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Trump Calls Putin "The Boss" At Summit Press Conference
After hours of closed-door meetings, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump emerged to deliver what can only be described as the most revealing non-announcement in diplomatic history. Standing beneath a banner reading "Pursuing Peace," they achiev…
Trump Seizes D.C. Police: "Do Whatever The Hell You Want" To Crush Dissent
🚔 Capital Under Federal ControlDay 204 of the Trump administration brought an unprecedented federal takeover of Washington D.C.'s police force, deploying the National Guard and placing the Metropolitan Police under direct federal control t…
Trump's Data Grab: The DOJ Is Building a Surveillance State
Day 196 reveals a coordinated assault on democratic institutions through weaponized federal agencies and corporate surveillance partnerships🗳️ JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DEMANDS VOTER DATA FROM 19 STATESThe Justice Department is demanding voter re…
Trump's Nuclear Threats and Epstein Cover-Up Signal Dangerous New Phase of Authoritarian Rule
The Trump administration entered a particularly dangerous phase this week, Day 194 of what increasingly resembles authoritarian consolidation rather than democratic governance. Two developments stand out as especially alarming: Trump's deci…
Epstein Evidence Tampering Exposed by CBS Investigation; DOJ Drops High Profile Cases
⚖️ Justice Department Targets Federal JudgeThe Justice Department filed a misconduct complaint against Judge James Boasberg for blocking Trump's migrant deportation plan. DOJ claims Boasberg made "improper remarks" about Trump during a judi…
Trump's Half-Billion Dollar Harvard Shakedown; Don Jr Sells SEC Access & CIA Chief Wants Obama Arrested
Detention Camp Contractor's Criminal IronyTrump awarded the contract for his new 5,000-bed Fort Bliss detention facility to a team led by GOP megadonor Nathan Albers, whose company TentLogix pleaded guilty in 2019 to illegally hiring undocu…
Trump Installs White Nationalist to Lead "Peace" Institute, Forces CBS News Censor
Day 188 of the Trump administration delivered a cascade of authoritarian moves that reveal the calculated dismantling of American democratic institutions. From installing a white nationalist sympathizer to head the U.S. Institute of Peace t…
The Surveillance State Is Here: ICE's Facial Recognition Network Identifies Every American Instantly
Six months into Trump's second term, the machinery of surveillance has shifted from theoretical threat to operational reality. The administration's systematic capture of federal institutions now extends into the most intimate spaces of Amer…
How Proving Epstein was an Israeli Agent Exposed the Coalition That Attacked Democracy in 2016
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.orgOur 2019 investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's intelligence connections led us to Ehud Barak—and through that connection, we made two revelations that has proven ac…
Day 178: Epstein's Ghost Fractures MAGA
On Day 178 of Trump's authoritarian grip, Jeffrey Epstein achieved something remarkable from beyond the grave: he fractured the MAGA movement that seemed unbreakable. As Trump declared war on his own supporters for demanding the very transp…
The United States of Autocracy is Fully Operational
Day 177 of the Trump administration brought stark evidence that America's democratic guardrails are not just bending—they no longer exist. From indefinite detention without judicial review to ICE agents interrogating children at baseball pr…
Trump Admin Officials Openly Discuss Third Term Plan
Day 176 revealed Trump's authoritarian project operating on multiple fronts simultaneously—capturing the judiciary through loyalist appointments, eliminating constitutional protections for targeted populations, and weaponizing federal agenc…
Special Report: The Secret Life of Jeffrey Epstein: Spies, Blackmail, and Financial Crimes
The Cover-Up AcceleratesSomething extraordinary happened in February 2025. After years of promising MAGA supporters she would release the "Epstein files," Attorney General Pam Bondi suddenly discovered thousands of previously hidden FBI doc…
The Epstein Files: Epstein's Intelligence Ties, Blackmail Schemes, and Trump's Cover-Up
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American Democracy Collapses in Real Time as Trump Builds His Authoritarian Infrastructure
Day 171 of the Trump administration arrived with a stark reminder that authoritarianism doesn't announce itself with dramatic proclamations—it creeps forward through mundane bureaucratic decisions that collectively dismantle democracy. From…
TTT LIVE: Supreme Court Greenlights Trump's Mass Federal Purge
Supreme Court Enables Authoritarian Workforce TransformationThe Supreme Court has lifted the last judicial barrier preventing Trump from executing the largest federal workforce reduction in modern American history. Thanks for reading Narati…
Trump's Revenge Machine Accelerates: From Ukraine Sabotage to Citizenship Stripping
The authoritarian consolidation is no longer theoretical. Day 163 of the Trump administration delivered a masterclass in systematic institutional capture, revealing how thoroughly Trump has weaponized federal agencies to serve both personal…
Day 162: America's Authoritarian Infrastructure Is Now Fully Operational
Our Special July 4 Flash Sale Is On For One Week!Day 162 of the Trump administration marks a watershed moment in American authoritarianism. While the Senate's passage of Trump's $5 trillion "Big Beautiful Bill" grabbed headlines with its 50…
The Secret Police State Takes Shape: Day 157 of Trump's Surveillance Revolution
The Trump administration's authoritarian infrastructure crystallized this week as intelligence wars revealed the Iran strike hoax, Justice Department officials openly discussed ignoring court orders, and the surveillance state expanded into…
Day 155: Trump's F-Bomb Meltdown Exposes His Authoritarian Spiral
Day 155 of the Trump administration delivered a perfect snapshot of authoritarian collapse: a president cursing out allies on live television while the Supreme Court quietly eliminated constitutional protections for thousands of people on A…
Trump Nuclear Strike Fails As Iran Targets US Bases
Day 154 and this is the The Trump Tyranny Tracker LiveIran's "Operation Annunciation of Victory" struck US bases in Qatar and Iraq today, marking the predictable retaliation for Trump's nuclear facility bombing that preserved Iran's weapons…
Federal Court Greenlights Trump's Military Deployment Against Americans
A federal appeals court handed Donald Trump a dangerous victory Friday, ruling he can continue using California's National Guard and Marines against protesters while Governor Gavin Newsom's legal challenge proceeds. The three-judge panel—in…
Trump's Personnel Chief Born in Moscow, Refuses Security Clearance While Vetting 4,000 Federal Workers
The man controlling who gets hired into the Trump administration was born in Moscow and refuses to undergo the security clearance process he demands of everyone else. That explosive revelation anchored today's Trump Tyranny Tracker as autho…
Trump threatens to assassinate Iran's leader, as his domestic authoritarian crackdown reaches new extremes
Day 148 of the Trump administration brought a cascade of authoritarian developments that would have been unthinkable in any previous presidency. From threatening foreign leaders with assassination to arresting American officials for request…
Day 147: White House Amplifies Hitler-Praising White Christian Nationalist Propaganda
Day 147 of the Trump administration delivered a cascade of authoritarian milestones that would have been unthinkable just months ago. From the White House directly amplifying Nazi propaganda to Marines detaining American veterans on U.S. so…
🚨 Federal Agents Assault Senator While DOJ Mobilizes Lawyers Against Weekend Protesters
TRUMP TYRANNY TRACKER POST DAY 144The moment we've been warning about has arrived. When federal agents can tackle and handcuff a sitting U.S. Senator while the Department of Justice simultaneously mobilizes prosecutors nationwide to crush p…
Trump Tyranny Tracker Day 143 Recap
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Day 141: American Authoritarianism Enters Kinetic Phase
Day 141 of the Trump administration revealed something chilling: we're no longer watching isolated authoritarian tactics unfold one by one. We're witnessing their coordinated convergence into a comprehensive assault on democratic institutio…
Stephen Miller Takes Out His Childhood Vengeance on LA; Elon Musk Surveils the White House With Illegal Starlink; Trump Takes Crypto Bribe From Chinese Official
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Trump Has Made $1.2 Billion From His Crypto Holdings Since Taking Office
Today's Trump Tyranny Tracker revealed the staggering scope of presidential corruption as Donald Trump has generated $1.2 billion from cryptocurrency ventures launched around his 2024 campaign. His crypto empire—including NFTs, memecoins li…
Trump Builds Police State While Installing 22-Year-Old Landscaper to Stop Terrorism
Day 136 of the Trump administration delivered a masterclass in authoritarian priorities. While deploying unprecedented federal resources to hunt immigrants, Trump handed terrorism prevention to a grocery store clerk and systematically weake…
Trump Abandons Ukraine As He Staffs Up With Putin Assets
Hegseth “Too Busy” For Critical Ukraine Meeting For the first time since its creation, America's defense secretary will not attend the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting. Pete Hegseth's unprecedented absence as over 50 nations coordinate…
How Tulsi Gabbard Plans to Propagandize the President
Tulsi Gabbard Plans Fox News-Style Intelligence BriefingsRussian asset Tulsi Gabbard wants to transform Trump's Presidential Daily Brief into Fox News-style video presentations with flashy graphics and network personalities. This comes as T…
Ukraine's $7 Billion Masterstroke Exposes Putin's Weakness While Trump Builds America's Surveillance State
Ukraine Humiliates Putin Without Asking Washington's PermissionUkraine just executed the most audacious military operation of the modern era, and the silence from Washington tells you everything about where America stands in the fight for d…
Courts Strike Back: Day 129 of Trump's Legal Reckoning
Day 129 brought a cascade of judicial pushback against Trump's overreach, with federal courts systematically dismantling his illegal power grabs while he desperately tries to pack the bench with loyalists.The Tariff DemolitionTwo separate f…
Trump Border Czar Is Profiting From Private Prison Company Contracted To Hold Deportees
Border Deportation is a For-Profit ScamTom Homan, Trump's "border czar" was quietly collecting consulting fees from the GEO Group—one of America's largest private prison companies—right before rejoining the administration. Now Homan leads t…
Putin Launches Over 1,000 Drones and Missiles At Ukraine as Senate Bill To Stop Russia Languishes in Senate
Vladimir Putin just delivered his verdict on Trump's presidency with 1,000 drones and dozens of missiles over three days, killing at least 30 Ukrainian civilians and leaving neighborhoods in rubble. Trump’s failure to end the Ukraine confl…
Republicans Strip Courts of Power While Trump Hosts Nazis for Dinner
Get 25% off our annual plan for a limited time. Gain access to all our content and get the inside track on what’s happening in America today.All of these stories originate from the Trump Tyranny TrackerHouse Republicans just passed legislat…
Four Escalating Threats and a Constitutional Crisis
Security failures, judicial defiance, weaponized justice, and political targeting accelerateAll of these stories originate from the Trump Tyranny Tracker - Olga’s real-time tracking of authoritarian creep. Support Olga’s efforts by buying a…
Day 120: Trump Weaponizes DOJ against Critics.
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