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Making Our Rights Disappear: The Authoritarian War on Due Process
John & Nisha Whitehead
“If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you. The Trump regime is already targeting immigrants who are here...
Beyond the Law: What It Means to Weaponize the Government
John & Nisha Whitehead
President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but...
When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Once the principle is established that the government can arrest and jail protesters…officials will use it to silence opposition...
The Deep State’s War on Truth—Waged with Doublespeak, Delusion and Propaganda
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity...
Nullifying the Constitution Won’t Make America Great Again
John & Nisha Whitehead
“You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its...
The Deep State Wins Again: All the Ways ‘We the People’ Keep Losing Our Freedoms
John & Nisha Whitehead
“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much...
A Constitutional Crisis: Can the Rule of Law Survive This Presidency?
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be...
Sleepwalking into Tyranny: How Power is Silently Being Seized
John & Nisha Whitehead
“This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list,...
The Rise of the Immortal Dictator: What Will AI Mean for Freedom and Government?
John & Nisha Whitehead
“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the...
The Constitution Has Gone AWOL: From Presidential Power Grabs to Martial Law
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just...
Animal Farm Politics: The Deep State Wins Again
John & Nisha Whitehead
“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to...
Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die
John & Nisha Whitehead
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the...
The Deep State’s Triumph: 2024 and the Erosion of Liberty
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Everyday the future looks a little bit darker.” Alan Moore, Watchmen We have become a nation adrift in a sea...
A Gift America Can’t Return: The Police State Is America’s New Crime Boss
John & Nisha Whitehead
“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous,...
What If the Baby Jesus Had Been Born into the American Police State?
John & Nisha Whitehead
“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings...
When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country...
You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It
John & Nisha Whitehead
“He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or good...
Divide and Conquer: Political Riptides Threaten to Overwhelm the Nation
John & Nisha Whitehead
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes...
This Is How It Begins: The Deep State Wants to Terminate the Constitution
John & Nisha Whitehead
“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale This is...
The Very Definition of Tyranny: A Dictatorship Disguised as Democracy
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or...
