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†rump told the country he was fighting for them. What he was actually doing was building a machine, assembling the full weight of the federal government into a weapon aimed not at America's enemies, but at America's own people. This is the documented record of how he did it, agency by agency, lie by lie, and with a blueprint that his own people wrote.

The ƒBI just investigated a New York Times reporter for covering Kash Patel's use of government resources. That story broke today. But the assault on a free press didn't start today, and it won't stop unless the people who depend on journalism to survive demand that it does. What you can do to help is listed.

Last night, while most of America slept, the Federal Communications Commission approved the $6.2 billion merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna. The deal closed. It is done. A single company now controls 265 television stations across 44 states and the District of Columbia. One company. 80% of American households. ... Gone. Not gone in the sense that the stations disappeared. Gone in the sense that the independence is over.

The free press is not a partisan issue. It is the infrastructure of democracy, and it is being dismantled, right now, in real time and in plain sight. There is a moment in every authoritarian takeover when people look back and ask: why did no one say anything? Why did no one sound the alarm before it was too late?