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To White Christian Nationalists, Your Voice is Violence | Andra Watkins & Sam Osterhout
The Trump administration is issuing broad, vague definitions of 'domestic terror' to criminalize dissent itself.
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Authoritarian language hides its intent, turning ordinary belief, advocacy, and community action into punishable offenses.
Tip-line culture is designed to weaponize neighbors against one another and collapse social trust.
Protecting the First Amendment now requires proactive organizing, local solidarity, and relentless public visibility.
Sam Osterhout and Andra Watkins set the table, and from there the real alarm becomes the quiet way repression embeds itself in familiar language. Once a government decides that belief can be equated with violence, the target stops being action and becomes the human mind, and that shift always signals an attempt to shrink the boundaries of the permissible until people police themselves into silence. Broad categories like anti-Americanism, radical gender ideologies, or support for immigrants are intentionally designed to rope ordinary moral commitments into the realm of suspicion, turning daily civic life into something that must be defended rather than lived. These frameworks thrive on ambiguity because ambiguity produces fear, and fear produces compliance long before law enforcement ever arrives. What’s emerging is a system that survives only if people stop trusting each other, which is precisely why the antidote is community fortification rather than retreat.
Tune in for the next urgent chapter of this escalating fight for democratic freedom.
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