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This is important. We’re all in this together. September 2026 Newsletter This is the monthly newsletter by the Montgomery County Branch of the Metro DC Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (MoCo DSA).   Interested in building a socialist future? Join DSA. Want up-to-the-minute updates? Follow us on Instagram, Bluesky, Twitter, and Facebook. Sign
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Under Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s national cinema was gutted, censored, and left for dead. Then Lula returned — and so did the movies.

Several outside actors have stoked the flames of war in Sudan, but none has had as great an impact as the United Arab Emirates. The evidence of its destructive role is overwhelming, but the Gulf kingdom’s Western allies have turned a blind eye to it.

The US does not suffer from a tyrannical Supreme Court so much as an ineffective Congress that, by constitutional design, delays and obstructs rather than acts on the most pressing issues facing Americans.

With his down-to-earth focus on cost-of-living issues, Milan mayoral candidate Lorenzo Pacini is seeking to reconnect with Italian traditions of city-hall socialism.

This investigation was reported in a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism Investigations. MCDERMITT CALDERA, Ore.—On a cold and overcast spring morning, Katie Fite stood in one of the country’s last sage-grouse strongholds, contemplating the wooden stakes in the ground that she fears warn of its destruction. Every spring, males of the chunky […]

On a clean summer swell, the wave at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach arrives from the south, wraps around a cobblestone point and unspools toward the pier in a long, shimmering wave that can carry a surfer for hundreds of feet. It breaks slowly, forgivingly, over rounded stones that were delivered by Malibu Creek across millennia. The […]

Like many people who are invested in environmental and social justice movement spaces right now, we are feeling the effects of a dynamic landscape marked simultaneously by meaningful wins and discouraging setbacks. Luckily at Stand.earth, our tried-and-true formula applies equally well to either condition. When confronted with a new crisis or opportunity, our team carefully […]

Sonoma County, California: The Sonoma County Democratic Socialists of America calls upon Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for President of the United States in 2028. We’ve voted overwhelmingly to back her run, grow DSA into a force to be reckoned with, and advance democratic socialism nationwide—and we call upon DSA chapters across the country to do […]

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Is Trump letting the Saudis enrich uranium or is he just enriching himself?

Nearly 2,000 workers at Blizzard, a Microsoft-owned video game studio that makes popular games like Diablo, won their first union contracts earlier this month. Their protections include recall rights and guaranteed severance packages for laid-off workers.

A crop of recent polls shows that socialism’s appeal is surprisingly broad. They also reflect a transformed US political landscape that is ripe for a socialist politician to capitalize on — if they’re willing to step up.

The militias wreaking havoc in Sudan also profit from plunder and can pay their recruits a wage much higher than any civilian job available to them. This simple calculation is one of the most important factors behind the country’s horrifying war.

This letter from our Secretary Christopher Ford was published in the Morning Star (newspaper of the Communist Party of Britain, but unfortunately distributed relatively widely in the UK trade union movement) on 21 September. From what we can see they have not published it online. The article by Lindsey German of the “Stop the War … Continue reading “Resist invasion or accept occupation”: reply to Lindsey German of ‘Stop the War’

The real choice is not between globalization and deglobalization, free trade and tariff walls, but between empowering capital and empowering workers.

In 2020, Greek courts condemned neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn as a criminal organization. After six years in jail, its former deputy leader Ilias Kasidiaris is making a political comeback, in conditions that favor his party’s rise.

KEN CARYL, Colo.—A new residential development south of Denver is the testing ground for an unusual partnership that could transform home heating and cooling across the country.  Dandelion Energy, a geothermal startup, and Lennar, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, recently completed construction of nearly 100 homes at the base of Colorado’s Front Range, each […]

A sprawling reservoir under construction south of Lake Okeechobee that Gov. Ron DeSantis has characterized as the “crown jewel” of Everglades restoration will not be enough to save Florida’s treasured and troubled river of grass, according to a new report. The report, prepared by Friends of the Everglades, an advocacy group, suggests the Everglades needs […]

When Nicole Williams moved into her house in Pennsylvania’s North Centre Township in 2011, it was a homecoming. She’d spent the first few years of her life a half-mile down the road in Brookside Village, a tidy community of 170 mobile homes nestled between the west branch of Briar Creek and a farm that grew […]

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Tanuja Pandey, a climate justice activist in Nepal. In the weeks following the deadly glacier collapse and floods in Nepal this August, researchers from the World Weather Attribution group rapidly assessed the event and concluded that climate […]