What I've been up to ...
Resurrecting a book I published over 20 years ago
The Spyhop
David Neiwert writes about right-wing extremism and cetaceans. Preferably not in that order. Author, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Uncivil War on American Democracy, as well as Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us.
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The War on History: Fighting Back in Bellevue
College's mural installation depicting city's history as an immigrant Japanese community is a long-overdue racial reckoning with our white-supremacist forebears.
The far right's bullshitting heroes: Before there was Trump, there was Bo Gritz
One of the central figures of the 1990s Patriot/militia movement passed away last week, but his toxic legacy lives on in MAGA and Trump
The History We Hide: Trump’s War on Memory
MAGA wants to make us forget about our eliminationist past—so they can repeat it.
Nick Fuentes enjoys making the misogyny of neofascism explicit
The innate authoritarianism and unapologetic violence of Trump's MAGA army is unmistakable in smirking rants, even as his apologists cover his tracks.
Trump deliberately ignores far-right terrorism because it's a useful tool against democracy
By insisting, both in word and deed, that only the 'radical left' commits domestic terror, the MAGA regime is casually exposing everyone to extremist violence
Like ICE, far-right sheriffs defy and undermine democracy
‘Constitutionalists’ manifest how deeply extremist authoritarianism has infected law enforcement at all levels
Behind the masks, the real insurrectionists
The same MAGA extremists who attacked our democracy on Jan. 6 are continuing their mission, empowered and armed by Trump
Trump and the Insurrection Act: President’s Minnesota threats revive his Jan. 6 schemes
MAGA hates having Jan. 6 thrown in their faces, so they once again use projection as a pretext for imposing martial law
The killer ICE agent is now the face of MAGA's civil war on democracy
Trump's invasion of liberal cities with his violent and unaccountable private army is just a preview of what he has planned for us