red baiting

The cowboy and the communist: Why Frank Sinatra picked a fight with John Wayne

December 4, 2025 By Patrick Chura

Part of the Hollywood Ten, Albert Maltz had the "dubious honor" of being blacklisted twice when John Wayne and others in Hollywood targeted his working relationship with Frank Sinatra.

Florida’s new teaching standards rehabilitate the anti-communist Red Scare

November 20, 2025 By Mike Schneider

Words like “McCarthyite” and “red-baiter” are being redefined as political slander against anti-communists.

Progressive Sarah Dixit battles red-baiting in Spokane city council race

November 3, 2025 By Will Neville

First it was New York and Zohran Mamdani, now it’s Spokane and Sarah Dixit.

From Daily Worker to Daily Show: Communists back in the national conversation

October 23, 2025 By C.J. Atkins

Spotlights aren’t typically red, but that’s the color they’re glowing this week as the Communist Party USA steps onto the national stage in a way not witnessed in several years.

Republicans’ cynical red-baiting culture war on ‘Critical Race Theory’

July 15, 2021 By Jill Richardson

One conservative activist is weaponizing resentment over diversity trainings into an all-out, red-baiting culture war.