• Democracy • Economy • Resistance

    Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement

    Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

    Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)

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    Published On: 11/06/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor

    Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John NIchols for The Nation

    The Nation

    If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.

    Published On: 11/04/2025

  • Culture • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Only Angels Can Slay Dragons

    Marianne Williamson

    TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (10/12/2025)

    Purification of the American heart is the key to our worldly salvation.

    Published On: 11/03/2025

  • Democracy • Violence

    Will the 2028 Election Even Happen? Is There a Plot to Use the Insurrection Act to End Democracy?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Trump appears well aware of his weakness, his collapsing poll numbers, and the precipice the American economy is teetering at the edge of.

    Published On: 10/31/2025

  • Democracy

    The Democratic Establishment Is a Dead Man Walking

    Mike Brock

    Notes from the Circus

    The entire Democratic establishment infrastructure built on donor dependency and focus-group optimization and managing coalitions through accommodation—all of it dead.

    Published On: 10/30/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy

    Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms is Already Under Way

    David A. Graham

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • Democracy • Violence • White Supremacy

    The US Civil War of 2025

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    Metaviews: Future of Authority

    Understanding Hybrid Civil War

    Published On: 10/26/2025

  • 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

  • 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

  • Corruption • Democracy

    Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse

    The New Republic and Greg Sargent

    The New Republic

    Donald Trump is rapidly transforming the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Democracy

    Victims Without Victimizers

    Norman Solomon

    Tom Dispatch

    How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era.

    Published On: 10/21/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    The Power Breaker

    Frank Rich

    New York Magazine

    Why the Democratic Party, the New York Times, and the donor class got Zohran Mamdani so wrong.

    Published On: 10/17/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Resistance

    Democratic US Senate candidate seeks to replicate Mamdani’s success

    Tom Perkins

    The Guardian

    Abdul El-Sayed’s bid for Michigan senator centers on bold leftwing populism similar to the NYC mayoral candidate

    Published On: 10/13/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Human Rights • Violence

    Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

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    Published On: 10/10/2025

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