Erika Moreno, PhD.

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1. As almost every research shows, young men have NOT turned to the right — compared to older men. In fact, they moved slightly to the left compared to older men.

Young WOMEN have turned to the left compared to older women.

Recent graph on Trump approval provides good example.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

Yeah baby my country is a “mixed regime” that can be defined as “competitive authoritarianism”

BREAKING NEWS: Stephen Miller makes clear the Trump regime will suspend habeas corpus—effectively ending American democracy—if the Supreme Court does not rule the way Trump and Miller want.

We are getting close now.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Deadline next week! Apply for the 2025 APSA Fund for #Latino Scholarship by June 15th! The fund encourages and supports the recruitment, retention, and promotion of Latino/a political scientists. politicalsciencenow.com/apsa-2025-fu...

Americans are protesting the Trump administration. Do they work? : Consider This from NPR When you think of a successful protest movement, most Americans probably think of the American Civil Rights movement, and the March on Washington in 1963.Martin Luther King, Jr. standing behind a podi...

This is a great 10 minute listen with @chenoweth.bsky.social on the efficacy of anti-Trump protests.

@npr.org

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Should We Vote in Authoritarian Elections? In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas B. Pepinsky, "Voting in Authoritarian Elections." Elections are often taken as a defining feature of democratic regimes. Although voting is not the only form of democratic political engagement, we tend to presume that voting makes the regimes we live under fairer, more stable and peaceful, or simply better governed.

Should citizens vote in authoritarian elections? In a recent @apsrjournal article, Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas Pepinsky (@tompepinsky) make the case for the democratic value of voting under authoritarianism.

In Venezuela in 2009, Judge María Afiuni was imprisoned after ruling against government interests. This happened a decade into Chávez's rule, after he had secured control of most institutions. Judicial targeting marked the final stage of democratic collapse.

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

If the government can “deport” you for having beliefs they don’t like, none of us is free. Call it what you want, but it sure as shit ain’t democracy.

Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.

Boards Must Fight for Institutional Independence (opinion) Defending institutional independence means governing board members need to go on the offensive, Raquel M. Rall and Demetri L. Morgan write.

Higher ed is facing a quiet crisis. In this OpEd, Demetri L. Morgan & Raquel M. Rall write that boards must step up to protect academic freedom and the future of #highereducation.

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A Code of Honor for a Dishonorable Age What a forgotten fraternity creed can teach us about leadership today.

In college, I saw the creed of my fraternity as just that, a creed, something to be recited to pass a test. But now I see it differently and read that words with a broken heart. How far we have strayed in our politics from "The True Gentleman" My latest

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/a-code-of-...

wow the libertarians finally woke up

Universities Should Challenge Trump's Speech-Based Deportations of Students in Court [Updated] The Trump administration has been detaining and trying to deport immigrant and foreign students for their First-Amendment protected speech. That

@ucsandiego.bsky.social should follow the Tufts Fletcher faculty recommendation that universities join forces to file a class action suit against this administration.

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Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.

ICMYI: reported protests in the US in 2025 are almost certainly outpacing protests during Trump 1.0. In March 2025, we recorded significant growth in the number of cumulative events, and also an uptick in the rate of events (# of protests/week).

-How Democracies Die (2018)

The White House has just released a new official statement as the economy crashes:

“The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.”

Saw this today. Hard to feel anything other than deeply saddened by NSF’s absence.

Just looking at some data.
It will probably not surprise anybody that higher income inequality correlates to lower support for democracy.
But the relationship strengthened from 2010 to 2020.
Bottom line: if you care about renewing and strengthening democracy, pay workers more, pay executives less.

U.S. democracy is under attack. Here are some lessons for democracy’s defenders. A global study of democratic backsliding and resilience offers ways to resist authoritarian attacks.

What can the U.S. learn from other countries living through threats to democracy? Lessons from our global research and 15 case studies distilled in my new commentary with @beattyriedl.bsky.social Ken Roberts, and @muratsomer-eng.bsky.social include: (1/3)
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