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Fifteen people connected to a July 4, 2025 protest at a Texas ICE detention center have been sentenced to a combined 562 years in federal prison — the longest sentence ever given to a group of political defendants. Autumn Hill, one of three trans defendants, gives her first jailhouse interview.
Eight people who attended a July 4 protest at the Prairieland ICE detention center have been sentenced to a combined 450 years in federal prison — the first successful use of terrorism charges against alleged antifa members in U.S. history.
Todd Blanch went from Trump's personal lawyer to Acting Attorney General, and his first act was to blame journalists for political violence. This is not just corruption — it's the authoritarianization of American democracy.
Trump is not just pushing hard on policy—he's systematically weakening the institutions that keep any president from ruling as if the state were his alone. From civil service purges to press restrictions, from university pressure campaigns to law firm retaliation, the method is executive aggrandizement: hollowing out democracy from the inside while preserving its outward form.
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