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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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  • Look to the Judges

    Steven Beschloss
    America, America

    While Trump despicably denies his duty to uphold the Constitution, let's take strength from judges who oppose his regime's illegal actions.

    Published On: 05/05/2025

    Published On: 05/05/2025

  • 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

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • The powerful are using lawsuit threats to silence media

    Michel Martin , Taylor Haney , Adriana Gallardo
    NPR

    Local officials and business moguls are also turning to lawsuits or the threat of them to silence the press.

    Published On: 04/09/2025

    Published On: 04/09/2025

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  • What are we doing here, folks?

    Heather Cox Richardson
    Letters From An American

    It appears the administration is using those Americans who depend on food assistance as pawns to put more pressure on Democrats to cave to Trump’s will.

    Published On: 10/25/2025

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Defunding of Public Media Is Hitting Local Stations Hardest

    Amy Kroin
    Free Press

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

    Published On: 10/23/2025

  • 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

  • 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

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