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Derek Cressman

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Derek Cressman is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction based in Sacramento, California. He is a graduate of the Stanford Online Certificate in Novel Writing and has served as a teaching assistance at The Writers Hotel Mini MFA conference.

Derek has testified before committees of the United States Senate, California State Assembly and Senate, and California Fair Political Practices Commission; served as an expert in federal litigation; and authored four books: Virtuality (2025), Reality(TM) 2048--Watching Big Mother (a 2019 finalist in the American Bookfest Fiction Awards and 2020 Grand Prize Short List awardee for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards) When Money Talks--The High Price of "Free" Speech and the Selling of Democracy (which ...more

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	Reality™ 2048: Watching Big Mother 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Money Talks: The High Price Of "Free" Speech and the Selling of Democracy by Derek Cressman (Goodreads Author), Thom Hartmann (Foreword) 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights

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The People's Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union

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“If money is speech, speech is no longer free.”
― Derek Cressman, When Money Talks: The High Price Of "Free" Speech and the Selling of Democracy

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“If money is speech, speech is no longer free.”
― Derek Cressman, When Money Talks: The High Price Of "Free" Speech and the Selling of Democracy

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“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
― Aristotle

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“To be intellectually humble is not to live in constant doubt. Rather, it’s to live with a mind open to correction, and a heart strong enough to prioritize truth over pride.”
― Mason Carter, Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation

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