John Whitehead | Would Orwell be branded a terrorist? The War on Thought Crimes
The Trump administration is taking its war on free speech into the realm of thought crimes.
The Trump administration is taking its war on free speech into the realm of thought crimes.
A vocal group of citizens is pushing back on the Staunton Police Department’s use of Flock license-plate reader technology, known as ALPR.
One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
At Monticello on July Fourth, contrary to what is happening nationwide, immigrants were celebrated as they became citizens of the U.S.
The MAGA attorney general of this state, Jason Miyares, said Monday that the Loudoun County school system is “weaponizing” Title IX.
Let us be very clear. The Constitution is not a suggestion or a negotiating tactic. It is not optional.

We are being frog-marched into tyranny at the end of a loaded gun. Or rather, hundreds of thousands of loaded guns.
The “3.5 Percent Rule” — identified by political scientist Erica Chenoweth — should be on the lips of every American anxious about the Trump administration’s headlong drive to replace our democracy with authoritarianism.
Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution.
John Fredericks, a loyal MAGA Trumper, did everything but label the presumptive Republican Party frontrunner for governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, a “DEI hire.”
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