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FOURTH of July is a popular American holiday that is often celebrated with fireworks and cookouts.

Among the places Americans buy their cookout food is Target, which means they want to know if the doors will be open for last-minute essentials.

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Target locations across the country are expected to be open on the Fourth of July.

However, hours may vary based on location, so it is always recommended to check with local stores for accurate times.

To find the closest Target near you and check their hours, you can go to the store locator.

Independence Day is celebrated annually on July 4th in the United States.

The national holiday commemorates the passage of the Declaration of Independence by Congress on July 4, 1776.

In 1775, the 13 colonies that made up America declared a war of independence against Britain.

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The British had inhabited America since 1587 and exploited their resources, such as tobacco and tea.

Tensions began to rise between the British and Americans as the British Government pushed for their own financial gain and continued to exploit American goods through taxation.

Founding Father and head of the Sons of Liberty organization Samuel Adams, and his men, boarded three ships in Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.

This became known as the Boston Tea Party of 1773.

Other violent acts also arose from the tension over the taxation of tea and other products.

The Boston Tea Party was one of the main events that started theAmerican Revolutionary War.

In 1775, the 13 colonies that made up America declared a war of independence against Britain and on July 4, 1776, Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence.

It is one of 11 federal holidays, meaning that it is recognized nationwide by the government.

The Fourth of July became a federal holiday in 1870.

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Fourth of July celebrations have taken various forms across the centuries.

In Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1777, there was a salute with 13 shotguns in the morning and evening of July 4.

And in 1778, then general of the revolutionary army, George Washington, doubled his troops' rum ration for the festivities.

Nowadays, fireworks are one of the most common ways to celebrate Independence Day.

Displays are held in every major city and the White House also puts on its own show on the South Lawn.

Generally, the 4th of July is a time to spend with family and friends, having BBQs, watching firework displays and parades while surrounded by a large quantity of red, white, and blue, stars and stripes themed paraphernalia.

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I witnessed the Boston Tea Party, the Battle at Concord and Paul Reveres Ride.

You didnt think I was that old, did you?

I was a kid at the time, living in a Kansas City, Missouri neighborhood that went all out for the Fourth of July.

Old, fuzzy black and white snapshots of the Battle at Concord sharpen the memories. Red Coats are lined up in costumes that arent half bad if you can overlook the tie dress-shoes and long white socks pulled up over pant legs. They are wielding guns (not loaded) and a British flag. Kids, more kids, tricycles, bicycles, baby strollers and women wearing Bermuda shorts line both sides of the street.

Lest you become confused, there is signage. Magic marker on a posterboard reads Battle at Concord, April 19, 1775.

A small bridge sits in the middle of the street. The Red Coats approach from one direction and the Minutemen from the other. The Minutemen fire and the British run like scared rabbits. Neither side suffers a single casualty a slightly different outcome from the original Battle at Concord, but revisionist history had to start somewhere.

All that really mattered was that we whupped em again.

A neighbor man, who had a horse pastured in the country, was the main act the year Paul Reveres Midnight Ride was the featured attraction. Down the street he flew on his horse, tacatac, tacatac, past the letter drop mailbox, tacatac, tacatac, past a Plymouth Fury Suburban station wagon and a Corvair convertible, past kids waving flags, all the while shouting, The British are Coming! The British are Coming!

No one was overly concerned that the British were coming because wed seen how they scattered like chickens year before.

The most memorable of these gatherings was the year of the Boston Tea Party. Grown-ups worked hours in a neighbors garage building a ship on a platform on wheels. There was even a party table onboard the ship with a punch bowl and cups, courtesy of my mother. The crowd roared as crates of tea were heaved onto the blacktop. Our dad was onboard, heaving tea and celebrating with punch.

He took a nap in the front yard beneath the shade of an elm tree that afternoon. My mother mentioned that she had spiked the punch onboard the ship. Yes, she had taken liberties.

I have often wondered if the Fourth of July in our old neighborhood was over the top because so many in our neighborhood had served in World War II. Military service had been borne by the many in those days, not just a few.

They had seen the horrors of fascism with their own eyes, just as they had witnessed the bloody cost of freedom. Many bore some of those costs for a lifetime. Shared sacrificed yielded a strong pulsebeat of patriotism.

There were democrats, republicans, non-voters, white-collar and blue-collar workers among those staging those Fourth of July celebrations but the differences among them were superseded by a love of country and deep respect and appreciation for freedom.

There is no perfect nation. There never has been and never will be. That said, we have always been a city shining on hill, a nation of possibilities, hopes and dreams. Maybe its possible that a respect for freedom and love of liberty will unite us again.

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Even Republicans acknowledge the Illinois GOP has fought a slow, unresolved policy fight with itself for decades.

For 50 years, the moderate wing of Illinois Republicanism (former Govs. Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar, and marginally Bruce Rauner) had its way, but Tuesdays primary election in which state Sen. Darren Bailey locked up the GOP nomination for governor, might have signaled a tectonic shift. Perhaps no one seemed more surprised by that rumbling under their feet than the old-line moderate leadership.

Some view the shift as a decadelong drift that began with the Tea Party. Others point to former President Donald Trump and his continued prominence both nationally and in some circles of the Illinois Republican Party.

Bailey, whose every public pronouncement signals he is a Trump/MAGA Republican, won the governors primary so handily that it seemed as though he had no serious opposition. Billionaire GOP influencer Ken Griffin spent $50 million on a candidate Aurora Mayor Richard Irwin who finished third.

Former President Donald Trump, right, ushers gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Darren Bailey to the podium at a rally at the Adams County Fairgrounds in Mendon, Ill., Saturday, June 25, 2022. (Mike Sorensen/Quincy Herald-Whig via AP) (Mike Sorensen/AP)

Former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh said Tuesdays results show the Republican Party is shrinking in terms of its appeal, both in Illinois and nationally. He also questioned how Baileys nomination would fare against Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker this fall.

This is still Trumps party, he said. To win a Republican primary, you have to get down on your knees and bow and worship Trump and Trumpism.

U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, who spoke at a rally over the weekend with Trump and U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colorado, beat fellow Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis. Catalina Lauf, who had a speaking role at the 2020 Republican National Convention, secured the GOP nomination for Illinois 11th Congressional District. And Thomas DeVore, who fought Pritzkers school mask mandate in court, won the GOP nomination for attorney general.

U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, of Illinois, left, is joined by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, of Colorado, on stage at a rally at the Adams County Fairgrounds in Mendon, Ill., Saturday, June 25, 2022. (Mike Sorensen/Quincy Herald-Whig via AP) (Mike Sorensen/AP)

Speaking on the Illinois gubernatorial primary results, Walsh said Irvin was a bad candidate who didnt deserve to win. Bailey, on that note, assumed the mantle of Trumpism, which carried him forward, he said. Still, Walsh said he doesnt think the odds favor Bailey in Novembers general election.

[Bailey] has no prayer against Pritzker, he said. He wont play in the suburbs or Chicago. Theres a reason Pritzker put money behind Bailey.

Alhough Walsh expects November to go well for Republicans at the national level, he sees the party becoming a rural, regional party in the years to come.

I dont think the party can be saved, he said. Its a party walking away from the suburbs and urban America.

Kristina Zahorik, the McHenry County Democratic Party chairwoman, said the GOP has become too extreme, and is now more exclusive than inclusive.

Stepping away from what Tuesdays results may mean for Democrats in November, Zahorik said the direction Republicans are taking is bad for lawmaking.

For our country and democracy, its very concerning, she said. I dont think it serves any of us well.

Republican Party officials in McHenry and Lake counties disagree with that sentiment.

Mark Shaw, chairman of the Lake County Republican Central Committee, said the most important thing to him was party unity. Overall, he wasnt concerned with the partys direction; its best chance to win is coalescing behind one candidate, he said.

Illinois is very different culturally depending on what area you live in, he said. Sometimes its like six or seven different states.

Republican candidate for Illinois governor Darren Bailey speaks to voters during a campaign stop in Athens, Ill., June 14, 2022. Bailey is seeking the Republican nomination to face Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker in November. (AP Photo/John O'Connor) (John OConnor/AP)

Bailey won in most counties, including Lake County, where he garnered about 43% of the vote, unofficial election results show.

Shaw said he liked all six Republican gubernatorial candidates in the primary and pledged to get behind whoever won the nomination. Considering Baileys margin of victory, Shaw said hes optimistic about GOP chances in the fall.

The party has to be united, he said. Ive said this for six months. Our party will have to come together instantly the day after the primary. Because if we dont, theres not enough time to turn it around before November.

McHenry County Republican Party Chairman Tyler Wilke said he backed the unity concept but thinks Baileys win was positive for the party. In past races, such as with Rauner, it felt like there was no difference in the parties, Wilke said.

[Constituents] are looking for a breath of fresh air, he said. Theres going to be stark differences between Pritzker and a candidate like Bailey. That gives the party a chance to energize the base, and the independent voter has the opportunity to choose what direction they want. Wilke said he thinks Bailey has a reasonable shot at unseating Pritzker.

Baileys got a real opportunity to make changes that help people in Illinois, Wilke said.

Steve Balich, a Republican on the Will County Board, said Tuesdays GOP primary reflected an anti-establishment trend that has been developing for years.

The party direction changed six, seven years ago, Balich said. Whats happening is you have people in the party, like myself, and we care about whats good for American citizens.

Balich is a former Tea Party leader in Will County and was a Republican ward committeeman in the 1980s. He is prone to take on controversial conservative causes. Also Homer Township supervisor, Balich last year led a successful effort to have the township declared a sanctuary for life in an anti-abortion stance.

Were a party of people saying were fed up with big government, he said. We want government to leave us alone. Do you want to call that America First? OK.

Republicans who formed the Tea Party a decade ago have been motivated by Trump, he said.

State Rep. Mark Batinick, R-Plainfield, said there was nothing particularly new about the way the Republican primary turned out.

He pointed to Rauners nomination in a 2014 primary contest against former state Sen. Kirk Dillard.

Dillard was the establishment guy, and Rauner was the firebrand, far-right kind of guy, Batinick said.

Noting Bill Bradys run for governor in 2010, Batinick said, Of the top-tier candidates, the most conservative has won the nomination.

But Batinick said extremists in both the Republican and Democratic parties have been winning primaries due to gerrymandered electoral maps that favor one party over another. The defeat of U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, on Tuesday was due more to Illinois new electoral map than Trumps support for his opponent, Miller, Batinick said.

The Democrats have moved farther to the left, and gerrymandering has created more hard Republican districts, which moves us to the right, Batinick said. Rodney Davis always won in a swing district. No one even challenged him.

But there was something different about Tuesday, said Christopher Mooney, a W. Russell Arrington Professor of State Politics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

This primary demonstrated that the Trump wing of the Republican Party has taken over the party in Illinois, Mooney said.

The situation in Illinois has been aggravated by Republicans inability to win statewide elections with the exception of Rauners one term for the past two decades while losing the state legislature to Democrats, he said.

The other thing thats going on in Illinois is a frustration that has been building for years with the Republican Party not being able to win, he said.

When organized parties cannot win elections, people in the party get frustrated, Mooney said. They lash out at their leaders.

Mooney predicted the campaign for governor will be more ideological than is typical as candidates move to the center after primary victories to win election.

Pritzker is just all in on the Progressive agenda, Mooney said.

Pritzker could take his foot off the gas because he is in a strong position to win, Mooney said. But I dont think hes going to do so because I think hes going to run for president.

Seeing farther right candidates win in congressional or state legislative primaries Tuesday is a byproduct of the way districts were redrawn, said Kent Redfield, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

He said the 13th Congressional District is an example of a district drawn to take in as many urban areas, traditionally Democratic, collecting Champaign-Urbana, Springfield and metro east St. Louis, leaving behind other districts primarily rural and Republican, such as the 15th.

In these districts it is easier for the Republican candidate to move farther right, because there is no Democratic candidate, or any viable one, Redfield said.

Redfield said the mindset changes in more balanced districts, or statewide elections. He said there was a reason Pritzker spent money against Irvin, preferring to face the more right-leaning Bailey.

Redfield said Baileys win is the Republican Party moving in an ideological direction, instead of thinking pragmatically about who can win. He said its not a new dynamic nationwide, but it is in Illinois.

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In February 2009, a young man posting on a website dubbed The Urban Prankster Network (Headquarters for Global Agents of Stealth Comedy!) suggested a novel way to cool off the city of Austin, Texas, when the inevitable hell of a Texas summer bakes streets and fries brains: a citywide water gun and water balloon war waged by a flash mob.

It could happen. American flash mobs often involve goofy stuntsthe digital social network and cellphone with text-message age equivalent of 1950s-era collegians cramming sophomores into a phone booth (when phone booths still existed).

A flash mob organizer might send four accomplices a message like this: Paint yourself blue and show up at Sixth and Congress in two hours. In concept, the ability to communicate quickly and virally (think exponentseach friend contacts four more friends, and those friends four more) quickly multiplies the number of blue-painted crazies unexpectedly crowding a downtown sidewalk.

A couple of years ago, I overheard two mothers discussing a high school party that included a flash mob-like activity. A text message provided the insta-mob location. Alas, one of the moms had to drive her son to and from the mob scene. Thats an old lesson reinforced: Even improvised anarchy may require parental logistical support.

San Francisco, however, is fed up with flash mobs that leave litter. The San Francisco Chronicle assured its readers that the citys looming crackdown was not political, ideological or cultural, but a Valentines Day flash mob pillow fight left heaps of icky, sticky feathers for sanitation workersin other words, clean-up costs. The pillow brawl was billed as the fourth annual, which indicates less flash and more coordination. Unless event organizers take responsibility for the trash, the city may shut the next one down. Heres the bumper sticker: Leave Trash? No Flash.

One hundred seventy-four years after the publication of his Democracy in America, French aristocrat and author Alexis de Tocqueville remains the most insightful analyst of American political mores. Tocqueville didnt anticipate flash mob technology, but he understood them in Americas context. He noted in volume two of his masterpiece that Americans formed public associations for many reasons, including entertainment. Freedom of association flows from the First Amendments guarantee of freedom of peaceable assembly.

Tocqueville also noted that this freedom is dangerous. In Europe, crowds signaled revolt. American democracy had produced a paradox, one that had a subtle but profound national security dimension. Tocqueville concluded the liberty of association had become a necessary guarantee against the tyranny of the majority. Civil associationspresumably even pillow fightsfacilitated political association, and free political association kept American democracy vibrant. Association was the dangerous means for thwarting the majoritys omnipotence.

Tocquevilles observations and San Franciscos impending trash-bred quash of flash mobs led me to the internet. I typed in flash mob and tea party. The Google search produced an article on anti-stimulus protests occurring throughout the United States. Scores of demonstrations against congressional pork spending, congressional earmark spending, lack of oversight in bailout spending and congressional corruption have sprung up around the United States.

In some cases, several hundred people have gatheredorganized using flash mob communications techniques. The tea party protesters connect their contemporary gripes with the same anti-tax and anti-autocrat sentiment that spawned the Boston Tea Party of 1773. The internet and cellphones are simply swifter couriers for delivering messages from bloggers and protest organizers, the rough contemporary equivalents of the committees of correspondence that linked American revolutionaries in the 18th century.

Yes, hyper-left San Francisco insists it has no ideological issues with flash mobs but tyrants do. In 2006, Zimbabwes military cracked down on cellphone companies because they provide independent connections (i.e., communications) inside and outside the country. This threatened national security. The military wanted to limit the outflow of information on Zimbabwes terrible internal conditions and deny demonstrators a tool for organizing.

Tocqueville wrote: It cannot be denied that the unrestrained liberty of association for political purposes is the privilege which a people is longest in learning how to exercise.

Americans, he concluded, had learned. The privilege, and its enabling knack, remains revolutionary.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of TexasAustin. His latest book is Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.

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The Mississippi Congressional runoff for District 4 will not likely make national news. But what the voters of this district did is a microcosm of the feelings of Americans fed up with Swamp politics in Washington, D.C. Steven Palazzo, despite being swept into Congress riding the last great show of voter anger in 2010 with the TEA party movement, spent six terms in Congress showing that he did not have the fight and fire that voters believed. He was not a trailblazer for freedom or wanting to bring true change to Washington, D.C., swamp politics.

He was what has made Washington so miserable an entrenched, lifetime politician with the backing of big business and special interests. He was not alone back in 2010, as many of those new faces elected to tackle the likes of Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer lifetime, slimy politicians beholden to their own re-election efforts and bringing in campaign donations rode the TEA Party wave to victory.

This country is in a crisis. We have a president who doesnt know where he is half the time and has trouble putting two sentences together. We have a vice president who makes Bidens words sound like Shakespeare. We have a Congress that has printed so much money, the dollar is on the verge of being worthless. Yet time after time, the voters put the same Swamp snakes back in office.

On Tuesday night, voters in District 4 acted and, we hope, charted a course for our government that will be felt through the November general election.If those in power are driving the country off the cliff, or at least being complicit in the nations destruction, they do not deserve to go back for more years to continue the drive toward destruction. Palazzo might not have been driving, since he wasnt much of a leader of anything, but he was firmly entrenched in the bus of national destruction.

He should have been term-limited after four terms, which should be the maximum for House members. But the only way to enact term limits is to have the same Swamp creatures who rely on there being no term limits to pass it themselves. Those in the D.C. club will never do that. Their lives are too cushy inside the beltway. Senators should get two six-year terms. Period. There should be no Chuck Grassley, who, at 88 years old, is seeking a seventh term in the Senate. The likes of McConnell and the even more loathsome Lindsey Graham, who wakes up every morning and decides what side of an issue he needs to come down on, need to be sent packing.

While many believe that is impossible, as those in power have rigged the game so terribly it is almost impossible to get primaried, voters in District 4 on Tuesday showed that it can happen.

Americans are furious at the direction of this country. They are taking out that angst not on candidates based on what letter might be next to their name, but whether there is a huge S in front of it Swamp. That is what District 4 voters did on Tuesday, voted against a double-S Swamp Steven.

Now, to Mike Ezell, who likely will defeat Democrat Johnny DuPree in the general election, we are all watching. You will be swept into Congress much the way Palazzo was swept in in 2010. We only hope that you show more fortitude and more fight than the man you defeated. Our patience is running thin. If you cant fight and work to bring change, your days will be numbered as well. Americans are awake and they are hacked off.

Be a leader, not just another creature in the D.C. Swamp.

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