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Fannie Lou Hamer said it plainly. "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." She said it in 1964, standing before a nation that had beaten her, jailed her, and shot at her simply for trying to vote. She said it because she understood something that too many Americans still refuse to accept: that the suffering of Black and Brown people in this country is not accidental, not incidental, and not the product of individual bad actors. It is structural. It is intentional. And i

Most Americans have never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council. That is not an accident. It is a strategy. ALEC is not a lobbying firm, though it functions like one. It is not a political party, though it operates like one. It is not a government agency, though it writes the laws that govern millions of people's lives. ALEC is a pay-to-play operation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1973 that brings state legislators and private corporations into the same ro

On April 1, 2026, the †rump regime's DØJ declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. That law, passed after Watergate, requires presidents to turn over all official records to the American people when they leave office. No president before this one has ever challenged it. We explain what is being lost, why it matters, and what you can do right now to stop it.

On the evening of March 31, 2026 — the same day eight million Americans were still celebrating the largest protest in U.S. history — Donold †rump signed an executive order targeting the way Americans vote. Not the way undocumented people vote. The way you vote. The way your neighbor votes. The way your grandmother votes from her assisted living facility.

In 2012, a small group of political scientists at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden set out to build the most rigorous global dataset on democracy ever constructed. They called it the Varieties of Democracy Institute, or V-Dem. At the time, global democracy was near its historic peak. Their colleagues called them alarmists. The data, they said, was exaggerating the risk. Democracy was fine. The data was not exaggerating.

Last night, while most of America slept, the Federal Communications Commission approved the $6.2 billion merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna. The deal closed. It is done. A single company now controls 265 television stations across 44 states and the District of Columbia. One company. 80% of American households. ... Gone. Not gone in the sense that the stations disappeared. Gone in the sense that the independence is over.

The free press is not a partisan issue. It is the infrastructure of democracy, and it is being dismantled, right now, in real time and in plain sight. There is a moment in every authoritarian takeover when people look back and ask: why did no one say anything? Why did no one sound the alarm before it was too late?

Romania's twentieth-century journey reveals how quickly democracy unravels when nationalism, economic crisis, and extremism converge. This is more than a distant history lesson. It's a vivid mirror reflecting pressures familiar to Americans across the political spectrum today.

Children in IÇE custody are facing a public‑health and human‑rights crisis that extends far beyond a single viral story about a five‑year‑old boy from Minnesota.

This article is dedicated to the memory of all those who have died at the hands of the United States government in “immigration” detention, on the streets of Minneapolis, and in communities across the country. Their lives and deaths are proof that fascism is not a future threat. It is the system under which we already live. The Constitution remains printed in schoolbooks and carved into marble, but its guarantees are being stripped away amendment by amendment.

Since mid-2025, the Trump administration has militarized policing against protesters and immigrants while using “domestic terrorism” labels and sanctions to target nonprofits, Palestinian advocates, labor, and media. Civic groups, journalists, unions, courts, and citizens must expose abuses and defend democracy through collective action.

Originally written 5/28/2025 The recent internal reports from American diplomats in countries like Malawi and Kenya expose a dire reality: the †®*mp regime’s rapid dismantling of foreign aid programs has triggered immediate humanitarian crises, validating longstanding warnings from national security experts and foreign policy veterans. These field reports, obtained by ProPublica, paint a grim picture of refugee camps descending into violence, the rise of trafficking and starv

Originally written 5/28/2025 Eight years after failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Donold †®*mp and the GOP are back at it. This time, with a sneak attack buried in bureaucratic jargon and dressed up as fiscal policy. Their “Big Beautiful Bill” in the House is not just a budget proposal. It is a cold, calculated blow to the working people of this country.The media has rightly focused on the historic cuts to Medicaid. But there is another insidious layer here: a gutti

NO KINGS WARM HEARTS Winter Essentials Drive: support neighbors across Joplin and the surrounding area who are being left out in the cold.

For the first time in U.S. history, immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group in ICE detention. According to government data reported by The Guardian (Olivares & Craft, 2025): 16,523 people detained have no criminal history. 15,725 have convictions; 13,767 have pending charges.

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