• Democracy • Resistance

    Why Anchored Hope is Not The Thing With Feathers

    Lori Corbet Mann

    Your Time Starts Now

    Hope isn’t something we wait for. It’s something we build — together, deliberately, even when we don’t feel it.

    Published On: 07/28/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    The Paramount Skydance Sale Makes the Case for Public Media

    Laura Flanders

    Laura Flanders Substack

    We must radically recommit to public media before every newsroom, every voice, is up for sale to the highest bidder or the ruling party’s favorite mogul. The time is now.

    Published On: 07/25/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy

    Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb

    Greg Sargent

    The New Republic

    The Oregon Democrat said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.

    Published On: 07/23/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Threat Management

    The Truth Behind Trump’s “Arrest Obama” Distraction

    Jack Hopkins

    Jack Hopkins Now

    While MAGA melts down over Epstein, Trump gives the mob a chew toy—and lays the groundwork for something darker.

    Published On: 07/21/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Whither Colbert? Whither Democracy

    Jeff Jarvis

    Medium

    Mass media are dead: corrupted, complicit, malign, worthless

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Six months of Trump’s war on the press

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

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

    Published On: 07/17/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Legal • Safety

    The Architecture of Fear: How Detention Becomes a Template for Control

    James B. Greenberg

    James's Substack

    Once in place, the system doesn’t sit idle. It seeks new uses.

    Published On: 07/16/2025

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Global

    Spain: Huawei must not be allowed access to wiretap data in the EU

    Article 19

    Article 19

    "Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."

    Published On: 07/16/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Dems to Fight Texas’ ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional and Egregious Effort to Rig the Elections’

    Jen Rice

    Democracy Docket

    Republicans already hold 25 out of Texas’ 38 congressional seats – a much higher share of seats than their vote-share in the state should net.

    Published On: 07/15/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift

    Democracy Docket

    Democracy Docket

    Today, rather than standing up for voting access, Trump's DOJ is supporting and defending voter suppression laws and bringing new lawsuits to impose stricter voting rules.

    Published On: 07/14/2025

  • Democracy • Global • White Supremacy

    Elon Musk’s New Far-Right Nazi Party for America

    John Feffer

    Common Dreams

    It’s the opposite of Trump, who was interested only in building a vehicle for his own self-advancement. Musk is far more dangerous.

    Published On: 07/13/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Legal

    Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    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.

    Published On: 07/12/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom

    ‘Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger’

    Janine Jackson

    FAIR

    CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats

    Published On: 07/11/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    How Michigan Is Organizing for Ranked Choice Voting

    Mark Bauer

    Rank The Vote

    Getting RCV on the ballot isn’t easy. It’s a complex, legally binding process. The campaign must collect hundreds of thousands of valid signatures in a tight window of time. Every volunteer counts.

    Published On: 07/08/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Human Rights • Resistance

    The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work?

    Adam Harris

    The Guardian

    Barber, the co-chair of the revived Poor People’s campaign, a national movement to challenge inequality in all its forms through moral protest and policy change, has spent years preparing people for moments like this.

    Published On: 07/05/2025

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