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Congress needs to reclaim our power... over the use of force.

— Elissa Slotkin Senator Slotkin Delivers Speech on Trump's Authoritarian Playbook (2025)

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Leadership is about the actions you take, not the things you say behind closed doors.

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The Caribbean strikes, the list of domestic terrorists, military and law enforcements across our American streets. He seems to be laying the groundwork to stay in power.

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Acknowledging you have a problem is the first step to recovery, and then we have to understand we've clearly got mental health issues.

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Trump has laid out a whole lot of enemies that are American citizens.

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This is... fundamentally un-American and strikes at the heart of who we are as a people...

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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