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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 1d

The Battle for the American Memory

History has become the battlefield of power. As monuments rise and memories fade, democracy survives only through citizens who insist on telling the story themselves.

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The Battle for the American Memory

Trump’s monuments and proclamations reveal a campaign to rewrite history and redefine loyalty. The fight for democracy begins with memory itself.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 1d

The Week the Past Became a Weapon

The administration used bureaucracy and history to control—purging scientists, rewriting Columbus, and paying soldiers by decree. Myth and machinery serve the same master, making defending truth democracy’s final act of self-government.

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The Week the Past Became a Weapon

A Columbus Day proclamation and civil-service purge fuse myth and machinery—showing how autocracy sanctifies obedience through history itself.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 2d

The Week the Line Was Crossed Twice

Courts drew the line. The president crossed it—twice. America’s legal system now fights for survival one injunction, one protest, one act of conscience at a time.

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The Week the Line Was Crossed Twice

Judges halted Trump’s troop deployments. His government answered with indictments and defiance. This week, the law itself became the target of power.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 2d

Week 38: When the State Forgets Its Soul

Week 38 marked the republic’s return to work without its soul. Selective reopenings, partisan relief, and falsified data exposed governance as obedience. Law served grievance, truth served narrative, and memory served power.

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Week 38: When the State Forgets Its Soul

In Week 38, government reopened by loyalty and memory was rewritten by design. Law served grievance, truth served narrative, democracy lost another six minutes.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 4d

The Record of a Great President

Joe Biden’s presidency began in crisis and ended in recovery. Despite noise, he achieved historic job growth, reduced poverty, record energy output, and restored integrity. The numbers show a quiet, impactful term—a great president’s record.

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The Record of a Great President

Measured by results, not rhetoric, Joe Biden’s four years stand among the most productive in modern American history. The record speaks for itself.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 5d

The Public Fights Back: Peacefully

As federal power turns inward, citizens peacefully protest, document events, teachers walk out, clergy hold vigils, and neighbors film raids. The article shows how Americans rebuild democracy through endurance and quiet, peaceful courage.

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The Public Fights Back: Peacefully

When the state governs through fear, the people answer with composure. Across America, democracy’s quiet defenders are proving that peace itself can be protest.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 6d

What if Anger Were the Point?

Trump’s second term has transformed anger into strategy. Using emergency laws, military displays, and deliberate provocation, his team rule through exhaustion—trying to push Americans toward the single spark that could justify lasting power.

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What if Anger Were the Point?

When fury becomes strategy, democracy becomes tinder. A government built on provocation doesn’t fear unpopularity—it depends on it.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 7d

The Attorney General Who Answered Nothing

Pam Bondi’s Senate hearing exposed a Department of Justice that no longer defends the law but instead shows loyalty. Her refusals—regarding pardons, bribes, and the Epstein files—revealed a regime kept secret.

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The Attorney General Who Answered Nothing

The nation’s chief law officer answered nothing—and in that silence, America glimpsed what happens when loyalty replaces law and secrecy becomes the last defense of power.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 8d

Democracy Declared Hostile Territory

The Trump administration’s military actions have shifted from governance to occupation, ignoring courts and targeting judges while the Insurrection Act looms. Democracy depends on citizens' unwillingness to accept this declaration of war.

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Democracy Declared Hostile Territory

When a president treats the republic as enemy territory, the only defense left is presence—the courage of citizens who refuse to live as captives of their own government.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 9d

The Week the Courts Held, the Government Fell Silent

In Week 37, law bent, data vanished, and silence became policy. The courts resisted, but the administration turned defiance into theater, governing by coercion and narrative control. Every covenant principle broke further.

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The Week the Courts Held, and the Government Fell Silent

When power commands silence and truth requires permission, democracy endures only in those who refuse both.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 10d

The Shutdown is Not About Money

The shutdown is a political tactic. Trump is using the government as leverage to pressure Democrats and win in 2026 and 2028. The answer isn’t outrage—it’s turnout.

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The Shutdown is Not About Money

This shutdown isn’t about numbers—it’s about blame. And votes. Trump’s government-by-crisis turns fatigue into campaign fuel. The only countermeasure is to keep showing up.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 11d

The Death of Democracy

Fifteen years after Citizens United, democracy is no longer broken—it’s bought. This traces the sale of self-government from courtroom to capital market, ending in a nation ruled by money, myth, and menace. The republic was not overthrown. It was sold.

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January 21, 2010: The Death of Democracy

The death of democracy came not by coup but by contract. Citizens United was the bill of sale, and the buyers are now collecting.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 12d

Trump’s shutdown isn’t mismanagement; it’s a loyalty test, a strategy of punishment and reward. Its goal is to strengthen obedience; the aim is 2026 and 2028. The message is clear: popularity doesn’t matter if the next election isn’t fair.

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The Shutdown Makes No Sense, Unless …

Why Trump’s shutdown isn’t chaos—it’s the next move in his plan for minority rule.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 13d

Shutdown as Weapon

Trump’s shutdown isn’t about budgets but about power. By causing pain, spreading propaganda, and targeting opponents, he aims to prove that hostage-taking works. The public must demand clear funding, support workers, and be informed with facts against lies.

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Shutdown as Weapon

The shutdown is not negotiation—it is hostage politics. Pain is the point. The only antidote is public outrage, armed with facts and directed at power.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 15d

Government as Leverage

Trump has turned government into leverage—using health care, tariffs, violence, and even peace plans as personal tools. The result is higher costs, civilian casualties, and a weakened state.

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Government as Leverage

Donald Trump is dismantling public purpose and replacing it with personal gain. Health care, security, economics, and diplomacy are no longer national instruments but private assets.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 16d

Portland: This Is What Standing Up to Trump Looks Like

Trump turned a false claim about Portland into a federal deployment. Oregon answered with a lawsuit, exposing weakness masquerading as power.

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Portland: This Is What Standing Up to Trump Looks Like

Trump’s order to federalize Oregon’s National Guard is spectacle masquerading as power. Oregon’s lawsuit shows how states, citizens, and courts can resist authoritarian theater.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 16d

Portland: A Test We Must Not Fail

Trump’s Portland troop order fabricates crisis to expand power. Los Angeles showed the waste: idle soldiers, sinking morale, rising costs. Democracies fail not when tanks roll first, but when citizens accept soldiers as props.

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Portland: A Test We Must Not Fail

Portland is the stage, not the target. Fabricated crisis is the test. Failure means silence. Passing means refusal, litigation, and exposing spectacle for what it is.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 16d

The Ministry of Unreality

Trump’s weekend of falsehoods—FBI agents in the J6 crowd, AI “medbeds” for miraculous cures—was no accident. It was governance by unreality. Democracies collapse not when people believe lies, but when they stop believing in the truth.

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The Ministry of Unreality

Trump’s weekend of FBI phantoms and AI “medbeds” was not a gaffe—it was a strategy. When lies become governance, democracy itself is rewritten.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 16d

The Day Loyalty Replaced Law

Trump’s decision to join a mass gathering of U.S. generals at Quantico transformed a routine lecture into a loyalty ritual. Democracies rest on military oaths to the Constitution, not to leaders.

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The Day Loyalty Replaced Law

When the president summons generals for spectacle, the oath itself is on trial. Democracies erode not by law first, but by ritual.t erodes the oath binding the military to the Constitution.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 16d

Week 36 - Law as Weapon, Speech as Privilege

Comey indicted, truth corroded at the UN, tariffs weaponized, free speech chilled: Week 36 shows democracy eroding not in leaps but in the grinding normality of impunity.

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Week 36 - Law as Weapon, Speech as Privilege

Comey indicted, truth corroded at the UN, tariffs weaponized, free speech chilled: Week 36 shows democracy eroding not in leaps but in the grinding normality of impunity.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 18d

Comey’s indictment capped a day when Trump turned crisis into policy. Threats of mass firings, voter-roll seizures, tariffs, and a “terror memo” all pointed to the same design: a government built on permanent emergency. The antidote is not fear but engagement.

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The Indictment as Emergency

James Comey’s indictment was not just revenge. It was proof that Trump’s second term governs by permanent crisis

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 19d

The Next Three Moves – A Terrifying Prediction

Trump is dismantling neutrality, criminalizing dissent, and staging crisis. This week’s firings threat, Comey indictment, voter-roll seizures, and generals’ recall are not scattered events but parts of one plan.

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The Next Three Moves – A Terrifying Prediction

The scariest part of Trump’s plan is not surprise, but routine: predictable moves—civil service purges, criminalized dissent, staged crises—that, unchecked, turn democracy into theater.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 20d

Trump’s All-Out Attack on Health

Trump promised to “make America healthy again.” Instead, his second term has brought measles outbreaks, higher insurance premiums, delayed research, shuttered pharmacies, and quack remedies, an all-out attack on what keeps Americans alive.

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Trump’s All-Out Attack on Health

Measles returns, insurance costs soar, research stalls, pharmacies close. Trump’s health agenda dismantles protections and exposes Americans to preventable harm.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 21d

Humiliation at the United Nations

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Humiliation at the United Nations

Trump’s UN speech showed what happens when misinformation meets independence: no fear, no payoff, just humiliation for America on the world stage.

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Jim Vincent @jimvincent.us · 24d

A Lifetime of Freedom Gains Lost

Since 1950, America strengthened thirty freedoms. In 2025, twenty-four are under attack. This week’s censorship proves the danger, and a full ledger shows the damage: freedom dies not in darkness but in silence.

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A Lifetime of Freedom Gains Lost

Seventy-five years of progress, gone in eight months

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