Democracy • Recommended • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity
After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Sarah van Gelder
Truthout (January 24, 2026)
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Democracy • Global • Human Rights • ICE • Recommended • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy
The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize
The Editors of The Nation
The Nation
With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”
Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy
The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Vanity Fair
Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.
Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal
The DOJ’s Fulton County Raid to Seize Ballots is Really About Future Elections
Marc Elias
Democracy Docket
The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.
Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom
CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage
Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ
It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.
Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Social Media • Technology
Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star
Ben Quinn
The Guardian
The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.
Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management
The Last Election
Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.
Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Press Freedom • Recommended • Social Justice and Equity
New Legal Documents Show Marco Rubio Targeted Students for Op-Eds and Protesting
Jessica Washington
The Intercept
Rubio accused students including Mahmoud Khalil of supporting terrorism, but records unsealed after litigation by The Intercept undermine his claims.
Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Original • Recommended • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy
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..."
Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Technology • White Supremacy
Joe Rogan Trained Men to Accept Authoritarianism
W. A. Lawrence
Glass Empires by W. A. Lawrence
Rogan spent years grooming Trump’s base to equate toxic masculinity with strength and authoritarianism with safety. In 2026, that conditioning is locked in with force.





