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Inside the soft secession movement and an unlikely sandwich hero

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Aug 27, 2025
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Happy Wednesday! Today's stories explore how blue states are quietly planning "soft secession" by potentially withholding federal tax dollars, plus the grand jury that refused to indict a man who threw a sandwich at federal officers in DC (making him an unlikely resistance icon). We also look…

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