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June 2025

America’s Most Lawless Agency: ICE Is the Prototype for Tyranny
What ICE is doing to immigrants today, it can and will do to citizens tomorrow.
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
The Real National Emergency: Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic
While the U.S. bombs Yemen, funds wars in the Middle East, and props up its military empire, America’s infrastructure is collapsing. The real emergency…
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
Weaponizing Immigration: Trump Administration Accused of Using Deportation Powers to Punish Protesters, Chill Political Speech
Protesting shouldn’t be a deportable offense. But in Trump’s America, it is.
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
The Spectacle of a Police State: This Is Martial Law Without a Formal Declaration of War
This is more than political theater; it is a constitutional crisis in motion.
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison
Palantir + Trump = The End of Constitutional Privacy
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead

May 2025

The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
AI won’t forget. It won’t forgive. And it won’t be voted out.
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
They’re Coming for Your Birthright: Citizenship as Spectacle, Transaction, or Privilege
What happens when citizenship becomes a reality show prize, a $5 million purchase, or a political loyalty test?
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
Trump Is Making America Constitutionally Literate—By Violating the Constitution
President Trump has become a walking civics lesson...on government overreach and tyranny.
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
Facing Court Losses, White House Considers Suspending Habeas Corpus
BURLINGTON, Vt.
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
Martial Law Disguised as Law and Order: The Oldest Trick in the Authoritarian Playbook
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
No One’s Speech Is Safe: Trump’s Deportation Machine Targets Dissenting Voices
BURLINGTON, Vt.
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John W. Whitehead
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Nisha Whitehead
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