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February 23, 2026

Today in 1940
Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land Is Your Land” following a frigid trip — partially by hitchhiking, partially by rail — from California to Manhattan. The Great Depression was still raging. Guthrie had heard Kate Smith’s recording of “God Bless America” and resolved to himself: “We can’t just bless America; we’ve got to change it.”

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The Shift in Trucking
Posted On: Feb 23, 2026
Feb. 23, 2026 | TRUCKING INDUSTRY | (First part of a three-part series.) The truck driver exists in the American imagination as a weather-beaten rogue, a nomad alone on the open road armed with nothing but his rig and his wits. Long hours, grueling labor, and extended periods of isolation on the lonely stretches of highway that cross the expansive continental hinterlands. A sort of modern cowboy who occupies the liminal spaces that connect the centers of commerce and industry through thin ribbons of pavement. This image of the American trucker was once a distant memory but has re-emerged from the wreckage of deregulation. Continues at Just Cause Teamsters on Substack
 
 
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