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![Our Constitutional Responsibility: Theory Versus Reality](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/durc25gdovk-400x284.jpg)
We abdicate responsibility to the degree and react to the actions or inactions of how well the people we elect perform, or how we think they perform, OUR expectations. This is a very simple way of looking at it, maybe too simple...
![Big Pharma Greed Is Literally Killing Americans](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/sanders-pharma-greed-400x284.jpg)
"How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?" asked Sen. Bernie Sanders.
![Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg — Confronting Our National Covid Loss Through Art](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AP_coronavirus_deaths_110520-400x284.jpg)
Last year, artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg created an outdoor installation in Washington comprised of more than 267,000 white flags—one for every person in the United States who had died from COVID-19. This year, she has returned and expanded her work. Now, there are some 650,000 flags placed on the National Mall.
![How Facebook’s Algorithms Fueled Massive Foreign Propaganda Campaigns During the 2020 Election](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/b8nuypqvpis-400x284.jpg)
An internal Facebook report found that the social media platform’s algorithms enabled disinformation campaigns based in Eastern Europe to reach nearly half of all Americans in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
![Redistricting: Can New Technology Tools Make It Honest and Fair?](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/redistricting-400x284.jpg)
Mathematicians, social scientists, lawyers and programmers have led the development of a new generation of free tools to make and evaluate redistricting maps. Can they make the process more transparent?
![Drug Money: Cartels Are Evil but the Legal Ones Are Worse](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/drug-money-400x284.jpg)
Drug money is big business in both legal and illegal forms. Oddly enough there are very few differences between the legal and illegal brands when you dig down below the surface.
![Landslide: Trumpublicans Lose Bigly in the California Recall](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/fsj6ly_lqos-400x284.jpg)
Yesterday's massive loss by California recall supporters should bring a huge sigh of relief from those who feared the worst. The prospects of Larry Elder being elected governor by a tiny minority of the California electorate were nothing short of grim.
![Overcoming Our Differences—With or Without a Heineken](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/differences-400x284.jpg)
In 2017, Heineken put considerable time and expense into creating a video which while it is a commercial, pointed out the solution that the purveyors of hate seriously dislike: open and direct communication.
![For Joe Manchin, Corruption and Greed Are a Family Affair](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/manchin-family-2-400x284.jpg)
Joe Manchin's opposition to the environmental aspects of the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill has some connection to the fact that he is heavily invested in coal and a considerable portion of his personal wealth is based on it.
![War Profiteers: The Real Winners of the “War on Terror”](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/war-on-terror-400x284.jpg)
A new analysis shows that a "large portion" of Pentagon "war on terror" contracts in recent years have gone to just five companies: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
![Slavery and the Continuing History of Voter Suppression](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/atigjllfryg-e1631295658158-400x284.jpg)
Voter suppression for African-Americans began when their right to vote a fantasy. When our founding fathers were crafting our Constitution, the issue of voting rights was raised, and Afro-Americans were deemed to be ¾ of a person, which was a step up from slavery…or not.
![Republicans Have Convinced Everyone that Only Billionaires and the Military Are Entitled to Our Tax Money](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cjethqtjpaw-400x284.jpg)
Long term propaganda campaigns have convinced the American public that "government money" is somehow not their money. Public funds are those funds that came from us, the public. So why are we not entitled to benefit from them?
![Propaganda and the Fact-Free Cult](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/oddomil3hea-400x284.jpg)
After the Civil War, a propaganda campaign was launched against the recently freed African-Americans. They were labeled animals, shiftless, lazy, dumb, poised to take a white man’s job, but perhaps their biggest sin, the biggest lie propagated, was a suppose desire to rape white women. In other words, all lies, no facts.
![Why Not Say the Word, “Fascism?”](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/proudboys-400x284.jpg)
Since calling out fascism after it succeeds would be like finally agreeing to be vaccinated while they’re hooking you up to a ventilator, ideally more voices will join this candid cadre to make it part of the 2022 election conversation.
![Nope, Trump Would Not Have Done a Better Job of the Afghanistan Evacuation](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/afghanistan-evacuation-400x284.jpg)
Don't buy the BS that Trump would have done a better job for the Afghans. Olivia Troye, a former White House national security staffer during the Trump administration, makes it perfectly clear that the opposite is true.
![What Afghanistan Withdrawal Critics Are Really Saying: I Want My War Profits Back!](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/7q87y4x8rhk-400x284.jpg)
In Dizzy City politics, what we are not supposed to have attention on is the $2 trillion that has already been burned in Afghanistan. Never forget that the vast majority of that money was spent here, with American companies.