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Excerpts from three middle sections of the upcoming print edition of All Road Lead to Glasgow: Love During the Times of Fascism

Ken Paxton, 2025, courtesy of WikiMedia (DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA, TEXAS) -- Democratic optimism is rising across Texas this spring, and not without reason. The state’s Senate race is increasingly orbiting around Ken Paxton: a figure who, for many voters, has come to represent not just the Republican Party’s rightward shift, but a broader tolerance for scandal, extremism, and constant political conflict. Paxton still commands real loyalty among Republican primary voters. But b

Hasan Piker in 2021, accessed via WikiMedia (CHESTERTOWN, MD) – Hasan Piker has unquestionably had a hold of the young, progressive, and online left for some time. However, it has only recently became true that Piker has seen some lauding and praise in establishment media, with profiles in the New York Times, GQ, and The Observer. It seems that this praise of a popular figure among progressives who openly calls himself a socialist and has a particular hold amongst the demogr