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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Very interesting, thought-provoking piece here by @aconwrites.bsky.social. Give it a read. I’d like to have him on my show to discuss.👇

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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This passage captures the genius of Black politics and it puts DSA in a larger context. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Nation.
At times Black politics has taken the form of polemic, as in David Walker's Appeal. In other moments, it has taken the form of armed abolitionist resistance. Black politics have also been peaceful, as in the now-celebrated campaigns of the nonviolent movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. When white conservative Republicans attempted to destroy the political power Black Americans gained during Reconstruction, Black politics became insurgent within the Republican Party itself. Black Americans enrolled in Union Leagues, constructed independent institutions, and formed oppositional factions within the party to protect Black political and social interests.
The DSA is practicing a similar form of insurgent Black politics. It uses the Democratic Party as a ballot-access vehicle while organizing against the party's leadership, donors, and ideological constraints, a legion of forces sometimes openly hostile to Black political imagination and possibility.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Chandra Manning and @adamrothman.bsky.social do a great job of explaining some of elements that I had to leave out of my essay on how the Civil War received its name. Check it out!

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I love this dialogue! Thank you @psheridanhistory.bsky.social for generating a healthy space for discussion. Feel free to contribute to this conversation!

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My latest for @thenation.com is about @demsocialists.bsky.social and Black politics. “Establishment Democrats’ response to the electoral victories of candidates endorsed by the DSA should be of concern to anyone invested in the future of Black politics” tinyurl.com/44nwt6y9

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Establishment Democrats’ Response to DSA’s Electoral Wins Should Be of Concern to Anyone Invested in the Future of Black Politics

Whatever happened to “big tent” politics?

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 02/08/2026

“The linguistic whitewashing of the Confederacy is more than a manufactured myth of Southern redemption,” Anthony Conwright writes. “It is a ritual of national forgetting.”

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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again.

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Be right back. Going to change one of my lecture titles now…

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy

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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Good move. (I don't like most instances of "civil war" tbh. As in, "the Spanish Civil War" seems both limited and decontextualising. But I don't know of a better phrase.)

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Check out my latest, “Don’t Call It The Civil War” for @nytopinion.nytimes.com if you have never thought about why we call the American Civil War the civil war, this is for you!

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Great text for discussion in U.S. history classes. What to call the "Civil War"? Names have meaning. Could apply the same question to use of "civil war" in other countries. When is it the correct term? When is it masking a primary perpetrator? (Similar to the both-sidism of "race riot.")

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Check out my latest “Don’t Call It The Civil War” for @nytopinion.nytimes.com I explain how the Civil War got its name, and why we should call it “The Slaveholders’ Rebellion.” tinyurl.com/4yk634pc

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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My latest for @thenation.com “No athlete or Black American should participate in the Out of Bounds boycott unless the CBC and NAACP also boycott AIPAC, unequivocally condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians…” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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The Blatant Hypocrisy of the Congressional Black Caucus’s Out of Bounds Boycott

The new initiative enlists Black college students and athletes to face down Jim Crow rule in the South, while the group remains silent on boycotts targeting Israel’s apartheid rule.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Read my latest for @thenation.com “The SAVE Act deserves our swift repudiation, in principle, because it imposes procedural distance between the voter and the exercise of the ballot—hallowed ground that, in any viable democracy, shall not be infringed.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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How the SAVE Act Seeks to Undermine the Right to Vote

After you strip away the lies about rampant voter fraud, the GOP bill is a frontal assault on hard-won protections of the franchise

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Check out my latest essay and first for @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump Misunderstands the Education Department’s History.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The Congressional Black Caucus’s silent partnership with AIPAC www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Yet to this day, the Congressional Black Caucus—the long-standing corps of lawmakers dedicated to safeguarding civil rights (and known as “the conscience of Congress”)—has not issued a formal declaration condemning Israel; it hasn’t even produced a statement calling for a ceasefire. The CBC’s silence isn’t accidental: More than half of its current 61 members have been endorsed or funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful US lobbying arm for Israel’s agenda. In the 2023–24 election cycle alone, AIPAC endorsed 26 of the caucus’s members, raising $4.6 million for them and another $3.5 million for Black Democratic candidates.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Thank you for sharing here @phillewis.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I spoke with @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social for my latest essay in @thenation.com about AIPAC’s relationship with the Congressional Black Caucus. Check it out: “The Congressional Black Caucus’s Silent Partnership With AIPAC” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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The Congressional Black Caucus’s Silent Partnership With AIPAC

The influential group of lawmakers has damaged its reputation as “conscience of the Congress” by staying silent on the Gaza genocide.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

No Kings! Why Congress must impeach Trump by the best political writer in the game @chrislehmann.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...

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The Decisive Moment, by Chris Lehmann

Why Congress must impeach Trump

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Huge thank you to @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for including me in this piece. “The experience of Black Americans calls into question the institutions that this country holds most sacred,” Conwright said. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Young Black voters are abandoning the Democratic establishment

Mamdani and Trump elections show how Black voters are drifting from the Democratic establishment.

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Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Will Black Americans Vote For A Socialist—Zohran Mamdani? | Anthony Conwright | TMR youtu.be/HhdK46m6T2I

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Some thoughts about and Gregory Meeks supporting Andrew Cuomo. I will be ranking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My latest for @thenation.com: Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialist—Zohran Mamdani? “To put it plainly, the myth that Black Americans can only support establishment Democrats has conditioned us to take our suffering—which is a result of capitalism—for granted.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialist—Zohran Mamdani?

By demeaning the mayoral candidate’s agenda, Andrew Cuomo offends the Black tradition of community care.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Compassion and criticism are not mutually exclusive. Democrats can have compassion for Biden AND question how his healthcare policies impacted people suffering from cancer without his resources. After all, Democrats were quick to point out “white privilege” in every aspect of American life.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I made a video about David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social and the vote for DNC Vice Chair. First video outlines rules that were violated. Full video below.

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Gabe K @indominustortoise.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Anthony Conwright continues to be one of my favorite authors. I know our current administration won’t take action on this, but I hope this continues to be a central issue for progressive leaders as they are elected. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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How American Racism Sabotaged the World’s Fight Against Genocide

The international laws against genocide were deliberately crafted to prevent the US from being held accountable for its crimes against Black and Indigenous people.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

In case you missed it: “How American Racism Sabotaged the World’s Fight Against Genocide” The US helped craft the international law against genocide to prevent lynchings from being used to charge the US with the genocide of Black Americans. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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How American Racism Sabotaged the World’s Fight Against Genocide

The international laws against genocide were deliberately crafted to prevent the US from being held accountable for its crimes against Black and Indigenous people.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 26/10/2024

The fundamental problem with the Union was that it didn’t have the will to punish the Confederacy. So here we are. Again.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In 2022, I wrote a piece for @motherjones.com about Trump pardoning Jan 6. insurrectionists. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... “The failure to eradicate the Confederate cause and punish its overseers has cast a shadow on the future of a country that has yet to emancipate itself from its history.”

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The Jan. 6 insurrectionists begging for pardons sound an awful lot like Confederate soldiers

The historical resonances are astounding.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I wrote about something related to this for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci... “The social construction of the idealized Man as a “tough,” “independent,” bastion of strength and heroic self-assertion creates a host of damaging distortions in how men face real-life challenges.”

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Men Overboard

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A silly artist thing: I purposely chose not to read “The Message” because I did not want it to influence my essay. Now, that the piece is published, I can read The Message to see how our work is in conversation.

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Anthony Conwright @aconwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“The US worked to successfully guarantee that the ultimate definition of genocide would shield its government from being charged with the genocide of Black Americans. In other words, the international response to the worst crime against humanity was indelibly shaped by American white supremacy.”

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Angtha Thar @untamespirit.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

In this @thenation.com article, @anthonyconwright.bsky.social covers how the US messed up the definition of Genocide by leaving its crimes against Blacks and Indigenous folks out. I recently talked about this in my #booksky📚💙 thread on It Can Happen Here. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

However, as with so much of the development of the UN, the convention's text was heavily influenced by the United States, which was beginning its era of postwar global dominance. (The US was frank about its desire to build the UN from the ground up in a way that would allow Americans to avoid accountability for their atrocities. Edward Stettinius Jr., the chairman of the United States delegation to the United Nations Conference, made it clear that his "job in San Francisco was to create a charter.. not to take up subjects like...the negro question.'")

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