The Barbarians Inside the Gate How Republican rhetoric demonizes opponents, invites authoritarianism, and echoes the language of fascism. Posted on Jul 30, 2026 | The Enemy Within
Kaitlan Collins and CNN are complicit in the Trump circus Trump used the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner to target CNN's Kaitlan Collins with misogynistic, transphobic jokes and cap the night by donning a "Trump 2028" hat; the press corps stayed seated and silent, feeding the attention that fuels his authoritarian strategy. Posted on Jul 29, 2026 | Salon
Yes, Trump Will Attempt a Coup Robert Kuttner argues Trump tried to steal the 2020 election and will try again in 2026, and that only vigilant courts and citizen mobilization, not the good faith of a handful of officials, can stop him this time. Posted on Jul 28, 2026 | The American Prospect
Trump's War at Home John Feffer argues the administration's deportation campaign has abandoned any pretense of limits, stripping protected status from more than a million people and sending them back to active war zones and dictatorships in Sudan, Somalia, and Myanmar, and to an earthquake-ravaged Venezuela. Posted on Jul 27, 2026 | CounterPunch
Trump's authoritarian midterm tactics Trump's announcement of an "Election Integrity Army in every single State," bigger and stronger than in 2024, is read here as fear, threats, and intimidation aimed at exerting federal control over elections under the banner of protecting them. Posted on Jul 24, 2026 | The Hill
This Is Not News. This Is Propaganda. A federal judge ruled Kari Lake's takeover of Voice of America unlawful. Congress says DHS's official communications, from social media to airport PSAs, cross a line federal appropriations law already drew. Neither ruling, nor firing the DHS secretary responsible, changed what either agency does next. Posted on Jul 20, 2026 | The Enemy Within
Trump's attacks on democracy reveal his authoritarian ambitions Writing for the London School of Economics' US Politics and Policy blog, the author argues that Trump's second-term record of attacking courts, the press, and electoral institutions fits the pattern political scientists use to identify authoritarian consolidation rather than ordinary partisan conflict. Posted on Jul 20, 2026 | LSE US Politics and Policy blog
When Dissent Becomes "Terror" Henry Giroux argues that authoritarian power does not begin by silencing critics but by rewriting the language of politics itself, redefining democratic opposition as domestic terrorism so that citizenship collapses into obedience and dissent, democracy's lifeblood, is treated as the threat. Posted on Jul 20, 2026 | CounterPunch
He Declassified His Own Rebuttal Trump's July 16 primetime address promised newly declassified proof that China stole the 2020 election. The documents he released do not say that. The officials whose job it is to know, including members of his own party, are the ones saying so. Posted on Jul 17, 2026 | The Enemy Within
Trump's Election Speech Undermines US Democracy With Debunked Claims Henderson argues Trump's primetime address "platformed a repackaged big election lie" to preemptively cast doubt on the 2026 midterms, corroding democratic norms regardless of whether any individual claim in the speech holds up to scrutiny. Posted on Jul 17, 2026 | Nia-Malika Henderson