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Over the last year, we’ve seen exactly what happens when local communities stand together: we win!
With that in mind, States at the Core (STAC) is thrilled to invite you to the Smash* Authoritarianism Summer Camp—a virtual, super-practical...
Yesterday, three Americans were killed in a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego in a horrific act of racial and xenophobic hatred that is part of a larger pattern of racist political violence.
Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images via C...
This is Part One of a three-part series on the authoritarian movement’s election sabotage strategy.
Following the Civil War, an anti-democratic movement grew in the South in reaction to reconstruction – a first attempt at multiracia...
In the span of seventy-two hours, Tennessee’s Governor called the legislature into a special session, lawmakers carved up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district, and signed the new map into law before the ink was dry. This l...
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STAC is a partner that fills in resource gaps for community leaders and organizers across the country who are facing everything from white nationalist rallies to school board takeovers to political violence.
I help people, policymakers, and institutions combat disinformation, online toxicity, and far-right extremism.
Senior Strategist at States at the Core. I write about American authoritarian movements.
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