“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison We are being frog-marched into tyranny at the end of a loaded gun. Or rather, hundreds of thousands of loaded guns. Let’s not mince words:...
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Home Invasions on the Rise: Constitution-Free Policing in Trump’s America
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | May 2, 2025 | Featured Articles
“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”—James Otis, Revolutionary War activist, on the Writs of Assistance, 1761 What the Founders rebelled against—armed government agents invading homes...

Making Our Rights Disappear: The Authoritarian War on Due Process
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
“If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.”—Robert Reich The war on due process is here. No trials. No hearings. No rights. Just indefinite detention and secret deportations. This is the fate that awaits every one of us, not just immigrants (legal or...

When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Mar 13, 2025 | Featured Articles
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state. You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship. You can’t expect to have your rights respected...
The Rise of the Immortal Dictator: What Will AI Mean for Freedom and Government?
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jan 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
“At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”—Elon Musk (2018) Get ready for Surveillance State 2.0. To...
Animal Farm Politics: The Deep State Wins Again
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jan 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew all along: politics is corrupt. After four years of being subjected to special prosecutor Jack Smith’s dogged investigation into alleged election interference by Donald Trump, the Justice...
Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jan 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025? So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, corruption, and make-works programming that leaves us no better off...
The Deep State’s Triumph: 2024 and the Erosion of Liberty
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jan 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
We have become a nation adrift in a sea of government overreach, abuse and corruption. The following is a sobering account of the challenges we faced in 2024, which were marked by the government’s never-ending power grabs and relentless assaults on our civil...
A Gift America Can’t Return: The Police State Is America’s New Crime Boss
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Dec 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
The American police state has become America’s new crime boss. Thirty years after then-President Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act into law, its legacy of mass incarceration, police militarization, and over-criminalization continues...
When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Dec 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch. It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on...
You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Dec 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. You’ll be on this list...
Divide and Conquer: Political Riptides Threaten to Overwhelm the Nation
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Nov 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
Once again we find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms. But how do you give thanks for...
This Is How It Begins: The Deep State Wants to Terminate the Constitution
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Nov 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
This is how it begins. This is how it always begins, justified in the name of national security. Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution, at...
Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change (No Matter Who Wins)
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Nov 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
“If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal.”— Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006) After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won....
The Politics of Fear: Laying the Groundwork for Fascism, American-Style
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Everywhere you turn, those on both the left- and right-wing are fomenting...
The Danger Is Real: The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
If the three-ring circus that is the looming presidential election proves anything, it is that the Deep State’s plot to destabilize the nation is working. The danger is real. Caught up in the heavily dramatized electoral showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala...
Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Brace yourself: a tsunami approaches. While we squabble over which side is winning this losing battle to lead the country, there is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country....
Disinformation Isn’t the Problem. Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a perfect example of the Nanny State mindset at work, Hillary Clinton insists that the powers-that-be need “total control” in order to make the internet a safer place for users and protect us harm. Clinton is not alone in her distaste for unregulated,...
America Is Falling Apart: Our National Priorities Are in Dire Need of Restructuring
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”—Bob Dylan A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices. One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs...
Hidden Agendas: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
he government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful...
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