Heather Cox Richardson

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Here's the Scoop · Historian Heather Cox Richardson on American self-determination, division and optimism · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

Seven.

Maybe less than seven.

I can't do math here.

Hold on.

Two?

Well, we have new declarations all the time.

I mean, that's one of the reasons that we celebrate it is because, as I say, anybody who wants rights uses the Declaration of Independence as a pattern.

Google it.

You'll see hundreds and hundreds of declarations of rights.

Well, I'm not in the business of predicting the future.

I predict the past, right?

I'm a historian.

But if we are going to be true to our patterns in the United States of America, we are in a period of enormous political upheaval that we know can go one of two ways.

We can become a dictatorship or we can reaffirm our democracy.

And I actually think we will reaffirm our democracy.

And one of the things that I'm really hoping for

I would love for Americans to figure out a way to stop this pattern of renewing democracy, ceasing to pay attention to it, people rise to power through turning their voters against an other.

Wealth concentrates.

We have a crisis, and then we go through the pattern again.

You know, this is such an American pattern of saying, hey, everything's great.

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