Published books

Farmworkers, union organizers, and students pushed for dignity and political power. This volume explores César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, the Delano grape strike, labor beyond the fields, Chicano identity, and the 1968 East Los Angeles Walkouts.

This second volume follows Mexican American civil rights campaigns through schools, courts, and the Great Society. It examines Mendez v. Westminster, postwar organizing, the Black freedom movement, and the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Vietnam War and Chicano Moratorium brought questions of equal citizenship to the streets of East Los Angeles. This concluding volume examines the Brown Berets, Rubén Salazar, policing, women’s leadership, cultural memory, and the movement’s continuing legacy.

Billionaires, Inc. — Book II: DOGE, Musk, and Government Power examines what happens when extraordinary private wealth intersects with federal authority, government data, public contracts, and political influence.
Focusing on Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, the authors explore DOGE’s creation, its access to federal agencies and information systems, Musk’s government role, his companies’ federal relationships, and the ethical questions surrounding private business interests and public power.…

Billionaires, Inc. — Book III: Palantir and the Government Data Machine examines how a powerful private technology company became deeply connected to American intelligence, defense, immigration enforcement, and federal data systems.
The authors trace Palantir’s development from a company supported by the CIA’s venture-capital arm into a major federal contractor. The book investigates its government agreements, work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ImmigrationOS platform, Army contracts, sole-source awards, and expanding role in combining sensitive information from multiple government databases.…

Billionaires, Inc. — Book IV: Billion-Dollar Government Contracts investigates how private corporations and billionaire owners benefit from enormous federal contracts involving space exploration, defense, cloud computing, data systems, infrastructure, and other essential government services.
Focusing on companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Amazon Web Services, the authors examine how government contracts, investments, and strategic partnerships can increase corporate wealth while making public agencies dependent on a small group of powerful businesses.…

Billionaires, Inc. — Book V: Cryptocurrency, Foreign Money, and the Presidency examines how digital currencies have created new pathways for money, political access, and influence to move across national borders.
The authors investigate World Liberty Financial, the $TRUMP memecoin, private cryptocurrency events, foreign investors, stablecoins, international transactions, and the financial interests surrounding the presidency. The book explores whether cryptocurrency can allow wealthy individuals and foreign interests to purchase political access while avoiding traditional campaign-finance rules and public-disclosure requirements.…

Billionaires, Inc. — Book VI: Who Owns the American Media? examines how concentrated wealth and corporate ownership influence the news, information, and entertainment received by the American public.
The authors map the billionaires, corporations, and powerful families that control major television networks, newspapers, local stations, digital platforms, and entertainment companies. The book explores newsroom business pressures, media consolidation, late-night television, regulatory decisions, the FCC’s public-interest responsibilities, and the influence of families such as the Ellisons and Murdochs.…

Billionaires, Inc. — Book VII: Money, Power, Ethics, and Accountability gives citizens practical tools for examining the relationships between private wealth, political influence, government contracts, and public authority.
The authors explain how to read financial disclosures, investigate federal contracts, search campaign-finance databases, understand conflict-of-interest laws, and evaluate the ethical rules that apply—or do not apply—to the president and other government officials. The book also examines the difference between publicly disclosing a financial interest and legally prohibiting a conflict.…

This book examines how the stock-market crash and the collapse that followed exposed the danger of an economy built on speculation, concentrated wealth, weak safeguards, and unequal power. It follows the spread of unemployment, business failures, breadlines, Hoovervilles, and rural hardship as millions of families struggled to survive.

The chapters explain why limited relief could not meet a national emergency. They connect the human cost of the Depression with the political demand for stronger public institutions, responsible financial rules, direct employment, and a government capable of acting when private markets fail.…