Dan Sinker writes about the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, their immense power in Indiana, and the man, George Dale, who relentlessly fought to bring ‘em down.

It is destructive and it is awful and not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails. It takes work. It takes fighting back. It takes throwing punches. It takes doing whatever it takes to beat it back, to protect those that are most vulnerable from its many attacks. And through it all, it feels impossible that we will win.

But we will.