Stand for Campus Freedom is launching this urgent petition from alumni to university presidents to reject ICE cooperation agreements and defend campus freedom. Please sign and share: alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/re...

March 28 is less than 3 weeks away. If you are serious about organizing to built the power to protect our democracy and stop Trump, now is the time to be planning for how you will bring new people in, welcome them and involve them in ongoing local efforts. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

1. It’s all based on lies. 2. There will be blowback. 3. Killing a country’s leader is not ‘regime change’. 4. The Trump regime also has many heads. 5. The Iran War splits MAGA. 6. The Iran War splits Democrats. 7. Our pro-democracy job remains the same. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

Dark thoughts on a dark speech, which was all too reminiscent in its content and reception of a book many of us have probably read. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

There’s an answer to the question of how we crawl out of the present-day polarized quicksand. It’s called fusion voting through minor parties, and its time has come. @danielcantor.bsky.social democracyjournal.org/magazine/79/...

I'm back from a week of vacation with a report on the next wave of the Defiance: The Singing Resistance. It's easy to join; it's addictive once you do it; and it converts rage into loving action. Link below: open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Since I was a child, organisations like the Anne Frank Foundation have told me that what happened to her should be taken as a warning for what could happen in the future. Analogisation isn't just allowed, it is called for.

When is it ok to analogize what we’re experiencing in America now to the rise of the Nazis? And who should be the judge of that? In this week’s post, I examine how the US Holocaust Memorial Museum has gone astray. (1/3)

The wait is over — our newest #ThisOldDemocracy podcast episode is live! @msifry.bsky.social and @andycraig.bsky.social go deep on democracy reform. centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...

“the Democrats’ list of demands appears to have shrunk after internal deliberations.” 🙃

Three cheers for Michael J. Fox.

Suddenly, we have new protest songs! Billy Bragg www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW... and ...

Current mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHx...

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

Today, as the uproar over Pretti’s murder crests, there are signs that they are instead going for a package that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” (1/n)

Why do so many Democratic officeholders, candidates and political operatives keep following the same playbook, the one that says that if they want to win elections they have to raise tons of money, spend nearly all of it on targeted media... (1/n)

A report from Chester, NY, where unofficial word that ICE is planning to build a new mass detention center in a former Pep Boys warehouse has turbocharged local activists already more in motion because of Renee Good’s murder and the attack on Minneapolis. (1/2)

ICE plans to site a mass detention center in Chester, NY (1hr north of NYC) has spurred a huge turnout at the monthly town board mtg. 400-500 protestors have shown up in the cold.

About 250 residents of Hastings on Hudson, Yonkers and Dobbs Ferry out to demand #ICEOutForGood and for NY to pass #NYForAll and the MELT Act. @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social and CFOW cosponsored this rally.

Current mood: youtu.be/jAl05lQm4nQ?...

We put out a call for #ICEOutForGood vigils 24 hours ago. There are now more than 1000 events taking place across the country this weekend. Find yours: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...

Holy shit. Eight minutes of a man so far past giving a fuck that he’ll just deliver truth bomb after truth bomb — former MN Governor Jesse Ventura: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FKc...

This.

The man who literally wrote the book on the use of vehicles as ramming weapons says any claim Good used hers as such is false, and that her execution, followed by the false claim, is "death squad behavior."

We restarted our weekly protest in Yonkers today! Melt ICE! Health Care not Warfare! @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social @indiviswestchester.bsky.social @indivisible.org @msifry.bsky.social @lizrdeb.bsky.social

🎙️ Your next listen is here. A brand new podcast #ThisOldDemocracy episode just hit the feed! @jefftimmer.bsky.social is working on building the Common Sense Party in Michigan, a fusion party committed to protecting the rule of law and democracy.

Adding this to my current "to-read" list: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Re-upping on what I wrote about war w Venezuela and lessons for any American antiwar movement from the post 9/11 years. theconnector.substack.com/p/war-with-v...

Hmmm.

If you are watching Mamdani’s inauguration on one of cable channels instead of C-Span, you just missed Mandy Patinkin w the PS 22 Staten Island chorus singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Beautiful and inspiring.

Dear Friends and Colleagues! Happy 2026! We're ready for the New Year. We just kicked out 2025 and shut the door. This is our year to make change, and we ain't kidding! Repost if you're with us!!

Instead of sharing my "Best of 2025" list (enough of those already!) here's something I wrote exactly five years ago, in that moment between Biden's victory and the January 6th insurrection, that feels -- alas -- all too relevant still. Happy New Year! open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

A thoughtful piece about what the US is doing in Venezuela (and why it is starting to look a lot like Iraq) from @msifry.bsky.social theconnector.substack.com/p/war-with-v...

There are many parallels between the US attack on Iraq and the rising Trump attack on Venezuela. This week in The Connector, I use Jeremy Varon's excellent new book on the post 9/11 antiwar movement, Our Grief is Not a Cry for War, to tease out some lessons. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

This was fun! @jefftimmer.bsky.social does not mince words!

My latest post looks at the difference between Indivisible-style mobilizing and ISAIAH-style structured organizing. If you are frustrated because your activism isn’t achieving much, give it a look. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

Re-upping this 2022 post on why the "gun safety" lobby keeps failing to convert public fury into effective action: theconnector.substack.com/p/and-we-are...

I don’t usually pick fights, but David Shor is a big boy with a lot of influence over Democratic strategy & his offhanded slam of the field organizing by Obama’s Organizing for America in 2008 is indicative of a much larger problem with how we think about politics. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

Some big picture thoughts on why the opposition to MAGA is struggling to connect. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

Here's a pre-Thanksgiving potpourri focusing on a variety of creative organizing tactics bubbling up from the Defiance. Gobble, gobble! open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

"Well, yes, Mamdani and I have our differences. He's a socialist, they say he's a socialist, and I guess he says so too. A democratic socialist, but a socialist. Meanwhile, I'm busy seizing the means of production, forcing a cultural revolution, cracking down on the intelligentsia ...."

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Charismatic politicians have built movements to win office in the past, but rarely if ever have they kept them going. Zohran Mamdani aspires to be different, and there’s plenty from *how* his grassroots campaign was built that others could apply in their own local contexts. (1/n)

Really enjoyed the chance to talk in depth with @daschloz.bsky.social, whose books on movements and political parties are seminal works.

Guess what just went live? Our latest #ThisOldDemocracy podcast episode — streaming on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. @msifry.bsky.social and @daschloz.bsky.social dive into the structural weaknesses plaguing American politics. centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...

Setting aside fury and frustration for focus. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

In the end, more than 104K volunteers made 4.4M calls and knocked on more than 3M doors. And as Tascha Van Auken, Mamdani’s field director said last night, “This is going to transform our city. It doesn’t stop tonight.” UPDATED POST: theconnector.substack.com/p/solidarity...

Notably, Mamdani not promising that “this is the moment that the rise of oceans began to slow.”