One of the things I love about Maine is that it’s a small enough state that you can be visiting your husband at the docks and run into a senator. I had just written a piece about how the Republicans are running candidates in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin who were rich enough to self-fund their campaigns, but don’t appear to know much of anything about the states they claim to want to represent. And there was Maine Senator Angus King, an Independent, who clearly reads the huge notebo

40K views · 2.5K reactions | Heather Cox Richardson's new book is a warning about the state of U.S. democracy — but it also offers hope: “We have managed to save our democracy and expand it over the years because marginalized peoples have, in fact, always kept the principles of the Declaration of Independence.” | CBS Mornings | Facebook