Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
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It’s the “ill will.”
One reason not to allow a 9-member super-legislature to arbitrarily veto federal election legislation it doesn’t like for purely invented non-legal partisan reasons is that it creates scope for authoritarians to go the next step & simply “postpone” elections.
Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game
New, from me: This should be a clarifying moment about the relationship the Supreme Court's opposition to representative democracy in America.
Lets look at some graphs that make this point. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...
Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people?
In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵
I've done this too, but we should be better at showing data - many people don't know the size of Congress.
In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
An attack on one of us is an attack on all.
This administration uses racism, hate, and fear—openly and repeatedly—as tools of control.
We will not be silent. Read our statement:
https://bit.ly/4eAqjK0
👀"We will not back down when our communities are most in need of resources to resist authoritarianism."
Powerful statement from - Block & Build Funder Coalition (BBFC) a coalition of more than 500 individuals representing 225 philanthropic organizations - in solidarity with @splcenter.org
In 1964, when my father was 20 years old, he went to Mississippi to register voters as part of Freedom Summer. NPR interviewed us in 2021: www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1...
This administration uses racism, hate, and fear – openly and repeatedly – as tools of control.
