Freedom Trucks and Forgotten Crimes: Trump, PragerU, and the Rolling War Over America’s Past

The Freedom Trucks, a mobile spectacle promoted by Trump’s campaign and supported by federal and corporate funding, embody a calculated effort to sanitize American history. Behind the facade of patriotic education lies a strategic apparatus that whitewashes the nation's origins: the triumph of freedom inescapably intertwined with slavery and genocide. As kids engage with AI-enhanced exhibits glorifying historical figures, the truth becomes obscured within a mythic narrative designed for obedience, not inquiry. In response, educators and activists are building a counter-history rooted in truth, pushing back against this historical manipulation. As the ruling class desperately rewrites the past, the need for authentic resistance grows ever urgent.

You Can’t Bomb Your Way Out of Empire: The Colonial Contradiction, White Radicalism, and the Failure of the Weather Underground

A liberal memoir transforms a history of anti-imperialist rebellion into a story of family inheritance, masking the structural realities of empire and repression. Beneath that narrative lies a system defined by imperial war abroad and counterinsurgency at home, where dissent is managed, surveilled, and neutralized. The Weather Underground emerged from this contradiction, but its turn... Continue Reading →

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