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#GivingTuesday and the Challenge of Wannabe Fascism

Portside
How can we prevent a wannabe dictator from consolidating absolute power? Please help us to inform, analyze and mobilize in the year ahead. Here's how you can help Portside on Giving Tuesday...

How US Sanctions Torpedoed Kamala Harris

Arun Gupta Jacobin
The Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia didn’t just tank global markets; they also helped Kamala Harris lose the election. The Democrats’ fate was sealed by a Wall Street–fueled commodity frenzy that sent gas prices and grocery bills soaring.

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Understanding the Immigrant Swing Toward Trump

Sharon M. Quinsaat Jacobin
Liberal pundits have puzzled over increasing support for Trump by immigrants and people of color. To understand the trend, we should look to economic issues and the way institutions like unions and churches affect political socialization.

The New Anti-Abortion Argument Takes Us Back to the 19th Century

Linda Greenhouse New York Times
Idaho, Kansas and Missouri in seeking to establish standing to outlaw mifepristone argue cause "a loss in potential population or potential population increase,” and that “decreased births” were inflicting “a sovereign injury to the state itself.

Rural People and the Working Class. Here’s How We Unite.

Beth Howard Barn Raiser
The director of the Appalachia People’s Union on why the South is ready to stand up to Trump. White people delivered this victory to Trump. Out of 76 million votes cast for Trump (2 million more than in 2020), 84% of those were white voters.
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