How American Democracy Dies … one transgression at a time …

In a way the volume of chaos IS the point

Bannon said it at one time - flood the zone - the media, courts, citizenry cant focus on everything all at the same time
And this has proven largely true
There is so much going on that some things fly completely under the radar

WARNING: Trump’s Fascist Takeover Has Accelerated | Ruth Ben-Ghiat

If the american people are not taking care they will loose their democracy faster than they even may believe. It was the same fast in germany. But there are still many republicans supporting Donald Trump. This will be a dangerous way for the world cause this time there will be no state able to end up this moron. Hitler could be stopped. Trump not.

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And now confirmed what we all suspected:

“I went over there, and I was able to determine, at least I believe, that there were tons of completely unnecessary redactions, in addition to the failure to redact the names of victims, and so that was troubling to us,” Raskin told reporters.

He accused the justice department of being “in a cover-up mode” and breaking the law.

“They violated that precept by releasing the names of a lot of victims, which is either spectacular incompetence and sloppiness on their part, or, as a lot of the survivors believe, a deliberate threat to other survivors who are thinking about coming forward, that they need to be careful because they can be exposed and have their personal information dragged through the mud as well,” Raskin said.

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The justice department has released a total of about 3.5m files related to Epstein, and Raskin said there were around 3m more awaiting release.

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Rather than piss off the unstable one …

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Shows again how this kind of censoring works. While Trump hates them and starts to act against them they stop with the service. Should be better Trump would get that they are bringing only the message. But hey, even in history: the deliverer of the message get’s killed.

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THIS IS A MUST READ for anyone who desires a free and fair mid term election in 2026. The administration is openly planning on rigging the election to their favor. They aren’t even trying to hide it.

Since May 2025, the Department of Justice has demanded complete, unredacted voter rolls from all 50 states. Full names. Dates of birth. Partial Social Security numbers. Driver’s license numbers. Party affiliation. Voting history.

When 24 states refused, the DOJ sued them. Federal judges in California and Oregon have already called the demands unprecedented and illegal. The administration is pushing forward anyway.

Meanwhile, at least a dozen mostly red states have already handed over their full voter files, covering more than 37 million people. Texas alone turned over data on roughly 18 million voters. Others followed, and a few even volunteered their data without being asked. Notice the pattern.

Now here is where it gets truly disturbing.

The DOJ sent a confidential memorandum to all states laying out the process. First, states send their entire voter roll. Second, DOJ conducts unspecified analysis using methods it will not disclose. Third, DOJ flags supposed problems. Fourth, states must remove the flagged voters within 45 days. Fifth, states resubmit their lists for verification.

Read that again. The federal government runs a secret analysis, refuses to explain its methodology, flags voters, and demands they be purged in 45 days.

This is absolutely illegal. The law requires notice to the voter, an opportunity to respond, and in many cases two full federal election cycles before removal. It also bars systematic purges within 90 days of a federal election. Forty five days is not even close.

Then there is the data sharing. In court filings, DOJ acknowledged that a Social Security Administration employee signed a Voter Data Agreement with an outside advocacy group whose stated mission was to find voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states. That means Social Security related voter data intersecting with partisan actors chasing conspiracy theories.

And what will this grand analysis supposedly uncover? Noncitizens? When states have actually done deep reviews, the results are microscopic. In Utah, a comprehensive review of more than 2 million voters found just one confirmed noncitizen registration and ZERO instances of noncitizen voting.

So if fraud at that scale is the justification, the cure looks far more dangerous than the disease.

This is not just about voter maintenance. It is about centralizing voter data at the federal level, pressuring states to purge quickly, and creating the infrastructure to challenge outcomes later if they do not go the right way.

Call it election integrity if you want. But it is a federal power grab wrapped in the language of fraud prevention.

To put it simply, the administration’s plan is to purge legal citizens registered as democrats from the voter rolls to rig the 2026 mid terms in their favor.

I do not trust the DOJ, and neither should you. And this isn’t a red state vs blue state problem. Congressional districts up for grabs in red states this year have already swung Democrat in special elections. The red states that have already complied with this illegal order are already compromised.

The media needs to call this what it is, attempted election rigging, not “election integrity.” If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck… then it’s a duck. And this is rigging an election.

The real question is this. Are we going to sit back and pretend this is normal, or are we going to call it out before 2026 is decided for us? If you believe in free and fair elections, contact your state government, and demand they do NOT participate in this fraud! Help spread the word, by sharing and commenting below.

I’d love to hear someone try to defend this blatantly illegal maneuver.

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Secret courts are a trademark of terror regimes.

The heritage foundation itself analyzed voting records & found so few actual instances of fraud it laughable
The rate was in the 10ths of millions of a percent

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The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google (owner of YouTube), Meta (Facebook and Instagram), and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html

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What a clear democracy. Opposite Meanings starting to become dangerous. Sound like Gestapo in Germany 1933-45. But hey, that’s America. At the end the people have to realize: we elected him. Since the moment of his first election it started. And with his second electrion the destroyment of the US democracy begun. Sad.

It starts to be dangerous in America even for AMERICAN CITIZEN. That makes the situation interesting. Will they vote again for Trump and his politics this moron is presenting? I guess that could be happened. We will see. If this will be happened there will be also o rescue for America anymore cause he will destroy the last rest of believing at the partners site. Then everybody knows that the American Citizen does not want the partnership with europe and Germany anymore.

This will have many actitivies followint to this decision cause until now America sells much stuffs to Europe and much Software. This will stop then cause we can’t believe that Partner anymore. Results in a decoupling between European Customres and American vendors. The problem for USA is here: you are exporting much Software and Server Services to Europe. When and if this will end there will come up a real problem: the ending of the Industry like it is today.

Second is Weapons. Until now we bought everything they served us. Even F35. This also will not be needed anymore cause we had to buy them to be able to carry Americas nuclear Bombs. If there is no American nuclear bomb in Germany any more: we will have French and British ones. No need for F35.

So the American Industry will not grow throught this politics. It will shrink. And in the same amount the European one will grow. This is the MAGA politics and what it will bring as a result for America. The outcome is less economy, less sales, less friendships and partnerships. But A President Trump which could even be King Trump. Or let’s say Ceasar? would be also fitting description.

Trmp is like Nero. He burns down everything America builded up since decades. Now it is gone. Nobody can believe in this State. May be this believing will come back one day. But only if and when the state changes it’s behavior.

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North Korea vibes:

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A Texas man is facing 40 YEARS in federal prison for moving a box of “antifa” pamphlets. Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada wasn’t even at the July 4th protest outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. His wife was.

After she was arrested and called him from jail, the FBI watched him load a box from his family home and drop it at a friend’s apartment. Inside that box: zines, artwork, and political pamphlets including a squatting manual and an anarchist think piece.

Not weapons. Not bomb-making instructions. LITERATURE.

This is not a dystopian novel. This is Tuesday in Trump’s America.

Prosecutors are charging him with conspiring to “transport a box that contained numerous Antifa materials intending to conceal the contents.” The concealment charge only makes legal sense if owning the literature was already a crime.

This marks the first time the federal government has used federal terrorism statutes against “antifa”, a loose ideological movement, not an organization.

His wife attended the protest outside an ICE detention center. An officer was shot. Des WASN’T THERE. The FBI watched him move a cardboard box, and now he’s been offered two plea deals, both ending in deportation to a country he left when he was 14 years old.

In court filings, prosecutors have used defendants’ black clothing, Signal app usage, possession of first-aid kits, and political zines as proof of criminal conspiracy.

Dressing in black. Encrypting your texts. Reading. That’s their evidence of terrorism.

Nineteen people have now been arrested in connection with the same protest, many of whom weren’t even there.

History is screaming at us right now. The U.S. government has always stress-tested authoritarianism on its most vulnerable people first, enslaved people punished for reading the Bible, incarcerated people thrown in solitary for possessing books about civil rights heroes.

What gets normalized in prisons and on protest lines eventually comes for everyone.

Once the state can brand a political idea “terrorism,” everything connected to it becomes criminal.

Sanchez Estrada said it himself: “If this is happening to me now, it’s only a matter of time before it happens to you.”

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“America isn’t the way it is because he’s president. He’s president because America is the way it is”

— David Cochrane

CBC Power and Politics

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Tampering with evidence is a crime in the UK too.

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IMO only in the sense that too many people don’t bother to vote.

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https://www.heise.de/en/news/Binance-employees-find-clues-to-illegal-transactions-are-fired-11187633.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/technology/binance-employees-iran-firings.html

What a shit show …

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https://www.heise.de/en/news/Pentagon-vs-Anthropic-AI-release-to-be-enforced-with-war-law-11188450.html

In its dispute with Anthropic, the US Department of Defense has now allegedly issued an ultimatum until Friday, threatening the AI company with severe consequences if it does not meet the demands by then. This is reported by the US magazine Axios, citing informed sources after a meeting between US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday. If Anthropic does not grant the US military unrestricted access to its in-house AI, it will either be declared a risk to supply chains or forced to release a version for the military via the Defense Production Act (DPA), Axios quotes.

Despite this escalation for the US government, Anthropic has so far shown no inclination to comply with the demands. The AI company does not want to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI technology for mass surveillance of the US population. Furthermore, weapons that fire without human intervention should not be developed with it.

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