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Podcast: KKKrossing the divide - A Black man talks to white supremacists

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Today marks the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death. His killing in police custody in Minneapolis reverberated across the country, but this was just one of a long series of deaths of Black men during altercations with police.

To gain some insight on what can be done to address tensions between races, the Common Ground Committee spoke with musician Daryl Davis, a Black man who has spent the past 35 years on a remarkable quest to speak with members of white supremacist groups to help them renounce their racist ideologies.


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Aspirations for the American Experiment Versus the Save Act of 2026
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Aspirations for the American Experiment Versus the Save Act of 2026

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act stands as the direct antithesis of our founders' aspirations for the American Experiment, eroding the core principles of popular sovereignty and individual liberty. Rather than cultivating a government that derives its "just powers from the consent of the governed," this legislative measure inverts that relationship. It transforms a natural right into a government-administered privilege, erecting bureaucratic barriers that conflict with the expansive, participatory democratic republic the Framers sought to construct.

Subverting the Consent of the Governed: the foundational premise of the American Experiment, as articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, is that the legitimacy of a government hinges entirely on the active consent of its citizens. The SAVE Act disrupts this dynamic by fundamentally shifting the burden of proof.

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The latest shutdown deal kept government open while exposing Congress’s reliance on procedural oversight rather than structural limits on ICE.
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Where Can Immigration Enforcement Take Place?

This nonpartisan policy brief, written by an ACE fellow, is republished by The Fulcrum as part of our partnership with the Alliance for Civic Engagement and our NextGen initiative — elevating student voices, strengthening civic education, and helping readers better understand democracy and public policy.

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