A California state Democratic lawmaker has proposed a stunning move in the ongoing fight to counteract the Trump administration’s campaign to establish a universe of “alternative facts.”

California Assemblyman Marc Levine of the Sacramento area announced in a press release on Wednesday, that he will be soon introducing a bill to force the state educational system to teach students about Russia’s role in the just concluded 2016 presidential election cycle.

Levine has termed his bill the “Pravda Act of 2017,” in reference to newspaper component of the defunct state propaganda machine of the former Soviet Union, known as Pravda.

As the press release reads:

‘This legislation ensures that all California students will learn how the Russian government conspired to influence the United States Presidential Election to elect Donald Trump.’

Indeed, as Levine notes in his press release, although some would have you believe otherwise, there remains no question that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election cycle on behalf of Donald Trump. Russian hackers stole tens of thousands of emails containing private information from key figures in the Democratic Party and leaked them to the public via Wikileaks, the “government transparency” organization founded by alleged rapist Julian Assange.

The efforts to spin the information in these stolen emails into something that cast a bad light on the Democrats was a key factor in Hillary Clinton’s downfall. Russia escaped culpability in the leaked emails scandal until late in the election season; however, the U.S. intelligence community has made public key details in the case against Russia, incriminating them as the ones behind the emails that were obtained by Wikileaks.

As the state assemblyman put it in his press release:

‘The work of 17 intelligence agencies including the FBI and CIA confirmed Russian interference in our election. This is a threat to our democracy and must be treated with appropriate significance in American history.’

As Levine went on to note in his press release about his proposed legislation, his bill, if passed, would affect students outside of the Golden State as well, as the bill would cover textbooks produced in Levine’s state, not just classes taught.

The state assemblyman went on:

‘California is the largest textbook market in the nation. Textbooks approved in our state are used throughout the country. Through this legislation, we can make sure students in California and across the United States receive accurate information about the 2016 Presidential election.’

Levine’s proposal comes in the midst of an ongoing disinformation campaign from the Trump administration in an effort to mold the public narrative to be more to its liking.

The president’s response to the Russians’ hacking has gone from claiming that it never happened to claiming that it is basically irrelevant. One of the ways that Trump has worked towards making the hacking scandal seem irrelevant is by undercutting the sanctions that the U.S. imposed as a response to the cyberattacks.

The Hill reports that California has intervened in the nation’s educational system to get other issues added to the nation’s educational system as well, including the importance of Barack Obama being the first African-American president and the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that barred Chinese immigrants from the United States.

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