Widening the Circle
Polling from mid-2025 showed 62% of Democratic voters felt a change in party leadership was needed. These voters are shown to feel that current leaders are not doing enough to fight against Trump’s creeping (if not galloping) authoritarianism. This divide is likely to expand in the face of an underwhelming…
What do we mean when we say “abolish” ICE?
This past Saturday, the Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America (CT DSA) held an emergency meeting to organize around abolishing United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). There’s been a lot of news about ICE lately, as many of the other recent articles on the Nutmeg Socialist cover.
Resisting the Seduction of Racial Liberalism: Abolitionist Lessons in Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right
Robert Choflet’s “Resisting the Seduction of Racial Liberalism” argues than Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right is a crucial resource for understanding contemporary immigration enforcement as an elaboration of postwar liberal racial politics. He shows how mid-century Democrats conditioned contemporary state violence by framing civil rights interventions in “law and…
Photos from the Hartford January 23rd 2026 Abolish ICE Demonstration
Photo Credits: Kenta Osada
CT DSA Socialists in Office Call To Abolish ICE
The murder of Renee Good by ICE is tragically yet another instance of the brutal violence that ICE is inflicting on people–citizens or not–all over the country. She was the latest among at least 32 people killed by ICE, in just over a year of the Trump administration’s ethnic cleansing…
Biometrics: A Backdoor for Cops. Here’s How to Lock It
As the government becomes more authoritarian, our right to privacy becomes ever more vital. Learn how to protect your phone from surveillance and exploitation of biometrics by law enforcement.