Analysis
Democracy • Recommended • Resistance
After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Sarah van Gelder
Truthout (January 24, 2026)
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Published On: 01/30/2026
Democracy • ICE • Recommended • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy
The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize
The Editors of The Nation
The Nation
With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”
Published On: 01/29/2026
Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy
The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Vanity Fair
Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.
Published On: 01/26/2026
Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe
Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star
Ben Quinn
The Guardian
The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.
Published On: 01/25/2026
Culture • Human Rights
Christian Nationalists Have Decided Monks Walking for Peace Are on a One-Way Trip to Hell
Dr. Stacey Patton
Dr. Stacey Patton
The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.
Published On: 01/23/2026
Democracy • Economy • Europe • Global
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
Garrett M. Graff
Wired
With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.
Published On: 01/22/2026
Corruption • Democracy • Threat Management
The Last Election
Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.
Published On: 01/22/2026
Democracy • Threat Management
We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start
Claire Finkelstein
The Guardian
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.
Published On: 01/20/2026
Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology • White Supremacy
Joe Rogan Trained Men to Accept Authoritarianism
W. A. Lawrence
Glass Empires by W. A. Lawrence
Rogan spent years grooming Trump’s base to equate toxic masculinity with strength and authoritarianism with safety. In 2026, that conditioning is locked in with force.
Published On: 01/20/2026
Democracy • Legal • Recommended • Resistance • Violence
I talked Trump out of invoking the Insurrection Act. He’ll do it this time — but we can stop him.
Miles Taylor
defiance.news
America needs to prepare for the coming constitutional crisis. However, it's not hopeless. It's time to go on legal offense.
Published On: 01/16/2026
Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding
Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons
The Guardian
The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government
Published On: 01/15/2026
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