Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism
Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
Doug Bock Clark
ProPublica
“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.”
Culture • Environment • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity
The Interview: Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
David Marchese
The New York Times (Gift)
"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
‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda
Amelia Gentleman
The Guardian
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
They Built It. Now They Want to Bomb It.
Craig Unger
Craig Unger (February 24, 2026)
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 • Economy • Executive Power • Financial
The National Debt Is the Evidence of the Crime: Who Pocketed the $38 Trillion?
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
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…
Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence
The Children of Dilley
Mica Rosenberg
ProPublica (February, 9, 2026)
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.
The Prairieland 19 Case is a Test for Criminalizing Dissent
Jarrod Shanahan
Jacobin
Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.





