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Bleeding Kansas

4/9/2023

When Truly Stolen Elections Changed the Course of American History

by Stan Haynes

A massive conspiracy to bring in outside voters successfully stole an election everyone thought was vital to the fate of the country. It wasn't your state in 2020, but the Kansas Territory in 1854 and 1855.

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1/13/2021

Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands

by Steven Lubet

Senator Josh Hawley arguably helped incite a mob to invade the Capitol to thwart the certification of Biden's victory. Missouri's antebellum senator David Rice Atchison helped incite a civil war in Kansas in 1854.