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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Thomas Lecaque

Thomas Lecaque is Associate Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, located on Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk lands. He has written for The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and The Bulwark. Follow him @tlecaque on Twitter.

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Religion Dispatches

Corrosive Conformity: Evil Banalities Are the Building Blocks of the Trump Administration's Fascist Architecture

DHS’s social media is at it again, and while I’m looking forward to more deep dives into DHS speechwriter Eric Lendrum’s personal life , it’s the posts themselves—on a verified government account…
Thomas Lecaque
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Religion Dispatches

Latest ICE Recruitment Materials Include Overt Neo-Nazi Reference and Nazi-Nazi Script

It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda . And it…
Annika Brockschmidt
Thomas Lecaque
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Religion Dispatches

With its 'Homeland Heritage' Campaign Trump's DHS is Leaning Sharply into 'Blood and Soil' Ideology

Last week was a bad week of social media posts from the Department of Homeland Security. Videos claiming a militarized Border Patrol is God’s will; memes about ICE funding assisting in mass…
Annika Brockschmidt
Thomas Lecaque
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