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antifascism, Matthew N Lyons, Three Way Fight - March 24, 2026

Two Takes on Radical Strategy in the Time of Trump [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on March 20, 2026.] by Matthew N Lyons Fourteen months into Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, the political situation in the United States of America looks both more horrifying and more hopeful than it did, say, last summer. Since returning to the White House, Trump has pursued a drive toward dictatorship with a speed, scope, and effectiveness arguably beyond anything in U.S. history. His regime has sharply intensified repression—kidnapping hundreds of thousands of people in the name of immigration enforcement and using a host of measures to stifle political dissent—and has seized unprecedented...

On the roots of America First foreign policy [ThreeWayFight]

[This post is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was originally posted on March 7, 2026.] by Matthew N Lyons Balancing war and peace has long been integral to Donald Trump’s popular image. Making America Great Again has always included making America militarily dominant and feared again, a longing that accords well with Trump’s fixation on winning, glorification of violence, and celebration of toxic masculinity. Yet Donald Trump’s absurd pretension to be the “peace president” isn’t just about narcissism and Obama envy, and it isn’t a sudden shift. In 2016, candidate Trump denounced “endless wars” and promised to bring US troops home...

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antifascism, Matthew N Lyons, Three Way Fight - February 16, 2026

Remembering Chip Berlet [ThreeWayFight]

[This post is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was originally posted 2026-02-15.] Three Way Fight mourns antifascist researcher, writer, and organizer Chip Berlet, who died on January 30th. For some fifty years, Chip was a dedicated opponent of both far right politics and state repression. As a paralegal with the National Lawyers Guild in the 1970s, he helped force the U.S. government to release 300,000 pages of documents about the FBI’s COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program) against leftists. In 1987, Chip Berlet and Jean Hardisty cofounded Political Research Associates, which quickly became one of the best sources of information and analysis on...

Cracks in the Foundation: Heritage and Ruling Class Strategy [ThreeWayFight]

[This article is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was originally published on January 1, 2026.] When more than a dozen Heritage Foundation staffers recently quit, it highlighted the Trump coalition’s growing internal debate over white nationalist antisemitism. But it also points to a crisis of strategic direction for the US ruling class. The Heritage Foundation, arguably the most important think tank in Trump’s orbit, is losing about fifteen staffers, including the heads of its legal, economic, and data analysis divisions, all of whom are moving over to a much smaller think tank founded by Mike Pence in 2021, called Advancing American...

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antifascism, Matthew N Lyons, Three Way Fight - September 17, 2025

What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Can Tell Us About the U.S. Right in the Age of Trump [ThreeWayFight]

by Matthew N Lyons [This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on September 16, 2025.] Charlie Kirk’s life and death offer a microcosm of the MAGA movement’s shift to the right over the past decade—and of the dynamic factional interplay that has fueled that shift. Regardless of why Kirk was targeted, the right is using his killing as an opportunity to impose a climate of enforced loyalty and gear up for what could be a major political crackdown. Despite efforts to mythologize him as someone committed to open, principled debate, Charlie Kirk built his political career on punching down. He told...

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