• Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

    The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

    Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano

    The Nation

    With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The White House Is Its Own Media Outlet

    Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson

    Columbia Journalism Review

    The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.

    Published On: 08/28/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    Keep Calm and Protect Democracy

    Micah L. Sifry

    The Connector

    Instead of "catastrophizing" ourselves into despair, pay attention to the regime's weaknesses, including among the MAGA base.

    Published On: 08/26/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Human Rights

    America Tips Into Fascism

    Garrett Graff

    Doomsday Scenario

    Whether we can come back from this moment is a story yet unknown. But it’s clear today America is different and, even if we fight our way back, it will never be the same again.

    Published On: 08/25/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Disinformation

    US Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda

    Sam Biddle

    The Intercept

    The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.

    Published On: 08/25/2025

  • Human Rights • Resistance • White Supremacy

    Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

    Clint Smith

    The Atlantic

    We must make a record of those forces that seek to erase us and erase our histories so that future generations know we did not simply accept it. Our ancestors’ words remind us that we never have.

    Published On: 08/22/2025

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Social Media

    Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance

    Riley Stuart and Anna-Maria Tesfaye

    The New York Times (Gift)

    The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.

    Published On: 08/22/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • White Supremacy

    Steve Bannon just laid out the MAGA media playbook to subvert the midterms

    John Knefel, Research Sophie Lawton

    Media Matters

    The right-wing media plan for undermining the 2026 elections includes pushing for ICE to stalk polling sites and sending a band of election deniers on tour

    Published On: 08/21/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    On Not Surrendering in Advance Or At Any Point Thereafter

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context.

    Published On: 08/20/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    What Bob McChesney Taught Me

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues

    “If you act like change for the better is impossible, you guarantee it will be impossible.”

    Published On: 08/19/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance • Safety

    It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

    Chris Armitage

    The Existential Republic

    Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

    Published On: 08/19/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    45 Acts of Non-Compliance for Ordinary People

    How to Resist

    How to Resist

    One of the strengths of non-compliance is its accessibility. You don’t need a permit, a megaphone, or a lawyer. You simply need the courage and the conviction to say NO.

    Published On: 08/17/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Trump Plans To Steal the Midterms

    The Big Picture and Jay Kuo

    The Big Picture

    Trump intends to undo the will of the voters in next year’s midterm elections. But there’s still time and a way to stop him.

    Published On: 08/14/2025

  • Democracy

    The Strongman’s Test Run, and Why the Next Deployment Will Be Bigger, Longer & Deadlier

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Deploying troops without police training, defying the courts, and threatening the media, Trump is importing dictator tactics in plain sight and daring Americans to stop him...

    Published On: 08/13/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    Establishment Democrats Are Going to Torpedo the 2026 Midterms

    Aaron Regunberg

    The New Republic

    Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections.

    Published On: 08/13/2025

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