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Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism was going to die,” Matt boomed, “and then it happened!” Then he turned to the audience and announced: “…
Just another attempt to normalize the Right’s most virulent elements
The relationship between white Christian nationalists and right-wing Jewish groups is often so stormy it can at times look like they’re eating their own. But it’s nothing to celebrate. The storminess…
Mamdani Wins Decisive Victory over Islamophobic Election Tactics
The name is Mamdani, M-A-M-D-A-N-I. You should learn how to say it. Because he won . On November 4, 2025, New York City elected Zohran Kwame Mamdani as its first Muslim mayor. Throughout his campaign…
Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Measles-dismisser, nepo-baby, bear cub-dumper , and vaccine skeptic, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was one of the president’s more questionable…
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Since 1981, PRA has been the leading research and strategy organization equipping frontline social justice organizations with the information they need to block antidemocratic forces and build a just…
Authoritarianism is a form of top-down political system that concentrates state power in the hands of a single leader and/or a small group of close allies; fascism is an especially virulent form of…