Democracy • 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.
Published On: 10/31/2025
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.
Published On: 10/28/2025
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.
Published On: 10/28/2025
Corruption • Democracy • 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.
Published On: 10/25/2025
Democracy • Economy
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.
Published On: 10/23/2025
Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Surveillance • Technology
The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State
Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
It’s clear that the architects of mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways within the Trump administration...
Published On: 10/23/2025
Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance
America is Overdue for a General Strike
A.J. Schumann
Counterpunch
Across continents, workers are organizing to do what ballots alone have not: enforce the public will. It’s time American workers join our peers abroad by reclaiming strikes as part of our own democratic tradition.
Published On: 10/22/2025
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