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No Kings. No Thieves. No Tyrants.
Millions will march Saturday against tyranny. They’ll return home Sunday. And Monday morning, the kleptocrats will still be looting.Patrick Lovell understands the gap between protest and power. The filmmaker spent years documenting how 2008…
Hot Mic: "I'll have Eric call you," Trump reveals his son's role as presidential bag man
Trump Tyranny Tracker has a new home: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 PM Eastern. The shift to primetime reflects what Olga Lautman has been documenting for 267 days—an accelerating authoritarian takeover that demands sustained attention. Her d…
The Greatest Heist Live: What I Told Paid Subscribers Last Thursday Night
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.orgLast Thursday night I did something I’ve never done before.For the first time publicly, I sat down with investigative journalist Patrick Lovell — who executive pro…
Special Report: Letitia James Indicted With Lev Parnas, Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev
Dean Blundell, Lev Parnas, and Zev Shalev examine two breaking stories that expose Trump’s authoritarian playbook in action: New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted on federal bank fraud charges just weeks after Trump publ…
Federal Agents Turn Weapons on Police, Journalists, and Reality Itself
James Comey’s arraignment marks the transition Olga Lautman identified months ago—from installing loyalists to deploying them. The former FBI director pleaded not guilty to charges even legal observers consider fabricated, but conviction is…
Trump Tells NATO to Shoot Down Russian Aircraft After Scandinavian Drone Attacks
🎯 Trump Gives NATO Green Light to Strike Russian Military AircraftIn a surprising turn at his UN press conference with Zelensky, Trump declared that NATO countries should shoot down any Russian aircraft entering their airspace. Asked about…
Trump Orders DOJ to Target Political Enemies as Corruption Probe Into Border Czar Gets Buried
🎯 Trump Commands Bondi to Prosecute Political Enemies The president publicly ordered his Attorney General on Truth Social to move against James Comey, Letitia James, and Adam Schiff—one day after firing a U.S. attorney who refused to indic…
Trump Claims Putin Let Him Down While Claiming US Has Nothing To Do With Ukraine
At Chequers with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Donald Trump delivered his harshest public remarks yet about Vladimir Putin, saying the Russian leader had “let him down” over Ukraine. But while the rhetoric was sharp, Trump simultaneously …
Trump Tyranny Tracker Day 240 Recap
1. 🗑️ DOJ Erases Right-Wing Terror DataThe Justice Department deleted a National Institute of Justice study proving that white supremacists and far-right extremists commit 70% of domestic terrorism - over 500 incidents documented. The dele…
Analysis: Was Charlie Kirk Killed Because Of Epstein?
The assassination of Charlie Kirk on the campus of Utah Valley University has already spawned a thousand theories. Some are wild, some plausible, and some grounded in the simple fact that when a polarizing figure dies violently, meaning rus…
A Nation at a Crossroads: The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Yesterday, America crossed another terrible threshold. Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and one of the most visible faces of the MAGA youth movement, was assassinated at Utah Valley University. He was 31 years old, a father, and a…
🚨 NATO Under Attack While Trump's Team Feasts On Lobster; Our Alliances Are Under Threat
On Day 233 of the Trump administration, as Russian drones penetrated deep into Polish airspace triggering NATO's first Article 4 invocation for direct military engagement, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio sa…
Supreme Court Greenlights Racial Profiling as Trump Captures Media and Elections
⚔️ Pentagon Positions for Venezuela StrikePete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine made an unannounced trip to Puerto Rico as the Pentagon considers basing jets and warships there for expanded "anti-cartel operations." This follows …
Trump's War on Americans
🎯 Erik Prince's Ukraine Drone GrabErik Prince's appearance in Kyiv seeking control of Ukrainian drone companies isn't just another grift by the Blackwater founder. As Olga Lautman observed on today's Trump Tyranny Tracker, Prince's push in…
Trump Dismisses Epstein survivors as Democratic hoax, while building a new machinery of control
💰 THE GRIFT: Campaign Cash Pipeline to Trump PropertiesPolitical committees have pumped $931,000 into Trump properties since inauguration, with the RNC leading the charge. A quarter of House Republicans now direct campaign funds to his bus…
Exxon's Secret Dance With The Kremlin While Ukraine Burns
Three years after fleeing Russia's genocidal invasion of Ukraine, Exxon executives sat across from sanctioned Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin in Doha, negotiating their return to the Sakhalin oil project. The meetings weren't supposed to be public.…
Day 218: Armed Troops Patrol D.C. as DOJ Platforms Pedophile, Intelligence Chief Fired for Truth-Telling
KEY AUTHORITARIAN INDICATORS FROM TODAY'S SHOW:🔫 MILITARIZATION OF THE CAPITAL The deployment of 2,200+ armed National Guard troops patrolling D.C. neighborhoods represents the most significant militarization of the American capital since …
Trump FBI Search of John Bolton's Home and Office Designed to Distract from Epstein Case
The Trump administration crossed another authoritarian threshold Friday when FBI agents searched former National Security Advisor John Bolton's home and office, ostensibly seeking classified materials from his 2020 book "The Room Where It H…
Russia Rejects Peace, Bombs U.S. Factory
🇷🇺 Russia Rejects Peace, Bombs U.S. FactoryMoscow won't commit to Putin-Zelenskyy summit, demanding "step by step" talks through lower officials. Trump admitted calling Putin privately while hosting Zelenskyy, calling it "disrespectful" t…
Putin and Trump Discuss Ways To Rig America's Elections As Trump Attempts To Delete Slavery From US History
The synchronized assault on American democracy accelerated today across multiple fronts, from Trump and Putin's coordinated attack on U.S. voting systems to the systematic rewriting of American history at the Smithsonian. These aren't isola…
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…