media manipulation

Two Parties, One Machine

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The Political Machine

The American two-party system requires that you declare a party before you can participate in the voting system. This is the back door to authoritarianism. This is an authoritarian structure.

These days, authoritarianism generally arrives through democratic backsliding — elected leaders gradually take power away from voters and redirect it toward the machine that keeps them in office. The machine is a set of interlocking interests: party infrastructure, donor networks, media systems, and the officials who serve all three. It grows through accumulated small captures of democracy, each one normalized before the next one lands. Voter suppression, manufactured division, and information control are the visible tools. The two-party system is its foundation.

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Everything Needs a Fundraiser Now

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I was noticing some fundraisers when I realized this is just another example of wealth extraction — fundraising for expenses that should be covered by systems we already pay for.

Online fundraising has exploded as a replacement for public systems that collect funds but fail to deliver.

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Protecting Communities and Business from Housing Market Dysfunction: How Values-Based Decision Making Serves Shared Prosperity

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The Propaganda Machine Has Hijacked Our Brains

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We are being played, and we are losing the game. We are being played, and we are losing the game.. The propaganda machine has hijacked our brains. It keeps us fighting each other while the powerful rig the system against us. We need to see what’s happening—and take our minds back. Propaganda is dividing us … Read more

The Distraction Doctrine: Trump’s Pattern of Manufacturing Crisis to Hide Policy Failures

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This report documents Trump’s consistent pattern of manufacturing dramatic controversies and constitutional crises to distract from policy failures and declining approval ratings. This “distraction doctrine” follows a predictable three-step playbook and has escalated to unprecedented levels of violence against peaceful protesters and elected officials during his second term.

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