Corruption • Democracy • Legal
Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money
Natalie Jonas
Open Secrets
The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.
Published On: 10/25/2025
Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Surveillance • Technology
The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State
Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
It’s clear that the architects of mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways within the Trump administration...
Published On: 10/23/2025
Democracy • Economy
The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Trump—It’s Wall Street
Michael Beyea Reagan
In These Times
Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Avoiding that fate under Mayor Mamdani will require popular movements to discipline the super rich.
Published On: 10/23/2025
Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance
America is Overdue for a General Strike
A.J. Schumann
Counterpunch
Across continents, workers are organizing to do what ballots alone have not: enforce the public will. It’s time American workers join our peers abroad by reclaiming strikes as part of our own democratic tradition.
Published On: 10/22/2025
Resistance
Galvanizing power through joyful, local action
Sarah Van Gelder
How We Rise, With Sarah
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.
Published On: 10/21/2025
Corruption • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Social Media
American Oligarchs: The Media Consolidation Timeline
Christopher Armitage
The Existentialist Republic
The sequence documented in Hungary, Russia, and Turkey followed identical steps: media consolidation, implementation of authoritarian policies, controlled information redirecting blame for consequences.
Published On: 10/21/2025
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"It’s humiliating, it’s embarrassing. So this is a mirror, and it’s a mirror not just to Trump himself, but to these networks. These are the chatbots for the administration. And it’s not just Fox, it’s One America News, it’s Newsmax, and it’s all the folks in the right-wing media."





