A close reading of "NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence"

Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

Peter Thiel enters the chat.

The world has never seen the phenomenon of US citizens fleeing their own country in desperate attempts to avoid incarceration, human rights abuses and possible state or vigilante violence. Such a development could lead to a extraordinary worldwide American diaspora, as those able to seek refuge do so. 

Some leave authoritarian regimes because of persecution. But some leave to fight from out of reach of the regime, and examples abound including from occupied France during the Second World War and Latin American countries ruled by dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.

"Because authoritarians love using censorship to silence opposition, it's likely gonna keep rearing its head," warned one rights group.

The White House launches a taxpayer-funded “news wire” to push state propaganda

A big lie is at the heart of Trump’s tariffs

AI is not just another tech revolution. It’s the perfect storm of surveillance, manipulation, and digital obedience...

If state governments surrender their datasets, there’s no telling how they could be abused

We must say 'no' to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war,"

Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate constitutional rights is one of the most difficult things to do in law.

How autocrats protect their claims to be the sole arbiters of truth