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Why We Have to Fight Back Against ICE Protesters’ Terror Convictions

Natasha Lennard

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OGUNQUIT, MAINE - OCTOBER 22: U.S. senatorial candidate from Maine Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Leavitt Theater on October 22, 2025 in Ogunquit, Maine. Platner, a veteran of the U.S. Marines and an oyster farmer, is running for the seat held by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).

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Senate Dem Leaders Are Trying to Sink Graham Platner. Voters Aren’t Convinced.

Despite his high-profile controversies, Platner is still popular with Mainers. But leadership isn’t budging from its centrist pick.

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Dem in Maine House Primary Funneled PAC Money to Republicans

“Jordan Wood was not a CD2 resident until very recently, and I personally look sideways at someone who moves into a district in order to run.”

State Sen. Robert Peters speaks during an event commemorating the 100th year anniversary of the Scopes trial near the Clarence Darrow Bridge in Jackson Park on March 13, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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Crypto Spends Big in Illinois House Races to Say Consumer Rights Supporters Are Corrupt

A crypto PAC smeared one progressive backed by Bernie Sanders as a “corporate pawn” and spent millions calling another a tax cheat.

In the Room Where Death Row Prisoners Say Final Goodbyes, He Learned He Would Live

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Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges for Wearing All Black

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AIPAC Is Staying Out of Illinois Senate Race — But Its Donors Back Juliana Stratton

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, speaks to members of the media outside a Gang of Eight briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 2, 2026. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US military would step up its military attacks against Iran, a stark warning after two days of strikes across the country that the Trump administration says took out its leadership targeted its ballistic-missile program.

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Why Dems Keep Saying Trump Has “No Plan” Instead of Calling to End the War With Iran

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FBI agents remove evidence from a private home at 9638 Naomi in Arcadia on March 8, 2012. Federal officials on Thursday announced fraud charges against a man accused of selling $1.3 million in counterfeit wines. The U.S. attorney's office in New York alleges that wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan claimed he was selling rare vintage French wine at various audctions. He was arrested in Los Angeles by the FBI. (Photo by Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From a Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a Terrorist.

Smoke and flames rise at the site of airstrikes on an oil depot in Tehran on March 7, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, prompting Iranian retaliation with missile attacks across the region and intensifying concerns about disruption to global energy and transport.

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It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention”

Séamus Malekafzali

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A primary school in Minab struck in the first day of attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran on March 5, 2026.

Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran

US President Donald Trump speaks with the media as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks on aboard Air Force One during a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, on March 7, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School

Trump’s War to Nowhere

This picture, released by the Iranian government's foreign media department and distributed by the AP without changes, shows graves being prepared for the victims, mostly children, of what Iranian officials said was an Israeli-U.S. strike Feb. 28 at a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, Monday, March 2, 2026. (Iranian Foreign Media Department via AP)

Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next

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Nida Allam, a Durham County commissioner and North Carolina Democratic congressional primary candidate, speaks at a Bernie Sanders rally in Durham, N.C., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

Nida Allam Concedes to Valerie Foushee With Razor-Thin Loss for Progressives in Key Midterm Primary

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Dem Candidate for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Seat Donated to Far-Right Republicans — Including Laura Loomer

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Trump’s Iran War Is Dividing Republicans. Pro-Palestine Groups Want Democrats to Exploit the Rifts.

HOUSTON, TEXAS - MARCH 02: Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX) speaks at a campaign rally on March 2, 2026 in Houston, Texas. Talarico is visiting various locations around the state in the lead up to tomorrow's primaries. (Photo by Danielle Villasana/Getty Images)

Will James Talarico Really Fight for Justice in Texas?

Akela Lacy, Jonah Valdez

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Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury

Islamophobic Think Tank Helped Write Indictment Against ICE Protesters

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 26: Protestors take part in anti-ICE rally outside Columbia University after federal agents detained a student inside a residential campus building in New York City, New York, U.S., February 26, 2026. (Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Columbia Flouted Its Own Policies and Let ICE Into University Buildings

Meghnad Bose, Macy Hanzlik-Barend

Observers gather while federal agents sit in a vehicle in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, on February 10, 2026.

Federal Agents Are Intimidating Legal Observers at Their Homes: “They Know Where You Live”

Austin Campbell

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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - MARCH 03: American emergency physician Aizad Dasti treat Palestinians under limited conditions at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, Gaza on March 03, 2026 as he traveled to the region after disruptions to the healthcare system caused by Israel's attacks. Dasti said that on his first day at the hospital, a child died due to severe cold, adding that the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where thousands of families are struggling to survive in makeshift tents, is worsening by the day. Stressing that the health system urgently needs support, the doctor continues to provide care to patients and the wounded despite severe shortages, including basic medical supplies and emergency equipment. (Photo by Doaa Albaz/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel’s Deadly Blockade Traps 7 U.S. Doctors in Gaza

GAZA CITY, GAZA â" DECEMBER 19: Palestinians walk through roads surrounded by massive rubble and collapsed buildings in Al-Zahra, northwest of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip, as residents continue their daily lives amid the destruction left by Israeli attacks, facing harsh living conditions on December 19, 2025. (Photo by Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Roads and Transit. Now, We Walk Everywhere.

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

President Donald Trump stands with other world leaders before a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington.

Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 15: U.S. President Joe Biden (C) delivers remarks on the recently announced cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas while joined by Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Cross Hall of the White House on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. The multiphase cease-fire deal, brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, commits Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza after 15 months. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

There’s No “Progressive Foreign Policy” Without a Reckoning for Dems Who Supported Genocide

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NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 5: Protesters, mostly students targeted by ICE and demanding more protections, were arrested by New York police for engaging in civil disobedience by blocking a road outside Columbia University on February 5, 2026, in New York City, United States. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Zohran Mamdani Kept Columbia Student in New York — Then Phoned With Trump to Secure Her Release

Federal agents detain a protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 3, 2026. A US judge on January 31, 2026 denied Minnesota's bid to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to suspend its sweeping detention and deportation operation in the state that has left two US citizens dead and fueled massive protests. Masked and heavily armed federal agents have swept through Minnesota communities seeking undocumented migrants, detaining thousands and shooting dead two US citizens in the process. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images) / ALTERNATE CROP

Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant

Austin Campbell

Judge Censored an ICE Agent’s Face Over “Threats.” His Info Was a Google Search Away.

A border patrol agent aims a munition launcher at a crowd of people near the intersection of 27th Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis after a federal officer shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Ben Hovland/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing.

Austin Campbell

Chilling Dissent

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks at a rally in support of the Kids Online Safety Act on Capitol Hill on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC.

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Trump Uses the Courts to Intimidate Critics. The Media Must Fight Back.

Mahmoud Khalil arrives for the public swearing-in ceremony for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Pro-Palestine International Students Have Won in Court. Why Hasn’t Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom?

Florida Might Make Its Own Spy Squad. Muslims Think They Have a Pretty Good Idea Who’ll Be Targeted.