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How to Rob a City: NBA Billionaire Edition
How the United States Built its Colonial Empire, Pt. 2
Sophie Cunningham's Transphobic WNBA Panic
DHS Surveillance and Infiltration of ICE Protests in Minnesota
Executive Disorder: Mail-In Voting Restrictions, Canadian Trade War, Record High ICE Detentions

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How to Rob a City: NBA Billionaire Edition

How the United States Built its Colonial Empire, Pt. 2

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture by Amy Kaplan
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/182/244/
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/182/1/
https://theconversation.com/why-russia-gave-up-alaska-americas-gateway-to-the-arctic-74675?xid=PS_smithsonian
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CARIBBEAN/MILITARY-BUILDUP/egpbbnzyrpq/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/magazine/venezuela-empires-colony.html
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-state-trump-rodriguez-chavismo-silence-634203c885803b018ecd8ac012bb249d
https://time.com/article/2026/06/02/trump-annex-canada-51st-state-rhetoric-carney-us-partnership-message/
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/nyregion/new-light-on-old-fbi-fight-decades-of-surveillance-of-puerto-rican-groups.html
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/1685.html
https://theconversation.com/us-territories-have-a-voice-in-congress-but-no-vote-heres-why-283547
https://www.nminewsservice.com/cnmi-covenant-united-states-50th-anniversary-explainer-timeline/
https://apnews.com/article/american-samoa-voting-citizenship-alaska-trump-eda6c32ce0fcdca6edb22efac26e403d
https://elecciones2024.ceepur.org/Escrutinio_General_123/index.html#es/default/PLEBISCITO_Resumen.xml
https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099257005212415735
https://www.doi.gov/oia/compacts-of-free-association
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/puerto-rico-independence-movement
https://time.com/7024574/puerto-rico-status-vote/
https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/schools-and-colleges/college-of-liberal-arts-and-social-sciences/droessler_whose-pacific.pdf
https://juntasupervision.pr.gov/abril-y-mayo-2025/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/trump-strait-of-hormuz-american-territory
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/20/politics/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:School_Begins_(Puck_Magazine_1-25-1899).jpg
Las carpetas: persecución política y derechos civiles en Puerto Rico by Ramón Bosque Pérez y Javier Colón Morera
Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952 by Harry Franqui-Rivera

Sophie Cunningham's Transphobic WNBA Panic

DHS Surveillance and Infiltration of ICE Protests in Minnesota

Executive Disorder: Mail-In Voting Restrictions, Canadian Trade War, Record High ICE Detentions

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