Democracy • Economy • Executive Power • Fascism • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

What Happens If "They" Win?

The generations that defeated fascism in the 1770s, 1860s, and 1940s understood something simple but profound: democracy survives only if ordinary people are willing to defend it. Are we today?

Democracy • Elections • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • White Supremacy

William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove — Our Moral Moment

Why Authoritarians Fear Moral Resistance

Where to look for hope as the legal victories of America’s moral movements are dismantled.

Democracy • Elections • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Resistance Media — Resistance Media (03/24/2026)

An Urgent Message to Indivisible

Is the NO KINGS coalition prepared for the national emergency straight ahead of us?

Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Sarah van Gelder — Truthout

What Do Authoritarians Fear Most? People Who Stick Up for Each Other.

The most reliable form of resilience is not individual wealth or distant institutions, but solidarity.

Corruption • Disinformation • Health • Social Justice and Equity

Jeremy Kohler — ProPublica

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.

A Troubling Pattern: Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump.

Democracy • Impacts • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Dr Stacey Patton

“No Kings," No Risk, No Change. The Protest Ritual That Lets America Feel Brave Without Doing Anything

Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains. Holding the same signs. And reposting the same slogans with a fresh coat of urgency.

Culture • Environment • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

David Marchese — The New York Times (Gift)

The Interview: Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis."

Democracy • Economy • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity

John Nichols — The Nation

Jesse Jackson Gave Peace a Chance

The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Ron Williams

Let's Never Forget Who We Are

“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..."

Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

The Last Election

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 • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Violence

Heather Cox Richardson — Letters from an American

Letters from an American

“Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart…and now somebody is dead.”

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

The New York Times — The New York Times (Gift)

The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech

"I stand alongside you, the tens of thousands gathered here in Lower Manhattan, warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope."

Disinformation • Economy • Financial • Social Justice and Equity

Dr. Stacey Patton

The Dells’ $250 “Investment” Accounts for Kids Is Scammy Billionaire Philanthropy Theater

Why a few hundred dollars per child won’t fix housing, tuition, or poverty—and how billionaire generosity disguises the systems keeping kids poor.

Democracy • Executive Power • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)

Many Republicans saw that Trump was in decline, possibly rapid decline, and that their future lay not in the slavish deference we've seen for nine years but in separating themselves from him.

Culture • Democracy • Legal • Social Justice and Equity • White Supremacy

Dr. Stacey Patton

Leaked Texas A&M Document Exposes a Chilling Blueprint

No African American studies. No women’s studies. No queer studies. No sociology of race. No equity-focused education courses. No history courses on segregation. No public health instruction on racial disparities. No discussions of gender identity in psychology, medicine, social work, or literature.

Democracy • Economy • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Peter Olney and Rand Wilson — Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)

Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement

For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key.

Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Safety • Social Justice and Equity

Resistance Media

Personal Resilience is Resistance

Compassion, empathy, anger, grief and joy are some of the most powerful acts of resistance available to us

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John NIchols for The Nation — The Nation

From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor

If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.

Culture • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Marianne Williamson — TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (10/12/2025)

Only Angels Can Slay Dragons

Purification of the American heart is the key to our worldly salvation.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Financial • Social Justice and Equity

Michael Beyea Reagan — In These Times

The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Trump—It’s Wall Street

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.

Democracy • Fascism • Journalism • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Dr. Stacey Patton

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

They told us this would happen.

Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

A.J. Schumann — Counterpunch

America is Overdue for a General Strike

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.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Social Justice and Equity

Norman Solomon — Tom Dispatch

Victims Without Victimizers

How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Social Justice and Equity

Frank Rich — New York Magazine

The Power Breaker

Why the Democratic Party, the New York Times, and the donor class got Zohran Mamdani so wrong.

Culture • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Will Robinson — Will Robinson's Newsletter

No Kings, No Fear: Building the America We Deserve

The No Kings marches are a spark. What we do next — how we meet, organize, and protect each other — will determine whether they light a movement that lasts.

Democracy • Executive Power • Exile • Fascism • Financial • Legal • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Vittoria Elliott — Wired

The Trump Administration Is Coming for Nonprofits. They're Getting Ready

As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

Environment • Global • Science • Social Justice and Equity

Nell Greenfieldboyce — NPR

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall's decades of research on chimpanzees in the wild changed perceptions of relations between humans and animals.

Global • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Violence

David Adler — The Nation

From the Gaza Flotilla: “I’m Here Because My Jewish Heritage Demands It”

I hope that fellow Jews will join me in redefining their approach to atonement and move toward courageous action to put an end to this horrific genocide.

Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity • Violence

Gustavo Arellano — L.A. Times

Slain L.A. Times columnist Ruben Salazar matters more than ever, 55 years later

No one was around when I finally got to Salazar’s niche, in a section of the cemetery called the Alcove of Time. A simple bronze plaque included the accent over the “e” in “Rubén,” which his Times byline never had. Instead of Spanish wine, I brought a flask of mezcal — I don’t think he would have minded the stiffer drink in this 2025.

Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Clint Smith — The Atlantic

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

We must make a record of those forces that seek to erase us and erase our histories so that future generations know we did not simply accept it. Our ancestors’ words remind us that we never have.

Democracy • Economy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Chris Armitage — The Existential Republic

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Surveillance • Technology

Craig Aaron — Pressing Issues

What Bob McChesney Taught Me

“If you act like change for the better is impossible, you guarantee it will be impossible.”

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Technology

Will Robinson — Will Robinson's Newsletter

The Right Built a Media Empire. Rob Stein Warned Us.

A for-profit disinformation ecosystem — from Fox News to Breitbart to localized digital outlets — now aggregates 40–50 million loyal consumers, shaping narratives and fueling authoritarian populism.

Democracy • Elections • Legal • Social Justice and Equity • White Supremacy

Brian Tyler Cohen

Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule

The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Social Justice and Equity

Elie Mystal — The Nation

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Elections • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity

Janine Jackson — FAIR

‘Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger’

CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats

Democracy • Economy • Human Rights • Legal • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Adam Harris — The Guardian

The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work?

Barber, the co-chair of the revived Poor People’s campaign, a national movement to challenge inequality in all its forms through moral protest and policy change, has spent years preparing people for moments like this.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Social Justice and Equity

Joyce Vance — Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

Taking Away Your Citizenship

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.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Norman Solomon — Roots Action

The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani

The oligarchs accustomed to such governance are furious that the nation’s capital of capitalism is in danger of serving people instead of megaprofits.

Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity

John Nichols — The Nation

Bill Moyers Kept the Faith in Democracy. We Need His Example More Than Ever.

The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American experiment.

Legal • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Pema Levy — Mother Jones

“Disaster Looms”: Justice Jackson’s Warning for the Country

“Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Social Justice and Equity

Anand Giridharadas — The.Ink

What Zohran Can Teach Democrats

This was not an airwaves campaign. It was a stoop campaign. As obvious as this might seem, it’s a lesson that keeps going unlearned.

Democracy • Executive Power • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Robert Reich — Robert Reich Substack

Sunday Thought

To be brave and nonviolent in the face of tyranny, to be strong and restrained, to resist with our hearts filled with anger but not succumb to that anger — is terribly difficult.

Culture • Democracy • Legal • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Diane Yentel — Shelterforce

Our Silence Will Not Protect Us

You don’t know who needs to hear your voice right now, who needs to see your leadership, but I guarantee you that someone does, and that your courage will bolster theirs.

Human Rights • Legal • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Shea Howell — James and Grace Lee Boggs Center

Accountable Policing

Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate constitutional rights is one of the most difficult things to do in law.

Democracy • Executive Power • Social Justice and Equity

Dana Liebelson — The New Republic

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

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.

Democracy • Fascism • Global • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity

RUTH BEN-GHIAT — Lucid

Fascist Population Engineering: Yes to White Christian Births

If the goal is a White ethnostate, it is not enough to change the political system from democracy to autocracy: you also have to change the culture and the composition of the population.

Exile • Human Rights • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Ed Pilkington — The Guardian

Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines

Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump

Democracy • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity • White Supremacy

Bill Barrow — AP News

Attacks on ‘Black Smithsonian’ an effort to sanitize racism

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

Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity • Technology

John Nichols — The Nation

Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died

Bob, with his remarkable intellect and even more remarkable capacity for communicating his vision of a media that served citizens rather than corporations, was always the driving force. His research and his insatiable curiosity helped him to see the future more clearly than any scholar of his generation...

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