The US Majority

The Mathematics of Our Majority Brainstorming document for the Introduction to UNINCORPORĀTUS. Not a book change. A realistic, sourced case that workers have the numbers — and that the 2% Strategy is not hope. It’s arithmetic. Last updated: June 2025. The Framing The hardest thing to believe about taking the Read more

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Chapter 25

Chapter Twenty-Five — The Convention The application from the legislature of the State of Wisconsin reached the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives at 11:14 in the morning on the third of February, 2028. The application was the thirty-fourth application. The Clerk of the House, who had Read more

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Chapter 24

Chapter Twenty-Four — The Ninety-Nine Cent Movement The movement had begun in the way movements begin in a country in which there is no longer space for movements to begin in the old way. It had not begun on a campus. It had not begun in a union hall. It Read more

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Chapter 23

Chapter Twenty-Three — The Anointed The press conference was held in the East Room. The East Room had been used, in the course of the Republic, for the announcement of seventeen Supreme Court nominations, four declarations of war, the surrender of the Confederate States of America by proxy, the signing Read more

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Chapter 22

Chapter Twenty-Two — The Call The phone was on the desk in the small private study off the bedroom in the residence on the second floor of the White House. The phone was beige. The phone had been installed in 1979, when the residence’s communications had last been comprehensively upgraded, Read more

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Chapter 21

Chapter Twenty-One — The Shadow Daniel saw the shape on a Tuesday evening in May, in a parking garage in Crystal City, on the third level, near the elevator, after he had come down from the fourteenth floor of an office building where Layla Khoury kept a small studio apartment Read more

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Chapter 20

Chapter Twenty — The Kill Switch The agency tried the kill switch a second time on April 28. The second attempt was not the same as the first. The first attempt had used the standard kill-switch protocol — the agreed frequency, the agreed authentication codes, the agreed sequence of transmissions. Read more

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Chapter 19

Chapter Nineteen — The Chance Meeting She was at the bookstore. The bookstore was in Old Town Alexandria, on King Street, two blocks from the river, in a brick building that had been a tobacco warehouse in the eighteenth century and a printer’s shop in the nineteenth and a bookstore Read more

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Chapter 18

Chapter Eighteen — The Question The third nominee was not sworn in. The Secretary of Commerce remained in the Marriott in Crystal City for eleven days, on the fourteenth floor, with the agents and the cleared hallway and the hardened glass, and at the end of the eleven days the Read more

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Chapter 17

Chapter Seventeen — The Second Death The second death changed the shape of the country in a way the first death had not. The first death had been a cardiac event. The country had grieved a Vice President. The flags had come down. The flags had gone back up. The Read more

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