There are many facts about history and society that are “hidden in plain sight”—facts we know from experience, but may not know that we know, or have forgotten, or have denied, faced with the Republican Noise Machine. This book collects such facts.

Since the Republican wish at all costs to prevent us from using our Enlightenment superpowers of reasoning from evidence, we can expect no help from them; we have to rediscover and redocument these facts for ourselves.