RefuseFascism Mission Statement
July, 2021
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RefuseFascism.org exposes, analyzes, and stands against the very real danger and threat of fascism coming to power in this country. Seventy-four million people voted for Trump in 2020. The Republi-fascist Party has been purged of dissenting voices. The mass fascist movement has hardened in the wake of their January 6 coup attempt. Fascist initiatives around restricting voting, immigration and abortion rapidly advance in statehouses across the country. The election of Biden has not eliminated the danger, it has only bought some time.
Fascism is not just a gross combination of horrific reactionary policies. It is a qualitative change in how society is governed. Once in power, fascism’s defining feature is the essential elimination of the rule of law and democratic and civil rights. Fascism foments and relies on xenophobic nationalism, racism, misogyny, and the aggressive re-institution of oppressive “traditional values.” Truth is obliterated and fascist mobs and threats of violence are unleashed to build their movement and consolidate power.
The Democratic Party will not stop this nightmare. Trump, fascist Fox News, and the Republi-fascist Party have branded them as enemies and “traitors.” Yet, the Democratic Party will consistently pull to try to work with, conciliate with and collaborate with them. There can be no reconciliation with fascism except on the terms of the fascists. Fascism must be resolutely opposed.
RefuseFascism.org unites with people from diverse perspectives to sound the alarm and prevent the consolidation of this American fascism. Through our website, podcast, social media, and publications we engage, dialogue and debate with a broad array of writers, scholars, legal experts and people from different walks of life to educate people on the roots, nature, trajectory of the real and present danger of fascism. And, through our engagement and networking with people and social movements we are forging understanding and relationships aimed at preventing the consolidation of fascism.
Since the founding of RefuseFascism.org our stand and resolve have not wavered:
We pledge to the people of the world:
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America
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The very real danger and threat of fascism coming to power in this country
RefuseFascism.org unites with people from diverse perspectives to sound the alarm and prevent the consolidation of this American fascism. Below, we share articles and other resources aimed at understanding and waging the commensurate response to this threat.
2023: The Year In Review
As we close out 2023 and head into 2024 many of us are feeling a sense of deja vu – but with higher stakes. Take a trip through the events of 2023 with an eye to the future with some guests from this past year including: Wendy Via, Coco Das, Jeff Sharlet, Paul Street, Thomas Zimmer, Fred Wellman, Sarah Posner, Brynn Tannehill, David Gilbert, Marvin Dunn, Faisal Al-Juburi, Keyanna Jones, Susan Neiman, Mark Joseph Stern, Dahlia Lithwick, Madiba Dennie, Mark Jacob, Janet Ward
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From “Man Bites Dog” and “Oh My God” to “Dog Bites Man” and “Oh Well” On the Trivialization and Normalization of Fascism and Other Evils
Originally published at the Paul Street Report on Substack, reprinted with permission.
Beware the normalization of ecocide, genocide, imperial war crimes, fascism, and mass death.
Perspective: Trump Indicted for Attempting to Overturn Results of 2020 Election: A Time for Truth, Not Delusion; For Struggle, Not Complacency
From the Refuse Fascism Editorial Board
On August 1, the Department of Justice indicted Trump on four counts of (and related to) conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. On January 6, 2021 Trump unleashed thousands of his blood-thirsty murderous fascist supporters to violently storm the Capitol attempting to hunt down and hang Mike Pence,…
The Federal Trump Indictments and the Living Fascist Menace – Curb the Liberal Happy Dancing
By Paul Street
Regarding his theft of federal government documents and his obstruction of federal efforts to get them back, Donald Trump’s book title would be I Did It. He has openly admitted his crimes on FOX News and CNN, essentially daring the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and its special prosecutor Jack Smith to hold him accountable to the rule of law. It’s clear as day…
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The Refuse Fascism podcast, featuring commentary on the latest events and interviews with scholars and activists from many different perspectives, is an essential tool for understanding and uniting to stop an American fascist movement that imperils all of humanity. PROMOTE THIS PODCAST
Produced and brought to you by volunteers with RefuseFascism.org. Hosted by Sam Goldman.
Genocide in Gaza, Repression in the U.S.
Sam Goldman comments on the downward spiral of the legal cases against Trump, and interviews two people resisting the escalating genocide in Gaza & repression of pro-Palestinian voices at college campuses: Dr. Nicole Erin Morse, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and former Director of the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and Lela Tolajian, human rights activist and Georgetown University student.
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Rick Perlstein: The Infernal Triangle + Christian Nationalist Project 2025
Sam talks with historian and author Rick Perlstein about the nexus between the fascists, the media, and the Democratic Party; what he calls “the infernal triangle.” Then, Sam talks to journalist Jennifer Cohn about the full Christian Nationalist theocratic program.
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The Cataclysm of a Second Trump Term
Sam comments on SCOTUS hearing Trump’s presidential immunity claim and Trump and Biden visits to the Texas-Mexico border. Then, she talks with Dr. Clarence Lusane to discuss the catastrophe for humanity of a second Trump presidency. Plus: journalist Amanda Moore was banned from the Conservative Political Action Conference and exposes neo-Nazis at CPAC.
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Combatting Disinformation
Sam addresses the Christian fundamentalist theocratic ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are human beings. Then, Sam talks with Dr. Lee McIntyre, philosopher and author who explains how autocrats wield disinformation to manipulate a populace and deny obvious realities.
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Understand, STOP this American Fascism
Fascism is not just a gross combination of horrific reactionary policies. It is a qualitative change in how society is governed. …What is crucial to understand is that once in power fascism essentially eliminates traditional democratic rights. – READ MORE
The Danger is FASCISM… What IS Fascism?
Andy Zee’s remarks from a panel hosted by Sunsara Taylor, host of the radio program We Only want the World and co-host of The RNL — Revolution, Nothing Less — Show.
What are you going to do about the Nazi Problem?
By Coco Das
…Whatever moral and political stand the German people should have taken to defeat the Nazis early, however much determination they should have shown, applies to us tenfold now.- READ MORE
Why did 74 Million Vote for Trump?The simple and basic answer: Because they agree with him.
Presentation from Andy Zee at the panel discussion “Why did 74 million people vote for Trump? What is the danger and what do we do about it?”
Trump has cohered diverse reactionary and fascist movements that predated his regime into a force that has now tasted power, is embedded in key institutions especially the courts, and that lives and seethes in its own conspiracy laden universe of victimization that will propel an aggreived revanchism. This is a movement that is not going away. – READ ANDY ZEE’S PRESENTATION
Bob Avakian: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America: A Better World IS Possible!
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Bob Avakian is the revolutionary leader who has – for decades – been warning of the development of a fascist movement in the US.
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What is Refuse Fascism?
RefuseFascism.org was initiated on an emergency basis in the wake of the election of Trump and Pence in 2016. Our founding mission called on all who recognized the catastrophic danger of the Trump/Pence regime to unite and organize to drive the regime out of power through sustained, non-violent mass protest. We pledged to the world that we would not stand aside while there was still a chance to stop a regime that imperiled humanity and the earth itself. With our slogan: In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! And our single unifying demand: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
This Pledge to the People of the World, initiated by Refuse Fascism, appeared in the New York Times on November 9, 2020
Co-initiator of Refuse Fascism Cornel West on the impact of the analysis and work of Refuse Fascism over the past years
It was the Refuse Fascism movement … that has put fascism on the map for the past five years. And that needs to be said!
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