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The Greatest Lie Ever Told About the American Economy and Jobs: Large crowd gathered outside Federal Hall in New York City during the 1929 Wall Street crash, with people filling the steps and street as mounted police manage the scene.
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The Greatest Lie Ever Told About the American Economy and Jobs

06/16/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked laid out the anatomy of a credit crisis unfolding in real time. Household debt at an all‑time high of 1.69 trillion. Student loan delinquencies spiking to 10.3 percent. And the agency designed to protect consumers from predatory lending, the CFPB, gutted by a president who ran as a populist. That was … Continue reading The Greatest Lie Ever Told About the American Economy and Jobs

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'Democrats are the party of the KKK' is a Falsehood: Black‑and‑white photograph of Ku Klux Klan members in white robes and pointed hoods marching in formation down a Washington, D.C. street with the U.S. Capitol visible in the background.
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‘Democrats are the party of the KKK’ is a Falsehood

04/04/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked laid out the historical record in clinical detail. The Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865, men who were, at the time, overwhelmingly Democrats. The Republican Party freed the slaves. And then, over the course of roughly four decades, the parties realigned. Black voters moved … Continue reading ‘Democrats are the party of the KKK’ is a Falsehood

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Delegates at the 1948 Dixiecrat National Convention waving state flags and holding signs supporting Strom Thurmond’s segregationist platform. The Real History Behind Nick Cannon’s Claims About Democrats and Republicans
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The Real History Behind Nick Cannon’s Claims About Democrats and Republicans

04/01/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — Halfway Clocked Last week, Nick Cannon sat in a beach cruiser on his web talk show Big Drive and told Amber Rose something he clearly believed was a revelation. “People don’t know that the Democrats are the party of the KKK,” he said. “People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves.” What is … Continue reading The Real History Behind Nick Cannon’s Claims About Democrats and Republicans

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Historic 19th‑century engraving of the original U.S. Capitol building, showing the early architecture used by the Founders and the first Congresses, symbolizing the constitutional design at the heart of America’s war‑powers debate.
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Transgressing the Line: Who Stops a President at War?

03/07/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked examined a question as old as the Constitution itself: Can a president start a war without congressional approval? The answer lives in the space between what the Founders built and what history has bent. Article I gives Congress the power to declare war. Article II makes the president commander in chief. … Continue reading Transgressing the Line: Who Stops a President at War?

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