Democracy • Elections • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • White Supremacy

William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove — Our Moral Moment

Why Authoritarians Fear Moral Resistance

Where to look for hope as the legal victories of America’s moral movements are dismantled.

Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Safety • Social Justice and Equity

Resistance Media

Personal Resilience is Resistance

Compassion, empathy, anger, grief and joy are some of the most powerful acts of resistance available to us

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Surveillance

Jay Kuo — The Status Kuo

“Become Ungovernable”

How the DOJ turned a Facebook post into evidence of a federal conspiracy.

Culture • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Dr Stacey Patton

White Men Call Michelle Obama a Man Because They Miss Mammy

What kind of white man looks at Michelle Obama, or any other Black woman beyond his reach, and needs her to be a man?

Economy • Financial • Global • Health • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Jessica Friday — https://connectioning.substack.com

The 300+ Movements to a Fair Economy that Works for All of Us

The 300 scenes, movements, frameworks, and approaches creating the new economy now.

Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

Jake Johnson — Common Dreams

Lebanese PM Condemns Israel’s Killing of Journalist Amal Khalil as ‘Clear-Cut War Crime’

Israel’s targeting of media professionals in the south while they are performing their professional duties is no longer a matter of isolated incidents; rather, it has become a proven pattern.

Artificial Intelligence • Human Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Violence

Ken Klippenstein

Death by A.I.

New "Autonomous Warfare Center" will automate targeted killings.

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.

Corruption • Executive Power • Human Rights • ICE • Legal

Julie K Brown — The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown

Could a former Brazilian model be the whistleblower Melania is afraid of?

The First Lady’s unprecedented public statement about Jeffrey Epstein yesterday raised a lot of questions about what, if anything, is about to be revealed about Donald and Melania Trump’s relationship with the late sex trafficker.

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...

Disinformation • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Violence

CPJ Staff — CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

Global press freedom violations during the Iran war

The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

Culture • Environment • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

David Marchese — The New York Times (Gift)

The Interview: Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis."

Culture • Disinformation • Exile • Human Rights • Russia • Surveillance

Amelia Gentleman — The Guardian

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile.

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.

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

Mica Rosenberg — ProPublica (February, 9, 2026)

The Children of Dilley

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

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 • 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..."

Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights • Violence

Amnesty International

EU states must retract outrageous attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

“This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."

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?

Environment • Global • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Science

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance

At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

Corruption • Disinformation • Financial • Human Rights • Violence

Sharon Zhang — Truthout

Kushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers on Ruins of Gaza Genocide

The plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors.

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..."

Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

Ta-Nehisi Coates — Vanity Fair

The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good

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.

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.

Culture • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Violence • White Supremacy

Dr. Stacey Patton

ICE Is Out Here Shooting White Mothers Now

Are we witnessing the end of whiteness as a buffer against state violence?

Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Violence

Sonali Kolhatkar — Truthout

Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025

Given the increasing number of U.S. citizens caught in ICE’s dragnet, organizers are warning that attacks on immigrants are just the beginning.

Culture • Fascism • Health • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Trump’s Christmas message: "Scum" wasn’t just offensive. It was a warning.

The future lays before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered.

Corruption • Disinformation • Human Rights • Legal • Threat Management

Dr. Stacey Patton

The Slow Release of the Epstein Files Is Psychological Conditioning

The public is being shown just enough to know the truth, and to understand that nothing is going to happen.

Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Safety

Rev. Cameron Trimble — Piloting Faith: An (Almost) Daily Meditation

The Long Work of Courage

A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

Canada • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights • Russia

Olga Lautman

America’s Foreign Policy Now Aligns With Russia

The United States is no longer acting as an independent power. It is behaving like a Kremlin satellite executing the foreign policy goals of a regime that has spent decades trying to dismantle the West...

Corruption • Disinformation • Executive Power • Human Rights • Legal

Hafiz Rashid — The New Republic

Trump’s FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million on Redacting Epstein Files

A new report reveals the FBI’s frantic “special redaction project” when they thought the Epstein files would be released.

Exile • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Safety

Kai Proschan — TransLash (January 22, 2025)

Trans Relocation Guide: Finding Trans Asylum and Safe Havens

In light of growing hostility and anti-trans legislation across the U.S., many transgender people are seeking safe havens —whether by relocating to more trans-friendly areas within the U.S. or by moving abroad.

Corruption • Executive Power • Human Rights • Legal

Closer to the Edge and Rook T. Winchester — Closer to the Edge

Follow the Money: The Epstein Files They Didn't Want You to See

That deal wasn’t justice; it was choreography. The money-laundering indictment that could’ve exposed his financial enablers was boxed up and buried...

Fascism • Human Rights • Social Media • Threat Management • White Supremacy

Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo — Politico

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Human Rights • Resistance

Tom Perkins — The Guardian

Democratic US Senate candidate seeks to replicate Mamdani’s success

Abdul El-Sayed’s bid for Michigan senator centers on bold leftwing populism similar to the NYC mayoral candidate

Democratic Party • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Resistance • Surveillance • Threat Management

Jeff Sharlet — Scenes from a Slow Civil War

Rubber Glue Fascism

A close reading of "NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence"

Culture • Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Violence

Gil Duran — The New Republic

What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?

This is where apocalyptic rhetoric always leads. When political opponents become evil, cosmic enemies, persecution, and violence become a sacred duty.

Cyber Security • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Social Media • Violence

Oliver Holmes and agencies — The Guardian

JD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics

US vice-president encourages ‘calling out’ anyone who celebrates Kirk’s murder, including notifying employers

Democracy • Economy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Chris Armitage — The Existential Republic

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

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

Artificial Intelligence • Cryptocurrency • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Executive Power • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Ron Williams

The Resistance Will Be Reported (Updated November 12, 2025)

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Reporters Without Borders

Six months of Trump’s war on the press

This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Fascism • Financial • Global • Human Rights

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

America on the Brink

We must call this what it is: a full-scale assault on our economy, our democracy, and the peaceful world order that’s prevented a third world war for nearly 80 years…

Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Resistance • Social Media

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning

The mainstream media are overall failing to raise the alarm, failing to connect the dots, failing to show how all the injuries add up to profound danger to the nation's people, its institutions, and its environment.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Human Rights • Legal

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.

Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

Caitlin Vogus — Freedom of Press Foundation

ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it

While noncitizen journalists are the easiest targets for now, it’s abundantly clear that the government would like to criminalize journalists it doesn’t like, regardless of the journalists’ residency status.

Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety

Committee to Protect Journalists

CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara

The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Social Justice and Equity

Joyce Vance — Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

Taking Away Your Citizenship

We’ve moved onto the next phase of the plan, where the Civil Rights Division, the once proud crown jewel of the Justice Department, will participate in stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Norman Solomon — Roots Action

The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani

The oligarchs accustomed to such governance are furious that the nation’s capital of capitalism is in danger of serving people instead of megaprofits.

Corruption • Democracy • Europe • Executive Power • Global • Human Rights • Legal

Michael Maya — Just Security

Why Hungary and Orbanism Must Never be a Model for the U.S.

Those who praise Orban and argue that Hungary provides a useful model for the United States are gravely misguided or worse.

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