Stuart Stevens has spent his long career in politics working to get Republicans elected. He ran Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. But Stevens’ latest book is a warning to the nation about today's GOP and its threat to America’s democracy. The book is called "The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy."
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Some of the laws that Donald Trump and others in his circle are accused of breaking resulted from the post-Civil War period when the Ku Klux Klan rose to terrorize the formerly enslaved. New federal laws were needed to protect the ballot box and fight white supremacy. -
The nature of Trump's indictment is unprecedented, but the first time a president faced arrest was over 100 years ago. -
An archaeological dig on the banks of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park in the west end of downtown San Antonio has unearthed the cornerstone of the post Civil War-era St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church. -
More than a year after Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to be removed, it was lifted from its pedestal in Richmond, Va., to be placed into storage. -
Maryland, though a slave-holding state, did not secede from the Union and attempted to maintain neutrality during the Civil War. The song was a full-throated defense of the Confederacy. -
The Battle of Medina was fought just south of San Antonio in 1813. But no one is exactly sure where the battle site is located. But that may soon change. -
Barbara Johns led a student strike in 1951 that became part of the foundation for Brown v. Board of Education. -
Though George Floyd's death renewed calls to remove Confederate monuments, some cities formally decided to protect them. -
A downtown San Antonio monument to the war dead of the Confederacy is being targeted for removal.The monument in Travis Park is inscribed “Lest We Forget… -
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