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Harvey J Kaye
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Professor Emeritus of Democracy @UWGB #AFTunion & Award-winning #Author/editor of 18 books + CoAuthor of 21C Economic Bill of Rights https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-bill-of-rights 🌹🇺🇸

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Harvey J. Kaye is an American historian. He has written and edited over a dozen books, many of which focus on the radical tradition in American history and thought.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 20h
#FDR "I have always believed and frequently have stated that my own party (the Democrats) can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism “ (1938)

Militant liberalism = social democracy!
#FDR "I have always believed and frequently have stated that my own party (the Democrats) can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism “ (1938) Militant liberalism = social democracy!

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 10h
Check it out: Graham Platner on with Krystal and Kyle - then check out @grahamformaine.bsky.social

podcasts.
apple.com/us/podcast/krystal-kyle-friends/id1547098165?i=1000744887330
Episode 260: Graham Platner
Podcast Episode · Krystal Kyle & Friends · 01/12/2026 · 1h 7m
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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 11h
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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 20h
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
#ThomasPaine in CommonSense #1776
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” #ThomasPaine in CommonSense #1776

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 1d
“We’ll Have Our Home Again”:
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
“We’ll Have Our Home Again”:
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 1d
Disgusting decision in favor of capital
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 1d
Liar liar
www.commondreams.org/news/kristi-...
Kristi Noem Goes on TV and Lies Through Her Teeth (Again) About ICE Killing of Renee Nicole Good | Common Dreams
"It should be terrifying to every American how Noem lies," said one critic. "She doesn't sweat or move uncomfortably. She just doesn't care. This is what Trump has created. An environment where you only get in trouble if you don't lie."
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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 1d
READ THIS January 11, 2026
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 11, 2026
The news has seemed to move more and more quickly in the last week.
open.substack.com

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 2d
Today Sunday January 11 is the 82nd Anniversary of #FDR’s #SOTU calling for an #EconomicBillofRights for all Americans.
Today Sunday January 11 is the 82nd Anniversary of #FDR’s #SOTU calling for an #EconomicBillofRights for all Americans.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 2d
Today Sunday January 11 is the 82nd Anniversary of #FDR’s #SOTU calling for an #EconomicBillofRights for all Americans.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/econ...
The 'New Economic Bill of Rights' Comic Strip: A Vision for 2024 and Beyond | Common Dreams
After 50 years of class war from above and concerted efforts to suppress the working class, the great majority of Americans still crave—and deserve—an economy built for working people. Now we have to ...
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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 2d
Today Sunday January 11 is the 82nd Anniversary of #FDR’s #SOTU calling for an #EconomicBillofRights for all Americans.
Today Sunday January 11 is the 82nd Anniversary of #FDR’s #SOTU calling for an #EconomicBillofRights for all Americans.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 2d
Today Sunday January 11 is the 82nd Anniversary of #FDR’s #SOTU calling for an #EconomicBillofRights for all Americans. www.commondreams.org/opinion/econ...
We Need an Economic Bill of Rights to Save American Democracy | Common Dreams
The time has come for our many progressive organizations and resurgent labor unions to create a grand progressive and social-democratic coalition that will press the Democratic Party to redeem FDR’s 1...
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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 2d
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Milo Hamilton @milo-hamilton.bsky.social · 2d

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 3d
I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
adamjschwarz.bsky.social Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 24
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:

"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 3d
Common Sense after 250 years still speaks to us and for us - by Alan Minsky and yours truly www.commondreams.org/opinion/hono...
Published 250 Years Ago Today, Thomas Paine's Common Sense Must Inspire Us Again | Common Dreams
​Paine emboldened his fellow citizens-to-be to turn their colonial rebellion into a world-historic revolutionary war for independence, and inspired them to establish a democratic republic.
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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 3d
TODAY is the 250th anniversary of the publication of COMMON SENSE - The pamphlet in which Thomas Paine turned our colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war for independence and the making of a democratic republic. The struggle continues.
TODAY is the 250th anniversary of the publication of COMMON SENSE - The pamphlet in which Thomas Paine turned our colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war for independence and the making of a democratic republic. The struggle continues.

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Troy N. Miller @troynmiller.bsky.social · 4d
$72 trillion. Plundered.

Over 50 years, wealth was systematically transferred from working people to the billionaire class.
That wasn’t “the market.”
That was organized money destroying and plundering America.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 4d
Tomorrow/Saturday is the 250th anniversary of the publication of COMMON SENSE - in which Thomas Paine turned our colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war for independence and the making of a democratic republic. The struggle continues.
Tomorrow/Saturday is the 250th anniversary of the publication of COMMON SENSE - in which Thomas Paine turned our colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war for independence and the making of a democratic republic. The struggle continues.

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Harvey J Kaye @harveyjkaye.bsky.social · 4d
In this episode of The Blue Ridge Breakdown, host Troy Miller is joined by historian Professor Harvey J. Kaye to reclaim January 6 as more than a symbol of democratic rupture. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
January 6, FDR, and the Fight for the Four Freedoms -- with historian Harvey J. Kaye
Podcast Episode · The Blue Ridge Breakdown · 01/08/2026 · 1h 11m
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Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 5d
"Respected economist"? Doubt it!
www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
The Respected Economist Turned Trump Propagandist
Kevin Hassett might do Trump’s bidding at the Federal Reserve, marking a new stage in the president’s control over the American economy.
www.theatlantic.com

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 5d
How does a democracy die? Gradually then all of a sudden.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

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Long Beach Indivisible @indivisiblelb.bsky.social · 5d
Release the Epstein files

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 5d
That's what's happening. We're a nation at the mercy of our president's rogue private police force..
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d
I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 5d
If someone is corrupt lying murderous scum and you do not describe them as such, if you treat them with any sort of deference, if you pull your punches...you are aiding and abetting them, passively defending them, raising the likelihood that they will commit more crimes, harm more of us.