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You know it's not you have to see it to believe it - sometimes you have to believe it to see it. You have to know what you're looking for when you're seeing signs of an authoritarian takeover of your country.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
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