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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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  • Taking Away Your Citizenship

    Joyce Vance
    Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

    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.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence

    MIke Spies
    The Trace

    The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

    Published On: 07/01/2025

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Increasing Calls From the Public Saying “Fight or Resign”

    Christopher Armitage
    The Existentialist Republic

    Elected officials who refuse to use their power should lose it.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • 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

  • O Canada

    Robert Reich
    Robert Reich

    A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north.

    Published On: 01/21/2026

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