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The US wasn’t remade according to abolitionist or socialist movement demands. Now fascists wield the machinery of power.
“We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both," says Gil Durán.
“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.
Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, discusses how the fight against ICE has entered a new phase.
“A lot of people are really sitting up and pushing back," says Brian Merchant.
The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.
“Preparedness isn’t just about having stuff,” says Kelly Hayes.
We need a movement to take back what has been stolen and make it impossible for so few to steal so much again.
“You can do something. It is within reach. You can have an effect,” says journalist John Washington.
“We really have to see the rise of Trump itself as an indictment of the whole system,” says Khury Petersen-Smith.
Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein urges curiosity and joy as tools to confront fascism and break imposed limits.
“What if changing the world looked more like care than like war,” asks writer Rebecca Solnit.
Too much urgency to resolve conflict can close us off from what repair really requires, says Kelly Hayes.
We have to break the pattern of trying to reenact our normal lives, as though the world isn’t being ripped apart.
“Disagreement can be a beautiful, beautiful thing,” says Tanuja Jagernauth.
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.
“Nobody had a story about unlearning that didn’t include a connection with other people,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.
“There’s nothing like getting to give someone their rent money,” says mutual aid organizer Ashley Fairbanks.
Largely unseen care work, communications, healing, and fellowship makes sustained resistance in Minneapolis possible.
“Getting involved locally is critical,” says journalist Andrea Pitzer.
Fuentes is the “more energetic and undiluted voice of the American right,” writer Shane Burley says.
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
Longtime scholar of Venezuelan politics Geo Maher offers crucial context that is often missing from mainstream coverage.
“I cannot imagine doing anything else in this moment,” says community defense organizer Gabe Gonzalez.
Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders must fortify at all costs, especially in this moment.
“I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says researcher Tamara Nopper.
“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.
Chicago is giving the US “a stellar example of how to fight back against these xenophobic pogroms,” said one organizer.
“It's all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
“We're going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.
Hundreds of people poured into the streets of Rogers Park, a result of months of work building solidarity and networks.
Trump is normalizing attacks on blue cities because he intends to overpower hubs of democratic resistance.
"There is no neutral ground in this moment. You're either resisting or you're complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
The resistance centered around Chicago's Broadview ICE detention center shows our radical solidarity against fascism.
“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance," says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.
Antiwar veteran and counter-recruiter Rory Fanning says solidarity is crucial as Trump moves to militarize US cities.
“There's no rule of law that's going to get us out of where we are,” says Andrea Ritchie.
“When people are fighting displacement, they're fighting for their class interests,” says Andrew Lee.
Facing militaristic consolidation in US cities, it is up to all of us to define the politics of opposition.
Assemblies are “a unique opportunity for people to build a democracy that has yet to be born,” says Denzel Caldwell.
The sustained attention around the Epstein files lets us shine a light on the bipartisan architecture of impunity.
“They understand that what they're doing is devastating, and they're doing it anyway,” says Astra Taylor.
“Fascism and authoritarianism are deployed through law enforcement,” says Silky Shah.
Kelly Hayes and Eric Blanc unpack the fallout of Musk’s cuts and assess where things stand for the labor movement.
“Making durable changes isn't always about the raw numbers,” says Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
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