How Howard Dean staffed all 50 states, and how that map produced the last filibuster-proof Senate

How blue states replace SSI and Medicaid and come out of the Trump regime with thriving safety nets and strong economies.

State tax resistance comes in four tiers, from an IRS-approved workaround to a federal felony. Maryland enacted the third in April 2026.

Free kits for six counties, built on the government’s own admissions in federal court

The filing says the public docket still shows no Answer and no Notice of Compliance after Judge Sullivan's Sept. 24 deadlines.

The evidence to charge Jonathan Ross has been public since February, and he has worked for ICE since three days after the shooting.

The research is surprisingly consistent.

Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.

Citizens can convene one in any, or even every, county to charge him with bribing a witness and hiding evidence.

Successfully emailed to all 3,502 state legislators along with the 24 Democratic governors, and mailed in print with a personal letter to 1,519 legislators and every governor. Meetings are next.

Why elected officials keep their heads down, and how to retrain them.

Pro-democracy states (and cities) are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal approval to govern.

How conservative parties open the gate to authoritarian rule.

The facts.

I filed the complaint with Letitia James's office, and you can too. The points to cover are at the bottom of this article.

The right took school boards and county commissions by running for seats nobody else contested.

The federal center is entering the kind of decay that has ended other unions. The more autocratic the country becomes, the weaker Lincoln's case for staying, and the stronger the case for going.

Fewer and fewer companies run more and more of your life, and a handful of states are proving the laws to stop them still work.

Also: the Sign-Up Form for New Petitioners, the Oppositional Federalism Paper Free on SSRN, a New Form for Your Questions, and the First ER Designs Retiring September 30.

For most of my 34 years on this Earth, I’ve been told that every presidential election is the most important election of our lifetime.

Note from the author: The full 17-page disbarment complaint can be found by clicking on this sentence.

Capital One notified Trump-affiliated entities on March 8, 2021 that their accounts would be closed by that June, and roughly 385 accounts tied to the Trump Organization and Eric Trump were shut down by mid-2021, after more than a decade at the bank.

A quick message.

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

They purged the people who would say no, loyalty-tested who remained, and made the rest complicit. Can this be undone?

A practical answer to the question “What can we do?”

Twelve months of absolutely and relentlessly getting after it.

Making the case for impeaching members of the Supreme Court: why the conduct is impeachable, and why penalizing it now matters even without a conviction.

Four models for state-level universal coverage, and how each one works.

Senate Bill 719 starts replacing the money with criminal court costs and marriage license fees. No new taxes, no waiting on the federal government, and any state can file it.

Ten million dollars in law firm money, a closure letter citing the wrong law, and a board meeting set for September 10.

Invited, undefended, unpunished, and rewarded: what independent researchers can still measure has doubled in a year, and the instruments that would measure the rest no longer exist.

Money, courts, standards, and standing are proven tools for bringing autocratic states back to democratic restoration.

How states, presidents, and Congress have repeatedly defied the Supreme Court and won

The founders built fifty state governments to protect us in crisis such as these.

Texas alone handed over 18 million voter records and signed a removal agreement.

The first in a new series highlighting city and state leaders.

Sufficient evidence rests in the public record, and opening a criminal investigation requires far less than proof beyond a reasonable doubt. This all rests on the New Mexico Attorney General.

Securities fraud, stock manipulation, and scams are not "official conduct" for a president. They aren't in pursuance of the Constitution, so the Supremacy Clause doesn't apply.

A primer for understanding regime durability, how these regimes actually fall, and what we can do about it starting immediately.

Want to be able to sue for all the insider trading and corruption you're seeing? Here's how we make that a reality.

If we could use nullification for people to get stoned, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism?

A bipartisan commission found probable cause of felony election bribery, and prosecutors in three more states have statutes that fit the same conduct.

But what can be done about it?

A condition sitting in the first sentence of the Supremacy Clause decides whether states can prosecute federal agents. Courts have spent decades reading past it.

We won't survive if we try to play by their rules.

We marched. We chanted. And the wars continued. Now what?

In the last 16 months, Todd Blanche seems to have violated at least four federal criminal statutes that can earn him up to 20 years in prison if anyone ever has the courage to prosecute.

Eight licenses repealed, five fees cut, nine license terms extended, and a $5.4 billion budget gap closed without a property tax increase

Six months of public documents, four New York felony statutes, and the two prosecutors best positioned to act.