Authoritarianism

How Republican rhetoric demonizes opponents, invites authoritarianism, and echoes the language of fascism. [Read More]

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. [Read More]

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. [Read More]

Two ICE officers killed two men in two vehicle stops six days apart, and neither man was the person agents had come to arrest. Judged by the standard DHS applies to everyone else, that is state terrorism. [Read More]

Joan Sebastian Guerrero was not the man ICE had a warrant for. Neither was Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, six days earlier in Houston. Twice in one week, federal agents killed someone who was not their target, then let the confusion stand for hours before correcting the record. [Read More]

Trump’s allies are turning Charlie Kirk into a martyr, using his death as pretext for authoritarian crackdowns on dissent — from silencing comedians like Jimmy Kimmel to echoes of Horst Wessel’s martyr myth in 1930s Germany. [Read More]

Trump’s nine national emergency declarations abuse the NEA to bypass Congress, militarize policy, and threaten civil liberties, demanding urgent resistance. [Read More]