The Privateer
On Saturday, February 22, 1823, a little past noon, a man walked into the mayor's office of the City of Savannah to swear out the story of a crime he had helped commit.
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The Broker
Every deed, every tax roll, every mortgage and sheriff's sale and quitclaim that touches Lots 82 and 83 of District 15 for the next two hundred years sits on top of a single sheet of parchment with William McIntosh's name on it—first among the Creek signatures, in his own hand.
American Property, American Violence: Introduction
Every acre of the United States was owned, at some moment, by someone for the first time. The property did not come before the violence. The violence is what made the property.
From Backfire to Prairieland: Drawing a Line Through 20 Years of Repression
What makes the Prairieland sentences notable is not that the government reached for some new authority. It is that it reached for old ones. Every instrument that produced these sentences was built years ago and used against earlier movements.
The Seeds of Prairieland
The first time I met Savanna, Liz, and Ines, they gave me seeds for my garden. On the day Liz and Savanna were each sentenced to 50 years in prison, I held those makeshift seed packets in my hand and thought about what they represent.
Between neo-Nazis and elected Republicans, Kelly Neidert is a bridge-builder
In the right-wing ecosystem of "suits and boots," Neidert excels at building bridges between some of the most and least respectable extremists—and leaving a trail of destruction in her wake.
Hyperlocal Hate: Paschal High's Legion of Doom
Hate group activity looked different in 1985. It was the era of isolated compounds, paramilitary training camps, pipe bombs, plots to poison the water supply, kill lists, armed standoffs, and vigilante "justice." In Fort Worth, it was the era of teenage neo-Nazis.