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L.C. Francis

@lcfrancis.bsky.social
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I am a historian and author who believes we need to return to common sense solutions, especially in a world full of disinformation and falsehoods. I write with a sense of urgency and purpose about the state of our nation and the world.

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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 6h
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics The midterms will test more than the president's popularity. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/november-3…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 8h
November 3 Is Only the Beginning lcfrancis.substack.com/p/november-3...
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November 3 Is Only the Beginning
The midterms will test more than the president's popularity.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 8h
November 3 Is Only the Beginning lcfrancis.substack.com/p/november-3...
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November 3 Is Only the Beginning
The midterms will test more than the president's popularity.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics What Quantico Was Really Telling Us and Where Does Loyalty Lie in The Pentagon? Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/when-the-o…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics From a Civil War soldier stranded in Virginia to a president tightening the rules of mail voting, the oldest form of voter suppression is still d... Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/make-them-…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics What happens when the machinery of an election moves beyond public view? Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-ballot…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics I wrote about the Kennedy Center in December. A federal judge said no. Now the fight is back on. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-republ…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics I wrote about the Kennedy Center in December. A federal judge said no. Now the fight is back on. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-republ…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics Nearly a century after a young teacher met hungry children in South Texas, America is wealthier than ever. Our choices are harder to explain. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-price-…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Writ of Assistance in Your Pocket “It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer.” — James Otis, 1761 Dear Friends, In 1761, a Boston lawyer named Jame...
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Writ of Assistance in Your Pocket “It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer.” — James Otis, 1761 Dear Friends, In 1761, a Boston lawyer named Jame...
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics Nearly a century after a young teacher met hungry children in South Texas, America is wealthier than ever. Our choices are harder to explain. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-price-…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics When media, corporate, and political power begin to overlap. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/who-owns-t…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Founders’ Tavern Special Report: When “Emergency” Becomes an Election Strategy lcfrancis.substack.com/p/founders-t...
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Founders’ Tavern Special Report: When “Emergency” Becomes an Election Strategy
Thirty-seven days before the midterms, a private meeting in Washington deserves another look.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Founders’ Tavern Special Report: When “Emergency” Becomes an Election Strategy lcfrancis.substack.com/p/founders-t...
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Founders’ Tavern Special Report: When “Emergency” Becomes an Election Strategy
Thirty-seven days before the midterms, a private meeting in Washington deserves another look.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics When media, corporate, and political power begin to overlap. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/who-owns-t…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics What happens when the state decides necessity comes first? Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/in-the-nam…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics What happens when the state decides necessity comes first? Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/in-the-nam…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The President Doesn’t Get to Own the Judge Dear Friends, This paper explores what happens when presidential expectations conflict with an independent judiciary. Vivat Constitution! L.C. Francis lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-judges...
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The Judges Trump Thought He Owned
Two hundred thirty-seven years ago, America built a judiciary designed to survive the President who appointed it.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The President Doesn’t Get to Own the Judge Dear Friends, This paper explores what happens when presidential expectations conflict with an independent judiciary. Vivat Constitution! L.C. Francis lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-judges...
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The Judges Trump Thought He Owned
Two hundred thirty-seven years ago, America built a judiciary designed to survive the President who appointed it.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics America is racing into the AI age. I followed one claim into the public records and found a bargain we may regret. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-price-…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics What Childhood Is Losing in the Age of the Glowing Screen. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/what-we-ow…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Press Does Not Need the President’s Permission lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-press-...
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The Press Does Not Need the President’s Permission
A free press becomes something else entirely when access depends on pleasing the government it is supposed to scrutinize.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Soldiers Stand at the Polls lcfrancis.substack.com/p/when-soldi...
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When Soldiers Stand at the Polls
Congress drew a clear line during the Civil War. One hundred sixty-one years later, Americans are asking whether we still remember why.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Soldiers Stand at the Polls lcfrancis.substack.com/p/when-soldi...
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When Soldiers Stand at the Polls
Congress drew a clear line during the Civil War. One hundred sixty-one years later, Americans are asking whether we still remember why.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Press Does Not Need the President’s Permission lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-press-...
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The Press Does Not Need the President’s Permission
A free press becomes something else entirely when access depends on pleasing the government it is supposed to scrutinize.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics How presidential power, foreign money, and family wealth converged inside a federal banking decision. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-presid…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics America once learned what happens when power stops answering to the American people. We are dangerously close to learning it again. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/when-power…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When the Chamber Goes Dark lcfrancis.substack.com/p/congress-l...
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Congress Left Town & Trump Will Fill the Vacuum.
The House left Washington. The constitutional authority it declined to exercise didn’t disappear; it simply shifted to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When the Chamber Goes Dark lcfrancis.substack.com/p/congress-l...
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Congress Left Town & Trump Will Fill the Vacuum.
The House left Washington. The constitutional authority it declined to exercise didn’t disappear; it simply shifted to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics There are moments when an old safeguard begins to mean something new. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/when-watch…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Judge Belongs to No President lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-judge-...
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The Judge Belongs to No President
A forgotten warning from 1792 has become urgently relevant again.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Judge Belongs to No President lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-judge-...
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The Judge Belongs to No President
A forgotten warning from 1792 has become urgently relevant again.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics While ordinary Americans are told to tighten their belts, the Trump clan keeps inventing new ways to convert presidential power, federal policy, ... Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-family…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Price of Forever: The Country We Never Built lcfrancis.substack.com/p/founders-t...
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The Price of Forever: The Country We Never Built
Twenty-five years later, we are still living with the choices.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Price of Forever: The Country We Never Built lcfrancis.substack.com/p/founders-t...
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The Price of Forever: The Country We Never Built
Twenty-five years later, we are still living with the choices.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New from L.C. Francis Open Society for History & Civics One of the Constitution’s oldest restraints on presidential power is being tested without changing a single word. Vivat Constitution! lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-senate…
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When Manhattan Ran Out of Roads lcfrancis.substack.com/p/when-manha...
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When Manhattan Ran Out of Roads
The part of September 11th we want to remember began where the streets ended.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When Manhattan Ran Out of Roads lcfrancis.substack.com/p/when-manha...
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When Manhattan Ran Out of Roads
The part of September 11th we want to remember began where the streets ended.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Throne of God or The Republic — One Year Later lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-throne...
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The Throne of God or The Republic — One Year Later
A warning from the archives, and what happened after we sounded it.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Throne of God or The Republic — One Year Later lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-throne...
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The Throne of God or The Republic — One Year Later
A warning from the archives, and what happened after we sounded it.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Last Test of Power lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-last-t...
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The Last Test of Power
What George Washington understood before our Constitution was written, and what January 6th forced us to confront.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Last Test of Power lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-last-t...
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The Last Test of Power
What George Washington understood before our Constitution was written, and what January 6th forced us to confront.
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L.C. Francis @lcfrancis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Man Beneath the Harbor lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-man-be...
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The Man Beneath the Harbor
One impossible mission, one forgotten soldier, and a warning that still reaches us 250 years later.
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