Christopher Mathias

Christopher Mathias

@letsgomathias.bsky.social

Reporter covering the far right. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC. Formerly HuffPost. Contact: letsgomathias@protonmail.com. Buy my book about antifa here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.

33,688 Followers 2,514 Following 913 Posts Joined May 2023
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Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.

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“To Catch A Fascist” In the 400th episode of The Ken Harbaugh Show, Ken speaks with researcher and author Chris Mathias about the trajectory of fascist ideology in America — from the political fringe to the corridors of…

From fringe to power: Chris Mathias and Ken Harbaugh unpack fascism’s rise in America and what expanding detention systems signal for the future.

@letsgomathias.bsky.social

Watch the full video here: open.substack.com/pub/thekenha...

Follow The Ken Harbaugh Show here: linktr.ee/thekenharbau...

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Too excited for this to come to Barnes and Noble today. @letsgomathias.bsky.social

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INTERVIEW: Christopher Mathias on His New Book 'To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right' - Bucks County Beacon Mathias provides readers with a peak into a world that’s rarely written about. It shows us firsthand the real work of antifascists.

INTERVIEW: @zdroberts.bsky.social talked to @letsgomathias.bsky.social about his new book ‘To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right’ | Mathias provides readers with a peak into a world that’s rarely written about. It shows us firsthand the real work of antifascists.

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A Black man was sentenced to death for killing a white woman. His lawyer was in the Klan Lawyers for a Black man serving life in prison in Alabama are seeking to overturn his conviction for the murder of a white woman, citing evidence his state-provided attorney was active in the Ku Klux ...

NEW: John Mays, an Alabama criminal defense lawyer, represented Rocky Myers, a Black man charged with murdering a white woman.

Investigators for a legal team seeking to overturn Myers' conviction discovered Mays was actively involved with United Klans of America.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

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These orders affect availability in bookstores, printing numbers &more. If accountability for Palestine matters to you, or if my investigative reporting has ever struck a chord, please place an order. To those who made this possible: I can’t thank you enough. Onward to publication day: September 22!

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Crossing the Red Line A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled bloodshed in Gaza, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist., Crossing the Red Line, Biden, His Advisors, and Israel...

..yet he continued rushing weapons to Israel after Benjamin Netanyahu crossed it. He sent Israel a message of impunity & sent Americans a message of disdain+incompetence, helping Donald Trump win back power.

I’m thrilled to share the book is now available for pre-order: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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CROSSING THE RED LINE, the book I’ve been working on for >2 years, documents the Biden admin's failures in Gaza and beyond.

I conducted >150 interviews to detail why the U.S. enabled unimaginable violence against Palestinians + Lebanese, and ignored off-ramps toward peace. Biden drew a red line...

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News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023

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Had such a great convo with @joesudbay.bsky.social! Tune in!

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ANTIFA: Real or Fake

@letsgomathias.bsky.social, author of To Catch a Fascist joined @sjdemas.bsky.social on First Draft to dispel the propaganda put out by the far right.
Subscribe to watch www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-truth-...

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will addd @katz.theracket.news' Gangsters of Capitalism to this suggestion!

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The mixture of fascism, grift, and incompetence that goes into making SECRET POLICE trucks for your secret police is such a good distillation of this administration

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“Why won’t our secret police drive the SECRET POLICE trucks we got them???”

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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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(Nearly lost my mind with Word while writing my book)

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NEW: Join "To Catch a Fascist" author @letsgomathias.bsky.social and @sjdemas.bsky.social for an urgent breakdown of the current administration’s playbook.
Watch the full interview on Lincoln Square: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-truth-...

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The screaming subtext here is a call for ethnic cleansing, in a healthy pluralistic government he’d be censured and expelled

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Attacks leave dead vs killed

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It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience.
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Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

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INBOX: @couriernewsroom.bsky.social is circulating a video of #TX23 Republican nominee Brandon Herrera showing off his "1939 edition" copy of Mein Kampf.

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devastating

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Audio book screen grab of Christopher Mathias’ “To Catch A Fascist”

The audio book finally came up for me on Libby. Love to hear AFA researchers getting their due! @letsgomathias.bsky.social

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ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."

www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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LIVE at 2pm ET— @sjdemas.bsky.social sits down with author and journalist @letsgomathias.bsky.social to discuss his new book, To Catch a Fascist.

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so much going on I just remembered our government kidnapped the president of Venezuela and he's just like, sitting in a federal detention center in Brooklyn

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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“Just another faceless three-digit number of Muslim children extinguished from existence and relegated to A11 in the US and Israel’s seemingly endless Middle East ‘wars.’” Via @ahjohnson.bsky.social www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

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i have been to the emergency room for a dental abscess. it is a uniquely excruciating kind of pain. this man was tortured to death via medical neglect.

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