Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in transforming America from a constitutional republic...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jun 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in transforming America from a constitutional republic...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. As we stand on the brink of a new technological order, the machinery of power is quietly shifting into the hands of algorithms. Under Donald Trump’s watch, that shift is being locked in for at least a...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | May 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
“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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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