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⚡️Oceti Sakowin. Kul Wicasa. Lakol Wicoun. The original Red Scare. @The_Red_Nation Podcast. Lead Editor @redmediapr. Book: Our History is the Future⚡️
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Letters From the American Empire

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By Nick Estes
| CounterPunch Verified
Amidst the ICE terror that descended on Minnesota this past winter, tens of thousands of everyday people packed into community centers for legal observer trainings. Trainers handed out photocopied know-your-rights zines and bright, 3D-printed whistles. Yet appeals to procedural law and the Constitution offered zero physical defense against state-sanctioned abductions. ICE agents and their army of prosecutors couldn’t have cared less about constitutional rights.
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Letters from the American Empire August 1, 2026

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By Nick Estes
| Substack
Letters from the American Empire August 1, 2026 Near the end of The Journey of Crazy Horse, the late Joseph Marshall III distills an entire Lakota worldview into six words: we do this so that the people may live. Though Marshall leaves the Lakota language phrasing unwritten—and it remains beyond my own abilities to translate it—its weight anchors his closing reflection on the reasons behind the climactic tragedy of Crazy Horse’s life.
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Shaking Hands with Fidel Castro

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By Nick Estes
| CounterPunch Verified
William Buffalo Tiger, Chief of the Miccosukees, 1920-2015. The State Department’s recent report alleging Cuba’s support for left-wing “terrorism” in the United States signals a chilling escalation, as the Trump administration draws up enemy lists for a revived Red Scare. Ultimately, the document reads as an unwitting confession of U.S. foreign policy failure.
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