Contents: Disc 1: Why have government? -- The framework of US federalism -- Civil liberties: freedoms from government -- Civil rights: fairness under government -- How a bill becomes a law -- Why Congress is such a puzzle -- Disc 2: How Congressional elections work -- The powers of presidency -- How presidential elections work -- A road map of the federal bureaucracy -- How the judicial branch works --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 UNDSummary: "2000 Mules," a documentary film created by Dinesh D'Souza, exposes widespread, coordinated voter fraud in the 2020 election, sufficient to change the overall outcome. Drawing on research provided by the election integrity group True the Vote, "2000 Mules" offers two types of evidence: geotracking and video. The geotracking evidence, based on a database of 10 trillion cell phone pings, exposes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Media Group 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For most Americans, the history of the United States is built on a set of long-accepted beliefs about events, each of which resonates in the nation's collective memory. But what if those beliefs, however familiar, don't really tell the whole story? Our knowledge of history - or what we believe to be history - is the lens through which we view and interpret the world. And when that lens is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SKESummary: 4000 teenagers simulate every facet of their state government including elections, deciding court cases, and passing legislation. Three candidates emerge in the inspiring race for Youth Governor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YOUSummary: Democracies should protect their citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but the United States is increasingly failing to do so. This investigative documentary shows how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin. It combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CORSummary: "Analysis of how governments bent on war-making have relied on a vast arsenal of propaganda techniques to overcome resistance at home and disapproval abroad ... Moving from Vietnam to Iraq, the film examines how news reports have become nearly indistinguishable from White House and Pentagon talking points, a problem that has become exacerbated by journalists who have grown accustomed to being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Media Education Foundation 2007