How Texas Populists Almost Destroyed the Two-Party System

The Populists of the 1890s rose up against both capitalism and white supremacy in the heart of the Lone Star State. Their apparent defeat at the ballot box was rooted in nothing less than an all-out campaign of terror and white supremacist violence.


A multiracial coalition of poor farmers almost remade Texas politics — until elites unleashed an all‑out campaign of terror to stop them.…

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Gavin Newsom’s Closely Curated Vulnerability Isn’t Convincing

In Young Man in a Hurry, Gavin Newsom tries to get in front of the critiques he knows are coming. But reading the book, you can’t escape what he himself establishes: Newsom is a product of one of the most gilded patronage networks in modern US politics.


If Gavin Newsom’s new memoir’s purpose is to prove that he made himself, it ends up proving the opposite. (Matthias Balk / picture…

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The Fight Against Trumpism Can’t Wait for Election Day

I found out about Chairman Paul Birdsong and the new Black Panther Party the same way everyone else did—very suddenly, and via Instagram reel. Just days after Renee Good was shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Birdsong and his group of organizers went viral at a protest in Philadelphia—dressed in all black, toting semiautomatic weapons, and daring…

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