Analysis

  • ICE Agent Shot Renee Good. Two Weeks. No Arrest.

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic

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

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • How Trump Is Engineering the End of Free Elections

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • ICE’s Secret Memo Lets Agents Enter Homes Without Warrants

    Whistleblower Aid

    Whistleblower Aid

    “This administration’s secretive policy advocates conduct that the Supreme Court has described as ‘the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed’ – that is the warrantless physical entry of a home.’

    Published On: 01/21/2026

  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking at podium

    Carney Invokes Havel to Challenge Era of Compliance

    Robert Reich

    Robert Reich

    A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north.

    Published On: 01/21/2026

  • Minnesota Could Spark the Civil War Simulations Warned About

    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

  • How Trump Plans to Delegitimize the 2026 Midterms

    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

  • Joe Rogan speaking during podcast episode

    How Rogan’s Audience Was Primed for Trump’s Second Term

    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

  • Trump’s Insurrection Act Threat Is Real. Here’s How to Fight It.

    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

  • How Both Parties Armed Trump Against the Press

    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

  • Are Americans Really Different From 1930s Germans?

    Shalom Auslander

    The New York Times (Gift)

    I miss the comfort of believing Germans were different.

    Published On: 01/15/2026

  • ICE as Trump’s Tool of Terror in Blue Cities

    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

  • Tech Billionaires Eye Greenland as Their Libertarian Lab

    Rachael Levy and Alexandra Ulmer

    Reuters (April 10, 2025)

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

    Published On: 01/14/2026

  • Vance Defends ICE Killing While Scoring Points Online

    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

  • How Fifth Generation Warfare Weaponizes Media — And Why the Press Failed Venezuela

    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

  • Bystander Videos Are Democracy’s Last Defense

    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

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