Jason Duchin on the “Trumpian White Supremacist Lie” That Must Be Confronted

Trump and his ilk, in their ruthless attempt to rewrite American mythology, want to cast the immigrant as the enemy. The outsider. The contaminant. The refugee, here to take what is yours. The threat.

Trumps army storms through our neighborhoods like wolves. Sewing fear, drumming up panic, uncertainty, and suspicion. They pit neighbor against neighbor while ICE, Border Patrol, and the National Guard descend on communities as instruments of intimidation. They are the rampaging nightmare extensions of Stephen Miller’s demonic cruelty and Donald Trump’s bottomless appetite for division.

Their real project isn’t security. It’s psychological warfare. They want to condition us to stop seeing ourselves as one nation and start seeing only fragments: red vs. blue, native-born vs. arrived, Black vs. white, citizen vs. other. They want permanent fracture. Permanent hostility. Permanent distraction so they can consolidate power and money all while elevating whiteness.

They seek to shred the complex histories that built this country and replace it with something borrowed from the darkest chapters of world history. A mythology rooted in exclusion, fear, and bloodline.

The Trumpian white supremacist lie must be confronted at every turn. Their machinery must tirelessly be exposed. Their perverse distortion of who we are must be defeated at the ballot box, in the courts, in the streets of public conscience.

Because immigrants didn’t weaken this nation. They built it. The people who were brought here against their will, or came here fleeing oppression, or came to find a dream. They all built the country we now inhabit [with all its] faults and triumphs.

No oppressive regime of fear gets to erase our nation’s truth.

– Jason Duchin
via social media
November 28, 2025

Related Off-site Links:
Trump’s Thanksgiving Attack on Immigrants Likened to “Stuff You Hear Coming Out of White Nationalists” – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, November 28, 2025).
Trump Vows to 'Permanently Pause' Migration from Poor Nations in Social Media Screed – The Associated Press via NPR News (November 28, 2025).
After D.C. Shooting, Trump Sends More Troops and Pledges Crackdown on Afghan Immigrants – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, November 27, 2025).
“Policy Violence”: ICE Raids and the Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber – Democracy Now! (November 26, 2025).
How We Treat Immigrants Is How We Treat God – Stephen Mattson (Sojourners, June 25, 2018).


See also the following chronologically-ordered Wild Reed posts:
• Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• “An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup
• “To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”
• Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025
• Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works
• James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”
• Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025
• “This Is Fascism”
• The Declaration of Resistance
• The Choice Before Us
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
• Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
• James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”
• Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Bowing to an Idol
• Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy
• Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America
• Memes of the Times – September 2025
• Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025
• Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
• Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”
• Marianne Williamson: We Need an “Expanded Version of What it Means to Be Political”
• An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”
• James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025
• “If a Praying Minister Isn’t Safe, None of Us Are”
• James Greenberg on Trump’s “Larger Design” – the Construction of a Military Dictatorship
• Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present
• Mark Sandlin: “Of Course Trump Wants Columbus Day Back”
• When Terrorism Charges “Reek of Political Theater”
• “We Intend to Defend Our Democracy”: The “No Kings” Protests of October 18, 2025
• The Gospel of Jesus Vs. Project 2025
• “A Power Grab the Likes of Which This Country Has Never Seen”
• “A Case Study in How a Bully Behaves When He Can’t Rely on Fear”
• Memes of the Times – November 2025

See also:
• Protesting Trump’s “Dystopian” Immigration Policies (2025)
• Demanding Justice and Embodying Compassion for Separated Families (2019)
• 2000+ Take to the Streets of Minneapolis to Express Solidarity with Immigrants and Refugees (2017)
• Historian: Trump's Immigration Ban is a “Shock Event” Orchestrated by Steve Bannon to Destabilize and Distract (2017)
• On Holocaust Remembrance Day, James Martin Labels as “Appalling” President Trump’s Plan to Demonize Immigrants (2017)
• On International Human Rights Day, Saying "No" to Donald Trump and His Fascist Agenda (2016)
• Rallying in Solidarity with the Refugees of Syria and the World (2015)
• Something to Think About – June 25, 2012
• Fasting, Praying, and Walking for Immigration Reform (2007)
• May Day 2007

“A Power Grab the Likes of Which This Country Has Never Seen”

Writes digital creator Jason Duchin . . .

MAGA is executing a power grab the likes of which this country has never seen. Trump isn’t renovating the ballroom for someone else to use it, he’s moving in.

In an interview with The Economist, Steve Bannon said it plainly: “Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that.”

Their intent isn’t governance. It’s domination. And if you think this is hyperbole, you’re out of your fucking mind.

“At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is. But there is a plan.” Bannon added that Trump was an “instrument of divine will,” echoing, as Trump himself has, the divine right of kings.

This isn’t strategy. It’s scripture for a political cult. The manifesto of men preparing a theological autocracy. A declaration that compromise, dialogue, and democracy itself are obstacles to be eliminated. If you are a straight white conservative Christian who digs the patriarchy you are entering the Golden age… however, for the rest of us.

Bannon and the MAGA machine see this moment as a state of war, not against a foreign enemy, but against their fellow Americans. Against liberal America. Against anyone who believes in equality, pluralism, and law. They intend to march forward with unrelenting action, counting on the left’s apathy and disorientation, disregarding constitutional history and treating power as destiny, not responsibility.

If you were facing a nuclear power that openly declared it would use its weapons against you, would you sit and negotiate or fight with everything you have to disarm them before it’s too late?

That’s the moral equation before us now. We have no choice but to act simultaneously and without hesitation on two fronts:

• Resist Relentlessly. We must confront this growing authoritarian movement through protest, organizing, voting, and unyielding instances of civic courage. We cannot meet divine-right zealotry with apathy. For most of us, this will be the first time in our lives we’ve been called to defend democracy. Carrying on with a “business as usual” mindset is delusion. Figure out a way to get involved. Now.

• Rebuild from the Ground Up. We must abandon the poisoned, performative politics of our era and return to something human. Build community-centered bridges of trust, care, and shared purpose. The more we connect locally, the less control authoritarians have over our fears. America must be rebuilt, not from Washington, but from our neighborhoods, schools, and streets. Find a way to begin that work.

They have money. They have power. They have a group of zealots willing to trade freedom for submission. But we have numbers. We have each other. And we have the unshakable belief that democracy is still worth fighting for.

They’ve told us loudly and repeatedly what they plan to do. The question is no longer if they’ll try to end democracy. The question is whether we’ll listen and whether we’ll act before it’s too late.

– Jason Duchin
via social media
October 26, 2025

Related Off-site Links:
How to Stop Tyrant Trump From Destroying Our Country – Ralph Nader (Common Dreams, October 26, 2025).
Steve Bannon Reveals There’s a Plan for a Third Trump Term in 2028 – Hafiz Rashid (The New Republic, October 24, 2025).
Trump Third Term Is Being Planned Out, MAGA Ally Steve Bannon Says Hello, Fascism – Chris Walker (Truthout, October 24, 2025).
Bannon Says Trump Will Run for an Illegal Third Term Because “He’s a Vehicle of Divine Providence” – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, October 24, 2025).
Officials Plot to Have Trump Declare National Emergency in 2026, Raising Fears He May “Hijack” the Next Election – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, October 23, 2025).
Wake Up! Trump Is Moving Swiftly to Become the First American Dictator – Thom Hartmann (Common Dreams, October 1, 2025).

UPDATE: Americans Don’t Want a King, But We May Be Getting One Anyway – Tom Engelhardt (Common Dreams, October 27, 2025).


See also the following chronologically-ordered Wild Reed posts:
• Inauguration Day Thoughts
• Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• “An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup
• “To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”
• Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025
• Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works
• James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”
• Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025
• “This Is Fascism”
• The Declaration of Resistance
• The Choice Before Us
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
• Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
• James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”
• Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Bowing to an Idol
• Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy
• Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America
• Memes of the Times – September 2025
• Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025
• Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
• Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”
• Marianne Williamson: We Need an “Expanded Version of What it Means to Be Political”
• An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”
• James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025
• “If a Praying Minister Isn’t Safe, None of Us Are”
• James Greenberg on Trump’s “Larger Design” – the Construction of a Military Dictatorship
• Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present
• Mark Sandlin: “Of Course Trump Wants Columbus Day Back”
• When Terrorism Charges “Reek of Political Theater”
• Thoughts on the Eve of “No Kings Day” 2.0
• Authoritarianism With a Blue Sticker
• “We Intend to Defend Our Democracy”: The “No Kings” Protests of October 18, 2025
• “Performative Resistance Alone Won’t Change Anything”
• Socialist Equality Party: Quote of the Day – October 19, 2025

See also:
• Phil Wilson Remembers “American Fascism’s First Casualty” and Warns That Donald Trump’s “MAGA Death Cult Is Coming for Us All”
• Marianne Williamson on America’s “Cults of Madness”
• “The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”
• Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult
• Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene
• The Republican Party in a Nutshell
• Robert Reich: Quote of the Day – April 11, 2023
• Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy

Quote of the Day

The Republican Party is unabashedly publicly embracing Nazi propoganda. At Charlie Kirk’s funeral, the Trump administration chose to push Stephen Miller onto a national stage. And he reached into the poisonous well of the infamous Nazi Joseph Goebbels, plagiarizing a speech he gave to rile his base over the death of a 22-year-old Nazi named Horst Wessel. And then he poured those words into the ears of grieving Republican Christian’s. Google the 1932 “storm is coming” speech if you have doubts.

It is almost impossible to wrap your mind around that. Republicans are openly using Hitler’s playbook to mobilize their base against the left.

In the wake of tragedy, they turned a memorial into a rallying cry, not for unity, not for healing, but for rebellion and division. They weaponized grief with the very words that once fueled genocide. In a time of grief these fine Christian’s turned to the Nazi Party for guidance. Really think about that.

This is not just politics. It is horrific. It is obscene. It is unacceptable. And it must stop.

We cannot tolerate an administration, a movement, or a party that believes Nazi history and Nazi language are tools to be deployed against fellow Americans.

This is fascism, out in the open, dripping with contempt for the values this nation claims to stand for. And every Republican who remains silent in the face of this obscenity is complicit.

– Jason Duchin
via social media
September 24, 2025

Related Off-site Links:
“Scary as All Hell”: Stephen Miller Does His Best Goebbels at the Charlie Kirk Passion Play – Leigh Silverton (Medium, September 22, 2025).
Lighten Up, Francis: Thoughts on Stephen Miller, “a Nazi Who Works for a Fascist” – Steve Schmidt (The Warning, September 13, 2025).
Stephen Miller Isn’t a Kapo. He’s Much Worse – Noah Berlatsky (The Revealer, August 5, 2025).
White Nationalist Anti-Immigrant Adviser Stephen Miller to Return to Trump White House – Democracy Now! (November 12, 2024).

UPDATE: Stephen Miller Says “Quiet Part Out Loud,” Claims Trump Has Unlimited “Plenary Authority” Before Going Silent in Interview – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, October 8, 2025).


See also the following chronologically-ordered Wild Reed posts:
• Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• “An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup
• “To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”
• Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025
• Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works
• James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”
• Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025
• “This Is Fascism”
• The Declaration of Resistance
• The Choice Before Us
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
• Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
• James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”
• Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Bowing to an Idol
• Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy
• Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America
• Memes of the Times – September 2025

See also:
• Marianne Williamson on America’s “Cults of Madness”
• “The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”
• Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult
• Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene
• The Republican Party in a Nutshell
• Robert Reich: Quote of the Day – April 11, 2023
• Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy

“It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”

We are no longer teetering on the edge of authoritarianism. We are here. And the most horrifying part is we’re still going to work, booking vacations, making dinner plans, as if nothing has changed.

I keep hearing people say, I just don’t watch the news it’s too depressing. I need to get away from it all. But there is no “away.” There is no escape from what has arrived and is hardening in place.

Washington, D.C., is now under the control of the U.S. military and the Justice Department. ICE is prowling our neighborhoods, snatching people off the streets and deporting them. Universities are cutting deals with the federal government. Law firms are agreeing to stand down in the fight against totalitarianism. And presiding over it all is Führer Trump, stealing billions through crypto while keeping it deregulated so the grift never ends.

A few years ago, if someone described these events happening in another country, you’d call it what it is: a dictatorship, no different in spirit from the Soviet Union. Now it’s here, and we are sleepwalking through it.

So what do we do? We don’t shut up. We don’t go quiet. We talk about it relentlessly. That might make you bad dinner company, but fuck being polite. Now is the time for getting into good trouble. Support the few brave legislators willing to fight like those in Texas. Vote for leaders with the courage to stand up like Zohran Mamdani in NYC [and Omar Fateh in Minneapolis]. And fight voter suppression with everything we’ve got.

The National Guard deployment in D.C., just like the one in L.A., is not about crime. If it were, they’d be fanning out in the states with the highest rates of crime (top 10 per capita are Louisiana Alabama, South Carolina, New Mexico, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas Missouri, Maryland, Alaska) but 8 of those 10 voted for Trump. This is about crushing blue states, silencing opposition, and tightening the grip on power.

Their playbook is almost comical it is so well known by everyone with a 5th grade education: militarize the cities, suppress the vote, muzzle the media, attack the universities, eliminate dissent. The only way to stop it is to fight like hell, organize, take to the streets when needed, and flood the polls.

We have no choice. Lose this fight, and we lose the country. And right now, we are getting our asses kicked.

– Jason Duchin
via social media
August 13, 2025

Duchin’s wake-up call reminds me of Maarva’s posthumous speech from the Star Wars TV series Andor. As I’ve said previously, I can think of no any other TV series that so powerfully captures the political zeitgeist we’re living through, one dominated by the rise of fascism in the U.S. And to be clear, Andor is not predicting this tragic turn of events; rather, as Melanie McFarland accurately observes, it is powerfully reflecting it. For as both Jason Duchin and the Andor character of Maarva remind us: Fascism is here and it’s not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.

And yet we must resist. We must wake-up and, in Maarva’s words, “Fight the empire!”





Now there are many ways to fight the empire, and personally I’m into non-violent resistance. And by “empire” I’m referring to Chris Hedges’s understanding of the American Empire.

It’s the same empire that poet Mary Oliver identifies – one that needs to be named, resisted, and transformed.

Related Off-site Links:
Hello, Fascism – Christopher Impiglia (Common Dreams, August 13, 2025).
Trump White House Says Military Occupation of Nation’s Capital Set to Expand – Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams, August 13, 2025).
The Militarization of America – Marianne Williamson (Transform, August 13, 2025).
Trump’s Military Occupation of D.C. Egged On by Corporate Lobbyists: Report – Stephen Prager (Common Dreams, August 13, 2025).
Trump’s D.C. Takeover Is an Ominous Move – Chauncey DeVega (Salon, August 12, 2025).
Trump Isn’t Liberating D.C. He’s Subduing It – William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift (The Bulwark, August 12, 2025).
Black D.C. Is Center Stage in the Opening Act of Trump’s Authoritarian Rehearsal – Stacey Patton (Newsone, August 12, 2025).
Federalizing Fear: Trump Turns D.C. Into a Stage for Authoritarian Power – James Greenberg (James’s Substack, August 12, 2025).
“This Isn’t Normal!” Secret Pentagon Plan for Troops to Put Down Local “Unrest” Nationwide – Jon Queally (Common Dreams, August 12, 2025).
Trump’s Takeover: ACLU on Federalizing D.C. Police and Deploying 800 National Guard – Democracy Now! (August 12, 2025).
Trump Is Testing Martial Law in D.C. – TrumpFile.org (August 11, 2025).
The Rule of Law Is Dead in the U.S. – Elie Mystal (The Nation, July 30, 2025).
The Fascists Are Trying to Break You, Good People. Don’t Let Them – John Pavlovitz (The Beautiful Mess, July 17, 2025).
How Not to Be Fascist According to Andor (and Jesus) – Bryan Jarrell (Mockingbird, May 20, 2025).

UPDATES: DC Residents’ Anger at Fed Presence Grows as Poll Shows “Overwhelming” Opposition to Trump Takeover – Brad Reed (Common Dreams, August 20, 2025).
“No Trump! No Troops!” Thousands March in Chicago as President Threatens “War” – Jon Queally (Common Dreams, September 8, 2025).
The Corporate Democrats Delivered Donald Trump – Norman Solomon (Common Dreams, October 21, 2025).


See also the following chronologically-ordered Wild Reed posts:
• Inauguration Day Thoughts
• Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• “An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup
• “To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”
• Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025
• Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works
• James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”
• Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025
• “This Is Fascism”
• The Declaration of Resistance
• The Choice Before Us
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
• Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions
• James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”
• Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”
• “He Is Enacting an Authoritarian Agenda”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement

See also:
• Trump’s Playbook (2016)
• Progressive Perspectives on the Rise of Donald Trump
• Progressive Perspectives on the Election of Donald Trump
• On International Human Rights Day, Saying “No” to Trump and His Fascist Agenda
• Trump’s America: Normalized White Supremacy and a Rising Tide of Racist Violence (2017)
• “We Have an Emergency On Our Hands”: Marianne Williamson On the “Freefall” of American Democracy (2020)
• “Fascism Is Upon Us”
• Trump’s Legacy
• Progressive Perspectives on the 2020 U.S. Election Results
• “As Much the Sounding of An Alarm As a Time for Self-Congratulations”
• Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy
• Republicans Pose an “Existential Threat” to American Democracy (2021)
• Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult (2022)
• A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking American Democracy
• “How Can One Overreact to a Mortal Threat to American Democracy?”
• Historian Nancy MacLean: The Threat to American Democracy Is at “Red-Alert Stage”
• “Come for the Racism, Stay for the Autocracy”
• Progressive Perspectives on Where Democrats Went Wrong in the 2024 Presidential Election

Image: Soldiers drive a Stryker infantry carrier vehicle in the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday parade on June 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)