What I'm Reading - To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right

Incredibly well-written with an edge-of-your-seat narrative pace, To Catch a Fascist taps into interviews with some 60 anti-fascist activists to sort fact from fiction."

As my journey continues here on Hate Comes to Main Street, I will periodically share books or articles that I’m reading—or films that I find enlightening. I’d love to hear your recommendations, as well.

For the Trump administration, there is little doubt that antifa is a force for evil.

In September, President Donald Trump signed an executive order officially designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Never mind that there does not seem to be any legal mechanism for the president to apply such a label to such non-foreign entities. (Of course, there is little evidence that the current administration feels bound by the constraints of the law. As we’ve come to see, that’s just not their style.)

Here is how President Trump’s September 2025 executive order describes the anti-fas…