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From the very beginning, nations used corporations for power and profit until corporations turned a corner and reversed the process, transforming nations into support vessels, making use of their militaries,

All right. We need to talk about white supremacy, slavery, colonization, and why the Right keeps pushing fake history.The truth is that white supremacy is built on the lie that

Nothing Biden proposed last night was "radical."It was an uncontroversial plan to modernize America after decades of intentional destruction on behalf of the wealthy and powerful.We have to recognize how

Here’s the thing though. These people actually do believe slavery had positives.The white supremacist mindset continues to hold that slave labor was necessary to build the economy and that people

As it's becoming increasingly clear the FBI and police have partnered with the Proud Boys, we need to talk about the long and ugly history of the alliance between law

There’s no “YOLO Economy” and people aren’t lazy.You so thoroughly monopolized your markets, perfected exploitation, and cruelly oppressed people that they can’t afford life anymore and are forced to either

The fascist ideology is that evil is a constant external threat, that the world would be perfect if the right people were oppressed, disenfranchised, eliminated.It is an aggrandizement of self

If you’re going to talk about white evangelicals not getting the vaccine you have to talk about apocalypticism and the Mark of the Beast as tools of political fearmongering and

We have to talk about Tucker Carlson, Replacement Theory, and the Right's usage of white supremacist paranoia and apocalyptic fearmongering to legitimize violence.This is fascism. Period. We've seen it before

The Republican Party isn’t concerned with earning votes, broadening its appeal, passing legislation to help people, and they’re not worried about how increasingly revolting they are to Americans.They’re focused on

People like Chuck Todd aren’t presenting news. They’re covering politics as a game and critiquing strategies, legal, factual, or wholly made up.It doesn’t matter if it’s dangerous, fascistic, or otherwise,

The madness on the Right has grown to the point where if you go out and murder a couple of protesters in the street you’ll have a product endorsement waiting