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Stopping the Consolidation of Power

Why you must care about the ballroom
Trump is defying Congress and robbing the American people to build it
 • Amanda Carpenter
Jim Acosta, Gigi Sohn and Rachel Goodman on the fight for press freedom ahead of the midterms
Interpreting the FCC’s unprecedented retaliation for ABC’s coverage of the Trump administration
 • Jim Acosta, Gigi Sohn, and Rachel Goodman
46:18
What the authoritarians fear most
They're scared of our joy
 • Anna Dorman and Corey Dukes
Unpeeling the many layers of Trump’s propaganda ads
They’re even worse than you think
 • Tova Love Kaplan
Trump TV is propaganda — and a crime
The “Anti-Publicity & Propaganda Rider,” explained
 • Cerin Lindgrensavage and Rachel Goodman
This may be the most important rule today. It’s a secret
Trump’s Kafkaesque artificial intelligence black box
 • Ben Raderstorf
Trump’s master database of “citizens”
A massive privacy scandal just waiting to happen
 • Ben Raderstorf
Toying with disaster (aid)
Trump uses anti-terrorism funds to attack elections
 • Ben Raderstorf
Congress must curtail the FCC’s speech regulation authority
A practical legislative agenda to check an out-of-control agency
 • Rachel Goodman
Blanche-22
The only man loyal enough for the job is too obviously loyal to pull it off
 • Ben Raderstorf
$266,000 every single hour
One big idea to combat the corruption
 • Ben Raderstorf
Autocratic capture comes for AI
Investigating the ways Trump’s secret AI power grab could go wrong
 • Deana El-Mallawany and Justin Florence
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