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Defrosting our streets

Corporate media attached the label “far left” to the name Antifa, as though being anti-fascist is somehow now beyond the pale. Doing that, they legitimized government efforts to take the First Amendment activities, and make them suspect.

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison. Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility.

Yes, it exists. It’s not really a threat to anyone except neo-Nazis—but that’s all the excuse the Trump administration needs to turn the machinery of federal law enforcement loose on anyone with “dangerous” ideas.

A time to try our souls

Once an organization is designated as an Foreign Terrorist Organization, providing “material support” to it becomes a federal crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison

Authoritarian regimes rarely criminalize dissent all at once; they normalize repression step by step. Authoritarianism is a political system that suppresses political freedoms and civil rights, using various levers of control to shift power...

Reanimating the heart of democracy