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    From Russia with lies: A message to all of us about why to fight for truth

    Dennis Aftergut
    April 25, 2022

    Aftergut, a former federal prosecutor in San Francisco, is co-counsel to Lawyers Defending American Democracy.

    Political lies, like the disproven assertion that there was any significant ballot fraud in the 2020 election, are not harmless. Every one of us who believes in civil society must fight them with truth. That is the way to preserve a free and peaceful society.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has starkly shown us that big lies lead to the opposite.

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    Aftergut, a former federal prosecutor in San Francisco, is co-counsel to Lawyers Defending American Democracy.

    March 1 was a good day. We learned that Asteroid 2022 AE1, a heavenly body large enough to do real damage and thought to hit Earth on Independence Day 2023, will miss us.

    Of course, the climate apocalypse, symbolized by the meteor hurtling toward Earth in the recent pop film “Don’t Look Up,” is still before us. But if you scan the headlines from the past week, some positive light shone through, but time will tell its duration.

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