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Putting creative housing demands on the bargaining table and engaging in public campaigns for tenant protections are essential first steps for all unions that can bargain on the offensive as they gain power.

When Communist writer Albert Maltz was blacklisted in the McCarthyist era, no commercial publisher in the U. S. would touch his novel A Tale of One January. A new edition slated for US distribution means his 70-year blacklist will finally end.

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In the next year, anything could happen. Donald Trump, could go down, he could be convicted of one or more felonies. He could lose the GOP nomination. Or, a return would change Make America Great Again (MAGA!) to Make America Fascist Again (MAFA!)

Federal law enforcement is under pressure to launch specious terrorism investigations into pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses, based solely on their public statements. The GOP hearings, led by Trump supporters, show the dangers.

Anti-war Jewish Americans are urging U.S. leaders to call for a ceasefire. A progressive wing of American Judaism has gained prominence, one defined by mass mobilization against the Israeli government's unrelenting bombing in Gaza.

Every single one of these people is risking their jobs and, their careers because they know the stakes of this moment. In November, more than 700 staffers and political appointees signed a letter calling on the president to support a cease-fire.

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“There are Americans sleeping all over the streets in urban America,” Samuelsen says. “People have jobs and can’t afford homes. Never in my life have I seen a situation where America’s cities have looked like this."

Maddow's new book surveys pre-WW II fascism in the United States, including the well-known figures in public life who sympathized with or were otherwise associated with the movement.