Posts tagged with "authoritarianism"
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Trump Floats a Third Term: A Trial Balloon for Authoritarianism?
It started with a "joke." Then came the cheers. At a recent rally, Donald Trump floated the idea of serving a third term—despite the cons...
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Trump Eyes Insurrection Act as Courts Block Military Deployment in Cities
The White House is openly discussing the use of the Insurrection Act—a 218-year-old emergency power that would deploy military troops on American s...
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Trump's Columbus Proclamation: When Historical Mythology Meets Political Theater
When a president calls Christopher Columbus "the original American hero" while completely erasing Indigenous Peoples' Day, we're witnessi...
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Trump's Ukraine Gratitude Lie: When Facts Don't Matter to Power
When a president claims "UKRAINE 'LEADERSHIP' HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS" despite 78 documented instances of Ukrainian ...
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Pentagon Weaponizes Military Law Against Democratic Senator for Upholding Constitution
When military officers swear an oath to "support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic," they're bound by...
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Trump's Drug Kingpin Pardon: When Anti-Drug Rhetoric Meets Corrupt Reality
While President Trump escalates his "military campaign against drug trafficking," he quietly pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández—a convicted ...
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Petty Cruelty: HHS Changes Transgender Leader's Name in Unprecedented Act of Erasure
What do you call it when a federal agency deliberately changes the nameplate on a distinguished public servant's official portrait to deadname them...
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Supreme Court Poised to Hand Trump Unprecedented Power Over Independent Agencies
While the media frames this as a constitutional debate, the Supreme Court appears ready to hand Donald Trump unprecedented power to dismantle the v...
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Learning From the Frontlines: What Global Democracy Defenders Warn About Trump's America
The playbook is being written in real time. While Americans debate whether Trump's second term represents an authoritarian threat, activists from H...
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Trump's Social Media Surveillance: The Digital Border Wall That Threatens Privacy
Digital surveillance is becoming America's new border wall – and most people don't even know it's being built. The Trump administration has quietly...
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FBI's New 'Extremist' List Targets Critics of Immigration, Gender Policy
A leaked Justice Department memo reveals the FBI is compiling lists of American 'extremists' - but the criteria should alarm anyone who values free...
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The Final Assault: How NPR and PBS License Seizures Complete Media Takeover
While Americans were distracted by holiday preparations, a coordinated attack on the last vestiges of independent public media reached its final ph...
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