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A chilling look at how authoritarianism spreads—through fear, silence, and the punishment of truth-tellers inside the system.

A Cuban-born American warns that Trump’s cult of loyalty mirrors Castro’s. Different ideology, same playbook.

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The Pentagon is quietly scrubbing diversity from military recruiting, erasing images of minority and female service members like they never

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