Authoritarianism

Landscape magazine cover showing ghostly Founding Fathers before Independence Hall, overlaid with tanks, crown, and storm clouds in a foreboding scene.

No Kings in America: The Constitutional Crisis at Democracy's Crossroads

No Kings in America: The Constitutional Crisis at Democracy’s Crossroads The day America chose sides At 2:30 PM on June 14, 2025, two competing visions of American power played out 200 miles apart. In Philadelphia, where the Constitution was written, protesters gathered with handmade signs reading “Federal Employees Don’t Work for Kings” and “He was elected president NOT KING.” Their voices rose in a chant that echoed across 248 years of American history: “No kings in America!” ...

Grim 18th-century-style oil painting of Trump as a crowned king on a throne, overseeing a joyless military parade of tanks and unhappy American soldiers.

The Last Constitutional Moment: America Chooses Between Kings and Democracy

On June 14, 2025, more than 2,000 protests are taking place across all 50 U.S. states in a nationwide event called “No Kings Day”. The demonstrations, organized by a coalition of over 150 groups including Indivisible and the ACLU, directly counter President Trump’s $45 million military parade and protest the policies of his second term. Organizers describe the mobilization as “the largest single-day, peaceful protest in recent American history”. The central message, captured on signs reading “He was elected president NOT KING,” is a direct response to President Trump’s recent embrace of monarchical rhetoric. In Philadelphia, one of the major demonstration sites, Pennsylvania criminal lawyer Holly Feeney stated her reason for marching: “I am just appalled at the lawlessness of this administration. Disappearing people is what authoritarian governments do, not democratic republics”. ...

A watercolor painting depicting a split-screen aerial view showing the surveillance technology pipeline from Gaza to Los Angeles. The left side shows destroyed Gaza buildings in earth tones with smoke and rubble, while the right side shows an organized ICE raid in downtown LA with tactical vehicles and agents in cooler blue-gray tones. MQ-9 Reaper drones hover above both scenes, connected by flowing streams of translucent blue and green data representing the transfer of AI targeting systems from military operations to domestic immigration enforcement. The painting uses traditional watercolor techniques to contrast the warm chaos of Gaza with the cold systematic nature of LA operations, unified by the digital surveillance infrastructure that connects both locations.

The Shadow Architects: How Project 2025 Authors Built the Technology to Implement Their Authoritarian Vision

I’m not an actualy journalist. I’m a guy with a blog, and maybe 2 to 3 dozen people who read it. I heavily cited sources here hoping that actual journalists would pick this up, take advantage of my heavy lifting, and bring the real, full story forward. If you do, I don’t want to be interviewed or anything. I would just appreciate a mention and a link back to my site if you run with this. TL;DR: Project 2025 authors didn’t just write authoritarian policies—they positioned themselves to control the surveillance technology to implement them. ...