Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter

Copaganda and Authoritarianism

A few months ago, I was asked to give a TED-style talk in San Francisco about our civil rights work.

Jul 13 • 

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June 2025

Tour Updates, Special Offer, Retail Theft Panic Moves to England, and the New York Mayor Race.

The reception on the book tour has been amazing.

Jun 22 • 

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April 2025

Links for Copaganda Tour + Media Coverage of "Deportations"

Hi everyone,

Apr 22 • 

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March 2025

Copaganda Book Tour, and The NYT Reminds Us Why I Do This

I am so grateful to all (14,500) of you who have subscribed to this Copaganda Newsletter over the years and excited to say that the official launch of…

Mar 30 • 

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January 2025

The Enduring Power of Copaganda

An unprecedented new immigration detention law and the propaganda behind it

Jan 17 • 

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November 2024

July 2024

How "Criminal Justice Reform" Can Deceive Us

The Body Camera and Beyond

Jul 22, 2024 • 

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Part II: The Body Camera

I am excited to share today another excerpt from my study of ten years of copaganda about police body cameras in the Yale Journal of Law & Liberation.

Jul 12, 2024 • 

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The Body Camera

The Language of Our Dreams

Jul 11, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Exciting News

My new project becomes public

Mar 25, 2024 • 

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September 2023

How to tell a lie with the truth

“What makes it news is its dissemination, not its objective reality.”

Sep 4, 2023 • 

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August 2023

Up is down, left is right

In my last post, I talked about how the news either misstates or ignores the substance of what critics of the punishment bureaucracy are advocating, and…

Aug 28, 2023 • 

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