• 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.

  • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections

    The Democratic Establishment Is a Dead Man Walking

    Mike Brock

    Notes from the Circus

    The entire Democratic establishment infrastructure built on donor dependency and focus-group optimization and managing coalitions through accommodation—all of it dead.

  • 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

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  • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Violence • White Supremacy

    The US Civil War of 2025

    Jesse Hirsh

    Metaviews: Future of Authority

    Understanding Hybrid Civil War

  • 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.

  • Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

    Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms is Already Under Way

    David A. Graham

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

  • Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

    Michael Sainato

    The Guardian

    Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

  • 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.

  • Democracy • Fascism • Journalism • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

    Trump’s Mass Pardon of White Nationalists Turned Into a Death Warrant for Hakeem Jeffries

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    They told us this would happen.

  • Democracy • Executive Power • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The Defunding of Public Media Is Hitting Local Stations Hardest

    Amy Kroin

    Free Press

    “The urgent task is to build a public-media system capable of resisting autocracy and restoring democracy.”

  • 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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