Our latest podcast episode examines how social media propels anti-Trump protests and draws surprising parallels to Father Coughlin's fascist radio empire of the 1930s in the United States (30 million listeners!).

Learn how Americans defeated media authoritarianism before and what today's digital resistance needs to succeed.

Democracy has always required citizen action. Listen to how we turn tweets into power.

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Episode produced by Eleven Labs and William R. Dodson

Music: Gifts of Stars Act II, by Lloyd_Rodgers (Creative Commons License)

Trump's 104% tariffs and Vance's "peasant" slur awaken China's century-old wounds from Western exploitation as colonial bullying repeats, markets crash, and Pentagon supply chains face disruption from rare earth mineral restrictions.

Episode produced by Eleven Labs and William R. Dodson

Music: Gifts of Stars Act II, by Lloyd_Rodgers (Creative Commons License)

🚨 FACEBOOK JUST DELETED HEATHER COX RICHARDSON'S CRITICAL POSTS – silently, without warning. Two consecutive posts vanished, both analyzing Trump administration chaos. Is this Meta's new censorship reality? As Zuckerberg courts Trump amid antitrust pressure, Richardson's million-reader voice gets muzzled. This is straight from the digital scrolls of China-style information control. Except now, it’s arrived in America. Read our investigation to learn what disappeared and why your voice could be next.

Episode produced by Eleven Labs and William R. Dodson

Music: Gifts of Stars Act II, by Lloyd_Rodgers (Creative Commons License)

Audio produced by Eleven Labs and William R. Dodson

Music: Gifts of Stars Act II, by Lloyd_Rodgers (Creative Commons License)

Hackers Now Control Government SystemsMusk's DOGE team has infiltrated the Justice Department! Hacker Christopher Stanley bragged about hacking PayPal and gaming companies before getting access to sensitive government data, according to Reuters. He still works for Musk while "serving" at DOJ. This digital threat mirrors physical attacks like Oklahoma City but with less visibility and accountability.Read the full exposé now. Then contact your representatives and demand a full DOGE investigation before it's too late….

DOGE ATTACK ON SOCIAL SECURITY THREATENS 65 MILLION AMERICANS

DOGE engineers are recklessly replacing 60 million lines of critical code using hallucination-prone AI. This isn't modernization - it's sabotage! Previous careful upgrades took years. Now they want it done in MONTHS while firing the experts who understand the system. When payments stop, who will fix it? Join in one of the HANDS OFF protests around the country on Saturday, April 5th!

Trump officials exposed classified Yemen airstrikes by accidentally adding a journalist to their Signal chat. Unlike the 1971 Pentagon Papers that took months to leak, this breach happened instantly. While Daniel Ellsberg faced espionage charges for exposing Vietnam War lies, today's officials face minimal consequences for casual negligence with military secrets. Contact your representatives now and demand consistent enforcement of classified information laws regardless of rank or position.

Read the article at: https://dailyluddite.substack.com/p/bad-signals-trumps-digital-pentagon

Episode produced by Eleven Labs

Music: Gifts of Stars Act II, by Lloyd_Rodgers

Columbia has placed its Middle Eastern Studies department under "academic receivership" to keep $400 million in federal funding.

This mirrors Nazi Germany's 1933 academic purges that led to brain drain and innovation collapse. The pattern is expanding to other universities.

ACT NOW: Contact Columbia's president, withhold alumni donations, and join faculty protests before this authoritarian precedent spreads across American higher education.

Ukraine's Robo-Tech Trumps Putin's Soviet Ambitions

Putin's Military Still Lives in the Soviet Era

While Russian conscripts dodge TikTok drones in 70-year-old tanks, Ukraine's robotic ground forces are rewriting warfare's future.

Moscow throws quantity at what is fundamentally a quality problem.

Ukraine's "Honey Badger" robots don't need food, sleep, or morale—just targets. Want to see how yesterday's empire is losing to tomorrow's technology?

Listen to my latest deep dive on how Ukraine's autonomous revolution echoes Japan's 1904 tech triumph..

Read the article on Substack.