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Hotel Florida is occasional reporting on the three-way fight in Fort Worth and around the world: the far right and the fascist movements organizing here, the antifascists working to stop them, and the way the state responds to each. It's local, present-day, and historically minded — tracking how today's hate groups echo the ones that came a century before. The name comes from the Madrid hotel where correspondents filed dispatches during the Spanish Civil War, watching that same fight play out.
Dispatches land when a story warrants it, not on a schedule. That means your inbox stays quiet between them, and when something does arrive, it's because it earned the send.
Where to start
If you read nothing else, read these:
- A Primer on the Three-Way Fight — an introduction to the ideas that shape everything published here
- The Seeds of Prairieland — my memories and reflections of three friends who were sentenced to 50 years each in prison
American Property, American Violence
A series-in-progress about the two lots of Georgia land that became Cop City, tracing the history of American violence through the stories of this specific American property:
- Introduction — where and why
- The Broker — the man who sold his Nation's land and was executed for it
The Hyperlocal Hate series
A miniseries asking whether hate-group events are really a new trend in Fort Worth — tracing the answer from the 1920s Klan to now:
Want the rest? Everything's in the archive.
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