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But there’s a countermovement in the show, the People Power Revolution that gains momentum after the assassination of Nimoy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Such tension has become common in Minneapolis, where the enormous influx of federal officers has met a countermovement of residents armed with whistles, text alerts and cameras to shadow Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

But exactly the moment when the genre peaked in the mid-1970s with films like “Chinatown,” “Taxi Driver” and “Network,” a countermovement hit the screens: the blockbuster.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

After Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment, the constitutional amendment that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, a countermovement pushed states not to ratify the measure.

From Slate • May 13, 2025

Still greater coherence and inevitability is seen in the life of Alexander I, the man who stood at the head of the countermovement from east to west.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf