Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe. “We heard there are some antifa over here!” The shout came from a group of ...

In Guajes de Ayala, Mexico, Jesús Domínguez, a 34-year-old local, patrols rugged terrain armed with an AK-47 and a grenade, leading a group of civilians against the La Nueva Familia Michoacana cartel.

The black freedom movement is framed in popular memory as distinguished by nonviolent civil disobedience. Yet in multiple southern towns, black people used armed self-defense to protect their ...

Founded in Oakland in 1966, the Black Panther Party combined armed self-defense with expansive community programs that fed children, provided healthcare, and educated neighborhoods. While media ...

In this week’s edition of my Freedom’s Journal column here in The Philadelphia Tribune, I am writing about a historic- and prescient- event in the defense of Black people that took place on May 2, ...

Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. As 2024 drew to a close, examples abounded of ordinary Americans whose Second ...