Category: State Repression

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 […]

Authoritarianism by Popular Demand?

August 6, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, This week, we spotlight how President Nayib Bukele, already ruling under a state of emergency and with loyalists dominating the packed courts, […]

Sign the petition: Democratic lawmaker calls Alligator Alcatraz an “internment camp”

TELL CONGRESS: Democratic lawmakers visited Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention camp and described it as vile, inhumane, and disturbing. One lawmaker called it an “internment camp.” Sign the petition: Shut down Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz! ADD YOUR NAME The hastily constructed, dangerous immigrant prison in Florida that Trump has […]

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. […]

America the Ugly

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2025 Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but a spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the […]

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/