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Fascism doesn't just appear. It must be invited in--and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

The silence of Black MAGA supporters in the face of Trump's and Vance's bigotry during the campaign has carried over to the second Trump era.

On SMS this week: John Nichols on the defeat of the Musk-funded candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and Rob Weissman on saving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The New Jersey senator broke Strom Thurmond's record for speaking on the Senate floor. May Booker break the back of the neo-segregationism that Trump represents.

Activism for life.

The richest man in the world attempted to buy an election in Wisconsin. His effort crashed and burned, establishing a model for the fightback against Trumpism.

The government is enlisting--or coercing--other countries into joining its efforts to purge immigrants from the United States.

Kristin Ross's The Commune Form traces a political tradition--based on reimagining class relations--that stretches from the 1871 uprising to the modern-day struggles of ZAD.

The Trump administration spent $6 million to knowingly disappear hundreds of people into a foreign prison where they are being made to work, without pay, in tortuous conditions.

Elon Musk is spending tens of millions of dollars to block free and fair elections in the battleground state.