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  1. June 24

    Soft Secession

    When Is the Rolling Coup Dangerous Enough to Require States Declaring a State of Emergency?

    GOP Seizure of Elections, Illegal Wars, and the Most Expansive Unpunished Corruption Scandals in U.S. History, at what point do we need to respond more rapidly?

  2. June 23

  3. June 22

    Organizing

    How Popular Movements Achieve Regime Change: Chenoweth, the 80/20 Rule, the Network Effect, and What Predicts Success

    The mechanics of removing entrenched power, and why they favor the people who persist.

  4. June 20

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  6. June 18

    Corruption

    With the Trump Boys’ Latest Drone Venture, the Public Is Asking: Can These Guys Start a Business Without Committing Securities Fraud and Insider Trading?

    The same family is on every side of their new drone deal, and the firm that sold the stock is in New York, where their father cannot pardon them.

  7. June 17

    Organizing

    What Spies, Saboteurs, and Abolitionists Can Teach Us About Effectively Influencing Politics

    Change for the better can happen, if we find the right tools for the job.

  8. June 16

    Supreme Court

    Trump v. United States Didn't Make the President Above the Law. Nothing Ever Has.

    The law itself is surprisingly uncontested that nobody gains total and complete immunity as a matter of their employment, job title, or appointment.

  9. June 14

    Corruption

    Elon Musk keeps refusing to pay his bills. In California, that is felony theft by false pretenses.

    The evidence is sufficient, the law clear, and the precedent is remarkably similar.

  10. June 13

    Epstein Files

    The Epstein Commission

    What an effective commission would look like, who it pursues, and the question to put to your representative now.

  11. June 12

    THE NEW REBELLION—Live with Sandi Ault featuring Chris Armitage

    A recording from Christopher Armitage and Sandi Ault's live video

  12. June 12

    Soft Secession

    The American Reformation: My New Book, Available Now

    The entire legal framework for how states and citizens can break authoritarian capture is in one place now, and the PDF is free.

  13. June 10

    Soft Secession

    States Can Build Their Own Alternatives to Social Security and Medicaid

    Mike Johnson calls these programs the drivers of the federal debt and says Republicans have a plan for them next year. Fifteen states have already built part of the alternative.

  14. June 8

    Corruption

    100 (Legal) Ways to Lower Elon Musk's Net Worth

    The contracts, the taxes, the customers, and the courts.

  15. June 7

    Soft Secession

    Inevitable Failures: How the Privatization Machine Manufactures Budget Crises

    Public banks, public power, public broadband. Each one already makes money in the states and cities that run it, and the companies that profit from privatization spend millions to keep that list short

  16. June 6

    Corruption

    Elon Musk’s House of Cards Is About to Make Him a Trillionaire

    Around the world, the most pragmatic investors have started abandoning the world’s richest man.

  17. June 4

    Corruption

    Finally, Some Good, Sane News: S&P Made SpaceX Wait Its Turn. Now Letitia James and Alvin Bragg Should Read the Filing

    A real win for ordinary savers, and an open door for the two New York offices that can subpoena the filing and the posts.

  18. June 4

    I Filed a Federal Misappropriation Report on TER PAC's Former Treasurer. Here Are The Details.

    The committee's former treasurer apparently diverted $7,438.74 in contributions. I reported it to the FEC on June 2nd and am preparing criminal complaints.

  19. June 3

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