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Author Carl Gibson, is a spokesman and organizer for US Uncut, a nonviolent, creative direct-action movement to stop budget cuts by getting corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. Contact Carl on the Commons.
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Author Carl Gibson, is a spokesman and organizer for US Uncut, a nonviolent, creative direct-action movement to stop budget cuts by getting corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. Contact Carl on the Commons.
Americans’ finances could be personally affected if elected officials put our earned benefits like Social Security on the chopping block, all just to undertake a simple accounting maneuver.
Republicans are more fractured and divided than they have been in recent memory—and the trend of appeasing a toxic minority of representatives could prove dangerous, not just for the business of governing but for democracy itself.
SCOTUS played a role in cementing Republican control of the House of Representatives through at least January of 2025. The decision in Moore v. Harper could extend the damage.
This is Part 2 of an exclusively Occupy.com series analyzing the 2022 midterm elections.
Credit for what House Republicans do between 2023 and 2024 should go partially to New York’s disgraced former governor, who appointed conservative judges that helped flip New York’s congressional seats red.
Politically driven violence is not only spreading unchecked across the United States, but is being enabled by national institutions – namely, the courts and the media.
The reason the Republican Party’s embrace of anti-transgender politics reeks of fascism is because it follows the Nazi playbook almost to the letter.
The announcement could end pandemic-related federal safety net programs that millions of struggling Americans are still counting on to meet basic needs like food and shelter.
An explosive report by the Anti-Defamation League reveals that more than 300 current or former elected officials and law enforcement professionals are members of the Oath Keepers, a militant white supremacist and anti-Semitic group seeking to instigate a new civil war.
The student debt system serves the dual purpose of making higher education available only for those who come from wealthy families or those willing to take on a lifetime of debt, along with crushing younger generations’ will to rebel.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.
Like Hitler, Trump has a unique command of propaganda, a captivating public presence, and he knows how to drive home narratives beneficial to him and harmful to his enemies.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.
Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.