Missouri Senator #EricSchmitt just declared that America is “ours and only ours,” framing the nation as the birthright of white descendants of pilgrims, pioneers, and settlers. He invoked Valley Forge, Plymouth, and frontier battles to argue that the U.S. belongs only to “us” and warned that if “we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist.” This rhetoric ignores the millions of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native Americans who built and defended this country, from enslaved Africans who fue

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