Power Structures Brynn Tannehill Aug 14, 2023

The GOP Has a Master Plan to Criminalize Being Trans

Brynn Tannehill Aug 14, 2023

A coalition of powerful conservative organizations have put together a 900-plus-page playbook that maps out their strategy to enact a sweeping "Don't Say Gay" policy that will eradicate queer and trans lives and destroy democracy, if given the power. We can't let them.

Power Structures Brynn Tannehill Mar 9, 2023

Who Is Fighting the Rise of Fascism in the U.S.?

Brynn Tannehill Mar 9, 2023

Republicans are filing terrifying bills by the fistful every week. But that doesn't mean resistance is futile.

Shifting Language Thomas Lecaque Aug 29, 2022

The Link between Hurricane Katrina and Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric

Thomas Lecaque Aug 29, 2022

A historian reflects on how the devastating storm paved the way for the evangelical scapegoating of marginalized people today.

fascism Thomas Lecaque Jul 13, 2022

The Galloping Fascism of the Christian Right

Thomas Lecaque Jul 13, 2022

In just the month of June 2022 alone, far-right conservatives launched physical, legislative, and cultural attacks on American society in an attempt to forcefully remake it in the image of Christian nationalism.

An elephant with the GOP symbol on it stepping on general Pride rainbow flag and transgender visibility flag

LGBTQIA Catherine Caruso Jun 27, 2022

How the Right Is Winning the Messaging War Against LGBTQ People

Catherine Caruso Jun 27, 2022

Conservative extremists are doing everything in their power to eradicate queer visibility, with their disingenuous cries of "cancel culture" and "wokeism." And they've only just begun.

An elephant with a "Make America Great Again Hat" on kicking apart the Statue of Liberty.

State of Disunion Kaitlin Byrd May 6, 2022

The Present Is Our History Now

Kaitlin Byrd May 6, 2022

Many of us screamed into the wind about the importance of voting, the cold danger of apathy, the sheer cruelty that would be unleashed, the searing reality that too late is too soon. But we can still reassemble our past and break our present—we have to.

A collage of someone wearing a Proud Boy uniform, people in a KKK truck, and three men with a Confederate flag over it, and a flag with a snake on it.

Disinformation Brooke Binkowski Mar 14, 2022

How Disinformation Powers Vigilantism

Brooke Binkowski Mar 14, 2022

Citizen militias at the U.S.-Mexico border rely on social media to spread lies about immigrants and validate their belief—and desire—that violent policing equates justice.

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Power Structures Brynn Tannehill Feb 24, 2022

Republicans Don’t Care About Your Facts

Brynn Tannehill Feb 24, 2022

In their dangerous quest to control the American narrative, the GOP is attempting to criminalize any teaching in the classroom that can potentially hurt their white, Christian, cishet feelings.

A collage of the White House with an Earthquake line where a voting box and signs that say "climate protections," "healthcare" and "civil rights" are falling through.

State of Disunion Brynn Tannehill Jan 18, 2022

Every American Should Fear Losing Our Democracy

Brynn Tannehill Jan 18, 2022

Competitive authoritarianism doesn't start with a violent revolution. Instead, it's ushered in by the erosion of rights most Americans take for granted.

three garbage cans, one has the constitution in it, one has the statue of liberty and one has the american flag sticking out of it.

State of Disunion Brynn Tannehill Oct 18, 2021

Sleepwalking Toward a Post Democracy America

Brynn Tannehill Oct 18, 2021

The GOP is demolishing our guardrails and doing all they can to end democracy as we know it—and eventually, they'll succeed. And those of us on the margins stand to lose everything.