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While keeping people focused on a strong, robust election process is a must, we also need to prepare for a coup.

“...electoral power alone will not get us free. Protests alone are insufficient. We need to vote. We need to protest. We need to organize. We need to study. We need to strike. And then we need to protest again.”

It will take sustained progressive political pressure now and into the future to dismantle the powerful fascist forces that threaten our democracy.

Immunization has always been a proxy for wider fears about social control, a history reminds us.

Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.

The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.

The Lightfoot administration intercepted at least $27 million in 2020 from residents’ state tax refunds to collect on debt, disproportionately hitting lower income neighborhoods and communities of color.

How Dana DeBeauvoir set off the biggest, weirdest, and most promising revolution in election technology since the 1800s.

Massive protests have broken out in Colombia following the torture and murder of Javier Ordóñez by the police.The people of Colombia, are determined that Ordóñez and others like him will not be forgotten.

Cops are at the crux of this cultural war of neoliberalism vs. fascism. They are sworn to uphold the constitution and laws of freedom while also operating legal torture chambers and killing people of color.