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General views of the Illinois State Capitol Building, featuring a statue of Abraham Lincoln at the steps leading to the entrance of the capitol on May 11, 2026, in Springfield, Illinois.

Grassroots Movement in Illinois Is Resisting Corporate Grab of Water Systems

People in southern Illinois are storming into city meetings and making public records requests in the battle over water.
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People keep looking to Hungary, to Putin’s Russia, even to Nazi Germany to understand how authoritarianism takes hold. We don’t have to leave our own country to find those examples.

Rebecca Nagle, from Many Call Authoritarianism “Un-American.” 250 Years of History Show Otherwise.
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A wash drawing by W.L. Greene depicts the Boston Tea Party. “When colonists threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest an unjust tax, they dressed up as Native people,” says Rebecca Nagle.