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  Chemical company Dow gave Biden's inauguration committee $250,000, according to congressional lobbying records. Dow split its contribution into two parts: $100,000 on December 15 and $150,000 on December 21, the congressional records indicate. Dow merged with chemical company DuPont in 2015, but spun off again in 2019. Woke’, the term, peaked in 2020. In 2017, it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary and appeared as a category on Jeopardy. Next year, Essence magazine announced its list of ‘Woke 100 Women’. In 2020, Disney’s Hulu aired ‘Woke’:, a tedious series about a college activist. By 2023, wokeness has come to mean leftist extremism. It’s most often used by Republicans and hardly ever by Democrats who act baffled at the idea that there was ever such a thing as wokeness. Much like ‘Defund the Police’, a set of sounds that once defined lefty culture, has been flushed down the memory hole and everyone is pretending they never heard of it. In Seattle, the home of wokeness, ...