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THE VISTA: January 2026

For many, it feels like we’ve been shot out of a cannon since the start of the new year. As we marked the five-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, we saw important reflections on the impact of the presidential pardons of those jailed for those violent crimes while celebrating the release of the latest edition of...

History, Resistance and Democracy: Reflections on Visiting the Phoe...

Members of the Growers Guild recently came together in Phoenix, Arizona. While there, they visited the Phoenix Indian School, which was established in 1891 as a boarding school for American Indian children...

Bunch of people under an umbrella Facilitating a Big Tent: Critical Connections for Pro-Democracy Org...

As we enter the second year of the current administration in the United States, calls for coming together to collaborate across siloes within the pro-democracy sector are louder than ever....

ICE Violence and the Struggle to Make Meaning:

What Narrative Power Is Doing in Minnesota, and Beyond By Eleonore Wesserle The murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by ICE in Minnesota were not an anomaly or...

Protesters holding signs. U.S. Catholics are facing an authoritarian threat. The church has b...

The Catholic Church in the United States today is facing a crucial test. How will the church lead under what the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat calls an “imperial...

Authoritarianism: How You Know It When You See It

What is democracy? Forms of rights-based representative government in which: elected government leadership is constrained by constitutionalism, the rule of law, the separation of powers, the free expression of the...

Big Tents and Collective Action Can Defeat Authoritarianism

In their New York Times essay, Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the United States has crossed over into a form of competitive authoritarianism, a system that may...

The Brain on Authoritarianism

The Horizons Project and Beyond Conflict partnered to create this video on 'The Brain on Authoritarianism' to support broad-based "united front" organizing in response to the rising authoritarian threat in...

Block, Bridge, and Build: A Framework to Forge a More Democratic Fu...

We are living through a period of upheaval. In this world of uncertainty, one thing is clear: The need for coordinated, collective action is urgent. Recently, the people at Convergence Magazine developed a...