
Episode 20: Same Playbook, New Tools
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The national debt just crossed $40 trillion. Millions have already lost SNAP benefits. Tariffs are hitting grocery bills. And while all of that's happening, wealth is concentrating at a pace this country hasn't seen since the Gilded Age.
In this episode, Don Jackson and Daysha Voss trace the throughline — from 1492 to Flock cameras and Palantir's ImmigrationOS — and ask whether what's happening now is really new, or just the same playbook running on new hardware. Daysha pushes back where the numbers get oversold. Don makes the case for something he's calling the Commonwealth…
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