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BOOKS BY JOHN W. WHITEHEAD


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March 14, 2025

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins 

The Deep State’s War on Truth—Waged with Doublespeak, Delusion and Propaganda 

A Constitutional Crisis: Can the Rule of Law Survive This Presidency? 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Can Schools Force LGBTQ Lessons on Young Kids? Parents Take a Stand, Ask Supreme Court to Protect Right to Opt Out 

SCOTUS Inaction on Botched SWAT Raid Coupled with Trump’s Push for Greater Police Immunity Could Usher In a New Era of Lawless Policing & Brutality 

The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for the Government to Violate Your Rights—Without Paying the Price 

Did Facebook Conspire With the Government to Censor Speech in Violation of the First Amendment? Case Could Redefine Social Media Censorship 

LEGAL FEATURES

The Case Against Technofascism: When Big Tech Companies Censor Speech
MAKE THE GOVERNMENT PLAY BY THE RULES OF THE CONSTITUTION: DONATE TODAY

IN THE COURTS

Farmers Sue Trump Administration to Unfreeze USDA Grants 

New York AG Leads Coalition Against Dismantling of Education Department 

Trump Pulls Supreme Court Into Birthright Citizenship Brawl 

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Throttling of Perkins Coie 

Judge Indefinitely Blocks Trump’s Cuts to National Institutes of Health Research Funding 

Magistrate Judge: If Geofence Warrants Are Unconstitutional, So Are Cell Tower Dumps

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

Freedom Under Fire is a free weekly podcast available on SoundCloud and iTunes.

We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President 

Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent 

Raging Bulls in Blue: The Deadly Toll of Warrior Policing on Steroids  

Podcast Archive

ON TARGET VODCAST, INTERVIEWS

Executive Orders, AI Tyranny, and 42 National Emergencies: Is the Constitution Dead? (Interview with Collapse Life) 

Techno-Censorship: When Censoring ‘Disinformation’ Becomes Silencing Truth 

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Congress Must End Legalized Theft on Us Highways

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Congress Must End Legalized Theft on Us Highways 

Trump Is Backing Away From Police Reform. Here’s What That Means

BEHIND BARS

ICE Seeks More Bed Space as Detainee Numbers Hit Maximum Capacity 

President Trump Brings Back Practice of Detaining Families Together
YOUR SUPPORT HELPS THE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE SOUND THE ALARM OVER THREATS TO OUR FREEDOMS: DONATE TODAY

NATIONAL SECURITY

White House Halts FBI Background Checks for Senior Staff, Shifts Them to Pentagon 

What Rights Do Green Card Holders Have? 

Trump Admin Repurposes Controversial CBP One App to Encourage Self-Deportations 

Trump’s Border Czar Is Wrong About AOC

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

What to Know About the Privacy Act of 1974 

AI-Powered School Surveillance 

DHS Is Using Intelligence to Identify Student Protesters 

The Government Already Knows a Lot About You. Doge Is Trying to Access All of It

FREE SPEECH / CENSORSHIP

House Speaker Berates Detained Palestinian Activist — but Won’t Point to a Crime 

Donald Trump Is Tearing Up The First Amendment 

This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare  

A Campaign to Silence Journalists and Curb Free Speech

TECHNOLOGY

China Police Officers Now Patrol Streets With Humanoid Robots

CRIME

Don’t Click on Those Road Toll Texts. Officials Issue Warnings About the Smishing Scam

POLITICS

Over Half of Americans Disapprove of Trump Handling of Economy, Poll Shows 

Cuts to Education Department Threaten Religious Liberty 

Religious Freedom as a Defense for DEI? 

Trump Campaigned as a Protector of Free Speech. What Happened? 

Trump Is Using Antisemitism as a Pretext for a War on the First Amendment 

Trump’s Doge Campaign Accelerates 50-Year Trend of Government Privatization 

Ex-NSA Workers Stunned After Museum Covers Names of Women and Minorities

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