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Supplemental Resources for Morone/Kersh, By the People 5e, including:
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Students from Florida question one of their Senators, Marco Rubio, at a Town Hall regarding gun control, campaign donations, and monetary influence in politics.
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President Roosevelt delivers his famous “Four Freedoms” speech at the 1941 State of the Union address in the midst of World War II.
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In this short clip and corresponding article, President Trump claims that Mexico will be financially responsible for his border wall.
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The (long) full debate of HR 4038, a bill on refugees, pursuant to H. Res. 531, illustrating a national reluctance to open the country to refugees from Syria and Iraq.
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The Slants perform a song written to protest the trademark office, proclaiming freedom of speech.
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Tom Lehrer protests Miller v. California, in which obscene speech was defined to include speech that arouses prurient interest without redeeming cultural value.
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A short video recapping the white nationalist protests in Charlottesville (and the criticism of it), as well as the counter-protest in response.
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The infamous Birth of a Nation is reviewed, focusing on its negative imagery and themes of racism and how they empower a cultural narrative.
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The most moments from the famous “I Have a Dream” speech are recounted, tracing from the Emancipation
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President Roosevelt “warns” the American public who claims to believe in his social welfare agenda without truly supporting them in policy.
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The speaker questions the ability of blogs, and the internet more generally, to both provide information, but cautions against the underlying “dark side” of online participation to mobilize anger and dissatisfaction with little moderation.
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The family of a congressperson in Arizona films a negative advertisement against their relative, illustrating the depths of negative campaigning.
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A 1961 LP of Ronald Regan arguing how government intervention in medicine (through a program like Medicare) might lead to a broader socialist movement across more realms of social policy.
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An anti-Clinton-healthcare advertisement from 1993, featuring a run-of-the-mill middle-class couple, illustrates the power of media framing political messages.
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President Eisenhower justifies the need for the defense industry in an uncertain global world, but warns of the potential political influence such an industry could wield.
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President Trump uses a 2018 interview with a friendly cable news channel, Fox News, to note the bias he perceives around news coverage of how his presidential administration has created policy.
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In one of the most controversial political ads of all time, the Johnson campaign uses a cute child counting to implicitly frighten voters into support with the threat of nuclear war.
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Essentially a full 1960 presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy is shown, illustrating the power of radio (which favored Nixon) and television (which favored Kennedy).
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Trump supporters at a Trump rally begin to shout “Build a Wall” as the then-candidate Trump discussed immigration policy at a campaign rally.
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Senator George Allen holds a small campaign rally event in 2006 in Virginia, derisively referring to an opponent’s staffer by an ethnic slang in front of his supporters.
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Raw footage of supporters’ comments during and after Trump’s 2016 rallies illustrate the anger and vitriol around modern American partisanship.
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President Trump criticizes the postal rates that Amazon gets through the United States Postal Service.
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A fictional filibuster from the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is shown, indicating a dramatized and unlikely back-and-forth debate as filibuster.
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Senator Paul shows a real filibuster of a CIA nomination, indicating how unexciting and banal a filibuster is in real life
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President George W. Bush gives a speech at Ground Zero after the attacks on September 11, 2001, showing his role in foreign policy and in leading American public opinion.
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A panel discusses the interpretation behind First Lady Melania Trump’s jacket, reading “I Really Don’t Care Do U?”, when visiting migrant children on the border.
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A panel of developers in San Francisco describe their application which trawls the Federal Register, a comprehensive log of the activities of the United States federal government.
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The lineage of the infamous case Plessy v. Ferguson is described, specifically laying out how the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment had been twisted to permit “equality” by justifying “separate but equal” institutions.
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A full recording of the oral arguments in United States v. Texas, a case about deferred action on childhood arrivals (DACA).
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Senator Bernie Sanders speaks in opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership on the Senate floor, outlining threats to the American worker.
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Then-candidate Trump uses extremely harsh language to vaguely criticize the Trans Pacific Partnership during a campaign rally.
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President Kennedy delivers an address in Berlin, discounting communism and promoting American democratic ideals abroad.
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President Reagan delivers remarks in Berlin, suggesting the leader of the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall as a symbol of increasing openness to the democracies of Western Europe and the United States.
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A montage of Berliners destroying and celebrating the destruction of the divisive Berlin Wall, a symbol of communism.
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