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DHS Is Tracking Down and Threatening Americans Who Criticize ICE
Criticize ICE and you may get a visit from Homeland Security—anytime, anywhere.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Toady Pete Hegseth Is Quietly Continuing to Refashion the ’Department of War’ in His Boss’s Image
Last year, Pete Hegseth removed every member of the Defense Policy Board.
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s Board of Peace Is Trying to Grant Itself Legal Immunity and the Power to Steal Palestinian Land
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace has a modest ask before it gets to work in Gaza: total legal immunity for itself and its agents, plus the power to seize…
 • Executive Watch
The Trump White House Seriously Weighed Suspending Habeas Corpus and Invoking the Insurrection Act
Newly disclosed internal memoranda show that during the early months of his second term, Trump’s White House gave serious consideration to two of the…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s FBI Raids an Ohio Voter Registration Group in Its Latest Bid to Suppress the Vote
With the midterms approaching in a key swing state, the FBI has raided the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative—a pro-democracy coalition that…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Rewards His Personal Lawyer and Toady, Todd Blanche, With AG Nomination
Todd Blanche, Trump’s personal lawyer, has built his reputation as someone willing to do anything Donald Trump wants, no matter how absurd, unethical…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Is Screening Troops by Weight and Appearance to Serve as Photogenic Backdrop at His White House UFC Event
The Pentagon is recruiting hundreds of uniformed servicemembers to fill seats at—please bear in mind that this is still a very weird sentence to type…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s New DHS Secretary Threatens to Halt International Flight Processing at Blue City Airports as Punishment for Allowing Anti-ICE…
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced he is “drawing up plans” to end the processing of international flights at airports in…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s Unprecedented Government-Wide Gag Order Is Designed to Silence Whistleblowers and Shield His Administration’s Corruption
The Trump administration has proposed a government-wide nondisclosure agreement requiring every federal employee to sign a gag order.
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s Election-Security Czar Is Reupping Debunked Conspiracy Theories to Ban Dominion Voting Machines in an Effort to Subvert Elections
Kurt Olsen, Trump’s election-security czar, tried to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Demands Republicans Fire the Senate Parliamentarian After She Blocked His Ballroom and Also Scrap the Filibuster
Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled on May 16 that the Senate reconciliation bill cannot, as currently written, be used to fund…
 • Executive Watch
DHS Issues a Nationwide Alert Against a Comedian for Making a Parody ICE Snitch Site
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a “Be on the Lookout” (BOLO) alert—normally reserved for major suspects and threats—to law enforcement…
 • Executive Watch
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