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Focus Your Political Boycott [1]
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Date: 2025-04-26
Boycotts have long played a significant role in American history starting with 1774 colonial boycott of British, Irish and West Indian goods. The civil rights movement benefitted from the Montgomery bus boycott. In NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. , a case involving a local branch of the NAACP boycotting white merchants in Claiborne County, Mississippi, the Supreme Court recognized that peaceful political boycotts are protected under the First Amendment.
The Trump family and co-conspirators have supplied progressives a powerful tool to identify and boycott the most MAGA-centric local businesses, a site which bills itself as the “anti-woke online marketplace”: Public Square. According to HuffPost, from which this article was largely sourced, Public Square:
is a hub of tens of thousands of businesses nationwide that want people to know they align with MAGA views and oppose so-called “progressive priorities” like women’s reproductive rights and diversity initiatives. In order to list your business on the website, you first have to confirm that you will “respect the core values of PublicSquare” and agree not to “support causes that are in direct conflict with our core values.”
See Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts.
It is really simple to use, you put in your zip code and a map pops up with MAGA-aligned businesses — businesses that have affirmatively taken the pledge above.
So, it is easy to join the resistance with one simple look-up to find your local businesses that don’t share your values.
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