Category: Police State/Civil Liberties

Trump’s troops at polling places?

Trump’s attacks on our voting rights and elections have one goal: rig the 2026 midterms. Governors J.B. Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are warning about the prospect of Trump sending federal agents to intimidate voters at the polls after Trump’s military takeover of Democratic cities.1 Pam Bondi is demanding […]

Trump’s Deportation Stormtroopers

He’s building a police force larger than most armies — and domestic gulags to boot. Andrew Sullivan Jul 11, 2025 Federal immigration agents in an armored vehicle near MacArthur Park on July 7. (Carlin Steihl/L.A. Times via Getty) There is nothing new about mass deportations in the US. […]

Sign the petition: Unmask ICE

In cities and towns across America, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are kidnapping people off the streets while hiding their own identities and ignoring constitutional rights like arrest warrants and due process. This is what happens in authoritarian societies. In response to these tactics, elected leaders in […]

Chris Hedges: American Concentration Camps

Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes. Read the article here: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/am… Full interview:    • The Shared Mythological History of Israel …   Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/

JD Vance Takes On JD Vance

June 7, 2025 JD Vance Takes On JD Vance Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness asks: What happened to the author who once urged Americans to take responsibility for their lives instead of turning to the government for solutions? Police Use of Military Tools […]

Disappearing People

MONDAY, MAY 19, 2025 It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights… Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is […]

This bill is horrifying

  Donald Trump is on a lawless rampage, issuing one illegal executive order after another, shuttering government agencies, deporting legal U.S. residents, and even attempting to overturn birthright citizenship. The one part of the government standing in his way? The federal judiciary. But Republicans in the House of […]