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![Demonstrators gather at the site of a planned speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida campus on October 19, 2017, in Gainesville, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/04/GettyImages-863111906-400x300.jpg)
Administrators Didn’t Defeat Richard Spencer, Campus and Community Organizers Did
Campus groups took enormous risks to defeat the fascists.
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The 2018 Farm Bill’s Hidden Agenda to Push Millions Off Food Stamps
The farm bill structures almost everything that governs our food system.
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Why Won’t Trump Judicial Nominee Wendy Vitter Support the Landmark Desegregation Case “Brown v. Board of Education”?
Trump nominee’s refusal to back ‘'Brown v. Board'’ is part of a larger right-wing attack on educational equality.
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How the Working Families Party Intends to Shake Up the 2018 Elections
Both Republicans and Democrats are feeling the heat.
![Sen. Bernie Sanders attends a Senate Budget Committee hearing on February 13, 2018, in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/04/GettyImages-917838526-400x300.jpg)
Sanders’s Bill Would Hold Big Pharma Executives Behind Opioid Crisis Accountable
“Pharmaceutical companies lied about the addictive impacts of opioids they manufactured,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said, taking aim at corporate impunity.
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What Would It Take for Trump Voters to Realize He’s Corrupt?
In Trump they trust.
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Trump’s Legal Worries Grow as Judge Rejects Effort for President to Review Documents Seized in FBI Raid
Marcy Wheeler discusses more.
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Government Accountability Office: Scott Pruitt Illegally Built “Privacy Booth”
Scott Pruitt ran afoul of a 2017 appropriations law and the Antideficiencies Act.
![Two members of the Black Panther Party are met on the steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento, May 2, 1967, by Police Lt. Ernest Holloway, who informs them they will be allowed to keep their weapons as long as they cause no trouble and do not disturb the peace. Activist scott crow says the Black Panthers inspired his own theory of liberatory community armed self-defense.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/04/2018.4.17.BlackPanthers.main_-400x300.jpg)
Violence as a Way of Life: An Anarchist Analysis of Gun Control and State Power in the US
The US is in a constant crisis of violence.
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Poor People’s Campaign Gears Up for Mother’s Day Launch
A major new report makes the case for a “fusion movement.”