April 23rd, 2025
April 23rd 2025
🟥 Stage 1: Soft Authoritarianism — ✅ COMPLETE
✅ Disregard of court orders: ICE continues to ignore federal rulings; DOJ officials remain in contempt.
✅ Emergency powers without checks: DOJ/SSA now consolidated under Project 2025 logic; Insurrection Act still under review.
✅ Mass disinformation: Fake imagery (e.g., MS-13 tattoos) and doctored government claims (e.g., Harvard, Zelensky) amplified.
✅ Journalist shadowbanning: Targeted algorithmic suppression continues on X and Meta.
✅ Legal residents deported without due process: Disappearances now confirmed (e.g., Mr. Prada); detainment of U.S. citizens persists.
✅ Retaliation against whistleblowers: Federal purges, loyalty screens at VA and Pentagon, threats against DOGE informants.
✅ Surveillance of communications: DOGE now has full access to ECAS, combining immigration, court, and case data.
✅ Conclusion: Stage 1 remains entrenched, and all markers continue or escalate.
🟧 Stage 2: Escalation and Consolidation — ✅ COMPLETE
✅ Criminalization of protest: Protestors and federal dissenters met with retaliation, blacklisting, or arrest.
✅ Domestic military deployment: DOD-White House discussions continue under strained Pentagon conditions.
✅ Litmus tests / purges: Loyalty screens in Pentagon and DOJ; DOGE reviewing past affiliations and resumes.
✅ Financial surveillance: SSNs deactivated under false claims; targeted IRS reviews.
✅ Exit bans / reentry blocks: CECOT program bypasses judicial process; unknown number of renderings.
✅ DOJ/FBI politicization: DOJ facilitating DOGE surveillance; backing fabricated public narratives.
✅ Healthcare revocation: NIH repurposed to gather medical records for registry-based research (e.g., autism).
✅ Clinic targeting: LGBTQ+ and disability clinics systematically defunded or obstructed.
✅ Conclusion: Institutional safeguards are being overtaken by centralized control and information warfare.
🟨 Stage 3: Authoritarian Entrenchment — ✅ IN FINAL PHASE
✅ Mass detentions: At least one disappearance confirmed; undocumented and even citizens now detained.
✅ Border closures for dissidents: Passive repatriation bans remain; no formal policy, but extralegal deportations.
✅ Labeling of dissenters: Harvard, Ukraine, and judges labeled enemies or conspirators.
✅ Biometric tracking: DOJ + DOGE integration now live; fusion of immigration, health, and labor data.
✅ Asset freezing / retaliation: $2.2B frozen from Harvard; SmartPay program privatization accelerates control.
✅ State media dominance: 60 Minutes resignation, Voice of America dismantling halted only by emergency ruling.
✅ Medical denial as control: Children in immigration court without lawyers; STI lab cuts during outbreak.
✅ Judicial nullification: Trump admin ignoring SCOTUS rulings; contempt proceedings likely unenforceable.
✅ Conclusion: Entrenchment nearly complete; checks persist only through judicial statements without enforcement power.
🔻 Stage 4: Loyalty Consolidation — 🔴 NOW UNDERWAY
✅ Elections reframed as loyalty tests
✅ DOJ, IRS, and federal agencies deployed against opposition (e.g., Harvard, Zelensky, Letitia James)
✅ Forced narrative compliance: Harvard's federal grants conditioned on ideological alignment
✅ Resource and job access linked to loyalty (e.g., resume vetting at Pentagon)
⚠️ Remaining indicators: Widespread forced oaths or loyalty pledges still emerging but not universal
📛 Stage 5: Selective Group Targeting — ⚠️ BEGINNING
✅ Disabled individuals and neurodivergence: NIH autism registry advancing without consent; future exclusions likely
✅ LGBTQ+ rollback: SCOTUS signals permission for public school opt-outs; broader legal precedent being built
✅ International students: Mass visa revocations challenged in court; detainments and removals ongoing
✅ Immigrants & migrants: Migrant children in court without counsel; disappearances like Mr. Prada deepen concern
⚠️ Conclusion: Full institutional targeting not yet uniform—but expanding fast
🛡️ Civic Resistance Tracker — ✅ UPDATED April 23, 2025
✅ Judicial Courage: Courts block Voice of America dismantling and defend due process, though without enforcement mechanisms
✅ State Defiance: Harvard lawsuit, joint statement by 180+ university leaders
✅ Legal Action: ACLU, NIJC, and private lawyers securing isolated court victories (e.g., student visa reinstatements)
🟧 Media & Press: Resignations (e.g., 60 Minutes producer) show loss of independence; independent outlets still operating
✅ Community Organizing: Mutual aid, encrypted networks, and information-sharing alive and growing
🟧 Whistleblower Leaks: DOGE access and activity revealed via FOIA and internal complaints
🚫 International Response: Still absent, even as public lands, courts, and treaty obligations are eroded
🔗 Key Developments — April 23, 2025
- ❌ Venezuelan man disappears post-removal — no record in ICE, CECOT, or other tracking systems
- ⚠️ DOJ grants Musk’s DOGE operatives full ECAS access (millions of immigration case records)
- 🧠 NIH to pull medical records for autism registry, bypassing consent
- ❌ Trump demands Ukraine concede Crimea, blocks NATO pathway
- 💣 Musk operatives attempt to gain influence over National Gallery of Art
- 🚸 Migrant children as young as 4 appearing in court alone; funding for legal aid cut