by Sharon Zhang | Jul 21, 2026 | Cold War, Criminalization, cuba, Donald Trump, Fascism, Marco Rubio, News, Red Scare, State Department
The State Department has released a report that labels Cuba as the “ideological capital” of left-wing politics in a document seemingly imitating Cold War politics published amid the Trump administration’s fascistic crackdown on the left. The 99-page report is entitled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.” It argues that, since the rise of Fidel Castro and left-wing revolutionary…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jul 16, 2026 | Fascism, Marco Rubio, McCarthyism, News, NSPM-7, Red Scare, Stephen Miller
In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…
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by Erin Reed | Jun 20, 2026 | FTC, Gender-Affirming Care, health care, LGBTQ Rights, McCarthyism, Op-Ed, Red Scare, Trans Rights, Trump Administration
Between the 1940s and 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy’s investigations targeted Americans for their beliefs, their associations, and their speech. The mechanism was not primarily criminal prosecution — it was investigation, subpoena, and the threat of institutional destruction. Its goal was compliance through fear. That fire burned through Hollywood…
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by Blanca Missé | Mar 11, 2026 | academic freedom, Activism, Criminalization, criminalization of dissent, Dissent, free speech, history, ICE, labor, Op-Ed, Organizing, palestine solidarity, protest, Red Scare, The Red Scare, Trump Administration, Unions
On July 10, 2025, as federal agents stormed cannabis farms in Ventura County, California, community members rushed to protest what they saw as yet another sweeping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. Among them was Jonathan Caravello, a 37-year-old philosophy lecturer at California State University Channel Islands. Today, he faces a federal felony charge that could send him to prison…
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by Sharon Zhang | Nov 19, 2025 | Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, far right, free speech, J.D. Vance, McCarthyism, News, Red Scare
Hundreds of Americans lost their jobs or faced discipline at work for making comments about far right activist Charlie Kirk after his death in September, new reporting finds, as the Trump administration whipped up a frenzied crackdown against Kirk’s critics. According to an investigation by Reuters, at least 600 Americans were fired, suspended, placed under investigation…
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