Threat Index: Government
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Politicians & Policy
✦ Project2025.Observer - A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
Doublespeak, how to lie and get away with it [video] by Into the Shadows
Democracy is mathematically impossible [video]
TheAuthoritarians.org - free ebook entitled The Authoritarians by Dr. Bob Altemeyer
Right Wing Watch - exposes their strategies and tactics so we can understand the threat--and fight back.
ⓘ GovTrack.us - tracking the activities of the United States Congress and the White House
5Calls.org - 5 Calls for U.S. constituents to make a political impact
Slapp suits [video - yt] by Last Week Tonight [videos] with John Oliver
On Tyranny [ebook] by Timothy Snyder
Friendly Fascism [ebook] the new face of power in america
Old Nazis, The New Right, and the Republican Party [ebook] fascist networks and US cold war politics
Cartels bought a country [video] by Into the Shadows
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States [ebook]Daniel Immerwahr
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This [ebook]
Decoherence.Media [website] is an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
FashyLeaks.com [website] a search interface for Nazi forum datasets, including Iron March and Rope Culture.
ICE, Cops, & Other LEOs
❤ CriticalResistance.org [website]
Understanding Gestapo Swine Interrogation Mind Games [pdf]
The Reid technique [video] by Into the Shadows [yt]
Kent State Massacre [video] by Into the Shadows [yt]
Bloody sunday [video] by Into the Shadows
The us govt poisoned our alcohol to kill us on purpose [video] by Into the Shadows
Laogai System [video] by Into the Shadows
Mass surveillance and autonomous killings [video]
worst miscarriages of justice [video]
Apartheid Death Squads [video] by Into the Shadows
Survival [article] a story about anarchists endiring mass raids
CIA
How a CIA Base Works [video - yt] by Fern [yt]
The CIA coups you were never taught about in school [video - yt] by Sideprojects [yt]
Dark Alliance [ebook] by Gary Webb
The Kids Who Hacked The CIA [video - yt] by Fern [yt]
The CIA's Scariest Weapon [video - yt] by Fern [yt]
The Most Unbelievable Things the CIA Has Done [video - yt] by Sideprojects [yt]
FBI
★ If the FBI Approaches You to Become an Informant [pdf] what you need to know by CrimeThinc.com
NSA
ICE
✦ StopIce.net - Send & Receive alerts about ICE raids and activity in your area.
✦ IceOut.org - community-submitted and moderator-reviewed reports about possible ICE activity, mapped
Seven Steps to Stop ICE - by Crimethinc.com
When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE - by Crimethinc.com
★ De-Arrest Primer [pdf] - This zine provides a basic introduction to de-arresting, aka free folks from the grasp of law enforcement officers (LEOs). It covers a number of different tactics and goes over some of the risks involved.
ⓘ IceList.is - The ICE List is an open journalistic project, created by Crust News, aimed at collecting and sharing information that can hold ICE members legally accountable.
Immigration Detention Inc [ebook] [ebook] - The Big Business of Locking up Migrants by Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon
ICE [video - yt] by Last Week Tonight [videos] with John Oliver [wiki][website]
Ice is the new gestapo [video]
✦ WatchIce.org [website] hosts the ICE Detention Map, an open-source dashboard and map showing information about ICE detention facilities, including the number of people in detention.
Police
✦ CopBlaster.com [website] - "Whether you've been brutalized, annoyed, or just disappointed, you've probably had an experience with police officers, prosecutors, judges, jails, prisons, or some part of the system that could have been better. Sign up for free and tell your story."
❤ DontCallThePolice.com - Community-based alternatives to police in your city
★ When the Police Knock on Your Door - by Crimethinc.com
How cops became soldiers [video]
Excited Delirium [pdf] - Billed as “a protestor’s guide to ‘less-lethal’ weaponry,” this zine is an incredibly thorough introduction to commonly used police weapons.
That Horse Is A Weapon [pdf] - a detailed examination of how horses are used by police for crowd control.
Defending Against Riot Munitions [pdf]
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Helmets [article] by CrimeThinc [website] [mastodon]
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles [article] by CrimeThinc [website] [mastodon]
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Body Armor [article] by CrimeThinc [website] [mastodon]
Protocols for Common Injuries from Police Weapons by CrimeThinc [website] [mastodon]
Police Interrogation [video - yt] by Last Week Tonight [videos] with John Oliver
Wrongful Convictions [video - yt] by Last Week Tonight [videos] with John Oliver
The Deadly, Avoidable Reality of High-Speed Police Chases [video] by Some More News [yt]
Secret Police [video] by Fern [yt]
Police stings [video] by Last Week Tonight [videos - yt] with John Oliver
Imprisonment
Surviving a Grand Jury [article] by CrimeThinc [website] [mastodon]
How to Survive a Felony Trial [article] by CrimeThinc [website] [mastodon]m
Prison [video - yt] by Last Week Tonight [videos] with John Oliver [wiki][website]
Prison heat [video - yt] by Last Week Tonight [videos] with John Oliver [wiki][website]
Death Penalty [video - yt] by Last Week Tonight [videos] with John Oliver [wiki][website]
China's mega prison [video - yt] by Into the Shadows
China's black jails [video - yt] by Into the Shadows
Inside China's torture camps for teens [video] by Fern [yt]
Torture [video - yt] by Last Week Tonight [videos] with John Oliver [wiki][website]
Penal colonies [video - yt] by Into the Shadows
How to escape north Korea [video] by Fern [yt]
The Perverse Incentives of Private Prisons [video] by Some More News [yt]
Trumps favorite prison [video] by Fern [yt]
Bail [video] by Last Week Tonight [videos - yt] with John Oliver
botched executions [video] by Sideprojects [yt]
❤ IncarceratedWorkers.org [website]
❤ TheJerichoMovement.com [website]
Incarceration in Real Numbers - Incarceration Visualization / Facts
❤ WriteAPrisoner.com - Pen Pals for Inmates
Technology
TASAT.org - There's a Story About That! The What-If Scenario Database. Applying science fiction to solve real-world problems.
Authoritarian-Stack.Info [article] - How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
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Facial recognition is jailing the wrong people, but police keep using it anyway [article]
Legal Analysis of Current Events
LeejaMiller.com [website] - Weekly musings on US news & politics from lawyer and content creator Leeja Miller
LegalEagle.TV [website] - Video commentary on current events and media from lawyer and content creator Devin James Stone
Epstein Files
The Epstein Files Should Radicalize You [video] by Leeja Miller
EpsteinExposed.com The most comprehensive searchable database of every person, document, flight, and connection in the Epstein files. Used by journalists, researchers, and over 100,000 citizens.
✦ Jmail.World
You are logged in as Jeffrey Epstein, jeevacation@gmail.com. These are real emails released by Congress. Explore by name, contribute to the starred list, search, or visit a random page.
ⓘ The epstein file release is worse than we thought [video] by Into the Shadows
ⓘ Most Depraved Things in the Epstein Files [video] by Into the Shadows
ⓘ Epstein was sick, but his girlfriend... [video] by Into the Shadows
☺ Epstein & friends photo album [video] by Josh Johnson
☺ Epstein files maga feud [video] by Josh Johnson
☺ Trump vs maga Epstein crashout [video] by Josh Johnson
☺ Billionaires in the Epstein Files [video] by Josh Johnson
ⓘ Nobody's Girl [ebook] by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
EpsteIn [software] Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts
ⓘ justice.gov/epstein - DoJ portal.
ⓘ epstein-docs.github.io - Searchable text archives (FBI Oct 2025 release).
ⓘ vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein - Original image archives (FBI Oct 2025 release).
ⓘ Original image archives (HOC Nov 2025 release).
ⓘ OCR pipeline source code (FBI Oct 2025 release).
ⓘ Searchable text archive (HOC Nov 2025 release).
ⓘ EpsteinArchive.org - Archive site 1.
ⓘ EpsteinDocs.Info - Archive site 2.
ⓘ jmail.world/drive - Archive site 3.
Military
Agent Orange: The Banned Weapon That Followed Soldiers Home [video] by Into the Shadows
That Time The US Military Sent Mentally-Disabled Troops To Fight [video] by Into the Shadows
History's Most Shocking False Flags [video] by Sideprojects [yt]
The Most Shocking ALLIED War Crimes [video] by Sideprojects [yt]
The Biggest Misconceptions About Trench Warfare [video] by Sideprojects [yt]
The Biggest Misconceptions About Historical Warfare [video] by Sideprojects [yt]
5 of History's Absolute Strangest Military Units [video] by Sideprojects [yt]
Futuristic Military Tech That ACTUALLY EXISTS [video] by Sideprojects [yt]
U.S. Oil & Gas Companies Trying To Profit From War In Ukraine [video] by Climate Town [yt]