[This post is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was originally posted on March 7, 2026.] by Matthew N Lyons Balancing war and peace has long been integral to Donald Trump’s popular image. Making America Great Again has always included making America militarily dominant and feared again, a longing that accords well …
[This post is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was originally posted 2026-02-15.] Three Way Fight mourns antifascist researcher, writer, and organizer Chip Berlet, who died on January 30th. For some fifty years, Chip was a dedicated opponent of both far right politics and state repression. As a paralegal with the …
[This article is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was originally published on January 1, 2026.] When more than a dozen Heritage Foundation staffers recently quit, it highlighted the Trump coalition’s growing internal debate over white nationalist antisemitism. But it also points to a crisis of strategic direction for the US …
Kersplebedeb Note: We are posting the below by Bromma, whose work we have learned much from over the years, and which we have published in pamphlet and book form and on our site. The delay in its publication is down to us, and our own disagreements with the text as …
by Matthew N Lyons [This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on September 16, 2025.] Charlie Kirk’s life and death offer a microcosm of the MAGA movement’s shift to the right over the past decade—and of the dynamic factional interplay that has fueled that shift. Regardless of why Kirk was …
[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on September 1, 2025.] The Trump administration’s botched handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal put conspiracy theories back in the headlines. It has also highlighted that assessing conspiracy theories’ political meaning and significance can be complicated. Epstein, financier and convicted child sex offender, …
[This article is mirrored from ThreeWayFight.org, where it was posted on March 2, 2025.] By Matthew N. Lyons I anticipated a drive toward dictatorship, but I didn’t anticipate DOGE. When Donald Trump was reelected president, I (like many other people) knew he would make a grab for power beyond anything …
[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on October 27, 2024.] By Matthew N. Lyons In 2020 I described the US presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump as a choice not between a lesser evil and a greater evil, but between the abysmal and the catastrophic. This year, …
[This article was originally posted on ThreeWayFight.org on October 8, 2024.] by Matthew N. Lyons The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight (here, here, and here) that US leftists should support Hezbollah against Israeli aggression, despite the fact that …
[This article was originally posted to ThreeWayFight.org on September 3, 2024.] by Dandy Andy In his “Afterword” to Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Michael Staudenmaier writes: “The three way fight is not an ideology or a fixed political line. It is a framework that can be used to …