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

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2024August 26, 2024 2024 US Election, analysis, asylum seekers, BLM, blog, CA4, capitalism, carceral state, CC3, Climate Crisis, colonialism, Democratic Party, deportations, DNC, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fascism, Gaza, genocide, Imperialism, Iran, Israel, JA5, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Migrant Rights, MP6, nationalism, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Overton Window, pogroms, Police, police state, Politics, POTUS, progressive politics, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, trans rights, Uncommitted Movement, WD7

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.

Climate Crisis media Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth October 8, 2021November 5, 2022 Andy Kroll, API, Ari Berman, Arizona, Biden Agenda, Brett Wilkins, Build Back Better Act, CA4, CC3, CEPP, Charles Koch, Clean Electricity Performance Program, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, coal, Common Dreams, corporate donors, corruption, Daniel Boguslaw, Daniel Strauss, dark money, David Sirota, Democratic Party, FA1, Fantastic Lies, filibuster, fossil fuels, Geoff Dembicki, Gizmodo, immigration reform, infrastructure bill, infrastructure spending, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kate Aronoff, Kochtopus, Kyrsten Sinema, legalized bribery, liberal politics, lobby groups, lobbying, lobbyist, Mark Gruenberg, Media, migrants, Molly Taft, money in politics, Mother Jones, MP6, natural gas, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, oligarchy, People's World, plutocracy, Politics, progressive politics, Propaganda, reconciliation bill, Rolling Stone, Ryan Grim, Sara Sirota, Sharon Zhang, Six Things I Think, Super PACS, the Daily Poster, The Intercept, The New Republic, Truthout, US Senate, West Virginia

Six Things I Think: Reconciliation and the Dirty Pair

Nina’s back with an in-depth investigation into a riddle no one outside of the Beltway was struggling to solve. Power, politics and payola collide on NIDC.

Essays Neoliberalism Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2021November 5, 2022 $15 minimum wage, Afghanistan War, Andrew Perez, anti war, anti-labor, anti-racism, anti-war protests, anticapitalism, antifascism, Arizona, Arizona Democrats, austerity, Bernie Sanders, Biden White House, Blue Dog Caucus, CA4, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corruption, Covid 19, culture war, David Sirota, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DSA, Economics, electoralism, Essays, Fight for $15, filibuster, forever war, gone Washington, GOP, Green Party, Iraq War, Jacobin, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, left right alliance, left wing theory, let them eat cake, liberalism, Marxism, minimum wage, Mitch McConnell, MP6, neoliberalism, Paula Swearengin, Political Theory, Politics, populism, Progressive, progressive movement, progressive politics, Ralph Nader, reformers, reformism, Republican Party, Senate politics, Socialism, ST2, the Daily Poster, Theory, Thumbs Down, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, US Federal Minimum Wage, US Senate

Fool Me Twice: Kyrsten Sinema and the Poverty of Progressive Politics

A deeply sourced essay about progressive politics, acts of betrayal, and the need for an explicitly anti-capitalist mass movement in the Pig Empire.

Blog Patreon Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth October 2, 2019April 4, 2021 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, appropriation, bad idea jeans, blog, Chuck Schumer, class war, Cole DeLaune, Democratic Party, DNA test, election strategies, Elizabeth Warren, fake outreach, fake progressives, fallacy of the white working class, Indian Country Today, labor class, Liz Warren is a fake lefty, Liz Warren is not Indigenous, Liz Warren was a Republican, Midwest, myth of a white working class, Patreon, Paul Krugman, PMC, Politics, professional managerial class, progressive politics, Racism, snake, Social Justice, Socialism, The Skinny, Twila Barnes, whiteness

The Skinny: Warring With Warren and Fake Labor Class Outreach

Link to an October 2019 edition of the Skinny discussing the image crafting surrounding Liz Warren and Dem Party appeals to a mythical white working class.