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What Will You Do? The Prairieland 22 and Lessons of Mass Repression

By Matthew J. Hunter

Eight defendants, 450 years. The Prairieland sentences are longer than anything handed to a January 6 rioter—yet every January 6 rioter has been granted clemency.

Matthew J. Hunter argues this is a template for the opening trial of Trump's counter-terrorism regime under NSPM-7. To understand where it leads, he turns to the last time the American state set out to break a movement: the Smith Act trials, COINTELPRO, the siege of the Panthers, and the global campaign that pulled Angela Davis back from the gas chamber. Millions were organized across two hundred committees and sixty countries; others died in cages because the movement was busy feuding with itself.

The lesson he draws is uncomfortable for a Left fond of small, pure formations. Repression is coming for wider and wider circles. The only question left is whether we meet it isolated or together.

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