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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.

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.

Culture • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Journalism • Resistance

Andrew Perez — Zeteo

Graham Platner Will Be Maine’s Democratic Senate Nominee

Zeteo broke the news of Platner’s campaign launch. Now the anti-war, anti-Israel oysterman is Democrats’ presumptive Senate nominee in Maine, after Governor Janet Mills suspended her candidacy.

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.

Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Violence

Henry A. Giroux — LA Progressive (04/24/2026)

When Gangster Capitalism Becomes Government

Socialism or barbarism, democracy or gangster rule, shared futures or organized cruelty. History opened the question. What remains is whether people will answer it.

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.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Digital Rights • Fascism • Surveillance

Elizabeth Spiers — The Nation

Palantir’s Manifesto Promises a Dystopian Future

The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism.

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.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology

Will Robinson — Will Robinson's Newsletter

AI’s Promise Is Real. So Is the Threat No One’s Talking About.

Beyond deepfakes, bad actors are learning to manipulate search itself - shaping what AI sees, what it surfaces, and ultimately what people believe.

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 • 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.

Analysis • 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 • 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.

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.”

Democracy • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Recommended

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 • 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 • Executive Power • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Threat Management

Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons — The Guardian

The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government

Democracy • Financial • Technology • White Supremacy

Rachael Levy and Alexandra Ulmer — Reuters (April 10, 2025)

Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

Silicon Valley investors propose Greenland as a libertarian 'freedom city'

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology

Juan Sebastian Pinto — Ziggurat

My Final Message Before I'm on an FBI Watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times

ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It's time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

The New York Times — The New York Times (Gift)

The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech

"I stand alongside you, the tens of thousands gathered here in Lower Manhattan, warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope."

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Nick Turse — The Intercept

U..S. Military Willing to Attack "Designated Terrorist Organizations" Within America, General Says

“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”

Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Financial • Global • Human Rights

The Big Picture and Todd Beeton — The Big Picture

The Disturbing Return Of The Prodigal Son-In-Law

Jared Kushner is so back, and what he's up to should concern us all.

Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Surveillance • Technology

Rowan Philp — Global Investigative Journalism Network

Maria Ressa Calls for ‘Radical Collaboration’ to Combat Misinformation and Preserve Press Freedom

“Everything we knew as an industry has been destroyed. So we don’t stand still. This is a time for radical collaboration.”

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power

The Ink

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The beginning of the end of Trump?

We look at the sprawling, infuriating Epstein email dump and ask what this rare glimpse into the dark heart of oligarchic minds might mean for our broken system.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism

Jay Kuo — The Status Kuo

The Storm Is Here

Evidence for Trump’s direct participation may exist among the Epstein files that haven’t been released yet. That may explain why the Justice Department reviewed them for any mention of Trump and has tried to stonewall their full release.

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic

Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power

Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.

Democracy • Executive Power • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom

Amy Kroin — Free Press

The Defunding of Public Media Is Hitting Local Stations Hardest

“The urgent task is to build a public-media system capable of resisting autocracy and restoring democracy.”

Democracy • Fascism • Journalism • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Dr. Stacey Patton

Trump’s Mass Pardon of White Nationalists Turned Into a Death Warrant for Hakeem Jeffries

They told us this would happen.

Democracy • Resistance • Safety

Sarah Van Gelder — How We Rise, With Sarah

Galvanizing power through joyful, local action

Building power locally is a really key part of it. If you want to be a dictatorship, but you have lots of power centers all over the country choosing their own path, that’s much harder to do.

Democracy • Resistance • Safety • Violence • White Supremacy

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left

It’s hard to portray someone dancing in an inflatable frog or chicken costume as a terrorist.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Resistance • Threat Management

United in Advance

Statement on Political Violence and the Fundamental Freedom of Speech

"Organizations should not be attacked for carrying out their missions or expressing their values in support of the communities they serve. We reject attempts to exploit political violence to mischaracterize our good work or restrict our fundamental freedoms, like freedom of speech and the freedom to give."

Democracy • Fascism • Violence • White Supremacy

David Gilbert — Wired

‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence

Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano — The Nation

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

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.

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

Clint Smith — The Atlantic

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

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.

Democracy • Europe • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance

Sarah Sophie Flicker — The Nation

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

Democracy • Elections • Legal • Social Justice and Equity • White Supremacy

Brian Tyler Cohen

Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule

The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Social Justice and Equity

Elie Mystal — The Nation

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Legal

Allison Gill — muellershewrote.com

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI

Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

Democracy • Financial • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

Maya Yang — The Guardian

‘Devastating’: US Public Broadcasters Condemn Trump Cuts

PBS chief says cuts package ‘goes against the will of the American people’ as smaller outlets could face total closure

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.

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.

Democracy • Disinformation • Featured • Social Media • Technology

David Gilbert — Wired

A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using AI to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’

Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy

J Oliver Conroy — The Guardian

The US has entered a new phase of political violence

The political temperature is dangerously high – and shows few signs of cooling.

Democracy • Press Freedom • Social Media

Taylor Lorenz — usermag.com

Streamer detained at the border and questioned for hours

Piker's detention occurs against a backdrop of increasing scrutiny of political activists and commentators, especially those who challenge the administration’s policies on Israel.

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Legal

Justin Baragona — The Independent