🌐⚡ Trump’s White House is grabbing control everywhere at once. They are seizing Union Station, threatening Republicans in Indiana to redraw maps, pressuring the Supreme Court to hand them Congress’ spending power, and trying to bring back D.C.’s death penalty. Judges cannot hold this line alone. Iowa Democrats just broke a GOP supermajority in their … Read more
⚖️ Trump is testing what it means for a presidency to have no limits. He signs orders that undercut judges. He pressures GMU to apologize for hiring practices, extorts settlements from CBS and NBC, and even treats the White House as a personal redecorating project. What disappears in the process is the idea of shared … Read more
👑 Trump flaunts power like an emperor. He threatens bridges and military takeovers. He demands sports leagues favor his chosen stars. Critics are enemies, and he buries them. At GovBrief we are expanding our lens. Earlier this month we added propaganda as a new internal category. This week, we added dissent. These categories help show … Read more
⚡ There really is an occupation. Hundreds of Guard troops remain in Los Angeles. Thousands are entrenched in D.C. with checkpoints and tribunals. Chicago has been warned twice in two days that the military is going there next. Meanwhile, DHS says it has been erasing officials’ texts for months and has already refused a FOIA … Read more
💥 The old rules are gone. Trump is turning governance into a raw contest of firepower by arming troops in our cities, purging generals, and demanding loyalty over law. The only counter is bottom-up resistance with neighbors, communities, and states refusing to bow while building power together. Fix your oxygen mask first and then help. … Read more
⚔️ Trump is pulling the country into a three front tug of war, jailing critics, erasing culture, and rewriting the law. Each victory comes with backlash, but the rope keeps sliding closer to authoritarian hands. It is on us to pull back. There are national protests a week from Monday on Labor Day. Head to … Read more
⛔ Texas Republicans gerrymandered five more GOP seats in Congress as Trump deploys federal forces to cement his D.C. takeover. Now CBP agents are even patrolling National Park Service sites across the city. At the same time, he’s gutting the IRS, CDC, and national intelligence so corruption keeps running wild. Authoritarianism advances by choking the … Read more
💀 Democratic politicians are being killed, threatened, and now forced to agree to police surveillance while Trump’s allies rewrite data, fire scientists, and tell prosecutors to ignore laws. This is an authoritarian takeover with social media as a way for extremists to reach regular people day and night. Intimidation is replacing democracy. Be like Rep. … Read more
🔥✈️🇺🇸 Foreign leaders flew into a militarily occupied Washington for a wartime summit, 3½ years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. NATO and EU heads pressed Trump on Ukraine while DC streets sat under armed patrols, restaurants down by one-third, democracy suffocating at home. This is what authoritarian rule looks like. Stopping it is on … Read more
👁️ What started in DC on Monday is spreading like contagion. In less than a week, Trump’s military and police takeover unleashed masked agents snatching people, tearing down signs, and driving residents indoors. Oklahoma is forcing teachers transferring from NY and CA to take loyalty tests, humanitarian visas are cut off, and Europe is arriving … Read more
