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Beyond the law: What it means to weaponize the government

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By John & Nisha Whitehead President Donald Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic. This...

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When dissent becomes a crime: The war on speech

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By John & Nisha Whitehead You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state. You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship. You can’t expect to have...

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War on truth: Doublespeak, delusion, and propaganda

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By John & Nisha Whitehead The Deep State’s war on truth is being waged with doubletalk, delusion and propaganda. Through deliberate manipulation of language, what George Orwell called “doublespeak”, Donald Trump has provided cover for the Deep State’s continued grip on power. While promising to drain the swamp, his administration...

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Nullifying the Constitution won’t make America great again

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By John & Nisha Whiteheadjohnw@rutherford.org Anyone who wants to put America first needs to start by putting the Constitution first. This should be non-negotiable. Winning an election does not give president Donald Trump, or any politician, the authority to sidestep the U.S. Constitution and remake the government at will. That’s...

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The Ways ‘We the People’ Keep Losing Our Freedoms

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By John & Nisha Whitehead Almost one month into the Donald Trump presidency, and the U.S. Constitution and the entire section on the various branches of government and how they work together are still missing from the White House website. This is no small thing. This omission, deliberate or inadvertent,...

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Sleepwalking into tyranny: How power is silently being seized

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By John & Nisha Whitehead How something is done is just as important as why something is done. To suggest that the ends justify the means is to launch oneself down a moral, ethical and legal rabbit hole that leaves us in a totalitarian bind. We are already halfway down...

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Rise of the immortal dictator: AI, freedom, and government

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By John & Nisha Whitehead “At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”—Elon Musk (2018) Get ready for Surveillance...

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Constitution gone: Presidential power grabs to martial law

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John & Nisha Whitehead That didn’t take long. Within days of Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights disappeared from the White House’s website. While the Donald Trump Administration insists the removal of these foundational documents will eventually be restored to the site, the timing and...

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Animal Farm Politics: The Deep State Wins Again

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By John & Nisha Whitehead It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew all along: Politics is corrupt. After four years of being subjected to special prosecutor Jack Smith’s dogged investigation into alleged election interference by Donald Trump, the Justice Department has concluded that Trump...

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Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die

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By John & Nisha Whitehead Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025? So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, corruption, and make-works programming that leaves us no better off than where we started. Indeed,...

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The Deep State’s triumph: 2024 and the erosion of liberty

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By John & Nisha Whitehead We have become a nation adrift in a sea of government overreach, abuse and corruption. The following is a sobering account of the challenges we faced in 2024, which were marked by the government’s never-ending power grabs and relentless assaults on our civil liberties. The...

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The police state is America’s new crime boss

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By John & Nisha Whitehead The American police state has become America’s new crime boss. Thirty years after then-president Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act into law, its legacy of mass incarceration, police militarization, and over-criminalization continues to haunt us. It has become the gift...

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What Jesus was born into the American Police State?

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By John & Nisha Whitehead The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled to the little town of Bethlehem so...

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You’d better watch out: The surveillance state has a list

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By John & Nisha Whitehead You’d better watch out, you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: This Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. You’ll be on this list whether...

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Is the U.S. Constitution becoming optional?

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By John & Nisha Whitehead Once again we find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms. But how do you give thanks for freedoms that are...

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Divide and Conquer: Political Riptides Threaten to Overwhelm

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By John & Nisha Whitehead Once again we find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms. But how do you give thanks for freedoms that are...

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How it begins: Deep State wants to terminate the constitution

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By John & Nisha Whitehead This is how it begins. This is how it always begins, justified in the name of national security. Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution, at least for select segments of...

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Definition of tyranny: A dictatorship disguised as democracy

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By John & Nisha Whitehead Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, but concentrated power across all three branches is the very definition of tyranny: a dictatorship disguised as democracy. When one party dominates all three branches of government,...

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A tsunami approaches, keep priorities straight

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By John & Nisha Whitehead Brace yourself: A tsunami approaches. While we squabble over which side is winning this losing battle to lead the country, there is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this...

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A tsunami approaches, keep priorities straight

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By John & Nisha Whitehead Brace yourself: A tsunami approaches. While we squabble over which side is winning this losing battle to lead the country, there is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this...

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