The right wing media is buzzing with accusations that the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City is a communist. They're calling for his removal from not only the ballot... but the also the country. This anticommunist panic isn't new. 

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The right wing media is buzzing with accusations that the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City is a communist. They're calling for his removal from not only the ballot... but the also the country. This anticommunist panic isn't new. Sources: Drabble, John. &ldquo;To Ensure Domestic Tranquility: The FBI, Cointelpro-White Hate and Political Discourse, 1964-1971.&rdquo; Journal of American Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2004, pp. 297&ndash;328. JSTOR, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/27557518">http://www.jstor.org/stable/27557518</a>. Horowitz, David Alan. &ldquo;White Southerners&rsquo; Alienation and Civil Rights: The Response to Corporate Liberalism, 1956-1965.&rdquo; The Journal of Southern History, vol. 54, no. 2, 1988, pp. 173&ndash;200. JSTOR, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/2209398">https://doi.org/10.2307/2209398</a>. Katagiri, Yasuhiro. Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism In the Jim Crow South. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Lewis, George. The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965. University Press of Florida, 2004. Kovel, Joel. Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America. 2nd ed. London: Cassel, 1997. <a href="https://politicalresearch.org/2022/01/04/blue-lives-matter-and-us-counter-subversive-tradition">https://politicalresearch.org/2022/01/04/blue-lives-matter-and-us-counter-subversive-tradition</a> Shanahan, J., &amp; Wall, T. (2021). &lsquo;Fight the reds, support the blue&rsquo;: Blue Lives Matter and the US counter-subversive tradition. Race &amp; Class, 63(1), 70-90. Brenner, Samuel Lawrence (May 2009). Shouting at the Rain: The Voices and Ideas of Right-Wing Anti-Communist Americanists in the Era of Modern American Conservatism, 1950-1974 (Thesis). Brown University. Schrecker, Ellen. &ldquo;Immigration and Internal Security: Political Deportations during the McCarthy Era.&rdquo; Science &amp; Society, vol. 60, no. 4, 1996, pp. 393&ndash;426. Schrecker, Ellen. &ldquo;Archival Sources for the Study of McCarthyism.&rdquo; The Journal of American History, vol. 75, no. 1, 1988, pp. 197&ndash;208 Ornstein, Norman J., et al. The People, the Press &amp; Politics : The Times Mirror Study of the American Electorate. Addison-Wesley, 1988. <a href="https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/denaturalization_pa.pdf">https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/denaturalization_pa.pdf</a> <a href="https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fact-Sheet-on-Denaturalization.pdf">https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fact-Sheet-on-Denaturalization.pdf</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement">https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement</a> <a href="https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2021/01/08/gov-kristi-noem-says-georgia-elected-communists-serve-u-s-senate/6605474002">https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2021/01/08/gov-kristi-noem-says-georgia-elected-communists-serve-u-s-senate/6605474002</a>/ <a href="https://www.warscapes.com/conversations/conversation-mahmood-mamdani">https://www.warscapes.com/conversations/conversation-mahmood-mamdani</a> <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1424">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1424</a> <a href="https://www.congress.gov/103/statute/STATUTE-107/STATUTE-107-Pg2317.pdf">https://www.congress.gov/103/statute/STATUTE-107/STATUTE-107-Pg2317.pdf</a> <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/department-justice-creates-section-dedicated-denaturalization-cases">https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/department-justice-creates-section-dedicated-denaturalization-cases</a> <a href="https://www.niemoeller-haus-berlin.de/niemoeller-gedicht/">https://www.niemoeller-haus-berlin.de/niemoeller-gedicht/</a> <a href="https://thelifeofahistorian.com/historiographical-review-woods-lewis-katagiri/">https://thelifeofahistorian.com/historiographical-review-woods-lewis-katagiri/</a> <a href="https://www.justice.gov/civil/media/1404046/dl?inline">https://www.justice.gov/civil/media/1404046/dl?inline</a>

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