No government can bomb, threaten and police the world indefinitely without eventually bringing the consequences home. They come home through hacked water systems, heightened surveillance, militarized police and demands that Americans surrender still more freedom in exchange for protection from dangers the government helped create. This is blowback—and once again, “we the people” will be left to suffer the consequences.

While Americans are overwhelmed by political theater, the government is waging war without Congress, expanding surveillance, punishing dissent and testing how many constitutional limits it can cross without consequence. The greatest danger is not merely that the president keeps testing the Constitution. It is that the institutions entrusted with enforcing it keep failing the test.

Accountability is supposed to be one of the defining principles of constitutional government. Yet from the Iran war and militarized immigration enforcement to police violence, public-health failures and unchecked executive power, no one at the top is ever made to answer for the damage done. This is how the American Police State gets away with murder. 

No government can bomb, threaten and police the world indefinitely without eventually bringing the consequences home. They come home through hacked water systems, heightened surveillance, militarized police and demands that Americans surrender still more freedom in exchange for protection from dangers the government helped create. This is blowback—and once again, “we the people” will be left to suffer the consequences.

While Americans are overwhelmed by political theater, the government is waging war without Congress, expanding surveillance, punishing dissent and testing how many constitutional limits it can cross without consequence. The greatest danger is not merely that the president keeps testing the Constitution. It is that the institutions entrusted with enforcing it keep failing the test.

Accountability is supposed to be one of the defining principles of constitutional government. Yet from the Iran war and militarized immigration enforcement to police violence, public-health failures and unchecked executive power, no one at the top is ever made to answer for the damage done. This is how the American Police State gets away with murder. 

While Americans remain consumed by partisan politics, Flock’s AI-powered license plate cameras are quietly expanding a nationwide surveillance network capable of recording, analyzing and reconstructing the movements of ordinary people—and in the process, building the infrastructure of a digital police state.

While Americans remain consumed by partisan politics, Flock’s AI-powered license plate cameras are quietly expanding a nationwide surveillance network capable of recording, analyzing and reconstructing the movements of ordinary people—and in the process, building the infrastructure of a digital police state.

Criticize the government, question the police state, object to ICE raids, oppose war, challenge corruption, reject propaganda, refuse to salute the party line, or insist that public officials obey the Constitution, and you may find yourself accused of being anti-American, extremist, subversive, ungrateful, communist, terrorist-adjacent or worse. But criticizing the government is not a crime. It is the right—and duty—of a free people.

Criticize the government, question the police state, object to ICE raids, oppose war, challenge corruption, reject propaganda, refuse to salute the party line, or insist that public officials obey the Constitution, and you may find yourself accused of being anti-American, extremist, subversive, ungrateful, communist, terrorist-adjacent or worse.

What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit.

What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit.

Two hundred and fifty years after the American Revolution and twenty-five years after 9/11, the United States faces a constitutional reckoning. As executive power expands, surveillance grows, and emergency powers become permanent, can the principles of 1776 survive the American police state?

Two hundred and fifty years after the American Revolution and twenty-five years after 9/11, the United States faces a constitutional reckoning. As executive power expands, surveillance grows, and emergency powers become permanent, can the principles of 1776 survive the American police state?

The American taxpayer has become the cleanup crew for the American Police State. That is the dirty little secret of government accountability in America: when government officials violate our rights, exceed their authority, launch undeclared wars, defend unconstitutional policies or settle lawsuits for misconduct, they rarely pay personally—"We the people" do. 

The American taxpayer has become the cleanup crew for the American Police State. That is the dirty little secret of government accountability in America: when government officials violate our rights, exceed their authority, launch undeclared wars, defend unconstitutional policies or settle lawsuits for misconduct, they rarely pay personally—"We the people" do. 

America has become an occupied nation—not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling class that treats the American people as collateral damage in its pursuit of power, profit and control.

America has become an occupied nation—not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling class that treats the American people as collateral damage in its pursuit of power, profit and control.

Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning. Yet Trump’s brand of “winning” gives more power to the government, the police state, the war machine and the oligarchs. Meanwhile, the losses are piling up: the economy is flashing warning signs, endless wars continue, constitutional guardrails are being treated as obstacles to executive power, and “we the people” are left to pay the price.

Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning. Yet Trump’s brand of “winning” gives more power to the government, the police state, the war machine and the oligarchs. Meanwhile, the losses are piling up: the economy is flashing warning signs, endless wars continue, constitutional guardrails are being treated as obstacles to executive power, and “we the people” are left to pay the price.