The Rutherford Institute is a national civil liberties organization working to reshape the government into one that abides by the rule of law.
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America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied
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America has become an occupied nation—policed, surveilled, taxed, censored and sold out by a ruling class that puts war, secrecy and foreign influence ahead of the people.
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At a time when more Americans are living one crisis away from homelessness, states across the country are passing laws that risk creating a poverty-to-prison pipeline.
Poverty should not be a one-way street to jail.
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"Trump’s 'winning' is simply the latest branding campaign for an old con: convince the people they are winning while stripping them of the power to govern themselves."
If This Is Winning, America Can’t Afford Much More of It | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning. The problem with Trump’s brand of winning is that it requires Americans to lose.
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If This Is Winning, America Can’t Afford Much More of It | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Can the government jail critics of war?
The government wants to muzzle political, anti-war speech and jail critics of war. A troubling court decision may make it easier to do exactly that.
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As America’s war with Iran lurches on, Americans are being asked to trust that someone, somewhere, knows what they are doing.
But who?
The Permanent War Government: Who’s Really Calling the Shots in Washington? | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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A taxpayer-funded slush fund for the politically connected. A weaponized police state for the rest of us.
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We the Victims: Who Pays When the Government Weaponizes Its Power? | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The Founders saw juries as a check on government power.
That safeguard is shrinking.
The Sixth Amendment exists because the Founders understood a dangerous truth: governments are not always trustworthy when power goes unchecked.
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While Americans are focused on spectacle—the ballroom, the tweets, the outrage—the real story is unfolding out of view.
Distraction has become a governing strategy.
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👉 Read: Distraction, Deception and the Heist of the American Economy
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Surveillance is expanding.
Dissent is being labeled a threat.
Executive power is growing unchecked.
This isn’t random.
It’s a pattern.
Our latest Freedom Watch breaks it down.
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Can Police Search Every Phone in a Crowd?
In a country where nearly everyone carries a tracking device in their pocket, the question is no longer whether the government can collect this data.
The question is whether the Constitution still forbids it.
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The right to speak freely built this nation.
Now it’s being treated as a threat.
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Founding Felons: Jefferson Would Be on a Watch List Today—You Might Be Next | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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The government is rigging the system for war, making it easier to send our young people to war—and harder for the citizenry to have a say in it.
Read "Easier to Die, Harder to Vote: The Rigged Architecture of the Warfare State" By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Anyone can read the Bible.
Anyone can quote the Constitution.
But what matters is whether those in power actually follow either one.
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For more than a year, the Trump administration has been sending a message: challenge the government—and you will pay the price. But the government is not supposed to operate like a bully or a thug.
We're fighting back: tinyurl.com/45evzjbx
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It is time to stop normalizing the unhinged.
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Unfit to Govern: We Need a 25th Amendment for the American Police State | By John & Nisha Whitehead tinyurl.com/3msmnbt9
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Unlawful wars. Rising protests. Now dissent is being targeted.
As anti-war protests grow, the government is claiming the power to jail people for their political views.
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It is becoming painfully clear that Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to governing puts America LAST every time.
America Last: War Abroad, Tyranny at Home—and the Theft of a Nation | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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