September 29, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
On this day, I always like to tell the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s terrible 1884 Valentine’s Day and how it led to the Progressive Era, but things are happening too fast these days to leave a gap in the record, so you’ll have to look back at last year—or forward to next—for that story.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
President Donald J.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
On Friday, September 5, Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell told Southern Baptist pastor and Newsmax host Tony Perkins that Trump may try to declare that “there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States" in order to claim “emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward,” overriding the Constitution’s clear designation that states alone have control over elections.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Just days before Labor Day, a holiday designed to celebrate the importance and power of American workers in the United States, the Transportation Department cancelled $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects, and the Department of Energy announced it is withdrawing a $716 million loan guarantee to complete infrastructure for an offshore wind project in New Jersey.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Yesterday, Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives approved a new map redrawing congressional districts to switch five seats from Democratic control to Republican.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Yesterday, military personnel from the United States of America literally rolled out a red carpet for a dictator who invaded a sovereign country and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes including the stealing of children.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Economists have been expressing concern about the accuracy of economic statistics coming out of the Trump administration for months.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
On July 2, 2024, just about a year ago, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts told the listeners of Steve Bannon’s War Room webcast: “[W]e are going to win.| heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
