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Antonio Gramsci - Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party.

** Marjorie Taylor Greene ** - sometimes referred to by her initials MTG, is an American far-right politician, businesswoman, and conspiracy theorist who has been the U.S. representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district since 2021.

tulsi gabbard - is an American politician, United States Army Reserve officer, and political commentator who was the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021.

Gavin Newsom - is an American politician and businessman serving since 2019 as the 40th governor of California.

Rachel Dolezal - Nkechi Amare Diallo (born Rachel Anne Dolezal) is an American former college instructor and activist known for presenting herself as a black woman despite being born to white parents.

Emily Ratajkowski - is an advocate for women's health issues as a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood.

Norah Vincent - She gained particular attention in 2006 for her book Self-Made Man, detailing her experiences when she lived as a man for eighteen months.

Brett Kavanaugh - an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9, 2018, and has served since October 6, 2018. Kavanaugh was a principal author of the Starr Report, released in September 1998, on the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky sex scandal; the report argued on broad grounds for Clinton's impeachment.

Jussie Smollett - He planned the fake hate crime with two Nigerian-American brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, who had worked as extras on the set of television drama Empire, in which Smollett was a cast member. During the staged attack, which took place on East Lower North Water Street in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood, the disguised brothers shouted racial and homophobic slurs while one poured bleach on Smollett and the other placed a noose around his neck. In addition to falsely reporting that he had been attacked by two unknown individuals, Smollett described one of them as a white male.[3][2] He also told police the men shouted “This is MAGA country”[4] during the attack, a reference to the Trumpist political slogan “Make America Great Again”.[5] The brothers later testified that Smollett staged the attack near a surveillance camera so that video of it could be publicized.

colleen mcnicholas - chief medical officer for Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region. In addition to providing abortion care, family planning services, and advanced GYN care to patients in Missouri and Illinois

tomi lahren - an American conservative political commentator and television presenter. She hosted Tomi on TheBlaze, where she gained attention for her short video segments called “final thoughts”, in which she frequently criticized liberal politics.

dick cheney - served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. He has been called the most powerful vice president in American history.

Brittney Griner - girl who was put in Russian jail for weed pen, also some basketball player.

Laken Riley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Laken_Riley

Breonna Taylor - was an African-American medical worker who was killed on March 13, 2020, after police officers from Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) forced entry into her home. Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a warning shot, mistaking the police for intruders, and wounded officer Jonathan Mattingly. Mattingly and two other LMPD officers—Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove—opened fire. It was determined that Cosgrove fired the fatal shot and that none of Hankison's shots hit anyone.[11][12] Taylor's family was awarded $12 million in compensation and was given a promise the LMPD would reform its practices.

al gore - Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2000 presidential election – in which he lost the electoral college vote by five electoral votes to Republican nominee George W. Bush, despite winning the popular vote by 543,895 votes.

E. Jean Carroll - sued Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, stemming from a 1996 assault she alleged and his subsequent denial of the claims. A jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, awarding her a total of $83.3 million in damages across two trials. A recent appeals court upheld the larger, second defamation judgment, notes CNN.

(Tim) Sarah McBride - is an American politician, serving as the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district, author, and LGBTQ rights activist. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Delaware Senate from January 2021 to January 2025, representing the state's 1st senate district. In 2020, McBride became the first openly transgender person elected as a state senator in the United States.

Bret Weinstein - an American podcaster, author, and former professor of evolutionary biology. Weinstein has been a prominent purveyor of false statements about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines and misinformation about HIV/AIDS.

5150 - refers to the California law code for the temporary, involuntary psychiatric commitment of individuals who present a danger to themselves or others due to signs of mental illness.

affirmative action - refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to benefit marginalized groups.

antisemitic - hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. This sentiment is a form of racism,[5][6] and a person who harbours it is called an antisemite.

Anarcho-capitalism - is an anti-statist,[2] libertarian[3] political philosophy and economic theory that seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enforced by private agencies, based on concepts such as the non-aggression principle, free markets and self-ownership.

Autocracy - is a system of government in which absolute power is held by the ruler, known as an autocrat.

Anti-suffragists - (often called “antis” or “reminists”) were organized groups of men and women who opposed women's right to vote, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They argued that suffrage threatened the family unit, disrupted natural gender roles (or the “separate spheres” doctrine), and that most women did not want the political burden.

Bureaucracy - is a system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials.

Brown nosing - to try too hard to please someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in a way that other people find unpleasant

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - was a landmark law that prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin

constituency - a body of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body.

constitutional republic - a state where the people elect representatives and a chief executive, and the rules are set down in a written constitution.

While often categorized as a democracy, the United States is more accurately defined as a constitutional federal republic. What does this mean? “Constitutional” refers to the fact that government in the United States is based on a Constitution which is the supreme law of the United States.

democratic republic - a form of government that combines principles from both republics and democracies

dobbs decision - upheld the Mississippi law and overturned Roe v Wade

dog whistling - In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) - are organizational frameworks which seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination on the basis of identity or disability.

duverger's law - In political science, Duverger's law holds that plurality-rule elections (such as first past the post) structured within single-member districts tend to favor a two-party system, whereas “the double ballot majority system and proportional representation tend to favor multipartism”.

equal outcomes vs equality of opportunity -

Far-right politics - or right-wing extremism, refers to a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies.

gerrymandering - the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.

Heritage Foundation - is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.[4]

libratarianism - a political philosophy that prioritizes individual freedom and liberty.

libretarian liberal - According to common United States meanings of conservative and liberal, libertarianism in the United States has been described as conservative on economic issues (economic liberalism and fiscal conservatism) and liberal on personal freedom (civil libertarianism and cultural liberalism).

Marxism - is the collective term for the economic, social, and political philosophy of Karl Marx. In particular, the philosophy states that capitalism is a self-destructive system that eventually leads to a revolution of the working class so that they can establish a classless society.

Meritocracy - is the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than wealth, social class, or race.

Plutocracy ( donor class ) - In 1998, Bob Herbert of The New York Times referred to modern American plutocrats as “The Donor Class”[30][31] (list of top (political party) donors)[32] and defined the class, for the first time,[33] as “a tiny group – just one-quarter of 1 percent of the population – and it is not representative of the rest of the nation. But its money buys plenty of access.

The Planned Parenthood - Federation of America, Inc., or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare and sexual education in the United States and globally.

Project 2025 - is a political initiative published by the Heritage Foundation that aims to promote conservative and right-wing policies to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.[4][5] The Project asserts that the entire executive branch is under the direct control of the president under unitary executive theory.[6][7] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with people loyal to the president.

Sandbagging - is deceptive behavior intended to lower someone's expectations so that they can be taken by surprise later.

sharia law - acts as a code for living that all Muslims should adhere to, including prayers, fasting and donations to the poor

Straw man - political definiton - Presenting someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, then denying that person's arguments—thus giving the appearance that every upholder of that position (and thus the position itself) has been defeated. Oversimplifying an opponent's argument, then attacking this oversimplified version.

social conservative -

Social democracy - is a political ideology that advocates for state intervention to fulfill social, financial, and political security, justice and equality of opportunity for people and actively reorder society in a way that is conducive to such developments.

Somewhat confusingly, social democracy is not the same thing as democratic socialism, nearly identical names notwithstanding. Modern social democrats believe in maintaining a market economy with varying (but, as discussed below, often dwindling) degrees of regulation and with a welfare state — democratic socialists do not (liberal socialists are the only nominally “socialists” who do), as they seek to abolish those goods.

Suffragettes - were 20th-century activists, primarily in the UK and US, who used militant tactics—including property damage and hunger strikes—to demand women's right to vote

Title IX (9) - prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or education program that receives federal funding. Title IX is the most commonly used name for the landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972.

TERF - is an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

White feminism - refers to a form of feminism that often overlooks or marginalizes the experiences of women of color, focusing primarily on the concerns and issues of white women, and failing to address intersectional issues

Socialist - Socialists believe that sharing ownership of the means of production equally among society would increase people's quality of life. Socialists want to give people free access to basic life necessities like food, housing, and healthcare. Some socialists also believe employment should be guaranteed as a human right. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Socialism#branches

Capitalist - Capitalism is often thought of as an economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society. The essential feature of capitalism is the motive to make a profit.

capitalism - is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

communism - a political and economic ideology that aims to create a classless society. It is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement,[1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.[3][4][5] A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes,[1] and ultimately money[6] and the state (or nation state).

QAnon
Definition: A sprawling, right-wing, conspiracy theory that claims a global cabal of elites and “deep state” actors are involved in child sex trafficking and satanic rituals.

Origin: Originated from cryptic messages (“breadcrumbs”) posted by an anonymous user, “Q,” on 4chan in 2017.
Beliefs: Adherents believe Donald Trump is fighting this cabal and will eventually arrest, try, and execute its members.

Violence: FBI officials have identified conspiracy-driven extremists like QAnon as a growing threat. Over 100 criminal acts, including violent incidents, have been linked to the movement, including the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

Evolution: Following the 2020 election, the movement has adapted, often merging with other anti-government movements, and has used hashtags like #SaveTheChildren to reach a broader audience.

Antifa (Anti-Fascist)
Definition: A loose, decentralized, and horizontal, or non-hierarchical, movement that opposes fascism, white supremacy, and the far-right.

Ideology: Primarily left-wing, including anarchists, socialists, and communists.

Tactics: Known for tracking and exposing alt-right groups, as well as engaging in counter-protests, which can sometimes turn violent, leading to property damage and physical confrontations.

Misconceptions: Contrary to claims by some politicians, Antifa is not a highly organized group with a central command, nor is it affiliated with the Democratic Party.

Context: While often described as an idea or a “movement” rather than a formal organization, its adherents are dedicated to using direct action to combat perceived fascism.

The First Amendment provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. It protects freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms.

The Third Amendment prohibits the government from quartering troops in private homes, a major grievance during the American Revolution.

The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. The government may not conduct any searches without a warrant, and such warrants must be issued by a judge and based on probable cause.

The Fifth Amendment provides that citizens not be subject to criminal prosecution and punishment without due process. Citizens may not be tried on the same set of facts twice and are protected from self-incrimination (the right to remain silent). The amendment also establishes the power of eminent domain, ensuring that private property is not seized for public use without just compensation.

The Sixth Amendment assures the right to a speedy trial by a jury of one’s peers, to be informed of the crimes with which one is charged, and to confront the witnesses brought forward by the government. The amendment also provides the accused the right to compel testimony from witnesses, as well as the right to legal representation.

The Seventh Amendment provides that civil cases preserve the right to trial by jury.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments.

The Ninth Amendment states that the list of rights enumerated in the Constitution is not exhaustive, and that the people retain all rights not enumerated.

The Tenth Amendment assigns all powers not delegated to the United States, or prohibited to the States, to either the States or to the people.

The USA PATRIOT Act, or Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001, in response to the September 11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks. The act's goals were to strengthen national security, particularly in relation to foreign terrorism, by:
Expanding law enforcement surveillance
The act allows law enforcement to tap phones domestically and internationally, and to enter homes, apartments, and offices with search warrants even when the occupants are away. The act also allows internet service providers to voluntarily share customer records with the government in emergencies.
Improving interagency communication
The act aims to make it easier for federal agencies to work together to use resources in counterterrorism efforts.
Increasing penalties for terrorism
The act increases penalties for terrorism crimes and expands the list of activities that can be charged as terrorism. It also allows victims of hacking to ask law enforcement to help monitor trespassers on their computers.
Preventing money laundering and terrorism financing
The act, also known as the “International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act of 2001”, aims to strengthen tools used to prevent, detect, and prosecute international money laundering and terrorism financing.