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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s a lesson they should have learned in 1787.

Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With the NYC premiere of Ava’s 14th next week, there’s a lot of talk about inspiring people to continue the fight to ensure civil rights for all Americans. What I hope we can do is have a conversation about why it’s still a fight at all.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@wgbh.org has posted the full video of Old North Church’s July 2 program at the West End Museum, where Vince Brown was kind enough to lead a discussion with me, Sarah George, and Kahlil Greene about resistance in American history — and what that history is for now. youtu.be/LouxcNjVmKQ?...

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Tad Stoermer describes the history of resistance in the United States

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why do so many Americans hate democracy? Scratch a centrist and soon you'll reveal a "tyranny of the majority" tattoo. (The right just wears it as a badge.) youtu.be/ZQAVRVNtWmQ

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Before America's Midterms: Hitler Didn't Rise Because of Democracy

YouTube video by Resistance History with Tad Stoermer

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Let's talk resistance and resistance history -- and the midterms -- tomorrow at 10a EST in a discussion at Falmouth Public Library in Falmouth, Massachusetts. I'll be tuning in virtually, but the audience will be live at the library. forms.bhfh.org/nx/portal/ne...

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Courage For Democracy @couragefordemocracy.com · 20/09/2026

Getting elected doesn’t mean you stop answering to the people who sent you there. Kristi Burke is running for Congress in TN 01 to fight for accountability and remember exactly who she works for. She’s a Courage Candidate, and she’s on the ballot this November.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Spending all day dealing with this kind of garbage: “Being a historian is patriotic work." When I wanted to do patriotic work, at 17, I joined the army. I went to grad school to be a historian. Where does this come from? Don’t its adherents see the harm? Or is it worse, just a slogan?

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This framing is absurd. The prescription is the standard move: solve a power problem with one institution, the Court, by shifting that power to another, Congress, somehow standing in miraculously for “the people.” This merry-go-round never ends.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"What separates effective resistance from performative noise?" I don't read reviews, but I'm passing this one along anyway because @theprogressivemag is a magazine I've been fond of for a long time, since I worked in politics. [Repost because I missed the link] progressive.org/magazine/the...

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The Return of the Enslavers’ Republic

In his new book, Tad Stoermer explores why resistance movements in the United States face uphill odds.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As we look toward the future, here’s an essay I wrote 14 years ago that I still believe is worth reading www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/o...

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Opinion | A New Southern Strategy (Gift Article)

Enough with the condescension. Take our liberalism seriously.

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Courage For Democracy @couragefordemocracy.com · 15/09/2026

Rep. Al Green is forcing the question. Using Rule 9, he’s bringing an impeachment resolution to the floor and forcing members of Congress to go on the record. The vote is coming. Pay attention to who stands up and who stays silent. #Impeachment #AlGreen

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"If the American republic fails in our lifetime, Howard Zinn and some of his followers should bear part of the blame as corrupters of America’s youth." -- Akhil Reed Amar The republic's failure is being arranged right now by people who quote the founders constantly and Zinn never. #howardzinn

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"The irony is the existential threat to American freedom came not from these terrorists in Afghanistan but from our nation's response to terrorism." Turning Point: Generation 9/11 on Netflix

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A bold idea: lean into Andrew Jackson. Don’t talk about ways to return power to the people, just erode Marbury to resurrect the concept of coordinate branches of government when it comes to interpreting the Constitution. Liberal nationalists wouldn’t see change if it smacked them in the face.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

How did they proceed to get rid of the president? They passed a law they knew he’d violate. He violated it. They impeached him for it. I love those guys.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

How badass were the Radical Republicans? When they strengthened their majority in the elections of 1866, they changed the date the next Congress would begin, moving it up NINE MONTHS, from December 1867 to March. Then they radicalized Reconstruction. Result? Ratification of the 14th amendment.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“Anything for human rights is constitutional.” — Charles Sumner. #resistancehistory

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In 1787, George Mason asked whether any man — above all, the man capable of committing the most extensive injustice — would be placed above justice. The answer from most congressional Democrats in 2026 is: Yes, he is. open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Some light watching. Let’s chat 17th Amendment and the last time Congress tried to exclude socialists. The Resistance History of Victor Berger and the American Socialists #publichistory youtu.be/BVIh_Qv1_s4

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The Resistance History of Victor Berger and the American Socialists

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I want to see this in every home and public space that prospered because enslaved people made it so. How many would we encounter on a daily basis? How often would it prompt us to think about why America still runs on labor abuses?

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.” — Herman Melville (1857$

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Like the 14th amendment? Thank John Wilkes Booth.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thinking about Andrew Johnson’s 1866 “Swing Around the Circle” speaking tour for no reason whatsoever.

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Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Column: ICE's death toll under Trump, by shootings and deaths in detention, has mounted without a single agent being held accountable. One way to send him a message: Press the Senate (eyeing you, Susan Collins) to reject Todd Blanche as attorney general. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Column: Send Trump a message that the ICE killings have consequences

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) could block confirmation of the president's personal lawyer to be the next attorney general.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is what a monopoly on violence looks and sounds like.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is doing a lot of work: “The panels also recall the price our nation paid to finish the work that the founders had begun and end slavery in the United States once and for all.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘A first step to fascism’: critics denounce Trump administration replacing slavery exhibit at George Washington’s home

Replacement of panels with version that’s sympathetic to enslavers comes amid effort by Trump to dismantle diversity initiatives

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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Do body cams somehow possess some magical powers that prevents the discharge of a weapon? All they do is record protesters & bystanders for surveillance & possible imprisonment under NSPM-7. The body cam argument is to redirect & diffuse the rage. Abolish ICE. Rescind NSPM-7.

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Amanda W. Timpson @atimpson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I had some thoughts about how we're discussing Lindsey Graham now that he's gone. The full video is available on FB / IG / TT / YT.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Body cams. Yes. That is the issue.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And then they gutted all attempts at reigning in the imperial presidency by embracing pardon and reconciliation.

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LV @lvonbluesky.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Reed @reedgalen.bsky.social this was a great event with @tadstoermer.bsky.social, was sorry I couldn't stay to the end & do handshakes! A favor? Could you plz post the article you did some time ago about getting 3rd parties on ballots? 🙏🏾 Having debates with Z-ers about the vagaries of 270.

Reed Galen with Tad Stoermer at Civic Forum even in Downtown Los Angeles.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"When does an error require a correction, when does it become a scandal, and when does it become an execution? The Times did not resolve those questions, or many others. It mostly narrated the fall. That uncertainty should slow everyone down, and the fact that it hasn’t is its own kind of evidence."

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

An important read for everyone interested in what happens when the profession identifies a threat to its carefully constructed narratives, and those who keep them, especially when that threat comes from a Black woman.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/07/2026

We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain.

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Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Column: The Supreme Court's complicity with Trump, with few exceptions, in further empowering him and future presidents should trigger a countermovement from voters and Congress (one not under Trump's thumb) to rebalance the balance of powers. Start now. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Column: The Supreme Court failed the test posed by Trump

The conservative justices seem willfully obtuse about this executive's autocratic impulses.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is worth a deep read. Go beyond the framing (although that’s valuable), to see the function: government ownership only matters to these people if they are — and remain — the government.

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Katie @staunchcharacter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

👇🏻Truth bombs! 💣💥 Worth watching to the end. "Democratic socialists are not changing the Democratic Party, they are revealing it." "Coalitions are not tested when everyone agrees, they are tested when the voters choose voices that make the institution uncomfortable."

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On the “Big tent” of institutional Democrats

YouTube video by Robert Arnold

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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy." ~ George Bernard Shaw

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Providence, today, at 6pm, at Symposium Books, with Steve Ahlquist. RSVP at symposiumbooks.com/event/2026-0... #resistancehistory

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