mins

Come dream with me as we explore the political and social forces that defined the era from the First Red Scare and the Great Depression to the New Deal, the Cold War, McCarthyism, and the rise of the U.S. surveillance state. Learn how J. Edgar Hoover’s COINTELPRO program emerged . The world that Fred Hampton was born into.

This History is critical for all of us to know as it is resonating now more than ever. So let's experience American history, civil rights, and untold stories of resistance as we go Deep into 20th-century politics, systematic repression, and the seeds of revolution.

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