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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS — SEPTEMBER 23, 2025  
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September 23, 2025
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_ A time to try our souls _

Diego Morales, chair of the 25th Ward Independent Political
Organization, Chicago, builds morale for the protesters at Federal
Plaza during the “ICE Out protest” on June 10, 2025. Credit,
Amelia Baird

 

* Chicago: Winds of Resistance
* What Trump Can and Cannot Do About Elections — Legally
* Who Will Replace Charlie Kirk?
* The Right’s Family Code: Submit!
* Labor Red Alert
* Battle for the Bible
* Night Patrol in DC
* Schools Fight Back
* Voting for Reproductive Rights
* Why Boycott Target?

CHICAGO: WINDS OF RESISTANCE
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By Kelly Hayes 
Truthout

Organizers and activists across Chicago talk about the current state
of the struggle, what we’re up against, and what we need you to know
about this moment of turmoil, escalation, and resistance. Our
governor, our mayor, and most importantly, the people of Chicago have
held the line against Trump’s efforts to use our city to further
normalize his fascist domestic military occupations.

WHAT TRUMP CAN AND CANNOT DO ABOUT ELECTIONS — LEGALLY
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By Lily Hay Newman
Wired

“Trump makes all these pronouncements that he’s going to end mail
voting, that voting machines can’t be trusted, but he can’t do
that. He certainly has the bully pulpit, though, to mislead and
confuse the public—and the power to intimidate.”

WHO WILL REPLACE CHARLIE KIRK?
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By Steven Zeitchik
The Hollywood Reporter

As conservatives mourn the death of the right-wing activist and
campus influencer, a new collection of blog posts, social offerings,
videos and podcasts continuing his movement is expected to flourish,
as a slew of people who worked with and learned from Kirk stand by to
take the baton.

THE RIGHT’S FAMILY CODE: SUBMIT!
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By Arie Perliger and Catherine Jarry
The Conversation

Many viewers are introduced to tradwife content through videos on
cooking or decorating – posts that could appeal to a wide audience.
But at the core of the tradwives movement are more divisive beliefs:
that women are meant to “submit” to their husband’s leadership,
for example, or are not meant to work outside the home.

LABOR RED ALERT
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By Hamilton Nolan
In These Times

Organized labor today is under an assault that is worse than anything
we have seen since the WW2 era. At the very time that it is most
vital for working people and unions to rise to the defense of
democracy, they are crippled by three related crises: the organizing
crisis, the legal crisis, and the political crisis.

BATTLE FOR THE BIBLE
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By Liz Theoharis
TomDispatch

“Christian” politicians regularly misuse Biblical passages to
blame the impoverished for their poverty. We must build the strength
to make a theological and spiritual vision of everybody-in-nobody-out
a reality and create the capacity, powered by faith, to make it so.
Now is the time. May we make it so.

NIGHT PATROL IN DC
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By Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano
The Nation

With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to
assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the
armed troops who have taken over the capital.

SCHOOLS FIGHT BACK
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By October Krausch
Truthout

Under pressure from state legislatures, campus leadership, or both,
university faculty have been confronting a crisis created by deepening
austerity regimes for decades. Faculty are scrambling to meet these
challenges head-on, planning teach-ins, recruiting members for
unionization drives, and organizing lobbying days at the state
legislature, all as new threats seemingly crop up by the day. 

VOTING FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
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By Shauna Shames
Ms.

Elections over the next several months in Virginia, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and elsewhere are not just bellwethers for the
midterms—they’re vital to protecting women’s rights.

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By Erin Aubry Kaplan
Capital and Main

After Trump assumed office for the second time and immediately began
cracking down on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, banning
them in government and vilifying them in general, Target has been the
focus of a nationwide boycott initially sparked by activists in the
chain’s home state of Minneapolis and led by Black faith groups.

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