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SOURCE: The Hill
5/11/2023
Proud Boys' Convictions for Seditious Conspiracy Won't End the Far Right Threat
by Tom Mockaitis
Despite the conviction of leading organizers of the January 6 attack on the Capitol (which aimed at overturning Joe Biden's election), the extreme right will remain a threat, partly because of the flourishing of online channels for hate and partly because the Republican Party has framed the insurrection as legitimate political expression.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
11/28/2022
"Ultra" Podcast Tells the Story of an Attempted Far-Right Subversion of the US
"Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true story of good, old-fashioned American extremism getting supercharged by proximity to power."
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3/20/2022
On the Illogic of War
by Don Fraser
The logic of war rejects dissent and the moderating influence of political concerns in the pursuit of destruction, and liberal democracies aren't exempt.
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4/11/2021
Prosecuting Sedition in a Divided Nation is a Challenge as Old as America
by William H. Pruden III
America's cultural value on free expression makes conviction of far-right radicals on sedition charges unlikely. The Ft. Smith, Arkansas trial in 1988 was a PR victory for the far right when 14 defendants accused of plotting against the government were acquitted.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1/28/2021
Did Trump and His Supporters Commit Treason?
Carlton F.W. Larson has studied the legal history of treason. Until January 6, he argued that critics of Donald Trump were off base in leveling that charge.
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SOURCE: Washington Monthly
1/15/2021
Impeach Trump, But Not for What He Said on January 6th
by Jonathan Zimmerman
There's ample justification for Trump's second impeachment in his pattern of disregard for democracy and efforts to subvert the vote count. But reviving the charge of incitment of insurrection opens the door to ideological prosecution and the suppression of free speech.
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SOURCE: Reason
1/13/2021
Reviving Sedition Prosecutions Would Be a Tragic Mistake
by David Beito
A libertarian historian argues that the use of sedition law to charge participants in the Capitol riots would revive a dangerous pattern of prosecuting ideology instead of action, one which those on the left should also treat with suspicion.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/7/2020
"Sedition": A Complicated History
Joanne Freeman, Annette Gordon-Reed, Manisha Sinha and Gregory Downs offer insight into the history of the term "sedition," the relationship between speech and deed, and the specific context of white supremacy that has accompanied discussions of sedition since the overthrow of reconstruction.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
7/2/2020
Our First Authoritarian Crackdown (Review)
by Brenda Wineapple
Wendell Bird argues that the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were used more broadly than historians have recognized, and reflect a shakier foundation of free speech in the early Republic.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/17/2020
When “Fake News” Was Banned: An America Trump Might Have Loved
by Adam Hochschild
Exactly 100 years ago, this country’s media was laboring under the kind of official censorship that would undoubtedly thrill both Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo.