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Right-Wing Attacks on Trans Health Care Rely on Ableist Logic
To resist state-level attacks on trans health care, we also need to tackle ableism.
Tax Docs Link Right-Wing “Parents Group” to Leonard Leo’s Dark Money Network
“Parents Defending Education” is overwhelmingly funded by big donors’ dark money rather than by “concerned parents.”
“Thirst” Updates the Vampire Genre for Our Age of Rising Fascism
The novel offers an alternate-reality allegory about the rise of Trump and the right-wing movement that supports him.
Musk Gives Right Wingers Access to Internal Twitter Systems to Spread Propaganda
The “Twitter Files” elevate false narratives and serve to uplift dangerous right-wing figures.
Groups Pushing Right-Wing State Policy Are Raking In $152 Million Each Year
The revenue doesn't include millions more in contributions to advocacy or litigation arms of the State Policy Network.
Liz Truss Is Roiling the British Economy in Her Zeal to Serve the 1 Percent
The U.K. prime minister had said the £45 billion giveaway to the rich was just the start. Then she was forced to U-turn.
Disinvestment Poses as Great a Threat to Libraries as Book Bans
It's time we reversed the decades of structural attacks that render libraries unable to serve communities effectively.
Two Powerful Unions Have Come Together to Fight the Right’s Attack on Higher Ed
The two unions representing teachers and university professors are fighting for academic freedom and shared governance.
States Need Constitutional Amendments to Protect Abortion From Right-Wing Judges
Abortion is legal in California, but that could change if right-wing members attain a majority on its supreme court.
Democrats’ Failure to Embrace the Progressive Grassroots Could Spell Their Doom
As the right wing works to dismantle democracy in the U.S., grassroots organizing offers the only plausible resistance.