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Authors, Journos, and Scholars fighting #fascism and #ChristianNationalism
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I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
@dmedawatte.bsky.social
PhD candidate @KentLawSchool, LLM (Harvard). Working and writing on transitional justice, feminisms, ethnicity, and impacts of (armed) conflicts. Visiting Lecturer (Criminal Law) Birkbeck, University of London. Mother and wife (she/her).
@gscheiring.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Comparative Politics Georgetown Qatar • Economic shocks, inequality, authoritarianism, class relations, populism, health • Political economy of development • FirstGen • former Fellow @ Harvard CES & Cambridge Sociology • gaborscheiring.com
@rethinkintel.bsky.social
Author: "Policing White Supremacy,” "Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide." Brennan Center for Justice fellow, former FBI Special Agent, former ACLU. Opinions my own, re-posts are not endorsements.
@forthepoor.bsky.social
I am professor of history and author of the forthcoming book Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
@christabrown.bsky.social
Author of BAPTISTLAND | Exposing the truth about systemic abuse & coverups in the Southern Baptist Convention | retired appellate attorney | #ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo | christabrown.substack.com
@sarahstankorb.bsky.social
Journo and author: Disobedient Women (Nat. best seller) | I cover religion, politics & gender | Like philosophy and show tunes | Alum: Westminster College & U of Chicago | sarahstankorb.com | sarahstankorb.substack.com | Insta/Threads: @sarahstankorb
@chadloder.bsky.social
Community activist, cybersecurity expert, citizen journalist based in Los Angeles. 🌴☀️ they/them
@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
Author and Johns Hopkins Agora Fellow https://t.co/Gea41bGhz9
@historyned.bsky.social
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
@amandawise.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology | Researching social inequalities in global cities | race & racism | co-existence | diversity & the urban commons | informal sport | migrant workers in Singapore & Australia | mainstreaming far-right. | Palestine | All views my own
@smgonzalezwi.bsky.social
Historian of Midwestern Latinos, labor, religion, and sanctuary. Author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th Century Wisconsin.
@tribelaw.bsky.social
After teaching constitutional law at Harvard for 50 yrs, I decided it was time to teach in a classroom without walls — helping people understand the rapidly unfolding threat to our democracy’s survival and joining the struggle to preserve the rule of law
@mycielski.bsky.social
@ODFoundation.bsky.social VP & Executive Director. Ex-European Parliament, Polish MFA, EU DisinfoLab & Gazeta Wyborcza. Stanford GSB alumnus. Disrupting authoritarians since 2005.
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
@jayrosen.bsky.social
I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site.
@willbunch.bsky.social
National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/ Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
@jesspish.bsky.social
she/her Book on sheriffs & democracy https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/ Repped by @rhaliterary DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com “Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
@sifill.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
@matthewdtaylor.bsky.social
senior scholar at Institute for Islamic, Christian, & Jewish Studies | creator of "Charismatic Revival Fury" podcast | author of The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy
@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic — available for purchase now! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/zack-beauchamp/the-reactionary-spirit/9781541704411/?lens=
@drtoddlevasseur.bsky.social
Scholar of sustainability, environmental humanities, and religion. Concerned about collapse, craving intersectional justice. Chronic sufferer of reggaemylitis. Views are my own. http://toddlevasseur.com
@mjcressler.bsky.social
🤖 chief of staff for CPIT: https://www.cpitpbc.com/ ✍🏼 rogue scholar & writer 4 hire on Catholics + anti/racism, sex abuse, horror(s), pop culture, & more: https://matthewjcressler.com/ 💥 comix creator: https://badcatholics-comics.org/
@melissadeckman.bsky.social
CEO at PRRI, I write about American politics, religion, and gender. https://melissadeckman.com; https://www.prri.org/
@stellarouse.bsky.social
Political scientist and director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University. I study how identities inform political attitudes and policy preferences among the mass public and within institutions. www.stellarouse.com
@pastpunditry.bsky.social
Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Opinions are my own // comms @ ACLU https://linktr.ee/gbbranstetter
@nwitkowski.bsky.social
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof. University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
@jasonaw.bsky.social
I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com Formerly @jason_a_w on twitter
@amnauncensored.bsky.social
History prof (Carleton College). Intellectual freedom; free expression. Podcast & blog Banished: http://banished.substack.com; https://www.youtube.com/@Banished-YouTube; https://www.amnakhalid.com
@sarahmccammon.bsky.social
Signal: https://signal.link/call/#key=tctq-trrg-ztps-cpnp-zddh-fttp-dbbx-smdc NPR Political Correspondent Co-host, NPR Politics Podcast Author, NYT Bestseller, ‘The Exvangelicals’
@globalextremism.bsky.social
Resisting Authoritarianism. Protecting Democracy. Preserving Human Rights. globalextremism.org
@counterhate.com
International organization disrupting the production and spread of hate & misinformation. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Press: press@counterhate.com
@isdglobal.org
Powering solutions to extremism, hate and disinformation since 2006.
@kathrynajoyce.bsky.social
Investigative editor @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social & journalist covering the right. Author of The Child Catchers & Quiverfull. Writing in various places. kathrynajoyce@gmail.com Signal: kathrynajoyce.01
@lindsayli.bsky.social
cultural historian | theatre maker | research: race, performance, gun culture, policing | asst prof of theatre |
@benlorber8.bsky.social
Senior Research Analyst @PRAEyesRight. I write and train on antisemitism, white Christian nationalism, the MAGA Right, Israel/Palestine, Christian Zionism. Co-author Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. benlorber.com
@shaneburley.bsky.social
Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity (Forthcoming, 2024), #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight. Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, others. Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
@endcn.bsky.social
Fighting #ChristianNationalism, which threatens our democracy and distorts our Christian faith | An initiative of @bjconthehill | Sign our statement! linktr.ee/endchristiannationalism
@ruthbraunstein.bsky.social
Sociologist. Religion, culture, politics | Director Meanings of Democracy Lab | Books: PROPHETS & PATRIOTS, RELIGION & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM | Next book: MY TAX DOLLARS
@amysullivan.bsky.social
Once and future journalist • Religion, politics, gender • Alum: TIME, Yahoo, Washington Monthly, Harvard Divinity, University of Michigan • Sojourners Board of Directors
@fpwellman.bsky.social
Host of 'On Democracy with FPWellman' on MeidasTouch and the ‘On Democracy Channel’, 'On the Line with VoteVets,' and 'Too Late to Cancel' every Sunday. Army Iraq veteran. Pro-Democracy Advocate. "Vladimir STOP!"
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
@amandatylerbjc.bsky.social
Lead BJC and Christians Against Christian Nationalism, co-host Respecting Religion podcast, and author of How to End Christian Nationalism
@jonsawyer.org
Writing on education, religion and the far-right | University of Colorado Boulder | National Education Policy Center | More about my work here: https://www.jonsawyer.org
@janemayer.bsky.social
New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
@hiltzikm.bsky.social
Pulitzer-winning journalist, historian..."Golden State," my new history of California (the resistance state) came out on Feb. 18. Details at michaelhiltzik.com. And find my columns at www.latimes.com/hiltzik
@shauncasey.bsky.social
Author of Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom: The Future of Religion in American Diplomacy; Former Special Rep for Religion and Global Affairs US Department of State; Currently writing Reassembling Niebuhr: An Intellectual Biography from Jim Crow America.
@realchrissyg.bsky.social
Special educator. Journalist. MSEd, MJ, UC Berkeley. Indie investigative journalist who's frankly been ahead of curve re: Tulsi Gabbard's threats to American Democracy. Exposer of #TulsiGabbardEnemyList & cult. My work on Gabbard at meanwhileinhawaii.org
@gregolear.bsky.social
Lapsed novelist, #RoughBeast author, PREVAIL columnist & podcaster, co-host of The Five 8, enjoyer of Friday Manhattans. https://linktr.ee/gregolear
@radicalreports.bsky.social
Research, Analysis, and Intelligence on the U.S. Radical Right | Published by Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social | Contact: radicalreportsnewsletter@gmail.com | Newsletter: https://www.radicalreports.org
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
Writer. Lesbian. Texan. Veteran. Hoya. She. | cmclymer@gmail.com | I write about politics, religion, and culture in my award-winning blog/newsletter Charlotte's Web Thoughts: charlotteclymer.substack.com
@bernybelvedere.bsky.social
Senior Editor @TheUnPopulist.net. Executive Director @ismapolicy.bsky.social. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷
@jenmercieca.bsky.social
Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Fascism is for losers. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
@julieingersoll.bsky.social
Author: "Building God's Kingdom" (OUP). I teach and write about religion, politics, violence, and the far right. Providing updates from the Florida dystopia, I'd rather be in my camper.
@markjacob.bsky.social
Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Sun-Times. Co-author of 10 books, mostly on history. Writer of the free Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Intolerant of racism & small-mindedness.
@nancymaclean.bsky.social
Cassandra. Author Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America & Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (new ed. just out). Professor of History and Public Policy @ Duke. Views my own.
@gerardomarti.bsky.social
William R Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Editor Soc of Rel Journal, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Rel & AAR Rel and Soc Sci Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D | Schuller Bio 2025📚
@lancpaexaminer.bsky.social
Hyper-local Dominionist deep dive. LancPA has a number of critical connections; let’s look closer. LancPAExaminer@gmail.com #notajournalist
@tristansnell.bsky.social
Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify. Substack - tristansnell.com
@mwyarbrough.bsky.social
JD/PhD. Assoc Prof of Law & Society @JohnJayCollege + Sociology @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. I research marriage as a sociolegal institution, esp in South Africa. Opinions not employer's. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2802-3365
@calderone.bsky.social
Editor, Vanity Fair's The Hive. Covered media at Politico, HuffPost, NY Observer; taught journalism at Princeton, NYU
@juddlegum.bsky.social
I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47 | Text: 202-599-7124 Popular.info
@kasperbrasken.bsky.social
Academy Research Fellow in political history, University of Helsinki | Transnational & global history, social movements, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory studies, urban history. He/him https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social
Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic PhD in American Literature Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies they/them | my views, not employer's | book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
@www.bugbeardispatch.com
Cofounder of The Flytrap (@theflytrapmedia.bsky.social). Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches. Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy. Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum. Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
@rightwingwatch.bsky.social
Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy. A project of People For the American Way. https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
@faithfulpolitics.bsky.social
Hi it’s Will. One Liberal Democrat, One Republican Pastor. Each week we explore issues that meet at the intersection of faith ⛪ and politics🏛️ Not Right. Not Left. UP. Website: www.faithfulpolitics.us
@davidneiwert.bsky.social
Journalist/author based in the Pacific Northwest. Enemy of fascists, friend of whales. Author of ‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s War on American Democracy’ and nine other books. Subscribe to my work at https://davidneiwert.substack.com/.
@socalextremismwatch.com
Extremism watchdogs with a focus on SoCal: Christian nationalism/NAR/MAGA. Moms for fascism groups. Council for National Policy/school board politics/Dark money. Visit socalextremismwatch.com Go ahead-hit that chat button.
@jysexton.bsky.social
Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Board: The Change Campaign
@reportbywilson.bsky.social
Journalist and Researcher | Reporting and Research on the U.S. Radical Right | Publisher of Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social | Subscribe: https://www.radicalreports.org | Support My Work: https://linktr.ee/reportbywilson
@angeladenker.bsky.social
author of DISCIPLES OF WHITE JESUS March '25 | RED STATE CHRISTIANS '22 + '19 | https://angeladenker.substack.com | mom of 2 boys | columnist @startribune | Lutheran Pastor | Here for the Truth
@chriso-wiki.bsky.social
Independent military history author and researcher. If you find my writings interesting or useful, any tips are appreciated: http://ko-fi.com/chrisowiki
@nathankalmoe.bsky.social
PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. Views mine, ~90% right. US democracy, votes, violence, history, psych. Post-post-post-post doc. Dad w/ jokes. Lapsed 🧙🏻. 🥏⛳🏆. Avid 🧗. Congress said I have "tremendous sway over SM platforms" 😂 nathankalmoe.com
@michellelkahn.bsky.social
Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
@dianabutlerbass.bsky.social
Author - faith, culture, politics, history. Duke PhD. 11 books - 2 more on the way! Tons of bylines. The Cottage newsletter: https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com Website: www.dianabutlerbass.com. Struggling gardener, foe of Theocracy, and dog mom
@robertpjones.bsky.social
President and founder, PRRI. NYT Bestselling author of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future; White Too Long; The End of White Christian America. Writing at https://www.whitetoolong.net.
@davidpepperoh.bsky.social
@brucewilson.bsky.social
Studying, writing on, & warning about the Christian Supremacist right since 2004. Before that, in late 90s I warned of global warming. Now, I'm hunkering down to weather the storm, also scheming with the Leguminati for our eventual world conquest.
@andrew-whitehead.bsky.social
IU Indianapolis sociologist studying religion, culture, politics, disability | Books on Christian Nationalism http://linktr.ee/andrewwhitehead | Substack: https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/ | Bio: https://tinyurl.com/42wspc8m
@drlisacorrigan.bsky.social
Rhetoric prof and author of Prison Power (2016) and Black Feelings (2020); both from @UPMiss. Editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge).
@froomkin.bsky.social
Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
@lisaduggan.bsky.social
Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, professor at NYU. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed and The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of the American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
@davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social
Historian. Academic Advisor @ University of Virginia. Columnist @ Boston Review. Book: TAKING AMERICA BACK: THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE FAR RIGHT // Yale Press // April 2024
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
@hannahgais.bsky.social
Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social steward. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
@letsgomathias.bsky.social
Reporter covering the far right. Formerly HuffPost. Writing a book about antifa for @atriabooks.bsky.social. Member WGAE. letsgomathias@protonmail.com.
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@ajbauer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Journalism at University of Alabama. PhD in American Studies from NYU. Researching conservative news and right-wing media. News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX). He/him.
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Special correspondent at Vanity Fair and host of the Fast politics podcast and MSNBC
@marcelias.bsky.social
Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Bode. Visit: democracydocket.com.