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“Consent of the governed” refers to the idea that a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented, or agreed to, by the people over which that political power is exercised. Consent is fundamental to social contract accounts of political legitimacy, arising as early as Plato's Crito but most prominently in the 17th-century writings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Sign the Petition: WE DO NOT CONSENT! Locke believed tha

I think all of us have been, to some extent, holding on to that now-famous "3.5% in the streets" figure. Popularized by political scientists Erica Chenowith and Maria Stephan, it suggests that if we just hit this benchmark, change will become inevitable, or so history tells us. But increasingly, I've found that folks seem to be projecting a little too much on this number. Getting 3.5% of the populace out to rallies is great, rallies are the first step to activating people and

No US citizen should be forced to fund a government that is antithetical to their moral and ethical beliefs.

At least 30 people have died in ICE custody. It's time to demand the innocent be released.

Image of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, posted to X by Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele We are now over a month into a slow-motion Constitutional Crisis, after Kilmar Abrego Garcia and more than 275 other men were illegally renditioned to CECOT, a brutal El Salvadoran prison camp funded by the United States. Justifying their actions through a hodge-podge of unproven allegations and the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the government turned these men over to the care of