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Engage for Democracy | Analysis & Take Action | December 2, 2025
Lawful Orders Only: A Constitutional Crisis That Requires Immediate Congressional Intervention
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Lawful Orders Only: A Constitutional Crisis That Requires Immediate Congressional Intervention
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Lawful Orders Only: A Constitutional Crisis That Requires Congressional Intervention
A legal analysis of unlawful orders, executive disinformation, and the constitutional duty of Congress to check abuses of power and safeguard the rule of law to uphold our Constitutional Republic.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Engage for Democracy | Analysis & Take Action | December 2, 2025
Lawful Orders Only: A Constitutional Crisis That Requires Immediate Congressional Intervention
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Lawful Orders Only: A Constitutional Crisis That Requires Immediate Congressional Intervention
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Engage for Democracy | News and Action | November 15, 2025
The President of the United States Is Ordering At-Sea Strikes Without Constitutional or Statutory Authority
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The President of the United States Is Ordering At-Sea Strikes Without Constitutional or Statutory Authority
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The President of the United States Is Ordering At-Sea Strikes Without Constitutional or Statutory Authority
Per the public record, these killings are unlawful: no congressional authorization, no imminent self-defense, and feasible interdiction was ignored.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Engage for Democracy | News and Action | November 15, 2025
The President of the United States Is Ordering At-Sea Strikes Without Constitutional or Statutory Authority
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The President of the United States Is Ordering At-Sea Strikes Without Constitutional or Statutory Authority
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Engage for Democracy |November 1, 2025
This week’s edition marks the release of The Constitutional and Legal Limits That Supersede Executive Orders, a civic explainer.
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This week’s edition marks the release of The Constitutional and Legal Limits That Supersede Executive Orders, a civic explainer.
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The Constitutional and Legal Limits That Supersede Executive Orders
A Citizen’s Guide on the Lawful Scope and Limits of Executive Orders
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November 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Engage for Democracy |November 1, 2025
This week’s edition marks the release of The Constitutional and Legal Limits That Supersede Executive Orders, a civic explainer.
📘 Read the full explainer here, and share widely: engagefordemocracy.substack.com/p/the-consti...
This week’s edition marks the release of The Constitutional and Legal Limits That Supersede Executive Orders, a civic explainer.
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New Civic Explainer from Engage for Democracy!
Understanding these limits is essential to evaluating claims of presidential power in military and emergency contexts.
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Understanding these limits is essential to evaluating claims of presidential power in military and emergency contexts.
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Presidential Military Authority and Its Limits
A Citizen’s Guide to the Law that Separates Civilian Democracy from Military Power
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October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New Civic Explainer from Engage for Democracy!
Understanding these limits is essential to evaluating claims of presidential power in military and emergency contexts.
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Understanding these limits is essential to evaluating claims of presidential power in military and emergency contexts.
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Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Engage for Democracy | October 10, 2025
A nonpartisan explainer on the Benefit Myths and Legal Realities of Undocumented Immigrants, and how myths have been used to shape public debate.
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A nonpartisan explainer on the Benefit Myths and Legal Realities of Undocumented Immigrants, and how myths have been used to shape public debate.
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The Benefit Myths and Legal Realities of Undocumented Immigrants
A Nonpartisan Explainer on Federal Law, Eligibility, and Why the Myths Matter
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October 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Engage for Democracy | October 10, 2025
A nonpartisan explainer on the Benefit Myths and Legal Realities of Undocumented Immigrants, and how myths have been used to shape public debate.
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A nonpartisan explainer on the Benefit Myths and Legal Realities of Undocumented Immigrants, and how myths have been used to shape public debate.
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Testing Constitutional Limits: Four Cases of Government Pressure on the Press
How Recent White House Actions Measure Against First Amendment Protections And Civic Action Each Of Us Can Take
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How Recent White House Actions Measure Against First Amendment Protections And Civic Action Each Of Us Can Take
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Testing Constitutional Limits: Four Cases of Government Pressure on the Press
How Recent White House Actions Measure Against First Amendment Protections And Civic Action Each Of Us Can Take
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October 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Testing Constitutional Limits: Four Cases of Government Pressure on the Press
How Recent White House Actions Measure Against First Amendment Protections And Civic Action Each Of Us Can Take
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How Recent White House Actions Measure Against First Amendment Protections And Civic Action Each Of Us Can Take
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Understanding the First Amendment has never been more important. Our latest explainer breaks down what the Constitution actually protects for press freedom—and what it doesn't.
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Freedom of the Press: What the First Amendment Protects, and Why It Matters Now
A Nonpartisan Explainer on the First Amendment's Freedom of the Press Protections and Limitations.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Understanding the First Amendment has never been more important. Our latest explainer breaks down what the Constitution actually protects for press freedom—and what it doesn't.
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Engage for Democracy, September 17/18, 2025.
New analysis: Lethal strikes at sea and the rule of law
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New analysis: Lethal strikes at sea and the rule of law
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The President Ordered Lethal Strikes at Sea
Per the public record, they amount to extrajudicial killings: no congressional authorization, no imminent self-defense, and interdiction was feasible.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Engage for Democracy, September 17/18, 2025.
New analysis: Lethal strikes at sea and the rule of law
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New analysis: Lethal strikes at sea and the rule of law
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Engage For Democracy | News & Action to Take | September 10, 2025
Please read, share widely and take action. By acting together with clarity and conviction, we honor the Constitution we inherited and ensure it endures for those who come after us.
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Please read, share widely and take action. By acting together with clarity and conviction, we honor the Constitution we inherited and ensure it endures for those who come after us.
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When the President Threatens War on American Cities
Constitutional Violations Require Action: why citizens, Congress, governors, and the military must act now.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Engage For Democracy | News & Action to Take | September 10, 2025
Please read, share widely and take action. By acting together with clarity and conviction, we honor the Constitution we inherited and ensure it endures for those who come after us.
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Please read, share widely and take action. By acting together with clarity and conviction, we honor the Constitution we inherited and ensure it endures for those who come after us.
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Steps away from the Capitol, victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender, on Wednesday demanded that all people who received sexual favors through Epstein be identified. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Steps away from the Capitol, victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender, on Wednesday demanded that all people who received sexual favors through Epstein be identified. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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These are a gem.
My old town had a tool library, my new town has a sewing library.
Gifts. 🎁
My old town had a tool library, my new town has a sewing library.
Gifts. 🎁
September 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
These are a gem.
My old town had a tool library, my new town has a sewing library.
Gifts. 🎁
My old town had a tool library, my new town has a sewing library.
Gifts. 🎁
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I’m so impressed by the survivors and I’m behind their efforts to get validation, conviction for those involved ! Enough is enough! #jeffreyEpstein
September 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I’m so impressed by the survivors and I’m behind their efforts to get validation, conviction for those involved ! Enough is enough! #jeffreyEpstein
Engage for Democracy |The Pattern of Constitutional Inversion
September 3, 2025
When a Cabinet secretary advances a narrative that subverts rights, Congress, and the courts.
Read, Share and Take Action with our modifiable template letters.
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September 3, 2025
When a Cabinet secretary advances a narrative that subverts rights, Congress, and the courts.
Read, Share and Take Action with our modifiable template letters.
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The Pattern of Constitutional Inversion
When a Cabinet secretary advances a narrative that subverts rights, Congress, and the courts
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September 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Engage for Democracy |The Pattern of Constitutional Inversion
September 3, 2025
When a Cabinet secretary advances a narrative that subverts rights, Congress, and the courts.
Read, Share and Take Action with our modifiable template letters.
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September 3, 2025
When a Cabinet secretary advances a narrative that subverts rights, Congress, and the courts.
Read, Share and Take Action with our modifiable template letters.
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Grave Due Process Concerns in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case
How the Abrego Garcia Case Reveals Patterns of Breaches of Constitutional Safeguards
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How the Abrego Garcia Case Reveals Patterns of Breaches of Constitutional Safeguards
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Grave Due Process Concerns in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case
How the Abrego Garcia Case Reveals Patterns of Breaches of Constitutional Safeguards
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August 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Grave Due Process Concerns in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case
How the Abrego Garcia Case Reveals Patterns of Breaches of Constitutional Safeguards
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How the Abrego Garcia Case Reveals Patterns of Breaches of Constitutional Safeguards
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Engage for Democracy | Today's News and Action
August 22, 2025
Unchecked Expansion of Federal Law Enforcement Authority Concentrates Police Power in the Executive
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August 22, 2025
Unchecked Expansion of Federal Law Enforcement Authority Concentrates Police Power in the Executive
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Unchecked Expansion of Federal Law Enforcement Authority Concentrates Police Power in the Executive
The Interior Department’s deputization of border agents, announced only on social media, bypasses statutory limits and weakens the separation of powers that sustains our Republic.
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August 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Engage for Democracy | Today's News and Action
August 22, 2025
Unchecked Expansion of Federal Law Enforcement Authority Concentrates Police Power in the Executive
Read Analysis and Take Action Here: engagefordemocracy.substack.com/p/unchecked-...
August 22, 2025
Unchecked Expansion of Federal Law Enforcement Authority Concentrates Police Power in the Executive
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Constitutional Crisis in the Capital: Trump's Unprecedented Takeover of D.C. Police
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Constitutional Crisis in the Capital: Trump's Unprecedented Takeover of D.C. Police
How violating the Home Rule Act, EMAC protocols, and appropriations authority threatens democratic governance nationwide
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August 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Constitutional Crisis in the Capital: Trump's Unprecedented Takeover of D.C. Police
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✏️ Read the full edition and join the effort to defend our democratic guardrails with easy-to-take actions: engagefordemocracy.substack.com/p/constituti...
Please read, share Widely, and consider taking the easy action embedded in the edition. In solidarity, Engage for Democracy. engagefordemocracy.substack.com/p/the-power-...
The Power to Spend Belongs to Congress
How the Executive Branch’s Funding Freeze Defied the Constitution and Threatens the Separation of Powers
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August 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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🚨 New Edition: The Power to Spend Belongs to Congress
How the Executive Branch's Funding Freeze Defied the Constitution and Threatens the Separation of Powers
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How the Executive Branch's Funding Freeze Defied the Constitution and Threatens the Separation of Powers
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The Power to Spend Belongs to Congress
How the Executive Branch’s Funding Freeze Defied the Constitution and Threatens the Separation of Powers
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August 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🚨 New Edition: The Power to Spend Belongs to Congress
How the Executive Branch's Funding Freeze Defied the Constitution and Threatens the Separation of Powers
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Thank you for your Civic engagement!
How the Executive Branch's Funding Freeze Defied the Constitution and Threatens the Separation of Powers
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Thank you for your Civic engagement!
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When Courts Appoint, Presidents Fire: A Constitutional Crisis in New Jersey
How the Trump Administration Removed a Court-Appointed Prosecutor to Install a Political Loyalist
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July 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Read, Share & Take Action in today's news and action edition.
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📢 New from Engage for Democracy: Today's News & Action
Truth, justice, and accountability should not be the collateral damage of disinformation from those in power. Civic action is how we restore balance. Read, Share widely, & Take Action! Thank you.
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Truth, justice, and accountability should not be the collateral damage of disinformation from those in power. Civic action is how we restore balance. Read, Share widely, & Take Action! Thank you.
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Manufactured Narratives, Real Consequences for our Democracy
Truth, justice, and accountability should not be the collateral damage of disinformation from those in power. Civic action is how we restore balance.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
📢 New from Engage for Democracy: Today's News & Action
Truth, justice, and accountability should not be the collateral damage of disinformation from those in power. Civic action is how we restore balance. Read, Share widely, & Take Action! Thank you.
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Truth, justice, and accountability should not be the collateral damage of disinformation from those in power. Civic action is how we restore balance. Read, Share widely, & Take Action! Thank you.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Take Action Edition | Engage for Democracy
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The Founders' Warning Realized: How 'Alligator Alcatraz' Threatens Our Constitutional Government
When Constitutional Violations Become Human and Civil Rights Abuses
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July 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Take Action Edition | Engage for Democracy
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📬 Take Action with easy-to-use, embedded email tools to Congress
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July 18, 2025 | Take Action Edition | Engage for Democracy
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🛑 Three Actions, One Direction: How Executive Branch Power Is Being Consolidated at the Expense of Rights and Oversight
This week’s rescission, database, and shutdown reveal a coordinated shift in power, quietly expanding executive control while weakening democratic safeguards.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
July 18, 2025 | Take Action Edition | Engage for Democracy
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Today's Engage For Democracy edition focuses on third country deportations. Please read, share, and take (easy!) Action. engagefordemocracy.substack.com/p/a-constitu...
July 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Today's Engage For Democracy edition focuses on third country deportations. Please read, share, and take (easy!) Action. engagefordemocracy.substack.com/p/a-constitu...