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The Spokane Complex Fires at the beginning of August were devastating. As climate change leads to increasing fire conditions here and around the world, Andrea Brower and I argued we need to look at the real causes of disaster, including how capitalism and colonialism are driving climate destruction. We warned about conspiracy theories, racism, andContinue reading “Spokane Fires: Climate and Conspiracy”

I have joined the editorial board of antifascist news and strategy discussion space Three Way Fight. My first article for Three Way Fight is an interview with Esther Warwick, Executive Director of Disability Communities Defending Democracy, on intersections between disability and fascist and anti-fascist politics: Disability and the Far Right: Joan Braune interviews Esther Warwick – Three WayContinue reading “Disability and Fascism”

      What a lot is happening: A lot of shifts and new work emerging in antifascism, in a time of expanding militarism, imperial war, and Islamophobia; crackdowns on immigrants; escalating authoritarianism in the world of tech and AI; and new fascist directions within the Republican Party as a manipulative branch of white nationalistContinue reading “Semi-Monthly Update”

Wednesday, February 25, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Hemmingson Auditorium, Room 004: https://www.gonzaga.edu/news-events/events/2026/2/25/cas-scholarly-showcase-on-christian-nationalism Join Joan Braune, David Gides, Shane Burley, Lars Stoltzfus, and Joseph Flores for a panel discussion about Christian nationalism and the new book On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives. Free and open to the public – time for questions Free food outside the event startingContinue reading “Christian Nationalism Book Panel: Wednesday at Gonzaga”

I am speaking on November 8, 3-5 pm, at the UU Church in Spokane and simultaneously on zoom. The event is sponsored by the East Side Gladiators, Indivisible, and the church’s social justice committee. More sponsoring orgs may be added soon. Sign up is available here or here.

Last weekend I spoke via zoom to the Humanists of Greater Portland. A few key points: Under Trump 2.0, we are in a crucial window of time to resist fascism, after which we may not be able to resist through normal public means. (Tarso Ramos suggests we may be in a crucial “12 to 18-monthContinue reading “Understanding and Challenging Anti-Democracy Movements”

Judy Rohrer and I have a new op-ed out in RANGE: “When State Terror Comes to Town.” We address both the national context of rising authoritarian power as well as the local context in Spokane, Washington. At a time of consolidation of executive power and far-right “states of emergency,” we address the arrests of localContinue reading “When State Terror Comes to Town”

Sunday, August 10, Unitarian Universalists at 10:00am Monday, August 11, 6pm at the Liberation Center (2737 E St) Wednesday, August 13, at STRIVE weekly meeting at Black Cafe and Books on MLK Drive I’m also giving a talk at my former high school, Pensacola School of Liberal Arts, but that’s teens and staff only ❤

I am grateful and pleased to share this review by Maor Levitin in Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, reviewing my book Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope.

I am late sharing this, but I forgot to share that I went back on Bibliocracy Radio for an interview the weekend before the presidential inauguration in January. We mulled the need for action and hope in the face of overwhelming times: https://www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/h9zktxz8bw24mrp-fex8l-ehywh-5nalw-58j4n-m7h72-zscah-ssx7y.