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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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  • Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will

    Dana Liebelson
    The New Republic

    The president and his allies want to use institutions like the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts to challenge the left’s cultural power.

    Published On: 05/04/2025

    Published On: 05/04/2025

  • 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

    Published On: 04/08/2025

  • “Nothing to FOIA Here”

    Closer to the Edge
    Closer to the Edge

    How Signal, Silence, and Schedule F Are Killing Government Transparency

    Published On: 04/08/2025

    Published On: 04/08/2025

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  • Trump’s Mass Pardon of White Nationalists Turned Into a Death Warrant for Hakeem Jeffries

    Dr. Stacey Patton
    Dr. Stacey Patton

    They told us this would happen.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • 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

  • 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

  • Victims Without Victimizers

    Norman Solomon
    Tom Dispatch

    How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era.

    Published On: 10/21/2025

  • 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

  • ICE boosts weapons spending 700%

    Judd Legum
    Popular Information

    A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.

    Published On: 10/20/2025

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