Heather Cox Richardson

speaker

126 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

What A Day · Amending The Constitution For The 21st Century With Heather Cox Richardson · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

But if you read that curriculum, what really was clear is that what was stripped out of it was human agency. voice-verified

You know, Rosa Parks, in the curriculum that was being advanced, she just sat down on a bus one day. voice-verified

Well, you know, Rosa Parks was a leader of the NAACP. voice-verified

She'd done all kinds of work about sexual assault. voice-verified

against Black women in the American South. voice-verified

She was a strategist. voice-verified

She was an incredibly powerful woman. voice-verified

All that's gone. voice-verified

She's just somebody who doesn't stand up. voice-verified

And that idea that we actually can control the future is one that I think you are seeing more and more as people push back against the Trump administration. voice-verified

You know, the voice-verified

The Tesla takedowns, where people managed to visibly see their effect on the profits of Tesla, that mattered. voice-verified

And when you see the administration backing off of things like—remember, it was going to pull those weather stations out of the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, which are so critical not only for understanding climate change— voice-verified

and weather but also are critical for people whose living depends on the ocean they backed off of that because there was such an outcry and i think you are watching americans become empowered now mind you that's going to have a lot of shaky moments people are going to throw up legislators at the local and the state level who maybe are not people you actually think you would like to have represent you but again the same thing happened in the 1850s and when that happened voice-verified

Increasingly, when we saw new voices, new ideas, new people, increasingly voters and the American government coalesced around people that we now remember as being extraordinary American figures, you know, real leaders. voice-verified

We created those people. voice-verified

We chose those people. voice-verified

They were not handed to us. voice-verified

And that idea that we can control our future, that we can retake power in our democracy, that's what I see right now. voice-verified

And I also see at the same time terror on the part of those leaders who have depended on a complacent population to stay in power and their determination to make sure that voters will not be able to turn them out in the future. voice-verified

Showing 81–100 of 126 · page 5 of 7