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  "path": "/politics/2026/06/before-disability-american-citizenship-altschuler-book-penn/",
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  "textContent": "We tend to treat disability politics as a modern phenomenon, the product of disability civil rights movements in the latter part of the 20th century. It’s not: the long arc of that history, in fact, goes back to the American Revolution, whose new ideas promised some disabled white Americans an unprecedented level of inclusion—and to […]",
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