When Everything Becomes a National Security Threat
“National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly and ignore constitutional restraints. ...
About: John and Nisha Whitehead
Posts by John and Nisha Whitehead
The Constitution Can’t Protect You If You Don’t Protect It
The Constitution was designed to make tyranny difficult. It is our job is to make sure it stays that way. ...
America After 9/11: 25 Years of Fear, War, Surveillance, and Permanent Emergency
The question is not whether terrorism poses the greatest threat to our freedoms, but whether the American Police State itself has become the greatest threat. ...
Tyranny by Technicality: The Supreme Court Will Not Save Our Republic
Neither the Supreme Court, nor the president, nor Congress will preserve liberty unless the American people insist upon it. ...
The Bunker State: The Government Will Survive, but Will the Constitution?
If the Constitution cannot survive above ground, there is little reason to believe it will somehow be resurrected underground in the wake of a national catastrophe. ...
The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump’s Standing Army on American Streets
One year after President Trump deployed military troops to the nation’s capital, we find ourselves navigating a posse comitatus presidency in which the visual trappings of martial law are...
America Reaps What Trump Sows: The Price of Policing the Globe
What goes around comes around. That is the terrible law of blowback. When the United States bombs another country, threatens its government, kills its people, occupies its territory or...
A Head for an Eye: The Government’s War on the American People
The question is no longer whether the Constitution is welcome in America. The question is whether the government still considers the Constitution binding at all. ...
Trump Breaks It, We Pay for It: The Cost of Cleaning Up the Deep State’s Mess
Americans are being made to pay for undeclared wars, unlawful tariffs, constitutional violations, palace renovations, and more. ...
America the Unfree — Home of the Policed, Surveilled, and Occupied
America is occupied not by an invading army, but by a ruling class pursuing power, profit, and control at the expense of the people. ...
The Permanent War Government: Who’s Really Calling the Shots in Washington?
Does any president still lead in any meaningful constitutional sense once the permanent war government gets moving? ...
Founding Felons: Jefferson Would Be on a Watch List Today — You Might Be Next
Governments fear dissent. That's why the first target of any regime drifting toward authoritarianism is not the gun — it is the voice. ...
Unfit to Govern: We Need a 25th Amendment for the American Police State
Unlike the presidency, there is no 25th Amendment for the police state. Or is there? The answer is vigilance and constitutional resistance. ...
The Stealing of America: You’re Not a Citizen — You’re a Revenue Stream for the Power Elite
The government has turned life into a revenue stream — funding endless wars, bloated agencies, and surveillance systems — all on your dime. ...
Power Without Principle: The Rise of the Bully Presidency
Will we continue to reward the bully — or finally refuse to be ruled by one? Because the example we tolerate is the example we become. ...
The Madness of King Trump: War Games, War Crimes and a Wrecking Ball Presidency
Dysfunction, decadence, depravity, and a death cult: That, in a nutshell, sums up the mindset now at the heart of the Trump administration. ...
Preemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike
Even more important than the financial cost of Epic Fury is the loss of freedom at home being justified by war abroad. ...
Protecting Sex Predators: The Sordid Reality of the Global Power Elite
Nearly 30 years after the first complaints were filed, the Epstein files remain a masterclass in how the ruling class shields its own. ...
Government Unchained: The Year the Constitution Lost Its Guardrails
What good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at or hollow them out in practice? ...
The Constitution vs. the Commander-in-Chief: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders
Every military service member’s oath is a pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. ...