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The Three Branches & the Forgotten Fourth: Why Civics is the Battle for Our Democracy

We the Unaware... By Design

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Team Coffman Chronicle
May 19, 2025
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Most Americans can’t name the three branches of government. Fewer can explain what they actually do. That’s not a dig; it’s by design. Civics has been stripped from classrooms, drowned in cable news brawls, and buried under decades of distraction.

But while we were looking away, the system started to warp. Congress stopped checking presidents. Presidents…

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