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Nancy Hicks Marshall grew up in a Republican household. She always appreciated the caution with which her parents viewed spending, and her father's recognition that government regulation was sometimes necessary to "keep the foxes from the henhouse." Didn't they support law, order, and civil discourse? Thus, she was shocked when two Republican legislators and the County Supervisors were threatened, insulted, doxxed, vilified, and even SWATTED by extremist right-wing Republicans during the 2020 election.Since childhood, Marshall has disliked the abuse of power. In 2009, she defended a young man who was unconstitutionally jailed in the auditorium of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for exercising his First Amendment rights-clapping after a speaker, then sitting quietly upon request. That successful defense led to A Dry Hate, a multiple award-winning novel, covering the time in Arizona history when a popular Sheriff jailed or "investigated" activists, brown people, and political opponents at will.A practicing attorney for many years, followed by a career in writing, Marshall has returned to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors with Six Who Stopped the Steal-perhaps not what you think it was. Drawing on intimate in-person accounts from the six men, a conversation about "monsters," a detailed chronology of the 2020 elections, and the words of the six themselves, Marshall offers us insight into the courage and integrity of men whose actions prevented the steal of the 2020 elections in Arizona by unscrupulous extremists.Marshall has authored A Rattler's Tale, Un Cuento de Una Serpiente de Cascabel (the Spanish translation of Rattler), Finding Zachariah in a Community Garden, and A Dry Hate.
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