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Researchers say the movement began coalescing online in 2019 as people — mostly young men — angry with what they perceived to be increasing government repression, found each other on Facebook groups and in private chats.
THE BOOGALOO BOIS HAVE GUNS, CRIMINAL RECORDS AND MILITARY TRAINING. NOW THEY WANT TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.BY A.C. THOMPSON, PROPUBLICA, AND LILA HASSAN AND KARIM HAJJ, FRONTLINEFEBRUARY 1, 2021PROPUBLICAAmerican parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools, cancel culture at work, or the repression of traditional faith, culture and values in the public square.
ELECTION LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP RETURNS TO WISCONSIN; BIDEN TO FACE LIVE AUDIENCE AT TOWN HALLCOLBY ITKOWITZ, FELICIA SONMEZ, JOHN WAGNERSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTAutocratic regimes are far more likely to use these instruments for repression, but democracies sometimes use them to curb civil rights too.
COVID-19 AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF AMERICAN DECLINEKATIE MCLEANAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWHe has relied on a mixture of repression and elite loyalty, but also, to an extent, popular support.
BELARUS ELECTION: CONTESTED RESULT SPARKS MASSIVE UNREST AS EUROPE’S ‘LAST DICTATOR’ CLAIMS VICTORYLGBTQ-EDITORAUGUST 12, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSNow, the fear is palpable—citizens are comparing the air of repression to the cultural revolution, and professors are being fired from universities for advocating democracy.
LET HONG KONG REFUGEES INTO THE USTIM FERNHOLZJULY 30, 2020QUARTZNot that those stolid agriculturists required much repression.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERCavour's double play and the cruel repression of the Genoese plot left him bitterer than ever against the monarchy and its men.
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KINGAs we follow the sessions of the Assembly we find acts for the repression of litigation renewed three times in five years.
A SHORT HISTORY OF RHODE ISLANDGEORGE WASHINGTON GREENEBut the war brought worse than an arrest of progress; it brought repression of freedom and a tremendous load of debt.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTCalavius was furious and paused, as if to give orders for harsher repression.
THE LION'S BROODDUFFIELD OSBORNEWORDS RELATED TO REPRESSION
- abridgment
- arrest
- ban
- bar
- barrier
- bondage
- bridle
- captivity
- chains
- check
- command
- confinement
- constraint
- cramp
- curb
- decrease
- deprivation
- detention
- determent
- deterrence
- embargo
- fetters
- hindrance
- impediment
- imprisonment
- instruction
- interdict
- limit
- manacles
- obstacle
- obstruction
- order
- pinions
- prohibition
- reduction
- rein
- repression
- restriction
- rope
- stop
- stoppage
- straitjacket
- string
- taboo
- weight
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