Culture • Democracy • Resistance • Safety

Sarah Van Gelder — Common Dreams

Washington Won’t Save Us; Our Neighbors Might

Why the midterms will be won or lost at the community level—and what that means for how we organize now.

Corruption • Democracy • Elections • Financial • Legal • Regulations

Harold Meyerson — American Prospect

Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics

A new law makes clear that corporations derive their powers from states, and they don’t necessarily include the right to spend on elections.

Culture • Democracy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Resistance • White Supremacy

Richard Schrader — Bad Energy

Orban Turns to Dust

What a world, what a world.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Press Freedom • Technology

Gil Duran — The Nerd Reich (04/21/2026)

How to Purge Palantir

And how I got permanently banned from X.

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Health

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo — The Big Picture

The MAHA-MAGA Breakup

The political marriage brokered by RFK Jr. was doomed from the get-go. And Republicans may pay a steep electoral price in November.

Democracy • Elections • Europe • Fascism

Jason Stanley — Front Left

Hungary shows the US needs a progressive to beat fascism

And not an American Peter Magyar.

Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Legal

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic (04/22/2026)

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I'm Filing for His Disbarment Today.

The men and women running this system built their careers on the assumption that nobody was paying attention. We noticed.

Corruption • Democracy • Economy • Executive Power • Financial

Mitch Jackson — Uncensored Objection. Law. Facts. No Spin.

Minutes Before Trump Speaks, Someone Gets Rich: The BBC Just Exposed The Insider Trading Operation The White House Wants Buried

The evidence shows a consistent pattern of trading spikes minutes and hours before Donald Trump moves the markets with his mouth. The evidence is not complicated. The evidence is in the timestamps.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism

Judd Legum — Popular Information

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal

As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

Democracy • Elections • Legal • Resistance

Robert Reich — Robert Reich Substack

How to Impeach the Bastard, for Real

Now's the time to start organizing.

Democracy • Elections • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Resistance Media — Resistance Media (03/24/2026)

An Urgent Message to Indivisible

Is the NO KINGS coalition prepared for the national emergency straight ahead of us?

Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Sarah van Gelder — Truthout

What Do Authoritarians Fear Most? People Who Stick Up for Each Other.

The most reliable form of resilience is not individual wealth or distant institutions, but solidarity.

Democracy • Global • Resistance

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence

Violence consistently undermines the very influence it seeks to project.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Russia

Jim Stewartson — MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

The Enemies He Created: Trump’s Paranoia Spiral

Paranoia metabolizes humiliation into persecution—and shame into grandiosity.

Democracy • Elections • Europe • Fascism • Global

Garry Kasparov — The Next Move

Hungary Is America in Miniature

Hungary's test is on Sunday. America's will come in November.

Democracy • Executive Power • Global • Legal

Cristina Stassis — Military Times

Automatic registration for US military draft-eligible men to begin in December

Automatic registration into the U.S. military draft pool for eligible men is slated to begin in December 2026.

Culture • Democracy • Fascism • Global

Jeffrey Sachs — Savage Minds

Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God

When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.

Democracy • Executive Power • Impacts • Safety • Violence

Judd Legum and Noel Sims — Popular Information

The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies

Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”

Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Legal • Surveillance

Kait Justice — Downwind of Truth with Kait Justice

Is the Barr Family Blocking The Epstein Investigation Because It Would Expose What's Being Built Right Now?

Three threads, fifty years, a 1973 Sci-Fi novel and the architecture of a sovereign class that answers to no one.

Democracy • Disinformation • Press Freedom

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report (03/25/2026)

From “Fake News” to Full Control: How the GOP Trained the Media to Serve Its Narrative

A 30-year campaign of intimidation turned watchdogs into lapdogs, and now the consequences are impossible to ignore…

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism

Timothy Snyder — Timothy Snyder (04/04/2026)

The Next Coup Attempt

As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases.

Democracy • Impacts • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Dr Stacey Patton

“No Kings," No Risk, No Change. The Protest Ritual That Lets America Feel Brave Without Doing Anything

Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains. Holding the same signs. And reposting the same slogans with a fresh coat of urgency.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Violence

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

“ICE Was My Idea”: The Kind of Moment History Writes About Later

The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept...

Corruption • Democracy • Human Rights • Legal

Craig Unger — Craig Unger (February 24, 2026)

They Built It. Now They Want to Bomb It.

Today's Iran crisis didn't start with just the mullahs. It started with a secret deal that Republican operatives made with them— a deal that changed history and has now lead to war.

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

Doug Bock Clark — ProPublica

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms

“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.”

Democracy • Europe • Fascism • Violence • White Supremacy

Gloria Horton-Young — She Who Stirs the Storm (January 21, 2026)

The Perfect Storm

When warnings are everywhere, and still no one moves.

Democracy • Disinformation • Economy • Executive Power • Financial

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The National Debt Is the Evidence of the Crime: Who Pocketed the $38 Trillion?

The national debt isn’t the cause of our problems: it’s the receipt. It’s the paper trail of the largest upward transfer of wealth in 250 years of American history…

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism • Press Freedom

Matt Gertz — Media Matters

Paramount is mangling CBS — and CNN may be next

Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

Democracy • Economy • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity

John Nichols — The Nation

Jesse Jackson Gave Peace a Chance

The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism.

Democracy • Disinformation • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism

Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazines and even mainstream media. In other ways, journalism is in an age of slop and slime and decline.

Democracy • Fascism • ICE • Resistance

Mark Engler and Paul Engler — The Guardian

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation

The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity and creative resistance in anti-ICE protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s drive toward authoritarianism.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Violence

Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMS — Truthout

Trump Admin to Spend $40B to Turn Warehouses Into Massive Immigration Jails

“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem..."

Democracy • Executive Power • Human Rights

Media Benjamin — Counterpunch

Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba

Who will win this demonic game Trump and Rubio are playing with the lives of eleven million Cubans?

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism

Karl Grossman — FAIR

Rupert Murdoch Heads West

Murdoch’s media machine is the “most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world.”

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Russia

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover

Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Journalism • Social Media

Parker Molloy — The New Republic

The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Ron Williams

Let's Never Forget Who We Are

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late..."

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal

Marc Elias — Democracy Docket

The DOJ's Fulton County Raid to Seize Ballots is Really About Future Elections

The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom

Committee to Protect Journalists — CPJ

CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage

It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • ICE • Violence • White Supremacy

Isaac Stanley-Becker — The Atlantic (Gift)

Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

Democracy • Fascism • Health • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

Robert F. Worth — The Atlantic (Gift)

Welcome to the American Winter

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

The Last Election

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.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Social Justice and Equity

Frank Rich — New York Magazine

The Power Breaker

Why the Democratic Party, the New York Times, and the donor class got Zohran Mamdani so wrong.

Democracy • Global

Mike Brock — https://www.notesfromthecircus.com

An SOS From American Democracy

Why the Global Democratic Community Must Respond Before It’s Too Late

Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom

Katherine Jacobsen — Committee to Protect Journalists

Alarm bells: Trump’s first 100 days

The United States is now at a critical juncture concerning both the future of freedom of the press and democratic institutions more broadly.

Canada • Democracy • Exile • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management

George Packer — The Atlantic

Be a Patriot

Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.

Democracy • Executive Power

Ed Simon — Time

What We Must Understand About the Dark Enlightenment Movement

Where the Enlightenment promised liberty, emancipation, equality, and solidarity, “Dark Enlightenment” offers servitude, hierarchy, bondage, and ruthlessness.

Democracy • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Threat Management

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup

Great uprisings are often both carefully prepared for and essentially unpredictable. It's as if the fuel has been gathered for a bonfire but a lightning strike suddenly ignites it.

Democracy • Europe • Executive Power • Fascism • Global • Violence

Timothy W. Ryback — The Atlantic

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

It took Hitler 53 days. Trump's shock & awe campaign is moving at lightning speed.

Democracy • Economy • Financial

Dave Troy — The Washington Spectator

Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse

In May, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 8421, the “Federal Reserve Abolition Act” which aims to “abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve banks” and repeals the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the law that created the Federal Reserve System. ...This bill, as designed, would end the current dollar system and introduce a new financial system rooted in a gold-backed dollar and cryptocurrencies.

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