Former New York State Senator Daniel Squadron needs you to know you have more power than you think you do. “You could be the most important force in hanging scary political currents,” he writes in his new book, The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union. Conveyed through scenes from his eight-year tenure as a member of the New York State Assembly, Squadron’s argument for the latent power of state governments is a timely restatement of an activist truism: all politics are actually local. “When schools fail, bridges crumble, water’s poisoned, and equality is denied, it’s the states that have acted or failed to act,” he writes.

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