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The Maryland Forward Party stands for doing, not dividing. We reject political extremism and are working together to take real action for the unrepresented majority in American politics. We're not building a copy of the current parties, we're moving American politics forward.
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Minotaur Book Club: "A Resistance History of the United States" by Tad Stoermer
·OnlineOnlineFor July we will be reading "A Resistance History of the United States" by Tad Stoermer.
Available for purchase at Tad Stoermer's website or wherever your buy books or audiobooks: https://www.tadstoermer.com
Or check your local libraryDate and Time:
Thursday, July 23rd, 6:30pm – 8:30pm ESTFrom the Publisher:
"With more than 600,000 followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, he is one of the most widely followed public historians in the world—reaching millions each month. His work has become a trusted source for those trying to cut through misinformation and confront the real history that shapes American power.His approach dismantles the mythologies that pass for American history, exposing the curated nostalgia, moral evasions, and institutional silences that have long protected abusive power. His work confronts the past on its own terms, without the comforting filters that make hard truths easier to ignore.
A Resistance History of the United States explores the moments when people refused the stories meant to justify authority. That defiance took many forms: the women and men in Salem who would not confess to witchcraft; the Black Loyalists who seized their own freedom during the Revolutionary War; the Anti‑Federalists who forced a Bill of Rights to limit nationalist power. Later generations carried their refusal into new terrain—Ona Judge’s escape from enslavement, Henry David Thoreau’s challenge to the state, the clandestine networks of the Underground Railroad, and the uncompromising resolve of John Brown and the Six, whose actions helped push the nation toward civil war and set the stage for the Radical Republicans’ fight to build a new republic from the ruins.
The book treats these episodes not as steps in a march of progress, but as hard‑earned lessons—a usable set of strategies for confronting the abuse of power in our own time."
Previous Book Club:
May was "How Minds Change" by David McRaney. You can see that video and our previous book clubs on our YouTube Channel.The Minotaur Book Club delves into timeless questions and contemporary challenges, inviting participants to explore the roots of governance, liberty, and democracy through the lens of history and philosophy. The discussions will provide a fertile ground for examining how the principles of justice, equality, and collective responsibility have evolved and where they still fall short.
Purpose: The purpose of the book club is to counteract our country’s Historical Amnesia and strengthen our democracy. To that end, we will read and discuss books that help us to understand the American Project, diagnose persisting problems, and suggest ways to fulfill the mission of the Preamble to the Constitution.
"We the People of the United States, to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The Minotaur is one of the key archetypes representing the threat to social order when government leaders threaten democracy by converting public goods to private purposes. The best defense for a democracy is educated citizens.
“A society ignorant and free, never was, never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson
“We have given you a republic, if you can keep it.” – Benjamin Franklin3 attendees
