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From Tragedy to Tyranny: How Trump Is Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Cement Power
The week ABC benched Jimmy Kimmel Live! “indefinitely” wasn’t a taste dispute. It was a power story.
Graham Baughman
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Stuck in a Red State? How to Push Back on Authoritarianism Without Packing Up
Practical Strategies for Staying Safe, Building Power, and Fighting Back Where You Are
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The Cost of Control: Troops at Home, Chaos Abroad
How Trump’s Authoritarian Trade-Off Weakens America Everywhere
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America Has Beaten Authoritarianism Before
From McCarthyism to 'Massive Resistance', rollback is possible—if we act now.
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Law and Disorder: Trump’s War on Crime vs. the Criminals He Enables
Trump blames Democrats for violence as he invades American cities—then pardons offenders who reoffend and elevates men with sex‑crime histories to roles touching kids.
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How Trump Cashed In While America Cashed Out
The inside story of media payoffs, crypto riches, and foreign capital—juxtaposed with the policies driving your bills higher.
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How Lina Khan Radicalized the Elite: Why the Donor Class Chose MAGA Over Being Treated Like You
When the gatekeepers lost their special access, they turned to authoritarianism.
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The Death Panel Prophecy Fulfilled—By the People Who Invented It
The Affordable Care Act never rationed care. But Trump’s new Medicare model? It hands life-and-death decisions to unfeeling machines with a profit motive.
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Inside the Authoritarian Mindset: A Map of Its Hidden Partners
From motivated reasoning to moral disgust, the traits that travel together.
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Donald J. Trump, 79, Remembered for His Greatest Grift: The Presidency
Survived by Truth Social, Unpaid Legal Bills, and a Buffet of Cold McDonald’s Fries
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The DOGE That Ate SSA: Inside the Data Breach Waiting to Happen
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency put a Musk protégé with reported hacker ties in the chain of control over your Social Security data. Here’s why that’s a national security nightmare.
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Own Goal: Trump Is the Best Player on China’s Team
Beijing doesn’t need a perfect game plan if Washington keeps scoring on itself