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Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
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Fecklessly Failing
Episode Date: April 21, 2026April 20, 2026Reporting indicates Trump entered the Iran War convinced that Iranian people would support it, The closing of the Strait of Hormuz has l...
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Could the King Be Checked By the People?
Episode Date: April 20, 2026April 19, 2026The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1776, marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Just over a year later, the colo...
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Crises in the Wings
Episode Date: April 18, 2026April 17, 2026Strait of Hormuz opens after 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon takes effect, Trump hits media circle announcing that the war w...
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The Republicans Seem Frantic
Episode Date: April 17, 2026April 16, 2026Congress is back in session, Republicans are reckoning with Victor Orbán’s fall, With Trump’s erratic behavior, rising oil prices, and t...
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Now He Belongs to the Ages
Episode Date: April 16, 2026April 15, 2026Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln spent the evening of April 14 at Ford’s Theater in Washington, That night, John Wilkes Booth enter...
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The Changing Political Game
Episode Date: April 15, 2026April 14, 2026Viktor Orbán’s loss of control of the Hungarian government has changed the political game in the US, Trump’s emotional state “seems to b...
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Restore America to Its Own People
Episode Date: April 14, 2026April 13, 2026Péter Magyar won the Hungarian election in a blowout, He revealed that Viktor Orbán was using government money to finance CPAC in the US...
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Trump’s Broken Promises
Episode Date: April 13, 2026April 12, 2026War with Iran has pushed inflation to 3.3% - the fastest rate of growth in almost two years, Energy costs skyrocket as the Strait of Hor...
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Attack on Fort Sumter
Episode Date: April 12, 2026April 11, 2026On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on South Carolina’s Fort Sumter, South Carolina had left the Union the previous December, Wh...
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Has Something Shifted?
Episode Date: April 11, 2026April 10, 2026Donald Trump’s genocidal threats earlier this week terrorized millions of Iranians and thus violated the Geneva Conventions, Trump conti...
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Falling Apart
Episode Date: April 10, 2026April 9, 2026Trump’s ceasefire immediately begins to fall apart, Israel does not accept an end to its bombardment of southern Lebanon, Iran closes Str...
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Meeting at Appomattox
Episode Date: April 9, 2026April 8, 2026General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to meet at the home of Wilmer McLean in Appomattox on the afternoon...
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Trump’s Mad and Desperate Threats
Episode Date: April 8, 2026Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe
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Lies and Non Sequiturs
Episode Date: April 7, 2026April 6, 2026According to Aaron Rupar, “It is difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” The story is the president, himself,...
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The President’s Ultimatums
Episode Date: April 6, 2026April 5, 2026In a rant on social media, Trump threatens Iran again, Trump’s post threatens to commit war crimes, Post pushes back the deadline for ex...
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Exerting Their Will
Episode Date: April 6, 2026April 4, 2026Pete Hegseth fires US Army chief of staff, Iran shoots down a US fighter jet and hits a Warthog aircraft and a helicopter, One airman was...
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Administration is Feeling Pressure
Episode Date: April 4, 2026April 2, 2026Trump invokes the right-wing vision of the Goldwater era, Trump's 2027 budget plan about to be released and will shape the Republican arg...