“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not...

“It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” Michael Corleone, The Godfather Pay-to-play schemes. Protection rackets. Extortion. Corruption. Self-enrichment. Graft. Grift. Brutality. Roaming bands of thugs smashing car windows and terrorizing communities. Immunity...

“Kleptocracy: a society whose leaders make themselves rich and powerful by stealing from the rest of the people.” Cambridge Dictionary America has been backsliding into kleptocratic territory for years...

“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human...

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Thomas Jefferson>/a> For a man supposedly intent on winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump spends an extraordinary amount of time waging war,...

“Brother, I am American. You are twisting my arm.” Man shouts “I am American” while ICE agents detain him Masked gunmen. Tasers. Tear gas. Pepper spray. Unmarked vehicles. Intimidation...

“When they came in the middle of the night, they terrorized the families that were living there. There were children who were without clothing, they were zip tied, taken...

“The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting… We untie the hands...

“Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we...

“That was when they suspended the Constitution…There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale What we are witnessing is not a government of the...

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.” Thomas Paine They said it was for safety. They said it was for order. They said...

“The world will soon understand nothing can stop what is coming.” President Trump Donald Trump has always been a master of imagery. From his red MAGA hats to his choreographed...

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Ray Bradbury Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on...

“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? … Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.”...

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”...

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.” John...

“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.” Hannah Arendt The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on...

“Now by coming in and being part of the cover-up, the Trump administration has become part of it. I mean, it’s just you cannot see it any other way.” Alex...

“When the states legalize the deliberate ending of certain lives… it will eventually broaden the categories of those who can be put to death with impunity.” Nat Hentoff, The Washington...

“You think we’re arresting people now? You wait till we get the funding to do what we got to do.” Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar America is rapidly becoming a...