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By Ezra Levin, Co-Executive Director, Indivisible No Kings III now has a date: March 28, 2026. It’s going to be the largest protest in American history, and the flagship event will be the largest in Twin Cities history.  But what’s the point of a protest, even an historically huge one? Last week, we had our friend and social movement expert Erica Chenoweth of “3.5%” fame  on What’s the Plan   to discuss the logic of No Kings. It’s easy to overplay or underplay the role of mass mobilizations....

by IM Member Steve Spudic Published in The Florida Times-Union Letters to the Editor, January 25, 2026 Renee Nicole Good was recently shot to death in her own car in Minneapolis. The exact, nanosecond-by-nanosecond sequence of car movement, direction and the location of ICE agent Jonathan Ross may never be fully known. Meanwhile, assertions of murder, self-defense and automobile “weaponization” are being traded. A very similar situation transpired in Jacksonville. In 2012, Michael Dunn fired...

By Mayor Donna Deegan In the final days of 2025, I want to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve accomplished together. This has been a year of moving Jacksonville forward.   We’ve been laser focused on affordability. More than 6,000 below market rate housing units are completed or in progress. Our nation-leading telehealth program for uninsured patients has saved millions in emergency room costs. And we launched the Duval Care Coalition to ensure that neighbors in need have food to put on...