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2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power -Here's how you can help.

2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power -Here's how you can help

The Case for a Third Reconstruction

K. Sabeel Rahman Dissent Magazine
The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.

Sabrina Carpenter and the Cruel Authoritarianism of Trump

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
The Trump White House just showed us something every American should find chilling, no matter what music they listen to or what party they vote for. They took a video of aggressive ICE arrests, slapped Sabrina Carpenter’s song on it, and posted it.

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Giving Tuesday and 2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power. Giving Tuesday lets you help

2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power in a myriad of ways.

Tidbits-Nov.6 -Reader Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; U.S. Left History; Trump Blows Up White House, Blows Up Food Budgets, Now Wants To Blow Up World; the Fight Ahead-From Ceasefire to a Just Peace – Meet Standing Together’s Leaders in New York City

Portside
Reader Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; U.S. Left History; Trump Blows Up White House, Blows Up Food Budgets, Now Wants to Blow Up World; The Fight Ahead - From Ceasefire to A Just Peace - Meet Standing Together's leaders in New York City; more....

Donald Trump’s Plan To Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way

David A. Graham The Atlantic
Our election system is reaching a breaking point. Imagine for a moment that it’s late on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Republicans have kept their majority in the Senate, but too many House races are still uncalled to tell who has won that chamber
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