Writing from Trump's Second Term: A Look Back

Now it’s time for the yearly look back! I wrote slightly fewer articles this year because I’ve been busy working on my next book, which will be published by Haymarket Books in 2026. I’m also about to announce a genre anthology with AK Press, and I’ve been doing some work on the book that will follow those projects, which touches on areas I’ve been spending more and more of my writing on.

I also want to encourage folks to donate to some organizations I support, including Portland Jobs With Justice, the Coalition for Community Self-Defense, the Defense Fund, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, the Institute for Anarchist Studies, the Halachic Left, JFREJ and Never Again Action.

This past year I wrote an extensive amount about the far-right, antifascism, Jewish politics and religious life, and literature, much of which is leading up to my next two books (which I’ll announce in 2026). Here is a list of some of the articles I published this year, starting with several published here at my newsletter, The Maiseh Review.

• “AmericaFest Battleground in the GOP’s Civil War” 
• “Rediscovering the Jewish Anarchist Movement”
• “A Story of Revolution Today: An Interview w/ Tomas Rothaus”
• “How We Talk About Jews Without Actually Talking to Jews”
• “The Free Press Free Speech Con”
• “The ADL Doesn't Speak for Jews, They Speak for the Rich”
• “Islamophobia and State Repression Don't Keep Jews Safe”
• “Three-Way Fight: An Interview w/ Matthew N. Lyons and Xtn on Antifascism in 2025”

Articles from Other Publications

• "A Reconstructionist Reckoning" (Jewish Currents)
• "Varieties of White Nationalism" (Spectre Journal) 
• "Laura Loomer and Jewish MAGA’s Dance With the Devil," (New Lines Magazine)
• “The Jewish Diaspora Movement” (In These Times)
• “Charlie Kirk and the Free Speech Hoax” (In These Times)
• “Chicago Jewish Activists Embark on Indefinite Hunger Strike Over Gaza” (In These Times)
• “Jewish Authors Wrestle with the Violent Side of Book of Esther” (Electric Lit)
• “The Authoritarian State in Miniature” (In These Times)
• “The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity” (Jacobin)
• “MAHA and the End of American Modernity” (Jacobin)
• “The GOP’s Groyper Fringe Became Its Future” (Jacobin)
• “For Times Such as These: Sacred Time and Radical Community Building in the Diaspora” (Religion Dispatches)
• "The World Is Falling Apart. In a New Book, Activists Help Us Piece It Together" (Truthout)
• "Nearly 2 Years Into Gaza Genocide, US Activists Escalate Their Resistance" (Truthout)
• "Jewish Organizations Are Fighting Back Against Khalil Deportation" (Truthout)
• "The Anti-Zionist Tradition of the US Jewish Left" (Spectre Journal)
• "Inside the resurgence of Jewish-led Palestine solidarity" (Waging Nonviolence)
• "Violence at Portland's Ice Facility is Coming from One Side: The Officers" (The Real News Network)
• "Reconstructionist Judaism and the Future of ‘Halakhah’" (Evolve)

Select Videos and Podcasts

'This is war': Will Charlie Kirk's Assassination Unleash a Wave of Political Retribution? (The Real News Network)

How to Fight Fascism in a Captured State (Movement Memos/Truthout)

Read This When Things Fall Apart (AK Press and Haymarket Books)

Political Violence (Last Borne in the Wilderness)

Understanding Fascism w/ The Sam and Esther Dolgoff Institute

I also wanted to share that I published four book chapters, many of which have already been shared with my Patreon. The first two were entries on “Fascism” and “Antisemitism,” respectively, for Deric Shannon’s edited volume Inequality Around the World: Understanding the Rich-Poor Divide. It is essentially a reference encyclopedia on inequality, and since the publisher has made it prohibitively expensive, it is best accessed through a library. I will share the proofs with my Patreon when I have them.

Third was a chapter in Kelly Hayes brilliant book of letters, Read This When Things Fall Apart, which has messages to organizers on how to survive times of crisis. Mine is, predictably, on how to fight fascism, where it shows up in our own ranks, and how to destroy the underlying rot that allows the far-right to fester amidst our suffering. Lastly, I wrote about new forms of antisemitism in white Christian nationalism for a great book on Christian nationalist politics edited by Joan Braune and David M. Gides. 

I’ll be having some new academic work coming out in 2026 and will be preparing for three incoming books likely not until 2027 and 2028, but look out for a lot of published work and multimedia appearances before then.

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