Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Violence
Will the 2028 Election Even Happen? Is There a Plot to Use the Insurrection Act to End Democracy?
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
Trump appears well aware of his weakness, his collapsing poll numbers, and the precipice the American economy is teetering at the edge of.
Corruption • Executive Power • Human Rights • Legal
Follow the Money: The Epstein Files They Didn’t Want You to See
Closer to the Edge and Rook T. Winchester
Closer to the Edge
That deal wasn’t justice; it was choreography. The money-laundering indictment that could’ve exposed his financial enablers was boxed up and buried...
Fascism • Health • Human Rights • Safety • Violence
Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America
Dr. Stacey Patton
Dr. Stacey Patton
We are watching a government experiment in population management using stress, scarcity, and biology to keep people too tired to fight back.
Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance
Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power
Christopher Armitage
The Existentialist Republic
Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.
Executive Power • Financial • Health • Human Rights • Recommended • Resistance • Safety
What are we doing here, folks?
Heather Cox Richardson
Letters From An American
It appears the administration is using those Americans who depend on food assistance as pawns to put more pressure on Democrats to cave to Trump’s will.
Corruption • Democracy • Elections • Financial • Legal
Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money
Natalie Jonas
Open Secrets
The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.
Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Financial • Social Justice and Equity
The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Trump—It’s Wall Street
Michael Beyea Reagan
In These Times
Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Avoiding that fate under Mayor Mamdani will require popular movements to discipline the super rich.
Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Violence • White Supremacy
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days
Nicole Foy
ProPublica
When federal officers roll through communities in the way the Supreme Court permitted, the constitutional rights of both citizens and noncitizens are inevitably violated
Where It’s All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump
Jared Yates Sexton
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
Waiting on MAGA supporters to just turn isn’t just a losing strategy, it’s an action, or inaction more specifically, that makes the possibility of an overtly Neo-Nazi turn in U.S. politics much, much more likely.
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They’re Coming for the Truth-Tellers: Bondi’s Plan to Jail Journalists
Most alarming part of all is what Bondi reportedly wants to do next. According to sources close to the Justice Department, she has argued that leakers — or even reporters — who provide information that she doesn’t like could be prosecuted for treason, a crime that carries the death penalty.





