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Freedom Cities are back!

And they've been spiffed up for increased political palatability

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Apr 04, 2025
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American Enterprise Institute’s proposed Freedom City sites on BLM land near Grand Junction, Colorado.

Last August, I wrote an incredulous and somewhat tongue-in-cheek story about then-candidate Donald Trump’s plan, as outlined a year and a half earlier on his Agenda 47 website, to build 10 “Freedom Cities” on “empty” public lands in t…

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