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September 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Want to join me for this No Kings event? mobilize.us/s/ErWOwf
NO KINGS High Point · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
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June 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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June 8, 2025
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June 8, 2025
Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington, D.C., yesterday in preparation for the military parade planned for June 14.
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June 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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SCOTUS to Trump: Due Process!
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SCOTUS to Trump: Due Process!
Alito and Thomas dissent
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May 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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May 14, 2025
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May 14, 2025
On May 8, political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt published an op-ed in the New York Times reminding readers that most modern authoritarian leaders are elected.
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May 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The Democracy Index
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The Democracy Index
This week’s Democracy Index column at The Contrarian starts like this, “This week we saw the consequences of autocratic overreach.
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May 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
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May 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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April 30, 2025
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April 30, 2025
This morning the Bureau of Economic Analysis released a report showing an abrupt reversal in the U.S.
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May 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Will Pam Bondi Go to Prison?
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Will Pam Bondi Go to Prison?
TBR Sunday Read
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April 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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April 22, 2025
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April 22, 2025
Today is Earth Day, celebrated for the first time in 1970.
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April 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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We're in the sh*t now. Deep.

The Supreme Court Got It Badly Wrong open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Supreme Court Got It Badly Wrong
Today, the Trump administration made it clear: they will have to be forced to comply with the law.
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April 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Chaos
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Chaos
The American oligarchy is petrified by Trump’s economic chaos but careful not to criticize him directly
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April 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Trump has said he would “love” to do exactly that, and would even be “honored” to, and Bukele has been offering to hold U.S. citizens.

April 13, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
April 13, 2025
This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...
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April 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Sunday thought
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Sunday thought
Fighting the regime’s cruelty
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April 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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April 12, 2025
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April 12, 2025
It was just 20 days ago—on March 24—that editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg reported that the most senior members of the Trump administration discussed a military strike on the Houthis i...
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April 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Traitor of the Week: Is This the Worst Traitor Yet?
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Traitor of the Week: Is This the Worst Traitor Yet?
Welcome to the eighth installment of Traitor of the Week—TBR’s most popular series ever!
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April 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Five Questions with Olivia Troye
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Five Questions with Olivia Troye
Former Pence advisor explains Trump's EO's targeting his own people
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April 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Clarence Thomas Fears Volatile Stock Market Could Force Billionaire Hosts to Sell Their Yachts
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Clarence Thomas Fears Volatile Stock Market Could Force Billionaire Hosts to Sell Their Yachts
“There’s a human cost here that the public needs to know about.”
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April 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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March 28, 2025
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March 28, 2025
“Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.
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March 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Six small morsels of hope
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Six small morsels of hope
Friends,
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March 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Nation Shocked That Former Fox Host Might Be Liar
The bombshell threatens to tarnish the image of the nation’s most trusted news organization.
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March 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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The biggest upward transfer of wealth in history
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The biggest upward transfer of wealth in history
Trump’s tariffs will especially hurt lower-income Americans, while his tax cuts will especially benefit the wealthy.
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March 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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March 7, 2025
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March 7, 2025
Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white.
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March 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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For Trump, being an autocrat is simply his final strategy for not going to prison.
February 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM