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This is a campaign button supporting Morris King "Mo" Udall when he was running as a candidate for the US Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. Udall was defeated by Jimmy Carter. 

Mo Udall was a member a well-known political family rooted in the American West. The Udall family has been active in United States politics for over a century, and across 4 generations. Mo Udall's son, Mark Udall, former Senator from Colorado, and his two other cousins, New Mexico's Tom Udall and Utah's Mike Lee, are the current generation of Udall family active in the political arena.

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This button is a campaign button supporting Loyd C. Larson, a Republican nominee for the county clerk position in Cook County in Illinois in the 1942 election. Prior to the election, Larson was the head of his own accounting firm. During his campaign, he criticized the Democratic machinery in stealing votes and other government corruption. It was also reported that many black constituents attended his campaigns with enthusiasm.

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Wendell Willkie was the 1940 Republican Party nominee for President of the United States.  Willkie, a corporate lawyer, spoke on issues regarding America's part in the second World War and attempted to ralley support.  Willkie was a very unlikely candidate because he was once a member of the Democratic party and worked on Wall Street. Willkie lost the election to his opponent, Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the election was over, Roosevelt asked Willkie to be part of his staff as an informal ambassador. Willkie traveled the world speaking to America's allies and encouraging support for the US to aid and support allies in times of war, especially Great Britain against Germany.  His progressive views cost him a drastic reduction of support within the Republican party and it eventually lead to him dropping out of the 1944 presidential race.

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-ismist Recordings was founded in 1992 in Lincoln, Nebraska by Dan Schlissel. The label name started as “–ism”, which would stand for all the different forms of art and thought. In 1996, “-ism” became “-ismist.” The label has released a number of albums made by punk artists. Some notable artists are The Monroes, Season to Risk, and Slipknot. 

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Dressy Bessy is an indie rock band based out of Denver, Colorado. The band was named after a Playskool doll of the same name, which was first manufactured in the early 1970s. Dressy Bessy is associated with the Elephant 6 Collective, a group of musicians from the Denver area that gave rise to many notable bands from the late 1990s including Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal, and Apples in Stereo. The band’s first full-length album Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons was released in 1999. Two songs from the album were featured prominently in the 1999 cult comedy But I’m a Cheerleader. As of 2015, Dressy Bessy is still actively recording and touring. They are scheduled to release a new album in early 2016. 

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"Up to eleven" or "these go to eleven" is coined in the popular movie This Is Spinal Tap, a 1984 American rock music mockumentary written, scored by, and starring Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. In a the movie, the guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly demonstrates the importance of going to 11 on an amplifier whose volume knob is marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten.

The Oxford Dictionaries defines the phrase as "So as to reach or surpass the maximum level; to an extreme or intense degree:turn the volume up to eleven."

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When photographer Lynn Goldsmith released her comedic self-help album Dancing for Mental Health in 1983, she did so under the pseudonym Will Powers. Featuring both spoken word poetry and songs, the album was inspired by contemporary motivational speakers and self-help gurus who worked by building confidence in the listener. The album included guest artists like Sting and Carly Simon and was popular in the United Kingdom that year.

Will Powers. (n.d.). Retrieved September 21, 2015 from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Powers

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Princeton University is a private American university located in Princeton, New Jersey. A member of the Ivy League, it was founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey. Orange and black are its school colors and its mascot/nickname is the Tigers. 

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The National Abortion Rights Action League, now known as NARAL Pro-Choice America, is an abortion-rights advocacy group in the United States. NARAL was founded by a committee of attendants at the "First National Conference on Abortion Laws: Modification or Repeal?" held in Chicago in February, 1969. The mission of NARAL Pro-Choice America is to protect and expand reproductive freedom in the United States, both at the national and state level. The coat hanger depicted on this button has become a symbol used by abortion rights activists to represent the dangers of illegal abortion. The "coat hanger method” is an infamously harmful method of self-induced abortion that often led to hospitalization and sometimes death.  

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The slogan on this button became popular in the 1980s as a tongue-in-cheek way to encourage young people to wear their seatbelts. The slogan appeared on buttons and posters that were posted in schools as part of the “Buckle Up America” challenge week, which gained popularity in the late 1980s. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation have provided national leadership for traffic and highway safety efforts since the 1960s. Consistent with public/private partnerships that characterize motor-vehicle safety efforts, NHTSA sponsors “Buckle Up America” week, which focuses on the need to wear seatbelts at all times.