Barbarians and Butterflies: Part 1

How a Texas butterfly sanctuary became the center of the resistance against Trump, Steve Bannon and the right-wing agenda at the border.

As a border journalist, I found it nearly impossible to make sense of the Trump era while it was happening. Laws were trampled and government spokespeople cowed into silence, and forget about public information or our right to it.

The writer Gore Vidal called America “the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing,” he wrote. 

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