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Burn The Playbook

"The column DC reads and hopes you don’t."
All burns original · Every name sourced · Every comfortable version killed
History Explainers

The Record Still Talks.

This is the explainer wing of the merch system: posters, source cards, and public-history products that make memory harder to launder.

Freedom Canon history explainer merchandise
History line is rights-review before sale

Not nostalgia. Evidence.

Burn the Playbook accountability poster with Michael at the receipt table likeness review

BTP-BP-POSTER-001

The Public Story Art Print

The public story was never the whole story.

A collectible accountability poster. It does not go live until Michael confirms the likeness.

Vendor
Gelato / local art printer sample test
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18x24 matte art print
Rights
michael_likeness_review
Margin
55% target after print quote
Michael likeness approval requiredPoster crop proof requiredNo live sale before approval
Freedom Canon tee with historic Black figures in BTP newspaper style rights review

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The Freedom Canon Tee

We do not need permission to remember.

Historic Black figures rendered as public-memory explainers, not nostalgia merch.

Vendor
Printful / Printify sample test
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Bone premium tee with public-history collage print
Rights
public_domain_history_review
Margin
50% target after rights and blank check
Source card requiredImage source review requiredNo modern living figures
Freedom Canon hoodie with Reconstruction and 15th Amendment artwork rights review

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Freedom Was Not Temporary Hoodie

They tried to make freedom temporary.

Reconstruction, the 15th Amendment, and the record they keep trying to shrink into a footnote.

Vendor
Printful / Apliiq sample test
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Black heavyweight hoodie, Reconstruction back print
Rights
public_domain_history_review
Margin
45% target after sample cost check
Historical source card requiredNo campaign languageSample gate required
Freedom Canon poster reading Public Memory Is A Power Map rights review

BTP-FC-POSTER-001

Public Memory Is A Power Map Print

Public memory is a power map.

A history explainer print for the record power tried to edit out of the room.

Vendor
Gelato / local art printer sample test
Blank
18x24 matte art print
Rights
public_domain_history_review
Margin
55% target after print quote
Source card requiredText proof requiredRights review required

The image needs a record.

rights review required

Harriet Tubman

Public-domain historic record and Library of Congress style source review required before final art.

Power calls freedom illegal until the record makes the law catch up.

rights review required

Frederick Douglass

Public-domain speeches, newspapers, and portrait-source review required before final art.

The press was not commentary. It was infrastructure.

rights review required

Sojourner Truth

Public-domain speech and archive-source review required before final art.

The record still talks when power wishes testimony would disappear.

rights review required

Ida B. Wells

Public-domain pamphlet/newspaper source review required before final art.

She made terror answer to documentation.

rights review required

Robert Smalls

Public-domain congressional and naval history source review required before final art.

The people power tried to own became the people who rewrote the room.