This IS Fascism Unfolding. We mustn’t become numb to the constant torrent of atrocities. Instead, they must fuel our determination to act on what we know.

A Hellish Week of Fascist Insanity April 13 – 16, 2020

By Coco Das | Monday, April 13 The White House Coronavirus Taskforce Press Briefing reached a pinnacle of fascist lies and insults, including the following: A video of Trump’s “success” in handling the crisis, which began with the statement “THE MEDIA MINIMIZED THE RISK FROM THE START” followed by a clip from the Fox Fascist…

Fascism Advances During the Pandemic: A Brief Timeline and Bibliography

By Scott Gilbert | How the Trump/Pence regime has responded to this crisis is a concentrated example of how a fascist government operates. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage lives, so does the Trump/Pence regime. After the April 13 White House Press Briefing, the media was talking about the missing month of February in…

Thirteen Ways the Trump/Pence Fascists Have Moved to Tighten Their Grip in Just the Last Month

Reposted from revcom.us | The actions of the Trump/Pence regime, and the fascist forces associated with it on the state level, have been moving forward of late with the force of a juggernaut. As the two-paragraph definition of fascism accompanying this article points out, “while it will likely move quickly to enforce certain repressive measures…

COVID-19 is Deadly, but the Trump/Pence Regime is Making it Deadlier

by Scott Gilbert | As a clinician, it is extremely hard to watch as the Covid-19 pandemic ravages human beings all across the planet. People are suffering and dying needlessly because of poor or no preparation. And the lies and disinformation that goes along with all this is enraging. 47,000 people have died here and…

Trump’s Post-Acquittal Revenge

Just since the impeachment acquittal of Trump he has done the following, every one a major move to further consolidate fascist rule…

Drinks at Sobibor: Will We Remain Us?

SS guards at Sobibor, not far from the gas chambers

What we allow is not just what we condone—it’s what we become.

by Sarah Roark

A border wall to keep immigrants out because of racist stereotypes was bad enough. But it just got worse.

by Eden The government is blowing up Native Americans’ ancestral lands and breaking the law to build Trump’s racist ego monument.

The Dershowitz Defense: What’s Good for Trump is Good for America

If everything Trump does is deemed to be in the national interest, then any legislative or judicial check on executive power is against the national interest and could be considered illegitimate or even criminal…

The Impeachment crisis, the interests of the people of the world, and what we have the responsibility to do

“The Stakes in the Impeachment of Donald Trump; the Struggle to Remove the Trump/Pence Regime; and the Fundamental Change We Need” A Hot Topic Discussion with Andy Zee at Revolution Books on Jan 28, 2020.

“Head on a Pike” or Not, Loyalty to Fuhrer Trump Will Lead to Acquittal if the People Do Not Flood the Streets

by Coco Das | CBS News reported that Republican Senators received a warning from the Trump regime: “Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.” Adam Schiff used this quote in his closing arguments and caused an uproar from Republican Senators denying this allegation. We may not know whether these exact words were used…

Fascists are marching to enslave women, where are YOU?

Today Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to address the so-called “March for Live,” demanding women be forced to bear children against their will. The fascists are MOBILIZED. If you are sitting at home, you are COLLABORATING. PROTEST IN DC DURING #ImpeachmentTrial. Fetuses are NOT babies! Abortion is NOT murder! Women are NOT incubators! DEMAND:…

So Many Lies in 2 Paragraphs: A rebuttal to Trump’s “Defense”

Trump’s lawyers have contemptuously and belligerently dismissed the evidence against him with lies. Here are some truths on the first couple paragraphs in Trump’s response. “a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their president.” Actually millions more people voted for Hillary Clinton. But this type of language is dangerously…

The Most Crucial Political Event of Our Time

By Lillian Foreman The impeachment hearings are some of the most crucial political events of our time and, for that matter, of the future. They may well help to remove Trump from power or make him a fascist dictator. The outcome is not written in stone, especially if a mass movement from below seizes the…

Our Savior Isn’t Coming, and We’re Not That Unique

by Sarah Roark | Editor’s note: The possibility of Trump’s removal from office has never been higher. As two sides battle out impeachment in the Senate, people in the streets demanding #OutNow can change the whole equation. A Fascist President is on Trial. NOW is the time to flood DC with protest! #OUTNOW! protests start at…

Trump Showed Us Who He Was Before He Became President

by Paul Street | originally in Counterpunch

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
– Maya Angelou

“It’s amazing,” fellow CounterPuncher Eric Draitser recently wrote me, “that people ever thought a Trump administration would be something other than this.”

“This” is the demented neofascistic Trump-Pence regime, which openly violates basic constitutional norms and rules while conducting itself in barefacedly racist, sexist, and eco-cidal ways.

The Rules of the Game Have Changed

by Scott Gilbert

As the Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump begins, we need to understand how the Trump/Pence regime is consolidating fascist power.

The Crucial Moment We Are In…

Sunsara Taylor, co-initiator of Refuse Fascism and writer for Revolution Newspaper, speaking at the January 11 protest: TRUMP/PENCE #OUTNOW! No War on Iraq in NYC

From the Refuse Fascism Wednesday Webinar 1-8-2020:

Andy Zee’s comments on Trump’s speech on the U.S./Iran Crisis: Gangster and Fascist

it’s extremely serious. It’s extremely dangerous… And it has not been alleviated by the Iranians taking a measured response today and then Trump’s speech saying: “that’s good” and we’re prepared to pull back a little bit. It’s not been alleviated by this.” Andy Zee speaks to the implications of the Iran crisis and the urgency of driving out Trump Pence.

Our actions, our daring, our determination, could change the whole game

Impeachment…Acts of War Against Iran… In this moment of conspicuous change, our actions, our daring, our determination, could change the whole game. This is an excerpt from guidance sent by the national leadership of RefuseFascism.org to chapters and organizers in preparation for mass meetings on January 4 and 5. We enter the new year at…

Andy Zee on the Qualitative Leap to Fascism and the Urgency to Drive Trump Pence from Power

At a recent meeting of Refuse Fascism, quite a few people compellingly indicted serious crimes of the Trump/Pence Regime. But most did not recognize the qualitative change in the form of rule that fascism entails and the implications of this. Andy Zee spoke to this powerfully, and someone had the good sense to turn the camera on. We are glad to share it with you and recommend that you share it with others. We cannot defeat what we do not understand.

Protests Across the Country Demand NO WAR ON IRAN!

On Saturday, January 4, thousands of people in many cities all across the country – the New York Times is reporting protests were called for 80 places – took to the streets to demand: NO WAR ON IRAN! These protests had been planned by a coalition of anti-war groups before Trump’s recent egregious act of…

Our actions, our daring, our determination, could change the whole game

New Year, Same Fight…On a Whole New Level

by Eden

In 1942 a black man named James G. Thompson wrote to The Pittsburgh Courier, wondering whether or not he should enlist in the military and put his life on the line for a country that treated him as “half American.” His letter kicked off a media campaign known as the Double V Campaign–V for Victory abroad against the Axis powers and V for victory at home against racism.

Many things have changed since the ‘40s but Thompson’s words are as relevant as ever…What is needed is a modern Double V Campaign. V for Victory against Trump/Pence and V for Victory against the bigoted institutions and attitudes that allowed them to rise to power and that have protected bigots for centuries before.

Admit That the Waters Around You Have Grown

reprinted from Medium by Coco Das The waters of fascism have risen in the country where I was born and the country where I have citizenship. Both countries need sustained, non-violent, mass protest to demand the removal of fascist regimes. As morose as it sounds, I sometimes think about where I would be sent if…

Supreme Court Lets Kentucky Force Vaginal Probes On Women Seeking Abortions – Here’s Some Informed Consent, You Fascist Creeps

Sunsara Taylor

by Sunsara Taylor, reposted from revcom.us This week, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal being brought by doctors who provide abortions at the only abortion clinic in the entire state of Kentucky. In short, the highest court in the land just said that it’s okay for the state to force doctors to force…

The Leader of the Christian Fascist Movement Sits in the White House

Scott Gilbert

With most of the focus on Trump, Mike Pence and the religious right do not get much press. Yet, they are instrumental in what is happening in the White House…

Fool Me Twice: Actions Over Impeachment

From Sarah Roark

Reprinted from Women’s eNews

Well, it’s finally happened, to the relief of a wide range of people, from Nancy Pelosi’s most vitriolic critics to her most loyal loyalists: the House is officially opening impeachment proceedings. This matters. A lot… Nevertheless, we’re in a supremely perilous moment now and we’d be fools not to recognize it.