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The authoritarians have a playbook, including on how to steal elections. They seize power by making it harder to vote, threaten to intimidate people at the polls, change the rules to give them...

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In Summer 2025, we heard of a wonderful surprise: in September 2025, the City Council of West Hollywood, California<...

Around the world, people have been nonviolently resisting autocrats in all shapes and forms – dictators, kings, elected presidents, coup leaders, military regimes, occupiers, white supremacists, colonial rule, and more. Autocrats are political leaders or regimes who break the rules and rule by force. Humanit...

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A Note From Rivera Sun

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The 2026 Midterm Elections are a few months away (Nov 3) and we already know this won’t be a normal year. It is, arguably, one of the most critical elections in US history. It is not an understatement to say the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. Or the fate of the world. With the climate crisis intens...