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A Federal Court Will Decide Whether Atlanta Voters Could Have a Say on Cop City

Congress Votes to Extend Warrantless Surveillance Program

Protest, encryption loom large in Cop City RICO jury selection

December Washington Memo

16 members of Congress speak out: to save press freedom, Assange must be free

Police in riot gear tear gas Block Cop City protesters

Stop Cop City Activists Plan Mass Return to Weelaunee Forest

Stop Cop City and the courage of resistance

November Washington Memo

Israel-Gaza War Has Dissent Under Fire At Home

October Washington Memo

The Cop City Shuffle

Georgia invents an anarchist conspiracy theory to target Cop City activists using RICO

McCarthyism is back, and it’s coming for the peace movement

August Washington Memo

Activists Are Working to Give the People of Atlanta a Chance to Vote on Cop City

July Washington Memo

Organizing in the shadow of the surveillance state

Stop Cop City is everywhere

Dozens of cops descend on a peaceful vigil as the Stop Cop City week of action begins

What We Know About the FBI’s Role in the War on WikiLeaks

FBI Denies Defending Rights & Dissent FOIA Request for Files on WikiLeaks, Citing “Pending or Prospective Law Enforcement Proceeding”

June Washington Memo

First Georgia came for the activists. Then for the solidarity movement.

Latest FBI Political Spying Scandal Has Disturbing Echoes With 1960s War on Anti-War, Black Power Protests

DHS has a pseudoscience problem

May Washington Memo

TikTok bans neglect the global landscape of surveillance

The Espionage Act strikes again

BREAKING: Seven members of Congress take a stand for Assange

April Washington Memo

Surveillance and the narrative gravity of the national security state

Atlanta’s “Stop Cop City” Movement Is Spreading Despite Rampant State Repression

Washington Memo

The Supreme Court sleeps on defending boycotts and the right to political expression

The FBI, Anti-Globalization Protests, and FOIA Deception

The Cop City Domestic Terrorism Charges are an Intimidation Tactic

The "lawyer turned writer" who saw the true social cost of anti-Communism

Can Republicans create a new Church Committee?

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