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A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

SB00397 bars masks on every officer in the state, forces feds to show badges, and opens state courts to sue them. A first in the country.

Tom Homan declared Metro Surge over. The movement won the battle. But ICE hasn't left — it's adapting. Here’s how we use the momentum and win the war.

Hey, good human, I wanted to remind you of some things that you might have lost sight of lately:

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The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

Moral clarity is rare in politics. But David Jolly shows us how it's done.

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The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

Five years later, as the president attempts to rewrite what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, Zeteo has a detailed hour-by-hour guide to what Trump said and did that fateful and violent day.

Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.

Hegseth called on generals to commit war crimes; Trump told them they may soon be asked to fire on Americans

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We need to understand the nature of genocide – how the ground is laid by dehumanization and slow violence - if we hope to prevent it and hold perpetrators to account

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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