Amanda Carpenter 

Editor at Protect Democracy https://protectdemocracy.org/. Subscribe to If You Can Keep It!! https://protectdemocracy.org/get-updates/ Prior Bulwark archive here https://www.thebulwark.com/author/amanda-carpenter/

Trump is escalating his autocratic tactics. As he purges people from the government and installs more loyalists this will become increasingly worse.

From me, an assessment of where things stand today when it comes to the most urgent threats to democracy.

How much damage has been done so far?

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DOGE is axing it and things we took for granted will be sacrificed.

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New from me and my PD colleague Grant Tudor, a piece that isn’t “in the news” but is a slow burning topic we must keep monitoring.

After Trump freed him from prison, Enrique Tarrio said “success will be retribution.” Trump and paramilitary actors in America are in agreement on this and you can see how the January 6 retribution agenda has …

Trump’s pardons solidified dangerous alliances with paramilitaries