authoritarianism
The President's List of Subversives
Week by week and step by step, Trump is creating his own list of "subversives"--organizations, individual people, even entire American cities.
political repression
authoritarianism
For Senate Democrats, The Moment Of Truth Is At Hand
Senate Democrats must internalize the reality of the existential threat Trump represents to the survival of the constitutional Republic and then act accordingly.
political repression
Defund Trump's Repression Machine
Not since the Federalists controlled the White House and Congress at the end of the 18th century have we seen this kind of systematized, lock-step domestic political repression perpetrated in unison by the political branches of our government.
political repression
Starving the Feds: The Last Option to Peacefully End the Repression
Trump's militarization of immigration enforcement and "crime control" is, of course, nothing more than a smokescreen for preparing for further such political repression operations in other areas of the country under the control of elected Democrats.
Government shutdown
Just Shut It Down
If you're a member of the United States Senate in 2025, you don't keep writing checks to the guy who's in the process of actively destroying a 250-year-old experiment in representative government.
Rosie O'Donnell
Trump Trashes Rosie: Distraction or Opportunity?
The question right now is whether O'Donnell, who has engaged in high-profile legal battles in the past, wants to go after Trump for defamation in American courts, assuming the Supreme Court does not foreclose such an option.
Donald Trump
The Monster Screaming the Loudest
In the weeks and months ahead, it may be necessary for each of us to make a life-altering decision: whether to confront the regime ourselves, in concert with like-minded people loyal to the constitutional Republic.
Books
The Triumph of Fear: Past As Prologue
If all of this sounds eerily familiar and frightening, it's because Trump is clearly--and enthusiastically--blazing his own infamous trail of authoritarianism that already matches, and in some cases is poised to surpass, the outrageous conduct of those who came before him.
political repression
Political Repression, American Style
The story it tells is not, unfortunately, an April Fools joke.
Donald Trump
A Republic Under Siege
We are now witnessing, in real time, the price for not taking far more aggressive governmental reform and reorganization measures in the wake of successive presidents’ radical abuses of law enforcement and presidential powers.
2025
A Holiday Break and a 2025 Preview
Exposing and opposing would-be American authoritarians, regardless of where they fall along the political spectrum, will continue to be at the heart of the Sentinel's mission in 2025 and beyond.
Donald Trump
Trump's Very Own "Führerprinzip"
The demand for absolute obeisance to Trump is well understood by the already GOP controlled House of Representatives.