Week 1: Introduction: The US Majority and the Diagnosis
Week 2: The Roadmap: Numbers, Districts, and the 21st Amendment Precedent
Week 3: The 2% and the Voting Booth Trap
Week 4: The Constitutional Case: Article V and State Conventions
Week 5: People Primaries: Community-Driven Candidate Selection
Week 6: The 99-Cent Revolution: Funding the Movement
Week 7: The Powell Memo: Origin of the Corporate Capture Project
Week 8: Midterm + The Slow Bleed and the Broken Family
Week 9: The Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Money, and Political Theater
Week 10: Worker Displacement: H-1B Visas, Offshoring, and the Tech Giants
Week 11: AI, Corporate Personhood, and Constitutional Human Obsolescence
Week 12: Labor Rights, the PRO Act, and the Race Divide
Week 13: Movement Security, Nationalism, and the Policy Platform
Week 14: Veterans, the Covenant, and the Gig Economy
Week 15: The Call to Action: Synthesis and Critical Assessment
Part I: The Destination
Part II: The Map
Part III: The Obstacles
Part IV: The Action Plan
Part V: The Policy Platform
Part VI: The Covenant
Part VII: The Call to Action
Appendices
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Week 12: Labor Rights, the PRO Act, and the Race Divide
RandellHynes July 17, 2026
Week 12: Labor Rights, the PRO Act, and the Race Divide
Lecture slides with audio narration — self-paced. Click “Launch Slides” to begin.
Read from the Book
- UNINCORPORATUS required reading:
- Recommended: Hacker & Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics, Ch. 7 (on race and the welfare state)
Take the Lesson
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Go to Team Chat
After reading and taking the lesson, join the weekly discussion in Team Chat.
Lecture Topics
- Chapter 20: "The PRO Act's Fatal Flaw — The Unionization Trap"
- The book's critique of the PRO Act: that it strengthens union bureaucracies rather than protecting individual workers' right to concerted action
- Chapter 21: "The Broken Promise — The Current Crisis of Worker Rights Violations"
- Chapter 22: "The American Dream and Government Protection — The Four Pillars Restored"
- Chapter 23: "Race and the Worker Divide" — the argument that racial division is "the most effective weapon ever deployed against American workers," not automation or offshoring
- The book's historical analysis: how racial division has functioned from Reconstruction through the present to prevent working-class solidarity across racial lines
Reflect & Discuss
District Organizing Plan: apply the book’s framework to your chosen district and share your plan in Team Chat this week. The race-and-solidarity argument is historically grounded but politically sensitive. Evaluate the book's claim that racial division is a "deliberate mechanism" rather than an organic outcome. How does this compare to the scholarly literature on the "welfare queen" trope, the Southern Strategy, and the use of racial resentment in political realignment? Is the book's proposed solution — cross-racial working-class solidarity organized around shared economic interests — feasible given what we know about the persistence of racial polarization in American politics?