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 • Featured • 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
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
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
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
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
Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Violence
Spheres of Influence
Anne Applebaum
Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum
This is a criminally short-sighted policy. For seventy years, American prosperity and influence have been based on a network of allies who worked with us, not because they were coerced, but because they shared our values.
Published On: 01/06/2026
Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Recommended • Violence
America the Rogue State
Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
Our decaying empire stumbles forward like a wounded beast, unable to learn from its disasters, crippled by arrogance and incompetence, torching the rule of law and fantasizing that indiscriminate industrial violence will regain a lost hegemony.
Published On: 01/05/2026
Cyber Security • Democracy • Digital Rights • Disinformation
The Threat from America
Carole Cadwalladr
How to Survive the Broligarchy
The next days and weeks are a test. What, if anything, will survive the blast zone of what is not just a military campaign but a targeted disinformation strike?
Published On: 01/03/2026
Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Resistance
The Disappearing Thin Red Line
George A. Polisner
Leadership Matters
For decades, Republicans have relied on a rebranded cycle of political marketing—Silent Majority, Reagan Revolution, Moral Majority, Tea Party, MAGA—all designed to divide voters along emotional fault lines while stealthily consolidating wealth and power at the top.
Published On: 12/29/2025





