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Small Wyoming County Book Banners Pay the Price for Hate

$700,000 to be exact

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Tara Devlin
Oct 13, 2025
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For nearly three decades, Terri Lesley worked as a librarian in —a region so reliably Republican it would be redundant to call it a Trump stronghold. For years, Lesley dedicated herself to public service, promoting the fundamental American principle that libraries are sanctuaries for curiosity, learning, and the perpetual expansion of human knowledge.

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