Analysis

  • Democracy • Economy • Europe • Global

    We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

    Garrett M. Graff

    Wired

    With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • Legal • Resistance • Violence

    Increasing Calls From the Public Saying “Fight or Resign”

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic

    Elected officials who refuse to use their power should lose it.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • Culture • Featured • Human Rights

    Christian Nationalists Have Decided Monks Walking for Peace Are on a One-Way Trip to Hell

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.

    Published On: 01/21/2026

  • Democracy • Featured • Threat Management

    We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start

    Claire Finkelstein

    The Guardian

    Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Published On: 01/20/2026

  • Corruption • Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Legal

    Trump Is Screwing with the Midterms. Will He Succeed?

    The Big Picture and Jay Kuo

    The Big Picture

    Will Trump screw with the midterms? Will they be free and fair? Will we even have them?

    Published On: 01/20/2026

  • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology • White Supremacy

    Joe Rogan Trained Men to Accept Authoritarianism

    W. A. Lawrence

    Glass Empires by W. A. Lawrence

    Rogan spent years grooming Trump’s base to equate toxic masculinity with strength and authoritarianism with safety. In 2026, that conditioning is locked in with force.

    Published On: 01/20/2026

  • Democracy • Legal • Recommended • Resistance • Violence

    I talked Trump out of invoking the Insurrection Act. He’ll do it this time — but we can stop him.

    Miles Taylor

    defiance.news

    America needs to prepare for the coming constitutional crisis. However, it's not hopeless. It's time to go on legal offense.

    Published On: 01/16/2026

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

    Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons

    The Guardian

    The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government

    Published On: 01/15/2026

  • Human Rights • ICE • Violence

    They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.

    Shalom Auslander

    The New York Times (Gift)

    I miss the comfort of believing Germans were different.

    Published On: 01/15/2026

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy

    Why Has ICE Turned Minneapolis Into a Battlefield?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Why the largest-ever ICE operation isn’t just about immigration, but about who gets to walk freely in America’s cities and who pays with their lives…

    Published On: 01/15/2026

  • Technology • White Supremacy

    Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

    Rachael Levy and Alexandra Ulmer

    Reuters (April 10, 2025)

    Silicon Valley investors propose Greenland as a libertarian 'freedom city'

    Published On: 01/14/2026

  • Disinformation • ICE • Violence

    JD Vance Is A Hog That’ll Eat Any Slop

    Giri Nathan

    Defector

    This is a man who used to cry while watching Garden State. Now he posts numbered lists in defense of fascism.

    Published On: 01/13/2026

  • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Disinformation • Social Media • Surveillance

    My Final Message Before I’m on an FBI Watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times

    Juan Sebastian Pinto

    Ziggurat

    ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It's time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.

    Published On: 01/09/2026

  • Recording ICE Isn’t ‘Violence’ – It’s a Constitutionally Protected Act of Journalism

    Timothy Karr

    Pressing Issues

    How the First Amendment plays an essential role in exposing the truth about Renee Good’s tragic death in Minneapolis.

    Published On: 01/09/2026

  • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Social Media

    ‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture

    Ashifa Kassam

    The Guardian (December 27, 2025)

    ‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
    Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’

    Published On: 01/09/2026

Resources