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01:39.120 --> 01:40.580 Controls the past. 01:41.200 --> 01:43.640 George Orwell, 1984. 01:45.360 --> 01:46.140 The setting. 01:46.680 --> 01:50.420 Mark sits in a cluttered library office, surrounded by books. 01:51.180 --> 01:53.400 His voice a mix of exhaustion and defiance. 01:54.320 --> 02:00.900 This year is 2025, and the Trump administration has reinstated the 1776 02:00.900 --> 02:05.400 Commission to reshape educational materials in public history. 02:07.560 --> 02:10.180 Who controls the past controls the future. 02:11.020 --> 02:13.540 Who controls the present controls the past. 02:14.420 --> 02:19.660 I read that 1984 years ago and it sounded like a warning from another world. 02:20.320 --> 02:21.400 Now it's my world. 02:21.920 --> 02:22.460 I'm Mark. 02:23.040 --> 02:25.840 I'm a librarian in a small town in Pennsylvania. 02:26.500 --> 02:29.760 Someone who loves books, loves truth, 02:29.760 --> 02:33.920 loves the messy, uncomplicated stories of our country. 02:34.600 --> 02:38.380 But they're coming for those stories and they're coming for me. 02:38.980 --> 02:40.720 All because I wouldn't play along. 02:41.700 --> 02:45.780 It started when the school board got new guidelines from the Department of Education 02:45.780 --> 02:47.860 in April of 2025. 02:48.560 --> 02:52.380 They called it the Patriotic Curriculum Initiative. 02:53.020 --> 02:55.900 Tied to Trump's revival in the 1776 Commission. 02:56.840 --> 03:01.720 The orders were clear, remove books that undermine American exceptionalism. 03:02.640 --> 03:05.260 That meant anything about slavery's legacy, 03:06.100 --> 03:09.520 indigenous displacement, or labor strikes, gone. 03:11.020 --> 03:14.680 Replace them with sanitized versions that glorify the founding fathers, 03:15.720 --> 03:19.640 downplay the civil wars causes, and erase the civil rights struggles. 03:20.640 --> 03:22.880 I saw the new textbooks, crisp, 03:23.640 --> 03:28.760 philosophy, with whole chapters rewritten to say America was always a shining beacon. 03:29.720 --> 03:31.400 No flaws, no apologies. 03:32.600 --> 03:34.380 I refused to pull the old books. 03:35.220 --> 03:35.940 I couldn't. 03:36.700 --> 03:41.280 Those stories, Frederick Douglass, Wounded Knee, Stonewall, 03:42.180 --> 03:44.640 they're not just pages, they're people's lives. 03:45.960 --> 03:47.320 Then the email started. 03:47.960 --> 03:51.260 Parents egged on by some MAGA Group on X 03:51.800 --> 03:54.900 called me a radical for keeping divisive books on the shelves. 03:55.960 --> 03:58.780 By May, I was summoned to a board meeting. 03:59.820 --> 04:04.180 They added dossier, my social media post from 2023, 04:05.060 --> 04:09.300 where I shared articles criticizing the administration's history rewrite. 04:10.240 --> 04:13.860 Someone had flagged me to a federal curriculum compliance task force, 04:14.540 --> 04:16.420 funded under the new executive order. 04:17.060 --> 04:20.460 Volunteer software, the same one they used for deportations, 04:21.120 --> 04:24.140 was tracking ideological dissent in schools. 04:25.280 --> 04:26.540 My name was in their system. 04:27.540 --> 04:29.020 Last week, I got a letter. 04:29.640 --> 04:33.240 My librarian certification is under review. 04:33.900 --> 04:35.540 My job's hanging by a thread. 04:36.360 --> 04:39.620 Then my car loan got flagged for reassessment, 04:40.120 --> 04:42.320 and I can't access my savings account. 04:43.500 --> 04:45.340 Some vague security hold. 04:46.140 --> 04:47.040 I'm not a criminal. 04:47.800 --> 04:50.440 I've never protested, never marched. 04:51.340 --> 04:53.380 All I did was keep some books on a shelf 04:53.380 --> 04:55.800 and post a few thoughts online. 04:56.540 --> 04:59.500 But they're erasing the past, our real past. 05:00.200 --> 05:02.720 And if you don't not along, they'll erase you too. 05:03.600 --> 05:06.820 The 1776 Commission's report is everywhere now, 05:07.520 --> 05:10.840 plastered on government websites, taught in schools, 05:11.580 --> 05:14.580 even cited in the court to justify heritage laws. 05:15.340 --> 05:19.600 They control the present, so they rewrite the past and the future. 05:20.180 --> 05:21.020 It's theirs too. 05:21.780 --> 05:26.160 My library's half empty now, and I'm scared I'll be next. 05:26.920 --> 05:32.040 Who's left to remember the truth when they've burned it all away? 05:45.340 --> 05:48.120 They say it's for security, for better control. 05:48.440 --> 05:50.700 But freedom's slipping through like a hole. 05:51.000 --> 05:52.280 Freedom can't fall. 06:14.780 --> 06:16.460 It just lies with a silver spoon. 06:17.040 --> 06:19.120 Manipulate data, our freedoms doomed. 06:19.560 --> 06:21.980 The news, the laws, all under their thumb. 06:22.380 --> 06:24.500 They think we're blind, but we see we're not numb. 06:25.140 --> 06:27.760 Every single day, they take a little bit more. 06:28.040 --> 06:29.660 They tell us to settle, to ignore. 06:29.800 --> 06:32.440 But the chains they're building, the walls they raise. 06:32.800 --> 06:34.980 We'll break them down with our voice in our way. 06:58.910 --> 07:00.950 Listen up, we got no time to waste. 07:00.950 --> 07:03.610 Corruptions on the rise, freedoms in the chase. 07:03.750 --> 07:06.150 They watch every step, every breath we take. 07:06.430 --> 07:08.730 But I'ma shout it loud for the people's sake. 07:09.110 --> 07:11.310 We're not just numbers in their big machine. 07:11.550 --> 07:13.990 We're the voice, the heart, the soul of the scene. 07:14.350 --> 07:16.570 They can't lock us down, can't shut us up. 07:17.070 --> 07:19.330 Freedom's all right, we'll never give up. 07:19.810 --> 07:21.770 They've got the power, but we've got the will. 07:22.070 --> 07:24.370 To tear down their towers, to break through the chill. 07:24.590 --> 07:26.950 We're the rebels, the fighters, the ones who see. 07:27.330 --> 07:29.710 The ones who stand, the ones who be free. 07:29.710 --> 07:29.850 We're the rebels, the fighters, the ones who see.