• Democracy • Legal

    Trump-Musk Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote

    Greg Palast

    gregpalast.com

    President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give Elon Musk access to the voter files of every state.

    Published On: 03/26/2025

  • Democracy

    When toxic polarization becomes a civil war

    Nonviolence Radio

    https://wagingnonviolence.org/

    International peacebuilder, mediator and scholar John Paul Lederach offers practical wisdom for resisting cycles of division and violence before it's too late.

    Published On: 03/25/2025

  • Democracy

    What We Must Understand About the Dark Enlightenment Movement

    Ed Simon

    Time

    Where the Enlightenment promised liberty, emancipation, equality, and solidarity, “Dark Enlightenment” offers servitude, hierarchy, bondage, and ruthlessness.

    Published On: 03/24/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Trump Ramps Up Retribution Campaign Against Legal Community

    Hugo Lowell

    The Guardian

    President ordered attorney general to refer partisan lawsuits to White House and recommend sanctions against firms

    Published On: 03/22/2025

  • Democracy

    Crypto super PACs pump cash into Florida as GOP faces risk of thinning House majority

    MacKenzie Sigalos

    CNBC

    Fresh off its victories in the 2024 election cycle, the crypto industry is going big in Florida.

    Published On: 03/21/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The War on Information

    Critical Resistance

    https://criticalresistance.substack.com

    When narrative becomes weapon, media becomes battleground. Trump’s second term isn’t just a return to power—it’s a full-scale war on truth.

    Published On: 03/17/2025

  • Democracy • Press Freedom • Threat Management

    What to Expect When You’re Expecting Catastrophe

    Laurie Winer

    Thinking About

    Magical thinking is far from new. Adolf Hitler came to power amid similar lies and conspiracy theories. We should know where that leads. And, while MAGA may ignore the mountains of books written on fascism, the rest of us are not in the dark about what comes next.

    Published On: 03/13/2025

  • Democracy • Technology

    Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’

    BY MAKENA KELLY, DAVID GILBERT, VITTORIA ELLIOTT, KATE KNIBBS, DHRUV MEHROTRA, DELL CAMERON, TIM MARCHMAN, LEAH FEIGER, AND ZOË SCHIFFER

    wired.com

    Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

    Published On: 03/13/2025

  • Democracy

    Why We Need a Progressive Shadow Cabinet to Counter Trump

    Sarah van Gelder

    How We Rise, with Sarah

    A shadow cabinet appointed by “we the people” would show us what it would mean to have a government who put American families ahead of the enrichment of billionaires.

    Published On: 03/13/2025

  • Democracy • Technology

    ‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’

    CAROLINE HASKINS AND VITTORIA ELLIOTT

    Wired

    Trey Goff, the chief of staff of the startup nation known as Próspera, tells WIRED that he and other Próspera representatives working under an advocacy group called the Freedom Cities Coalition have been meeting with the Trump administration about the idea in recent weeks. He claims the administration has been very receptive. In 2023, Trump floated the idea of creating 10 freedom cities. Now, Goff says that Próspera’s vision is to create “not just 10, but as many as the market can handle.”

    Published On: 03/07/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    Peter Thiel is betting on the apocalypse

    JULES EVANS

    Ecstatic Integration

    An emerging alliance between Tech, the Pentagon and the Christian Right

    Published On: 03/07/2025

  • Democracy

    Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

    Brett Wagner

    San Francisco Chronicle

    The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”

    Published On: 03/05/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

    Brett Wagner

    San Francisco Chronicle

    A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration

    Published On: 03/05/2025

  • Democracy

    Insurrection Act of 1807

    Wikipedia

    Wikipedia

    The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law[1] that empowers the president of the United States to deploy the U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.

    Published On: 03/04/2025

  • Canada • Democracy

    ‘A scary place’: Jason Stanley on leaving Trump’s America

    Stuart Braun

    DW

    Philosopher Jason Stanley is among several critics of US President Donald Trump who have left Yale University, and the United States, to work and live in Canada. He equates the new leadership with "fascism."

    Published On: 03/04/2025

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