Why, America? with Leeja Miller

Last week, 15 activists in Minnesota were indicted on federal charges, accused of being members of an "antifa" cell. This week, a group of activists in Texas got DECADES of prison time for their roles in an alleged "antifa" plot. Today I tried to get into the weeds here a bit so we can get our heads around what these recent lawsuits and sentencings mean for activists on the ground.

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🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/6/25/a-legal-analysis-of-trumps-antifa-prosecutions  

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Surprise! I live in Dublin now. Today we're discussing why I left, why I chose Ireland, and what that means moving forward.

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A judge in Delaware has upheld a law allowing corporations (and other "artificial persons") to vote in municipal elections. FIRST OF ALL: this is not a NEW law, it's been in the charter since 2008. I'm seeing a lot of headlines misconstruing that this judge made this new ruling and now all of the sudden corporations can vote. This has BEEN the law. And corporations have had more rights than you for literally hundreds of years. Strap in for the explainer on "corporate personhood" cuz it's a doozy. 

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🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/5/29/corporations-have-always-had-more-rights-than-you 

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Tensions outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey boiled over this weekend, with Senator Andy Kim attempting to intervene and de-escalate and instead getting hit with pepper spray by DHS agents. The conditions inside Delaney Hall are so bad that 300 detainees are currently participating in a hunger strike. This is all part of the larger fascist plan to dehumanize immigrants so we all look the other way.

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🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/5/26/theyre-pepper-spraying-senators-now 

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As a follow up from last week’s video on the French Revolution, today we’re looking at the Gilded Age to see what similarities and differences exist between late 1800s America and today. What can we learn from our past? And what can we do to try to reshape our future?

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Sources here: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/5/19/how-does-the-second-gilded-age-end 

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