- It’s Not Just Epstein
- Western Wars and Police States
- Workers are Furious with ICE
- Gullah Geechee Referendum
- Libraries Stomp MAGA in Texas Special Election
- Personhood for the Colorado River
- Tenants Boycott Real Estate Giant
- She Quit Over Employers Enabling Fascism
- Resistance Theater
- The Man Who Mapped the Ultra Right
It’s Not Just Epstein
By Carole Cadwalladr, How to Survive the Broligarchy
Obsessive, pervasive sexual interest in teenage girls – and to some degree, boys – is threaded insistently through our culture. We just choose to ignore it. We redact it. It’s a darkness that we cover with more darkness. Are we going to reckon with that? Can we?
Western Wars and Police States
By Joseph Massad, Middle East Eye
Since the 11 September 2001 attacks and the passage of the repressive Patriot Act, the US and the so-called liberal democracies of Western Europe, which followed suit with their own repressive laws, have expanded their already significant policing powers over their own populations, while broadening the justifications for their imperialist wars around the globe.
Workers are Furious with ICE
• The Shadow Network By Tim Sullivan, Associated Press
• Unions Say “ICE Out!” By Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes
• The Nonviolent Playbook By Oliver Kaplan, The Conversation
Gullah Geechee Referendum
By Timothy Pratt, The Guardian
Sapelo Island off the coast of southern Georgia is home to the Gullah Geechee people, descendants of enslaved west Africans who worked on cotton, indigo and rice plantations from North Carolina to Florida. Outsiders building large vacation houses was what was at stake in McIntosh county, where Sapelo is located – the second citizen referendum on a county plan or policy in Georgia history.
Libraries Stomp MAGA in Texas Special Election
By Amanda Marcotte, Salon
It’s rare that a local race can feel like an earthquake on the national political stage, but that’s exactly what happened when Democrat Taylor Rehmet defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss in a special election for the Texas state senate. It seems Rehmet won in part because suburban Fort Worth has long been on the frontline in the culture war over book banning.
Personhood for the Colorado River
By John Ahniwanika Schertow, Intercontinental Cry
The Colorado River Indian Tribes took a key step in Indigenous environmental law by designating the Colorado River — the life source for millions across the Southwest — as a “living being” with legal rights under tribal law. The move reflects both a cultural worldview and a strategic tool to protect dwindling water supplies amid prolonged drought and growing demand.
Tenants Boycott Real Estate Giant
By Louis Henry, People’s World
Over the last year, tenant unions in Southeast Connecticut have gone public, demanding that their landlord, Alpha Capital Funds, come to the table to negotiate fair leases and address tenant needs. Tenant Union representatives from New London and East Lyme assembled alongside their working-class allies to announce the boycott and to explain why this next stage of struggle is necessary.
She Quit Over Employers Enabling Fascism
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian
When Laura Wittmann decided to resign from Uline, the giant office supply company owned by two of the biggest donors to Donald Trump’s 2024 election and other Maga Republicans, she did not hold back. “As America descends rapidly into fascism,” Wittmann wrote in a two-page company-wide email, “I can no longer work to grow the personal fortunes of people who helped make it so.”
Resistance Theater
By Mallory Carra, The Guardian
Artists, writers and theater groups across the country are creating work in response to the Trump administration’s attacks on arts and their communities. Today, many cities have theaters that host community-based Theater of the Oppressed workshops, using Augusto Boal’s teachings to analyze social issues and encourage activism.
The Man Who Mapped the Ultra Right
By Eleanor J. Bader, The Progressive
Moderator’s note: Chip Berlet, who taught the movement how to understand the American right, died on January 30, 2026. This portrait from 2022 explains why he will be missed and has served as a teacher and resource for so many.
