READ FOR DEMOCRACY -
READ FOR DEMOCRACY -
Join our anti-fascist book club:
READ FOR DEMOCRACY
We read a new book every month, then take coordinated action to defend democracy ✊
Meetings are monthly and include a short author interview or planned conversation between 2 community members, followed by an open discussion for everyone who comes to the meeting!
We don’t limit ourselves to just discussion about the book - this is a great opportunity to come get plugged into our work by meeting HOCTX organizers and volunteers. We share information about upcoming events and elections, and what policy activism we’re doing in the upcoming weeks.
Archive:
In February 2026 we read “Long Time Coming” by Michael Eric Dyson.
In January 2026 we read “The Authoritarians” by Bob Altemeyer.
In November 2025 we read “They Called Us Enemy” by George Takai.
In October 2025 we read “Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism” by Amanda Montell. Watch the interview with the author.
In September 2025 we read “The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time” by Brooke Gladstone
In May 2025 we read “On Tyranny” during our May month-long TX Capitol Sit-In
2026 Book Club Reading List:
Book clubs are on Sundays, once a month from 1- 3 PM at a local Austin public library (location depending on library availability, usually South Austin)
January: “The Authoritarians” Bob Altemeyer
February: “Long Time Coming” Michael Eric Dyson
March: “Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement” Angela Y. Davis,
April: “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” Omar El Akkad
May: “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future” Jason F. Stanley
June: “Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary” Timothy Snyder
July: “Surviving Autocracy” Masha Gessen
August: “We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” Mariame Kaba
September: “How to Be an Antiracist” Ibram X. Kendi
October: “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America” Heather Cox Richardson
November & December: “Poverty, by America” Matthew Desmond