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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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    Joyce Vance
    Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

    We’ve moved onto the next phase of the plan, where the Civil Rights Division, the once proud crown jewel of the Justice Department, will participate in stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Staying with the Trouble

    Rebecca Solnit
    Meditations in an Emergency

    Some leave authoritarian regimes because of persecution. But some leave to fight from out of reach of the regime, and examples abound including from occupied France during the Second World War and Latin American countries ruled by dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Published On: 05/20/2025

    Published On: 05/20/2025

  • ‘Nonprofit Killer’ Pulled From GOP Tax Bill—For Now

    Brett Wilkins
    Common Dreams

    "Because authoritarians love using censorship to silence opposition, it's likely gonna keep rearing its head," warned one rights group.

    Published On: 05/19/2025

    Published On: 05/19/2025

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  • When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance

    Rebecca Solnit
    Meditations in an Emergency

    At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

    Published On: 02/02/2026

  • The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover

    Thom Hartmann
    The Hartmann Report

    Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…

    Published On: 02/02/2026

  • Kushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers on Ruins of Gaza Genocide

    Sharon Zhang
    Truthout

    The plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors.

    Published On: 02/01/2026

  • Let’s Never Forget Who We Are

    Ron Williams
    Resistance Media (January 19, 2026)

    “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late..."

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

    Parker Molloy
    The New Republic

    Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

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    LaDonna Witmer
    The Long Scrawl

    When it all comes tumbling down.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

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