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Militia arrests signal return of armed “patriot” groups
March 29, 2010FBI raids on suspected militia members over the weekend jolted a public already concerned about far-right violence that surfaced during the health care reform fight.
Read moreTea party’s ugly reality: racism, sexism, homophobia
March 26, 2010The struggle for health care reform showed us what we are up against, and what we are fighting for.
Read moreRepublican lawsuit against health reform called ‘frivolous’
March 25, 2010"Frivolous" and "embarrassing" were words one legal expert used to described a lawsuit filed by several Republican attorneys general this week to block the new health reform law.
Read moreBeware of the new racist counteroffensive
March 25, 2010The election of Barack Obama has triggered a racist counteroffensive in much the same way as the North's victory in the Civil War spurred a counteroffensive by the former slaveholders and their allies.
Read moreThe GOP’s terrorist heroes
February 26, 2010When do right-wingers think an act of politically motivated violence is not terrorism? When a white man flies his airplane into a federal building and kills an African American, as Joe Stack did, Feb. 18,
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