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Behind the scenes, the online Right is just as divided as the Left—and it’s adopted many of its pathologies too. Are we facing a fascist coup, or just a collapse into political confusion?
Before “weird” became the summer’s hottest and most contentious political insult, JD Vance cheerfully (…)
Self-styled anti-hate group tracked Black organizer who opposed links between US police and Israeli military
The Anti-Defamation League has surveilled leftwing activists and “regularly tracks, profiles and sends threat assessments of individuals” it perceives as a problem, according to an (…)
The ‘cowboy Catholic’ head of the Heritage Foundation is on a mission to align the right behind Trumpism, and has a plan in place to overturn the American government as it exists if Trump returns to power
An image of Kevin Roberts against the backdrop of a painting. Illustration: Eddie (…)
The far right has for the first time in a hundred years established itself as a force in the U.S. Congress. A group of just ten percent of the Republicans in Congress now has the power to disrupt and paralyze the lower house. The last time a group with links to violent organizations and (…)
On October 28, a man named David DePape, 42, broke into the San Francisco home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat who holds the third most powerful position in the U.S. government. The intruder shouted, “Where’s Nancy?” and then attacked her husband Paul Pelosi, 82, with a hammer. (…)
Tempest member Eric Maroney explains how far-right attacks on transgender people stem from profound social anxiety over the crises posed by neoliberal capitalism and how socialists should take up trans liberation as part and parcel of the struggle for socialism.
2020 marked an enormous shift (…)
Affirmative action, discrimination against LGBTQ people and election laws are some of the hot-button issues that the Supreme Court will tackle this fall.
Following a dramatic year of controversial rulings, the Supreme Court began hearing new cases on Oct. 3, 2022, with a full agenda.
The (…)
Document of 23 pages shows the lengths to which the far-right group goes to prepare for potentially violent encounters and exposes the militaristic structure and language it has adopted
The document is so dowdy and formal it resembles the annual minutes of a society of tax accountants. Its (…)
On June 30, the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, a move that signals a major setback in the fight against the climate crisis.
This ruling puts the end to President Joe Biden’s promise to (…)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City warned that the country is “witnessing a judicial coup in process” and is in the midst of a “Constitutional crisis” after the Supreme Court announced on Thursday, June 30, that it will take up a case in its fall term that could upend current US (…)
Leaders of the movement understood very well that if you can capture the courts, you can change society
The supreme court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which reverses the constitutional abortion rights that American women have enjoyed over the past 50 years, has (…)
House panel makes case in primetime broadcast, revealing Trump said perhaps Mike Pence deserved to be hanged by rioters
[Capitol riot: House committee shown dramatic evidence of ’attempted coup’ – video report]
The House select committee investigating the deadly January 6 assault on the US (…)
Leaked documents show that about 18 out of 87 applicants, or 21%, to Patriot Front were currently or formerly affiliated with military
One in five applicants to the white supremacist group Patriot Front claimed to hold current or former ties to the US military, according to leaked documents (…)
“The rise of rightwing politics and authoritarianism and of armed groups preparing for violent action is an even greater problem than Biden’s speech suggests and neither mainstream Democrats, nor progressives, nor the left, seems to have a strategy to stop the rise of the right.”
On January (…)
On the anniversary of the storming of the Capitol in Washington, Neil Faulkner assesses the strength of the authoritarian right in the United States.
No-one should be in any doubt that it was a coup attempt. It may have been botched, but the storming of the Capitol and the invasion of (…)
“Was the American far right’s apparent success the result of a possible Trump effect? No post-1945 Western democracy has so far witnessed four years of presidency by an allegedly far-right figure. His support might have changed the dynamics, and organized an erstwhile scattered and incoherent (…)
The Republican Party has gone wacko! The evidence is overwhelming: Some of their members call Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol a tourist visit. They tolerate Marjorie Taylor Greene’s QAnon, Anti-Semitism, Space Lasers etc. They are trying to re-run the 2020 election after it has been settled for 6 (…)
Revealed: groups banned from other sites fundraising on GiveSendGo as data breach identifies high-dollar donors
A data breach from Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo has revealed that millions of dollars have been raised on the site for far-right causes and groups, many of whom are banned (…)
Contrary to many expectations President Trump was unable to launch a coup d’etat in order to remain in power. The January 6, 2021 putsch against the U.S. Capitol demonstrated that violent fascists pose an ongoing threat to the left and to protest movements. However, the opposition of the entire (…)
Despite national failures at the ballot box, radicalised state parties are fighting for Trump’s election lies and defending QAnon followers.
In Arizona and Oregon, they rebuked opponents of Donald Trump’s assault on democracy. In Hawaii, they defended followers of the QAnon conspiracy (…)
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