The real story behind Peter Magyar’s big win in Hungary. It’s not what may think. Scholar Kim Lane Scheppele sets the record straight. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ungoverning's critical adjectives: wholesale & indiscriminate. Critical verbs: attack & degrade. Ungoverning is not an attempt to make government work better. It is an attempt to make government not work. Source: Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the politics of Chaos. (2024)

Trump is creating a U.S. gulag: DHS/ICE are planning to convert about 23 warehouses nationwide into new immigration detention and processing facilities expected to detain 1,500 to 10,000 people each — signaling normalization of large-scale confinement in spaces not designed for human habitation.

A National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention toolkit docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A powerful master class by Hardy Merriman on identifying, challenging and defeating authoritarian election subversion (90 min). www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpqi...

“Let us now and here highly resolve to resume the country’s interrupted march along the path of real progress, of real justice, of real equality for all of our citizens, great and small.” New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the delegates at the 1932 Democratic National Convention.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

The rule of law is not self-sustaining. It is not a machine that runs on its own, immune to the will of those who live under it. It depends - ultimately - on the civic commitment of citizens, and of nations, to insist on it, to defend it, to refuse the seduction of the exception. Judge Learned Hand

Protests against authoritarians are on the rise: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

Timothy Snyder's eloquent plea for democracy at NK3 in Cincinnati (8 mins) youtu.be/hHErbPXonus?...

Dr. Timothy Snyder on the ties between Viktor Orban and Donald Trump. A lengthy post with valuable insights: The Hungarian Candidate open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

You don’t need institutional permission to build power. You need a framework that travels, communication infrastructure that connects, local leaders who are trusted with real responsibility, and the discipline to stay organized after the immediate crisis passes. open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

More required reading: open.substack.com/pub/antiauth... Also read: Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave

A French Senator’s stinging indictment of the disastrous Trump regime. Worth your 5 minutes. substack.com/@lincolnsqua...

Although published a few months ago this post is an excellent summary of the authoritarian playbook being used by the Trump regime. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

This is a very important and relevant discussion. Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Anat Shenker-Osorio substack.com/@lucid/note/...

It’s time to stop normalizing Trump‘s behavior. It’s time to acknowledge that Donald Trump is descending into dementia before our very eyes. It’s time for Congress to invoke the 25th amendment. Unfortunately JD Vance is a poor substitute but Trump must go before it’s too late.

This is an excellent interview that is worth your time. Hardy Merriman On The Fight For Democracy And Freedom, Here And Everywhere open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

Take note: Authoritarians and fascists are well aware that every minute the public and press spend on the outrage du jour is time they are not mobilizing for political action or investigating abuses of power.

Trump’s modeled himself on Benito Mussolini, Silvio Berlusconi, and Vladimir Putin, among other authoritarians. Read: Strongmen (2020) by Ruth Ben-Ghiat for details.

Please sign to shut down Trump’s gulag: sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...

If tear gas is too dangerous for a battlefield, there is no justification for using it against people in our cities. Sign the petition. sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

Please help support science : sign.moveon.org/petitions/jo...

substack.com/@indivisible... Dr Timothy Snyder understands how to stop authoritarians. Please listen.

substack.com/@eyesonice/n... This 15 min. episode is a “must listen”

Read and understand: First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out… hmd.org.uk/resource/fir...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. - Frederick Douglass

Protest brings joy. It feels good to be active and to be with other people. It dispels the loneliness we might experience when we are alone or online. When we realize we are with millions of others, we feel we can make a difference, because we are making a difference: in the world, and in ourselves.

Remember what Gandhi said: We are fighting a SYSTEM not an individual or a group of people. Hate the system, not the people.

Do not become addicted to despair! The American people have POWER, but only if we work together to defeat the forces of authoritarianism and fear. Stay strong! Speak out! Do not remain isolated! Join your neighbors and friends this March 28 for No Kings Day 3!!!

What will you tell your children or grandchildren years from now about what you did in this crucial, historical moment in our history?

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Know Your Rights: Protest Rights and Safety Practices (for all No Kings Attendees)” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Right now is the moment when our resistance movement to Trump has to fire on all cylinders. All these crises he's created are designed to "flood the zone." To overwhelm us, to frighten us, and to stretch thin our resources. But we cannot give up. We must join together and fight back. (Robert Reich)

Help us block a Republican takeover in VA - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ch...

Hold Epstein conspirators accountable - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ch...

IMPEACH NOEM act.indivisible.org/sign/impeach...

I'm attending National Day Laborer Organizing Network's event, “ICE Out of Our Communities: What Comes Next?” - sign up now to join me! #AdoptACorner www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...

The U.S. has the largest immigration detention system in the world. Source: www.freedomforimmigrants.org

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

I'm attending National Day Laborer Organizing Network's event, “ICE Out of Our Communities: What Comes Next?” - sign up now to join me! #AdoptACorner www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...

Tell Congress: No War with Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...