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Topic: Woke

President Donald Trump (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's war on wokeness is not new

Heather Digby Parton
Prager U founder Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host and writer, speaking at the Turning Point High School Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Woke-proofing" comes for schools

Emery Petchauer - The Conversation
Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth leaves a meeting with Republican Senators at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2024. (Allison Robbert for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hegseth’s Orwellian purge strikes fear

Jeffrey Colvin
Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The science Ted Cruz calls “woke"

Agnel Philip, Lisa Song - ProPublica
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tech's war on "woke" is a war on workers

Amanda Marcotte
Kirk Cameron is seen at the "Adventures of Iggy And Mr. Kirk" premiere on November 14, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Davis/Getty Images for BRAVE Books)

Cameron protects kids from gay dinosaurs

Kelly McClure
Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Jack Nicholson on the set of The Shining (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)

"The Shining" is woke

Matthew Rozsa
US Vice President Kamala Harris (C), joined by acting Labor Secretary Julie Su (R), visit the construction site of the Madison Metro Transit facility, on March 6, 2024, before Harris speaks about the Biden administration's efforts to promote union job growth and expand apprenticeship programs in Madison, Wisconsin, on March 6, 2024. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Harris is how woke meets working class

Michèle Lamont
Former President Donald Trump speaks as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Army General Mark Milley, looks on. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump says Milley should face "DEATH"

Gabriella Ferrigine
Howard Stern (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Howard Stern embraces being called woke

Nardos Haile
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis addresses attendees on day one of the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why the right is so terrified of "woke"

Kirk Swearingen
Ron DeSantis and Meghan McCain (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The woke wars backfire on the right

Gerald Nesmith
Cool Founding Fathers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Founding fathers: Way too woke?

Kirk Swearingen
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a collegiate athletics roundtable about fall sports at the Albert J. Dunlap Athletic Training Facility on the campus of Florida State University on August 11, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)

"Woke" means nothing — that's the point

Amanda Marcotte
Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Ron DeSantis likes to call things "woke"

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Don Beyer, Dr. Rachel Levine and Lauren Boebert (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Colleague calls Boebert a "bigot"

Jon Skolnik
Marco Rubio (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Why Rubio's now going after corporations

Jon Skolnik
Newsmax host Eric Bolling blasted Fox News for being "woke." (Twitter)

Newsmax trashes Fox News for being woke

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt discuss critical race theory on Fox and Friends. (Getty Images)

Fox hosts: White people "marginalized"

David Edwards - Raw Story
Lamorne Morris in "Woke" (Joe Lederer/Hulu)

Hulu's Woke tentatively pokes at racism

Melanie McFarland
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Finding religion in activism

Terry Patten - Alternet
Alex Trebek (AP/Seth Wenig)

"Jeopardy!"'s "stay woke" fail

Alessandra Maldonado