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Wrong place. Wrong time. Your phone just made you a suspect.
Location data is turning innocent Americans into suspects.
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Location data is turning innocent Americans into suspects.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Wrong place. Wrong time. Your phone just made you a suspect.
Location data is turning innocent Americans into suspects.
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Location data is turning innocent Americans into suspects.
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DHS is repurposing warehouses, watchlists, and emergency powers into permanent tools of control. History has a name for what comes next.
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Locked Down. Rounded Up. Warehoused. The Rise of America’s Concentration Camps | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Locked Down. Rounded Up. Warehoused. The Rise of America’s Concentration Camps | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Locked Down. Rounded Up. Warehoused. The Rise of America’s Concentration Camps | By John & Nisha Whitehead
DHS is repurposing warehouses, watchlists, and emergency powers into permanent tools of control. History has a name for what happens next.
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February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
DHS is repurposing warehouses, watchlists, and emergency powers into permanent tools of control. History has a name for what comes next.
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Locked Down. Rounded Up. Warehoused. The Rise of America’s Concentration Camps | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Locked Down. Rounded Up. Warehoused. The Rise of America’s Concentration Camps | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The fight for freedom doesn’t end at the courthouse steps—but too often today, that’s exactly where it’s being stopped, at least for ordinary Americans harmed by unlawful government action.
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Who Gets a Day in Court?
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Who Gets a Day in Court?
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January 27, 2026 at 3:51 PM
The fight for freedom doesn’t end at the courthouse steps—but too often today, that’s exactly where it’s being stopped, at least for ordinary Americans harmed by unlawful government action.
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Who Gets a Day in Court?
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Who Gets a Day in Court?
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This is not law enforcement.
It’s a home-invasion policy that threatens the Fourth Amendment rights of every homeowner.
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Homeowners Beware: ICE Claims Power to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants
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It’s a home-invasion policy that threatens the Fourth Amendment rights of every homeowner.
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Homeowners Beware: ICE Claims Power to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants
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January 23, 2026 at 12:29 AM
This is not law enforcement.
It’s a home-invasion policy that threatens the Fourth Amendment rights of every homeowner.
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Homeowners Beware: ICE Claims Power to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants
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It’s a home-invasion policy that threatens the Fourth Amendment rights of every homeowner.
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Homeowners Beware: ICE Claims Power to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants
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Politics is failing. The courts are retreating. But there is still one check left standing: The People’s Veto.
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Nullify the Police State: The People’s Veto to Rein in a Lawless Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Nullify the Police State: The People’s Veto to Rein in a Lawless Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Nullify the Police State: The People’s Veto to Rein in a Lawless Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
One year into Trump’s second term, executive power has expanded, accountability has collapsed, and only one constitutional check remains: the people themselves.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Politics is failing. The courts are retreating. But there is still one check left standing: The People’s Veto.
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Nullify the Police State: The People’s Veto to Rein in a Lawless Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Nullify the Police State: The People’s Veto to Rein in a Lawless Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Tyranny doesn’t look the way it used to.
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This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power. | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power. | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power. | By John & Nisha Whitehead
Tyranny doesn’t look the way it used to. There are no crowns. No coups. No tanks in the streets. Instead, there is power without restraint—and a president who claims that only his own “morality” stand...
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January 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Tyranny doesn’t look the way it used to.
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This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power. | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power. | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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“Stop the Steal” was never a warning. It was a confession.
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Stop the Steal: Projection, Retaliation, and the Theft of a Republic | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Stop the Steal: Projection, Retaliation, and the Theft of a Republic | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Stop the Steal: Projection, Retaliation, and the Theft of Our Republic | By John & Nisha Whitehead
“Stop the Steal” was never a warning. It was a confession.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
“Stop the Steal” was never a warning. It was a confession.
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Stop the Steal: Projection, Retaliation, and the Theft of a Republic | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Stop the Steal: Projection, Retaliation, and the Theft of a Republic | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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2025 didn’t just stress test the Constitution. It destroyed it.
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2025: The Year the Government Stopped Pretending It Cared About Freedom | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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2025: The Year the Government Stopped Pretending It Cared About Freedom | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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2025: The Year the Government Stopped Pretending It Cared About Freedom | By John & Nisha Whitehead
2025 didn’t just stress test the Constitution. It destroyed it.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:45 AM
2025 didn’t just stress test the Constitution. It destroyed it.
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2025: The Year the Government Stopped Pretending It Cared About Freedom | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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2025: The Year the Government Stopped Pretending It Cared About Freedom | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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What happened in that manger in Bethlehem is only the beginning of the story.
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If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State? | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State? | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State? | By John & Nisha Whitehead
Born poor. Labeled dangerous. Monitored, surveilled, and silenced for speaking truth to power. If Jesus were born today, would the American police state let him live?
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December 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What happened in that manger in Bethlehem is only the beginning of the story.
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If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State? | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State? | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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This Christmas, we might joke about Santa watching from the North Pole, but we should be far more concerned about the watchers much closer to home.
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The Surveillance State Is Making a Naughty List—and You’re On It | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Surveillance State Is Making a Naughty List—and You’re On It | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Surveillance State Is Making a Naughty List—and You’re On It | By John & Nisha Whitehead
Santa’s naughty list was a joke. The government’s isn’t.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This Christmas, we might joke about Santa watching from the North Pole, but we should be far more concerned about the watchers much closer to home.
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The Surveillance State Is Making a Naughty List—and You’re On It | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Surveillance State Is Making a Naughty List—and You’re On It | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Constitution only works when the government stays chained to its limits. In 2025, those chains broke.
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Government Unchained: The Year the Constitution Lost Its Guardrails | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Government Unchained: The Year the Constitution Lost Its Guardrails | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Government Unchained: The Year the Constitution Lost Its Guardrails | By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Constitution only works when the government stays chained to its limits. In 2025, those chains broke.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Constitution only works when the government stays chained to its limits. In 2025, those chains broke.
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Government Unchained: The Year the Constitution Lost Its Guardrails | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Government Unchained: The Year the Constitution Lost Its Guardrails | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Military families deserve justice—and the Supreme Court denied it.
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Wearing a Military Uniform Shouldn’t Mean Losing Your Right to Justice
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Wearing a Military Uniform Shouldn’t Mean Losing Your Right to Justice
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December 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Military families deserve justice—and the Supreme Court denied it.
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Wearing a Military Uniform Shouldn’t Mean Losing Your Right to Justice
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Wearing a Military Uniform Shouldn’t Mean Losing Your Right to Justice
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What happens when the government demands loyalty to a leader instead of loyalty to the Constitution?
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The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders | By John & Nisha Whitehead
What happens when the government demands loyalty to a leader instead of loyalty to the Constitution?
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December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What happens when the government demands loyalty to a leader instead of loyalty to the Constitution?
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The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The Constitution draws a clear line between freedom and the rule of law vs. rule without limits and the abuse of power. Your Giving Tuesday gift helps us hold that line.
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A free people must do more than count their blessings—they must defend them.
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Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Say ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny | By John & Nisha Whitehead
Giving thanks for our blessings requires the courage to say ‘no thanks’ to tyranny.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A free people must do more than count their blessings—they must defend them.
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Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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A small intrusion. A big erosion of the Fourth Amendment.
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Your Car Is Protected by the Fourth Amendment. A K-9’s Snout Shouldn’t Change That
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Your Car Is Protected by the Fourth Amendment. A K-9’s Snout Shouldn’t Change That
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November 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A small intrusion. A big erosion of the Fourth Amendment.
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Your Car Is Protected by the Fourth Amendment. A K-9’s Snout Shouldn’t Change That
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Your Car Is Protected by the Fourth Amendment. A K-9’s Snout Shouldn’t Change That
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This is how a crime syndicate operates—not a constitutional republic.
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Profiteering, Protection Rackets & a Pay-to-Play Presidency | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Profiteering, Protection Rackets & a Pay-to-Play Presidency | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Profiteering, Protection Rackets & a Pay-to-Play Presidency | By John & Nisha Whitehead
Profiteering. Protection rackets. Pay-to-play politics. This is how a crime syndicate operates—not a constitutional republic.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is how a crime syndicate operates—not a constitutional republic.
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Profiteering, Protection Rackets & a Pay-to-Play Presidency | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Profiteering, Protection Rackets & a Pay-to-Play Presidency | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The American Dream has been sold to the highest bidders.
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Who Really Owns America? The Banks, the Billionaires, and the Deep State
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Who Really Owns America? The Banks, the Billionaires, and the Deep State
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Who Really Owns America? The Banks, the Billionaires, and the Deep State | By John & Nisha Whitehead
The American Dream has been sold to the highest bidders.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The American Dream has been sold to the highest bidders.
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Who Really Owns America? The Banks, the Billionaires, and the Deep State
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Who Really Owns America? The Banks, the Billionaires, and the Deep State
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The machinery of secrecy in government is now running at full throttle.
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A Loss for Transparency, a Win for Government Secrecy: Supreme Court Ruling Makes It Harder to Expose Corruption, Demand Accountability
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A Loss for Transparency, a Win for Government Secrecy: Supreme Court Ruling Makes It Harder to Expose Corruption, Demand Accountability
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November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The machinery of secrecy in government is now running at full throttle.
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A Loss for Transparency, a Win for Government Secrecy: Supreme Court Ruling Makes It Harder to Expose Corruption, Demand Accountability
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A Loss for Transparency, a Win for Government Secrecy: Supreme Court Ruling Makes It Harder to Expose Corruption, Demand Accountability
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Even presidency is for sale—brick by brick, ballroom by ballroom.
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Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
In the pay-to-play American police state, money doesn’t just talk—it arrests, surveils, and kills. Now the presidency itself is for sale—brick by brick, ballroom by ballroom.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Even presidency is for sale—brick by brick, ballroom by ballroom.
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Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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One tax at a time. One war at a time. One surveillance program at a time. The government is bleeding us dry.
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The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances | By John & Nisha Whitehead
One tax. One war. One surveillance program at a time—the government is bleeding us dry.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
One tax at a time. One war at a time. One surveillance program at a time. The government is bleeding us dry.
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The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Masked. Lawless. Unaccountable. ICE isn’t enforcing the law—it’s erasing it.
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Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America | By John & Nisha Whitehead
Masked. Lawless. Unaccountable. ICE isn’t enforcing the law—it’s erasing it.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Masked. Lawless. Unaccountable. ICE isn’t enforcing the law—it’s erasing it.
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Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The presidency was never meant to be a franchise.
America is not for sale.
#RuleOfLaw #Kleptocracy #WeThePeople
America is not for sale.
#RuleOfLaw #Kleptocracy #WeThePeople
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The presidency was never meant to be a franchise.
America is not for sale.
#RuleOfLaw #Kleptocracy #WeThePeople
America is not for sale.
#RuleOfLaw #Kleptocracy #WeThePeople
When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger.
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Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution | By John & Nisha Whitehead
When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger.
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Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Under the banner of “war,” the government is giving itself license to treat the American people as the enemy.
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Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People | By John & Nisha Whitehead
Under the banner of “war,” the government is giving itself license to treat the American people as the enemy.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Under the banner of “war,” the government is giving itself license to treat the American people as the enemy.
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Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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