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An Abolitionist Response to Project 2025
Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, fortifies the racist impact of policing by empowering the Department of Justice to focus on violent crime, despite the fact that
A Progress 2025 Vision of Self-Determination
Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, takes a colonialist position on U.S. influence at home and abroad. Its authors argue that too much public land is not
Ending 鈥淒eath by Incarceration鈥�
A Pennsylvania man is challenging mandatory life without parole sentencing for felony murders in a case that has national implications.
Progress 2025: Protecting Voting Rights and Democracy
Instead of Project 2025's white supremacist vision for voting rights, Progress 2025 envisions universal early voting, a national federal holiday and more.
A Liberatory Vision for Reproductive Justice
A progressive alternative to Project 2025's anti-abortion vision includes no-cost abortions, on-demand, for everyone who wants one.
Trump鈥檚 Fake Electors Eye 2024 Election Theft
A new report by Insurrection Exposed prepares voters on what to expect from Trump鈥檚 next effort to steal an election.
Progress 2025: A Vision for Economic Justice
A progressive alternative to Project 2025鈥檚 anti-tax, anti-worker economy includes worker protections and a strong social safety net.
A Progress 2025 Vision for Immigration
Instead of Project 2025鈥檚 harsh anti-immigrant policies, here鈥檚 what a progressive, human-centered vision for immigrant rights looks like.
Does a Forest Have Rights? In Ecuador, It Does.
Journalist Peter Yeung explains how Los Cedros has remained protected for years thanks to Ecuador鈥檚 constitution extending rights to nature.
A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
Progress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights
The Heritage Foundation鈥檚 Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence
YES! Magazine Explores 鈥淭he Truth Above All Else鈥�
YES! Executive Editor Evette Dionne previews the latest issue of YES! Magazine, themed around "truth."
Meet the Librarian Battling Book Bans
Librarian Amanda Jones refused to stay silent in the face of vicious attacks by a right-wing book-banning campaign. She tells all in a new book.
Can the Next President Solve the Housing Crisis?
A housing rights organizer analyzes the solutions being proposed this election year to address the high cost of home buying and renting.
Workers Challenge Mega Grocery Merger
The Biden administration has sued to stop the largest grocery merger in the nation鈥檚 history, between Kroger and Albertsons.
Voters Behind Bars
Incarcerated Americans aren鈥檛 allowed to vote. Those with felonies also face barriers. Here鈥檚 what that means for democracy.
Disrupting the DNC for Palestine
Breaking the DNC blackout on Gaza, Codepink's Jodie Evans joined other activists working to keep Palestinians on the Democratic Party鈥檚 radar.
adrienne maree brown鈥檚 鈥淟oving Corrections鈥� to Build Collective Power
Best-selling author adrienne maree brown鈥檚 new book offers tools to navigate the difficult conversations and dynamics of organizing and belonging.
What鈥檚 Next for Bangladesh鈥檚 Student-Led Revolution?
A Bangladesh-born labor explores the South Asian nation鈥檚 prospects to transition to a stable democracy now that the dust has settled from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 ouster.
Rewriting Fantasy Tropes on Race and Economy
Young adult author Jordan Ifueko has created new worlds with her best-selling series Raybearer, centering Black characters and workers.
Instead of Ending Taxes on Tips, Pay a Living Wage
Taxes on tipped wages have now become a campaign issue. But economic equality advocates say ending sub-minumum wages would help workers more.
Torture Inside a Secret Israeli Concentration Camp
Video now circulating in Israeli media corroborates allegations from Palestinian detainees that Israeli agents at Sde Teiman detention center rape and torture prisoners.
USDA Will Compensate Black Farmers for Discrimination
The National Black Farmers Association just won a historic $2.2 billion in reparations from the U.S. government.
Setting a Black Economic Agenda
After conducting the largest-ever survey of Black Americans, Black to the Future has released a detailed Black economic agenda.
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