Project 2025 & US Fascism: The Front Lines

the crazy is about to go off the charts

the crazy is about to go off the charts

Death threats have become rampant as MAGA culture twists norms and makes once-marginal forms of violence mainstream.

Comments blaming Biden and the left for the shooting could lay the groundwork for crackdowns on critics of the right.

Among political leaders who have reacted to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the MAGA hopeful's Butler, Pennsylvania rally Saturday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressed sympathy and relief — surprising some experts. Taking to social media, Pelosi wrote via X (...

We traveled to this bad place together, which means, in theory, that we can still decide to go somewhere else

The Trump rally shooting in Pennsylvania reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.

Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

The shots fired at Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday are being investigated as an assassination attempt of the former

The “mournful, plaintive wail of Irishness” is the soundtrack for both the Kennedy and the Biden stories, in which triumph is always shadowed by calamity. There is in this structure of feeling no easy opposition of hubris and nemesis. There is just, as Obama said to Biden when his son Beau was dying, the awareness that “life is so difficult to discern”—difficult because it does not offer itself in the easy forms of the wonderful and the terrible but confuses the two by conjoining them as twins. The political manifestation of this awareness is not the upbeat rhetoric of the American Dream; it is a politics of empathy in which the leader shares the pain of the citizen.

In black-is-white fashion, MAGA rushes to blame Biden and Democrats for political violence.

for the future of our democracy, this shit has got to end

Kevin Roberts, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, declared a "second American Revolution."

The leader of conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation argued the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity will reinforce a “second American Revolution,” which he sa…

"Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune."

The world is hardening into two competing blocs.

The Supreme Court reverses course on Chevron deference.

Undocumented immigration, on average, has no effect on violent crime across U.S. metropolitan areas.

Project 2025’s blueprint for Donald Trump’s return to the White House opens the door to fascism, lawmakers warn

"We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it's too late," said Rep. Jared Huffman, who is spearheading the new task force.

Jared Huffman sounds alarm over extremist manifesto for second Trump term produced by Heritage Foundation

The video the former president reposted on Truth Social yesterday isn’t what people are making it out to be.

The most pro-labor president in history could hardly do more for unions, but their members aren’t feeling it.

A majority of the justices appeared convinced that government officials should be able to try to persuade private companies, whether news organizations or tech platforms, not to publish information so long as the requests are not backed by coercive threats.