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Trump Is Waging War on Americans in Blue States — and His Administration Just Admitted It in Court
We all pay into the same government. This administration has decided only their voters get anything back.
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We all pay into the same government. This administration has decided only their voters get anything back.
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How a White House transparency dump meant to discredit American elections ended up confirming the Russian influence operation Trump has denied since 2016.
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The administration is calling this a national-security leak investigation. Strip away the label and what's left is a president using the Justice Department to punish reporting that made him look bad.
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Trump's defenders once treated every Biden misstep as evidence of decline. Ankara tested whether that standard applies both ways.
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Part 2 of a 2-part series on NSPM-7 and the Trump DOJ's campaign to criminalize dissent. Part 2 examines the collapsed cases in L.A. and Minneapolis, the pattern connecting them, and the J6 asymmetry
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Part 1 of a 2-part series on NSPM-7 and the Trump DOJ's campaign to criminalize dissent. Part 1 examines the extraordinary Prairieland sentences and the collapse of the Broadview Six prosecution.
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How loyalty, curation, and control of information are distorting reality—and shaping decisions at the highest level of government
Independent analysis on democracy and power. We step in where legacy media falls short.
Sold on a quick victory, Trump’s MOU instead signals surrender
A story of how tech elites traded market capitalism for direct access to power
From targeting critics to reshaping the press, a dangerous pattern is taking hold in Trump 2.0
As Trump’s DHS eyes airport closures, are we seeing the consequences of governing through chaos?
Why the path forward leads either to Tehran’s terms—or boots on the ground
Not rebellion. Not yet. But the incentives are changing—and Republicans are beginning to act like it.
From pardons to payouts, a new federal fund could turn political loyalty—and violence—into financial reward
How a new counterterrorism strategy shifts from policing violence to policing belief—and follows the logic of competitive authoritarianism
How the Court protects inequality by refusing to see it
This Is Not the Time for Purity Tests
Why Trump’s economic chaos is working exactly as intended
The right’s cavernous silence on the stochastic violence of the inciter‑in‑chief