red baiting
From Daily Worker to Daily Show: Communists back in the national conversation
October 23, 2025Spotlights aren’t typically red, but that’s the color they’re glowing this week as the Communist Party USA steps onto the national stage in a way not witnessed in several years.
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Republicans’ cynical red-baiting culture war on ‘Critical Race Theory’
July 15, 2021One conservative activist is weaponizing resentment over diversity trainings into an all-out, red-baiting culture war.
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Is CNN jumping on the red-baiting bandwagon?
February 4, 2021Article tries to put communist victims of government attacks in the same boat with Trumpite rioters who killed people on Jan. 6.
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Historians challenge false narrative behind St. Louis ‘Victims of Communism’ resolution
November 25, 2020The sponsor, Alderwoman Carol Howard, narrowly held onto her seat in the most recent municipal elections by 52 votes with an intense red-baiting campaign.
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Republican senator uses People’s World in anti-communist smear attack
October 6, 2020The latest target of the modern-day McCarthyite witch-hunt is Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff. His opponent, Trump loyalist Sen. David Perdue, has accused Ossoff of being backed by the Communist Party USA.
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