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Slouching Into Fascism

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This column originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here. The precise moment when and where in […]

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The Resistance is Active in DC—You’re Just Not Looking Closely Enough

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It’s 7 p.m. on Thursday and Elli, a 19-year-old transplant from Chattanooga, Tennessee, just took an Adderall. The DC resident, who goes by they/them pronouns and asked Mother Jones not to publish their last name, needed the boost of energy. They’re drained from spending the last several nights roving the city on foot to surveil […]

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Border Patrol Begs Retired Agents to Rejoin the Agency

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The call for retired agents to join Border Patrol’s ranks comes as Trump faces plummeting approval ratings.

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Trump’s DC Takeover Is Part of “Slide Towards Fascism,” Princeton Professor Says

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Khalil Gibran Muhammad says Trump uses racist ideas and policing to enact his domestic policy agenda.

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White House Doubles Down on Baseless “Rigged” Claims About Poor Jobs Data

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The shock and outrage over President Donald Trump firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner because of weak jobs numbers seems increasingly bipartisan. Several Republican senators told NBC News that they did not support Trump’s firing of Erika McEntarfer if it was, in fact, motivated by his displeasure over the poor jobs numbers released […]

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Trump’s Panama Canal Chaos

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During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump talked a lot about pulling America out of international treaties and disentangling from military operations abroad. Once in office, he started talking about the idea of Manifest Destiny—that the expansion of the US was both justified and inevitable. In some cases that’s meant turning the tables on […]

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From the Streets of LA to the National Stage: The Left Must Win the Cultural War

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Trump’s war on dissent can only be defeated by a left that challenges the values sustaining authoritarianism.

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5 Million People Attended “No Kings” Protests. How Can We Build on This?

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The protests were inspired by the idea that 3.5% of a population must rise up to successfully reject authoritarianism.

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Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow

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Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.

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Enraged at Judicial Setbacks From His Own Nominees, Trump Is Pushing Extremists

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Trump is trying to pack the courts with inexperienced MAGA loyalists to facilitate his authoritarian agenda.

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Did the US’s Descent Into Authoritarianism Start With Policing in Blue Cities?

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In some sections of Baltimore, for example, “zero-tolerance” policing led to a reconfiguration of the Constitution.

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