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The Doomsday Government: Preparing For The End Of The World, Not The End Of Power
Wednesday, 28 October 2026, 7:55 am | The Rutherford Institute
As civilization faces extinction, the men in charge begin discussing how a select portion of the population might survive underground in mineshafts, eventually emerging to rebuild civilization. More >>
Vote As If The Constitution Depended On It
Thursday, 22 October 2026, 9:13 am | The Rutherford Institute
Somewhere along the way, Americans seem to have forgotten that independent thought is not an act of political betrayal. Neither is holding government officials accountable to the Constitution. More >>
The Politics Of Denial: When Americans Stop Seeing The Warning Signs
Friday, 16 October 2026, 9:06 am | The Rutherford Institute
The government doesn’t have to abolish the Constitution outright when it can persuade the public that certain people should no longer be entitled to its protections. More >>
AI Authoritarianism: A Government Without Constitutional Brakes
Thursday, 8 October 2026, 4:36 pm | The Rutherford Institute
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are disappearing from the government payroll at the same time that Washington is racing to automate the work they once performed with artificial intelligence. More >>
First Them, Then Us: America’s Shift From Police State To Prison State
Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 8:23 pm | The Rutherford Institute
Once the government establishes that it can suspend the Constitution’s safeguards for one disfavored group, there is nothing magical that keeps those powers confined to that group. More >>
When Everything Becomes A National Security Threat
Thursday, 24 September 2026, 7:21 am | The Rutherford Institute
“National security” has been used as the justification for surveillance, secret courts, classification, warrantless spying, military intervention, watchlists, detention, border searches, censorship claims and the concealment of government misconduct. More >>
The Constitution Can’t Protect You If You Don’t Protect It
Thursday, 17 September 2026, 8:25 am | The Rutherford Institute
What’s the point in celebrating the Constitution one day a year if we permit the government to violate it the other 364? More >>
America After 9/11: 25 Years Of Fear, War, Surveillance And Permanent Emergency
Wednesday, 9 September 2026, 3:16 pm | The Rutherford Institute
Twenty-five years after 9/11, one has to ask: has the nightmare ever really ended? For a quarter-century, Americans have been governed by fear: fear of terrorists and foreign enemies, fear of domestic extremists and political opponents, fear of the ... More >>
Tyranny By Technicality: The Supreme Court Will Not Save Our Republic
Thursday, 3 September 2026, 9:32 am | The Rutherford Institute
The danger today is not merely that courts will favor order and procedure over freedom. It is that by the time justice makes an appearance, it will arrive so narrowly, so procedurally and so late that the government will already have prevailed. More >>
The Bunker State: The Government Will Survive, But Will The Constitution?
Thursday, 27 August 2026, 9:34 am | The Rutherford Institute
What began publicly as Donald Trump’s lavish, taxpayer-funded vision of a gilded White House ballroom is now being justified by the administration—in and out of court—as a matter of national security. More >>
The Gloves Are Off: ICE, Electric Shock Weapons And Secret Police
Thursday, 20 August 2026, 8:22 am | The Rutherford Institute
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to spend as much as $20 million to equip its agents with thousands of gloves capable of delivering painful electric shocks through direct contact with a person’s skin. More >>
The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump’s Standing Army On American Streets
Thursday, 13 August 2026, 9:00 am | The Rutherford Institute
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 the norm, not the exception. More >>
America Reaps What Trump Sows: The Price Of Policing The Globe
Friday, 7 August 2026, 4:04 pm | The Rutherford Institute
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 attempts to dictate its future, the consequences do not remain safely ... More >>
A Head For An Eye: The Government’s War On The American People
Friday, 31 July 2026, 6:32 pm | The Rutherford Institute
The greatest danger is not that Trump keeps testing the limits. It is that the institutions entrusted with enforcing those limits keep failing the test. More >>
Getting Away With Murder: Under Trump, The Buck Stops Nowhere
Sunday, 26 July 2026, 7:59 pm | The Rutherford Institute
The government operates above the law. Those who wield power become untouchable. Those who suffer are treated as disposable. Justice becomes whatever the government says it is. More >>
While The Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds The Digital Police State
Tuesday, 14 July 2026, 9:49 am | The Rutherford Institute
While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march. More >>
Dissent Is Not Disloyalty: The Right And Duty To Criticize The GovernmentBy John & Nisha Whitehead
Thursday, 9 July 2026, 3:24 pm | The Rutherford Institute
In Trump’s America, the president is free to call other nations bad actors, label his opponents dangerous, and treat disagreement as betrayal. But dare to criticize Trump and you may find yourself treated as the threat. More >>
The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges
Saturday, 4 July 2026, 4:33 pm | The Rutherford Institute
What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? More >>
Empire At 250: Can The Principles Of 1776 Survive The American Police State?
Monday, 29 June 2026, 8:18 pm | The Rutherford Institute
One anniversary marked a revolt against empire. The other marked the normalization of it. More >>
Trump Breaks It, We Pay For It: The Cost Of Cleaning Up The Deep State’s Mess
Wednesday, 24 June 2026, 6:04 pm | The Rutherford Institute
When Americans are made to pay for undeclared wars, unlawful tariffs, militarized raids, political payouts, constitutional violations, palace renovations & settlements for govt abuse, they are not merely being overcharged. They are being ruled. More >>
