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March 26, 2025

The war on due process has begun. Under the guise of national security and presidential authority, individuals are being disappeared—arrested without cause, denied their day in court, and shipped to foreign prisons. This authoritarian assault on the Constitution threatens the rights of all Americans. After all, the Constitution can’t protect you if you don’t protect it.

March 19, 2025

From surveillance to censorship, from mass arrests to political retribution—the U.S. government is being weaponized. Here’s how it’s happening.

March 12, 2025

The arrest of a political protester is just the beginning. What’s at stake when the government silences its critics? What happens when free speech becomes a crime? History shows that when governments claim the power to silence dissent—whether in the name of national security, border protection, or law and order—that power rarely remains limited. What starts as a crackdown on so-called “threats” quickly expands to include anyone who challenges those in power.

March 26, 2025

The war on due process has begun. Under the guise of national security and presidential authority, individuals are being disappeared—arrested without cause, denied their day in court, and shipped to foreign prisons. This authoritarian assault on the Constitution threatens the rights of all Americans. After all, the Constitution can’t protect you if you don’t protect it.

March 19, 2025

From surveillance to censorship, from mass arrests to political retribution—the U.S. government is being weaponized. Here’s how it’s happening.

March 12, 2025

The arrest of a political protester is just the beginning. What’s at stake when the government silences its critics? What happens when free speech becomes a crime? History shows that when governments claim the power to silence dissent—whether in the name of national security, border protection, or law and order—that power rarely remains limited. What starts as a crackdown on so-called “threats” quickly expands to include anyone who challenges those in power.

March 05, 2025

The slippery slope to authoritarianism begins with lies that masquerade as truths and a populace disinclined to think for themselves.

March 05, 2025

The slippery slope to authoritarianism begins with lies that masquerade as truths and a populace disinclined to think for themselves.

February 26, 2025

Winning an election does not give any politician the authority to sidestep the Constitution and remake the government at will.

February 26, 2025

Winning an election does not give any politician the authority to sidestep the Constitution and remake the government at will.

February 19, 2025

Far from protecting our freedoms, the Trump administration is taking the Deep State’s unconstitutional disregard for civil liberties to new extremes.

February 19, 2025

Far from protecting our freedoms, the Trump administration is taking the Deep State’s unconstitutional disregard for civil liberties to new extremes.

February 12, 2025

Allowing the president to bypass established legal procedures in order to prioritize his own power over adherence to the rule of law ultimately undermines the principles of a constitutional government.

February 12, 2025

Allowing the president to bypass established legal procedures in order to prioritize his own power over adherence to the rule of law ultimately undermines the principles of a constitutional government.

February 05, 2025

The government’s past efforts to sidestep the rule of law pale in comparison to what is unfolding right now, which is nothing less than the complete dismantling of every last foundational principle for a representative government that answers to “we the people.”

February 05, 2025

The government’s past efforts to sidestep the rule of law pale in comparison to what is unfolding right now, which is nothing less than the complete dismantling of every last foundational principle for a representative government that answers to “we the people.”

January 29, 2025

Get ready for Surveillance State 2.0. To achieve this turbocharged surveillance state, the government is turning to its most powerful weapon yet: artificial intelligence. AI, with its ability to learn, adapt, and operate at speeds unimaginable to humans, is poised to become the engine of this new world order. 

January 29, 2025

Get ready for Surveillance State 2.0. To achieve this turbocharged surveillance state, the government is turning to its most powerful weapon yet: artificial intelligence. AI, with its ability to learn, adapt, and operate at speeds unimaginable to humans, is poised to become the engine of this new world order. 

January 22, 2025

Be warned: what is happening right now is political theater. Allow yourself to be distracted by it, and you will miss the real power play afoot: the expansion of unaccountable presidential power that exposes us to constitutional peril.

January 22, 2025

Be warned: what is happening right now is political theater. Allow yourself to be distracted by it, and you will miss the real power play afoot: the expansion of unaccountable presidential power that exposes us to constitutional peril.

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