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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

Analysis Fascism Politics Rec Reads

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Recommended Reading: Daylight Ambush

Given the available evidence, it’s probably not a question of will Trump try a second coup if he loses the 2024 election, but what form will that coup take?

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

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Falling Backwards Into History

While Democrats celebrated the “unity” on offer at the DNC, informed observers who read the 2024 platform saw a party shifting to the right to appease fascism.

Analysis Fascism Politics Social Justice

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Nina-Bytes: Framea Thrust

New year, same anti-trans pogrom; as GOP-controlled states introduce anti-trans bills after mediocre midterm results, Nina explains why the fascists won’t stop.

Essays Fascism Politics Rec Reads

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Recommended Reading: Bench Warfare

As a fascist SCOTUS hears cases that will destroy US democratic life Nina lays bare the cynical inversion of principles that are leading us into the Pork Reich.

Analysis Fascism media Social Justice

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Nina-Bytes: Call and Response

Today we’re using two recent articles to analyze the obvious connection between fascist anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in US politics and reactionary stochastic terrorism.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Politics

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Nina-Bytes: Things Left Unsaid

You can learn a lot by listening to what American politicians talk about during elections; but sometimes, what they won’t talk about reveals a whole lot more.

Blog Fascism Politics Rec Reads

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Recommended Reading: Claxon Call

While a liberal establishment that feels comfortable policing trans bodies exhales, fascists that did get reelected are pushing ahead with an anti-trans pogrom.

Blog Fascism media Theory

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Mini-Theory Blog: Reactionary Genesis

In today’s Mini Theory Blog, we’re talking about why an election isn’t the end of American fascism so long as the media helps it regenerate and thrive.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Politics

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Nina-Bytes: Impact Statement

In Nina-Bytes we’re looking at yet another US government report that demonstrates our leaders are trying to kill us for capitalism in the face of climate crisis

Blog Climate Crisis Politics Theory

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Mini-Theory Blog: The Kids Are Alright

In our Mini-Theory Blog, Nina talks about the secret good news that came out of a US Midterm election season that still saw fascism claw closer to power.

Blog Fascism Politics Rec Reads

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Recommended Reading: Spoils of Culture War

Nina shares and analyzes one of the few insightful post-midterm election articles in mainstream media to ask, “wait why did the GOP take the House exactly?”

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