Christopher Mathias

3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it. A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

MAGA has been getting more explicit with messaging about "anti-whiteness" for a while, but can't help but think it's no accident Vance/Posobiec push it as talking point at same time

closed borders except for white South Africans and fleeing fascists

So in an effort to shore up the DOJ list of alleged noncitizen voters — on which its whole case depends — the administration admits that it included a *dead person* and four potential U.S. citizens on the list. www.courtlistener.com/docket/74967...

Chuck Schumer's horrifying silence about Ilhan Omar talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chuck-s...

Richard Hanania's primary idea as a thinker is to flatter whoever holds power. Right now, that’s liberals--given the profound backlash against MAGA. Letting him in means admitting liberalism has room for someone who talks like an unreconstructed fascist.

Had such a blast talking about Richard Hanania - fascist dweeb turned centrist darling - with the great @jaredlholt.bsky.social, @michaelehayden.bsky.social & @henryburke.bsky.social for the latest Posting Through It www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

Was thrilled to join Posting Through It for a new installment on their great "Who the Hell is..." series. Got to talk about my least-liked substack influencer and how insane I've felt as more centrist pundits have helped promote his work

Chuck Schumer Once Decried GOP ‘Silence’ on Trump’s Racist Attacks on Ilhan Omar. Now He’s the Silent One.

Join IPK on Oct. 28 for a dual book talk with @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @letsgomathias.bsky.social. They will discuss their new books Strange People on the Hill and To Catch a Fascist. Moderated by @jaredlholt.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/4xbnyu27

Who the Hell is Richard Hanania? We’re joined by @letsgomathias.bsky.social and @henryburke.bsky.social to retrace the career arc of a very strange “race realist” poster who’s convinced the rich and powerful that’s he’s some sort of “intellectual.” www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

John Oliver goes deep on Nazis in the GOP, cites @talkingpointsmemo.com reporting on Marshall Rawson www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsB...

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Join IPK on Oct. 28 for a dual book talk with @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @letsgomathias.bsky.social. They will discuss their new books Strange People on the Hill and To Catch a Fascist. Moderated by @jaredlholt.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/4xbnyu27

Join my amazing @talkingpointsmemo.com colleague live NOW, as they discuss all the horrors of this week www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2kr...

The illegal voters Scott Presler was trying so desperately to find in Pennsylvania were living in his own home Really is the perfect distillation of the election denial movement

Bold Type Books author @michaelehayden.bsky.social will be discussing his book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town, at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge next Wednesday October 28. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

Matt Schlapp, CEO of CPAC, speaking at event w/ Marshall Rawson tonight Again: Rawson was active w/ white supremacist group League of the South; marched at infamous Nazi rally in Charlottesville; advocated killing LGBTQ people; wrote "lynchings worked" Has not denounced/apologized for any of it

Next week! Based on RSVPs so far, it looks like we're going to have a packed room. Don't wait to lock in your spot

Me & my buddy @michaelehayden.bsky.social wrote books. Mike's is about abt fascists buying a castle in WV (& so much more, it's incredible). My book's abt antifa. On 10/28, we are having a JOINT BOOK EVENT at NYU, moderated by the great @jaredlholt.bsky.social. RSVP! ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

"At home on Tuesday, the 3-year-old boy was following both of his parents everywhere, afraid to let them out of his sight. His sister could not nap or go to sleep. She kept asking to be held."

This election season has been simply devastating for victims.

Remarkable interview with @rozinaali.bsky.social about her new book, Seasons of Fury. I still think Islamophobia is kind of the skeleton key for understanding this fascist moment, here and in Europe. Rozina’s insights are invaluable www.patreon.com/posts/172750...

So disturbing (but so not surprising) how quickly the misogynists picking apart the life of Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 case turned their attention to Bernadette Greene-Placentia to do the exact same. A subculture of rape apologist scumbags who see every survivor’s story as a personal attack on them.

I asked Bernadette about her GOP opponent, Rep. Abe Hamadeh, offering a statement of support after she came forward with the story of her sexual assault. "It don't mean jack shit," she said. Why? Hamadeh is a supporter of the Tate brothers... talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...

Rape apologist organization through and through, never fails.

Dem Candidate In Arizona: My Rape Was Not A ‘Hoax’ Concocted for Votes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...

When this story published, was unaware of Ramaswamy's campaign using Acton's estranged mom in ad to deny her own account of sexual abuse For all MAGA's transphobia, Islamophobia, & ugly racism targeting Haitians, Somalis & Indians this election cycle, it's also embracing explicit, ugly rape denial

“So when people hear the survivor’s story changed slightly over time, or they hear someone saying that they don’t remember exactly what’s actually happened, it’s really consistent with what the science says about how trauma affects brain networks, and it’s not a sign that someone’s lying.”

Really moving piece from my colleague @letsgomathias.bsky.social who spoke to Bernadette Greene-Placentia. Her message to women struggling with whether to come forward and report their sexual assault? “You will be believed,” she said.

New: Bernadette Greene-Placentia would like you to know the story of her rape is not an "October Surprise" or a "hoax," as prominent MAGA influencers have suggested, concocted to win votes My interview w/ the congressional candidate, for @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

In LA, police and federal agents are shooting out the eyes of people protesting ICE. I detailed the accounts of 5 young men who lost their eyes after protesting for @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/he-went-to-d...

This book was great... and surprisingly inspiring, seeing that people can and will fight back against these fucking ghouls.

Such a good book. Can't put it down once you start it.

Quick reminder that I wrote a book called To Catch A Fascist that is all about the rising fascism of this moment. The New Yorker called it “absorbing” and one of the “best books of 2026.” www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

It’s no accident this iteration of fascism has most explicitly targeted trans people, immigrants, Muslims, pro-Palestine protesters… all marginalized groups MAGA can trust certain Dems/centrists to withhold solidarity from / throw under the bus

From John Laesch, mayor of Aurora, Illinois: "We cannot be afraid as the voice of fascism grows louder, escalating a race war to distract us from the class war they are simultaneously waging.” www.wbez.org/crime/2026/1...

New from me in @liberalcurrents.com: how the evolution of the right from the Years of Lead through to the Turner Diaries through to discords of 14 year old giggling over gore pics got us to the point where there was almost a livestreamed execution: