Tag: Civil Rights & Free Speech
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Votes for Women
Old, terrible arguments, it seems, never die; they simply wait for new keynote speakers. In early June, Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio gave a keynote platform to tradwife influencer Savanna Stone, who called for an end to women’s right to vote. She is proposing a one household, one ballot system in…
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FBI Raids
These are the things we will look back on when we wonder where the groups who help people register to vote have all gone. On Thursday, June 11, FBI agents searched the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group that has been helping people register to vote since 2007. They say more than…
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State Religion
These are the things we will look back on, when we wonder how it is that we established a state religion. On May 20, the Pentagon ordered a cut to its list of recognized religions from 211 down to 31. Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, directed the change, with the accompanying memo cutting roughly…
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Special Guest Extremist
These are the things we will look back on, when we ask how far was too far, and who spoke up? For a time, Gregory Bovino was the public face of Donald Trump’s deportations, with prominent appearances in immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis. After federal agents killed American citizens Renee Good and…
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Enemies of the State
The government has now named its political opponents as enemies of the state. On May 6 the White House released its 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy. It is the first such document of Trump’s second term. The strategy names three primary threats. Narcoterrorists. Islamist terrorists. And, in the document’s own words, “violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and…
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Trump Passport
Dear Leader. Note to my future self. Today I am traveling internationally, and the US passport in my pocket does not have Donald Trump’s face on it. That will not be true much longer. The State Department has finalized a redesign of the US passport featuring Donald Trump’s scowling second inaugural portrait, superimposed over the…
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SPLC Targeted
That appears to be the point. Note to my future self. On April 21st the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on eleven counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The theory: that the SPLC defrauded its donors by paying confidential informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan,…
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VRA Gutted
The Voting Rights Act remains, but in name only. Note to my future self. Today the Roberts Supreme Court finished what it started in 2013. In a 6–3 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans voting practices that…
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Birthright Citizenship
Trump abruptly walked out just as the other side began its time and took to social media back at his office. Note to my future self. Today Donald Trump made history as the first president to attend arguments before the Supreme Court. The case is whether the administration’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is constitutional.…
Notes To My Future Self 