Tyranny rarely announces itself. It emerges when institutions defer and constraints quietly dissolve. As Ruth Ben-Ghiat notes in Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, autocrats like Mussolini and Orbán didn’t act
Civil liberties aren’t a gift from the government. They’re protections from it. They’re the reason I can write this blog without fear, why my neighbor can pray freely, why activists
Part 6: The Kids Who Stayed Behind After the knock, after the silence – what happens to the children still expected to pledge allegiance, solve for x and turn in
Part 5 – When Neighbors Become Organizers It didn’t start with petitions. It started with casseroles. With porch lights left on. With neighbors who couldn’t sleep after the black SUVs
A Mid-Year Emergency Session of the Board of We the People LLC Opening Statement from the Chairman Subject: Six-Month Performance Review — CEO Donald J. TrumpDate: Fiscal Q2, Reality Optional
Part 4 – The Lawful, the Vulnerable and the Vanished They followed every instruction. Showed up for check-ins. Paid taxes. Kept their appointments. Taught Sunday school. Filled out the forms.
Part 3 — They Were at My Graduation Last Year It started with one name not called at roll. Then another. And another. In a middle school in Arkansas, two
And while they danced beneath chandeliers and fireworks, lawmakers in Washington prepared their own celebration; a grotesque tribute to inherited wealth and institutionalized greed. They call it the One Big
Part 2 – When They Were Taken The shriek of tires. The clash of doors. The sound of lives shattering. It doesn’t always happen in the shadows. Sometimes it happens
Part 1 — When the Lights Go Out Next Door It began with shrieking. Not laughter or squeals from tag in the yard, but high, piercing screams from children, echoing