• Democracy

    The rise of end times fascism

    Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

    The Guardian

    The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them.

    Published On: 04/13/2025

  • Democracy • Safety

    Disposable People: We Are Not Safe

    Critical Resistance

    Critical Resistance

    The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.

    Published On: 04/11/2025

  • Democracy

    Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants

    DASHA BURNS and MYAH WARD

    Politico

    Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.

    Published On: 04/11/2025

  • Democracy

    You Are Inside the Collapse

    Critical Resistance

    Critical Resistance

    The courts, the institutions, the protections—they’re not failing. They’re being dismantled.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Canada • Democracy • Exile • Safety

    Be a Patriot

    George Packer

    The Atlantic

    Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Democracy

    The Putinization of America

    Thom Hartmann

    Hartmannreport.com

    What happens when a country stops pretending to care about democracy and just lets the billionaires run wild? Look no further than Putin’s Russia — a place where wealth buys protection, loyalty buys power, and corruption isn’t hidden, it’s institutionalized.

    Published On: 04/08/2025

  • Democracy

    How to Save a Democracy

    Laura Gamboa

    Foreign Affairs

    If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries.

    Published On: 03/31/2025

  • Democracy • White Supremacy

    Attacks on ‘Black Smithsonian’ an effort to sanitize racism

    Bill Barrow

    AP News

    Civil rights advocates and historians expressed concern about a chilling effect across other institutions that study Black history

    Published On: 03/29/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Trump’s New Executive Order Is an “Astonishing and Unprecedented Voter Suppression” Effort

    Ari Berman

    Mother Jones

    On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching executive order that Eliza Sweren-Becker, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice’s voting rights and elections program, described as “an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression” effort. It would upend how Americans register to vote, how they cast their ballots, and how their votes are counted.

    Published On: 03/26/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Trump-Musk Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote

    Greg Palast

    gregpalast.com

    President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give Elon Musk access to the voter files of every state.

    Published On: 03/26/2025

  • Democracy

    When toxic polarization becomes a civil war

    Nonviolence Radio

    https://wagingnonviolence.org/

    International peacebuilder, mediator and scholar John Paul Lederach offers practical wisdom for resisting cycles of division and violence before it's too late.

    Published On: 03/25/2025

  • Democracy

    What We Must Understand About the Dark Enlightenment Movement

    Ed Simon

    Time

    Where the Enlightenment promised liberty, emancipation, equality, and solidarity, “Dark Enlightenment” offers servitude, hierarchy, bondage, and ruthlessness.

    Published On: 03/24/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Trump Ramps Up Retribution Campaign Against Legal Community

    Hugo Lowell

    The Guardian

    President ordered attorney general to refer partisan lawsuits to White House and recommend sanctions against firms

    Published On: 03/22/2025

  • Democracy

    Crypto super PACs pump cash into Florida as GOP faces risk of thinning House majority

    MacKenzie Sigalos

    CNBC

    Fresh off its victories in the 2024 election cycle, the crypto industry is going big in Florida.

    Published On: 03/21/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The War on Information

    Critical Resistance

    https://criticalresistance.substack.com

    When narrative becomes weapon, media becomes battleground. Trump’s second term isn’t just a return to power—it’s a full-scale war on truth.

    Published On: 03/17/2025

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