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 Vol. 085 Issue 002 (April 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 To the Barricades!
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EDITOR’S NOTE
TO THE BARRICADES! N ow and then I think about a young man I met across the street from the Wisconsin state capitol in April 2020, at a rally of far-righters opposing mandates...
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Not Done with Trump-Yet
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LUEDERS, BILL
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COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS NOT DONE WITH TRUMP—YET
H istory will record that the most devastating rebuke to former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial was delivered by a...
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Honduras' Climate Refugees
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Pindado, Encarni
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HONDURAS’ CLIMATE REFUGEES
Migrants, mostly Honduran hurricane victims and economic victims of the pandemic, walk more than 500 kilometers through southern Mexico, crossing three states. The...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT
Stop Me Before I Cheat Again Lin Wood, President Donald Trump’s election fraud lawyer, is being investigated by Georgia state officials for allegedly voting illegally in that state...
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Letters
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Loved the Cover I went to the mailbox today in very cold weather and pulled out the mail; your latest issue was on the bottom of my stack. I took it out to review the cover and, to my surprise, I...
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Blast From The Past
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THE KU KLUX KLAN INVADES THE NORTH In the September 1921 issue of La Follette’s Magazine (precursor of The Progressive), Albert De Silver, a New York attorney and associate director of the...
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The Right Way to Protest
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN
THE RIGHT WAY TO PROTEST
I know well what it’s like to be arrested for taking part in a raucous protest. I’ve been arrested for committing acts of civil...
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Working for That Minimum Wage
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Jaffe, Sarah
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WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE
WORKING FOR THAT MINIMUM WAGE
I still remember watching Pamela Flood dance on that first picket line, way back in November 2012. I have pictures of...
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Hate for Sale
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SMOKING GUN
HATE FOR SALE
As The Progressive reported late last year, in an online article by Mathew Foresta, “The sale of hardcore right-wing merchandise does not take place in the seedy...
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The Enemy Within
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Ryan, Melissa
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THE ENEMY
WITHIN
State and local Republican parties have been taken over by white supremacists,conspiracy mongers,and insurrectionists. BY MELISSA RYAN MIKE TOFANELLI In September...
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After the Storm
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Lyons, Matthew N.
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AFTER THE STORM
The U.S. far right is at a crossroads.
BY MATTHEW N. LYONS T he January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol dramatized the threat from the far right in a way that the United States...
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The Armies of the Right
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Leon, Luis Feliz
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The Armies of the Right
Though Trump is gone, the legions of far-right extremists he inspired will continue marching on. BY LUIS FELIZ LEON Armed protesters at the annual Second Amendment...
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Eyes on the Rise
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McMenamin, Lexi
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Eyes on the RISEDaryle Lamont Jenkins (right), at a Proud Boys/Patriot Prayer rally in Portland, Oregon, One People’s Project tracks the boom on August 4, 2018. in the power and might of...
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From Pizzagate to the Capitol Riot
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Gertz, Matt
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From Pizzagate to the Capitol Riot
How rightwing media extremism led to the January 6 insurrection.
BY MATT GERTZ Edgar Welch wasn’t looking for pizza or garlic knots when he walked into...
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Antisemitism Meets Transphobia
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Lorber, Heron Greenesmith and Ben
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Antisemitism Meets Transphobia White nationalists and anti-trans feminists use the same conspiracies to target trans and Jewish folks. BY HERON GREENESMITH AND BEN LORBER We live in an age...
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The Heir to Joe McCarthy
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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The Heirto Joe McCarthy Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson is following in the footsteps
of the disgraced former Senator.
I grew up among the Wisconsinites who fought Joseph McCarthy’s dishonest and...
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For Christ's Sake
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Christophi, Helen
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JAY SEKULOW MIKE HUCKABEE JERRY BOYKIN RICK PERRY Helen Christophi is an independent legal journalist based in California. David Daleiden is the anti-abortion activist from California who,...
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Q: How Should We Respond to the Rise of the Far Right?
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Reid, Mark Bray, Shannon
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Q: How Should We Respond to theRise of the Far Right? MARK BRAY Historian of human rights, terrorism, and politics in modern Europe at Rutgers University, and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist...
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Saving St. James
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Rossi, Marcello
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Saving St. James
In the nation’s most toxic region, one woman is seeking justice for herself and her overburdened community. BY MARCELLO ROSSI Sharon Lavigne: “It was the stuff we were all...
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Helping Small Businesses Survive
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Johnson, Sharon
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Christi A. Davidson (left) and Rich Holladay (right) have used their Tennessee state grants to keep their businesses a.oat during the pandemic. Helping Small Businesses Survive
There is much...
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Amazon and the Pandemic
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MacGillis, Alec
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Amazon and the Pandemic
How the virus that battered the economy was a boon for Jeff Bezos.
BY ALEC MACGILLIS O n the Saturday before Easter 2020, I set off on a drive from Baltimore,...
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'Break Through These Shackles'
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Stockwell, Norman
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‘Break Through
These Shackles’
Nancy MacLean on how to stand up to groups like ALEC. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL N ancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe distinguished professor of history and public...
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Books
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I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar BY ELEANOR J. BADER Jess Zimmerman’s Women and Other Monsters stirs the pot on a profound question: What does it mean to be human? Gender is at the center of...
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Doing it in Person
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Farsad, Negin
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DOING IT IN PERSON
is the host of the political comedy podcast Fake the Nation and author of the book How to Make White People Laugh. I know, you like online shopping. You like the...
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Immigrant Kids Aren't All Right
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Higgins, Maeve
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IMMIGRANT KIDS AREN’T ALL RIGHT
I t’s been good to see children skipping their way to school this spring. My Brooklyn neighborhood had been too quiet in the mornings. They brought life back...
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Blinded by 'The Eyes of Texas'
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Zirin, Dave
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BLINDED BY ‘THE EYES OF TEXAS’
and hosts the Edge of Sports podcast. His new book, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World, will be out in mid-September. “T he Eyes of...
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The Loggers
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deNiord, Chard
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THE LOGGERS move from tree to chickadee’s stutter up tree in the thrill of fel braids in vain: “There’s some ling, feeling the sky in thing deeply wrong be side their eyes as the ...
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The GOP's Shameful War on Voters
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER
THE GOP’S SHAMEFUL WAR ON VOTERS
rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at HightowerLowdown .org. A s a general rule, I don’t agree with Republican lawmakers,...
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