Wealth Extraction

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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Nobody Voted for This War. Nobody Gets the Old World Back.

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The American presidency, in the wrong hands, with every institutional check removed, is powerful enough to destroy countries and break the interdependent global systems the modern world runs on.

The Leadership

I never fully understood how powerful the President of the United States actually is until now. When that position is held by a man with no capacity for consequence, no institutional check left to slow him down, and a circle of people who know exactly how to use him — he can destroy a country.

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Arizona billionaires

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Review: The Copper Courier’s “Who is the richest Arizonan?” PHOENIX — Fifteen Arizona residents have landed on Forbes’ 2026 World’s Billionaires List, according to new reporting from The Copper Courier, which reviewed the latest rankings and wealth estimates. Leading the group is Ernest Garcia II, identified as the richest Arizonan with an estimated net worth … Read more

They’ve Been Picking My Pocket for Six Years

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I live in Arizona, and for six years we have been targeted by a coordinated national campaign to scare voters with propaganda about election fraud. It has never produced a shred of evidence, because there was never any evidence to find. The Department of Justice is now demanding the voter files of five million Arizonans. … Read more

The Veto Number Is Real. The Context Is Missing.

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Attack ads will say Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed 401 bills. The public record shows what those bills were, what the veto blocked, and it has cost Arizona taxpayers. Seventy of those vetoes were ordinary legislative friction, the kind that happens between any governor and any legislature regardless of party. The remaining 331 followed a pattern that is documented in the public record and consistent across three legislative sessions.

The Veto Queen Story Is Missing Its First Three Chapters

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Arizona voters will hear that Katie Hobbs vetoed 401 bills. That number is real. The context behind it — the audit that cost taxpayers at least $8.6 million, the structural reasons Arizona was targeted, and the wealth extraction agenda those vetoes blocked — is the part the attack ads leave out.

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