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Dear Progressive Reader,

Today is the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. As we hurtle toward the 2024 presidential election, today marks an important time to reflect on the threats to democracy in a possible second term in office for Donald Trump. As President Joe Biden said ([link removed]) in his speech yesterday at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, “This is not rhetorical, academic or hypothetical. Whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time. And it’s what the 2024 election is all about. [Donald Trump is] willing to sacrifice our democracy, [to] put himself in power.” As we think about the upcoming primaries, and the election in November, it will be critical to our future to keep those thoughts in mind.

On January 9, 1909, Robert M. “Fighting Bob” La Follette and his wife Belle Case La Follette launched a new and exciting experiment—a progressive magazine that would cover news and movements working to build a more just society. The opening statement ([link removed]) of that first issue began: “The first word of La Follette's Weekly Magazine to its readers is one of grateful appreciation that there are so many thousands of them. Our second word is an acknowledgement of responsibility. Fortunately there is no room for doubt as to the duty devolving upon us. The conditions which have called this magazine into being determine its work. La Follette’s will be a magazine of progress, social, intellectual, institutional. Moreover, it will be progressive in the more distinctly political sense. It is founded in the belief that it can aid in making our government represent with more fidelity the will of the people.”

That magazine, now called The Progressive, celebrates our 115th anniversary on Tuesday, and we do it thanks to you, our readers and supporters, who have made it possible. Without you we could not survive, but it is for you, our readers, that we continue every effort to survive and thrive and to bring to you what editor-at-large Bill Lueders has often called “the best little political magazine in the country.” As Fighting Bob wrote in his opening salvo, “To the people whose interests it is our ambition to serve, we make the sole promise that so far as La Follette’s can open it to you, ‘ye shall know the truth, and the truth [we devoutly hope] shall make you free.’ ”

This week on our website, Mike Ervin hesitatingly notes ([link removed]) that the U.S. Supreme Court got it right a couple times recently; Jeff Abbott reports on ([link removed]) efforts to cast out the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine; Jake Whitney reviews ([link removed]) the new book Human Capital by Laura Robson; and Mark Fiore illustrates ([link removed]) the ways that Donald Trump is seeking to profit off his indictments. Plus, Mariama Sidime looks at ([link removed]) efforts to replace tipping and give workers in the service industry a raise; Rann Miller bemoans ([link removed])
efforts to take social studies out of the curriculum; and Grace E. Howard points out ([link removed]) the legal consequences of the right’s push for “fetal personhood.”

Please keep reading, and we will keep bringing you important articles on these and other issues of our time.

Sincerely,
Norman Stockwell
Publisher

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