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Friend,
The president of the United States just unleashed the U.S. military on Americans exercising their constitutional rights.
It's like nothing we've seen since the darkest days of the Vietnam War: the president of the United States using the most powerful military in the history of the world to gas peaceful protesters in front of the White House.
Trump hoisting a bible in the air as flash bangs are heard in the distance. Busloads of soldiers pouring out onto the streets of Washington, DC. Journalists shot by tear gas and rubber bullets.
We're witnessing the systemic breakdown of our democracy under an authoritarian president.
The corporate media is using the images of the past days to sustain fear and outrage, but it's not doing the hard, necessary work of looking at what they mean to our country.
Common Dreams is doing that work. We're tracking how Trump is, as former Defense Secretary Gen. Jim Mattis said, violating the constitutional rights of his fellow citizens. We're shining a bright spotlight on how Attorney General William Barr has personally directed police action and called for an increase in Trump's emergency powers. We're reporting on how Jared Kushner and the rest of Trump's cronies are consolidating power under the cover of the protests and the ongoing pandemic.
We don't want anyone to look back at these dark times in America's history and say they wish they had seen the signs of authoritarianism. We see the signs, and we will keep reporting on them in order to save our democracy.
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