Corruption • Democracy • Threat Management
The Last Election
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
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
Democracy • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence
Hidden DHS Policy Encourages ICE Agents to Break into 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
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 • 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
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
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
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
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