July 5th Tracker Update

🔴 Stage 1: Soft Authoritarianism – ✅ COMPLETE

✅ Disregard of court orders: Trump defied Supreme Court and lower court rulings, including in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia – a U.S. father wrongly deported to El Salvador.
✅ Emergency powers without checks: Trump continues to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping tariffs without congressional approval, fueling an economic crisis.
✅ Mass disinformation: Trump pushed a photoshopped image of Garcia's supposed MS-13 tattoos on live TV, even after the interviewer repeatedly explained the image was fake. Trump continued insisting the falsehood, blaming "fake news" for pushback.
✅ Journalist targeting: DOJ expanded legal grounds to subpoena reporters' communications, part of Attorney General Pam Bondi's push to intimidate media that embarrasses the administration.
✅ Legal residents and citizens deported without due process: ICE deported U.S. citizen children – including a four-year-old with cancer – along with their noncitizen parents, despite judicial orders and public outcry.
✅ Retaliation against whistleblowers: Loyalty vetting, polygraph testing, and NDAs are being forced on federal employees; DOJ whistleblowers report widespread intimidation.
✅ Surveillance expansion: Musk's integration of Starlink into FAA infrastructure expands private-public surveillance reach.
Conclusion: Stage 1 is fully saturated -- the administration operates above the law and treats institutional limits as optional.

🟧 Stage 2: Escalation and Consolidation – ✅ COMPLETE

✅ Criminalization of protest: Capitol sit-in protests led by Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker were met with accusations of lawbreaking; left-leaning fundraising platforms like ActBlue are under federal investigation.
✅ Militarized policing: Trump's new executive order authorizes no-knock raids, mass arrests, surveillance of protests, and expands police protections via qualified immunity – effectively legalizing violent crackdowns.
✅ Institutional purges: Over 100 lawyers exited the DOJ Civil Rights Division under pressure; the new head, Harmeet Dhillon, mocks the department's past civil rights mission in right-wing media appearances.
✅ Financial retaliation: UPS announced 20,000 layoffs after trade disruptions; toy manufacturers warned of Christmas shortages due to tariffs; Trump blamed Biden for economic fallout, despite taking prior credit.
✅ Exit blocks and extralegal deportations: Bhutanese legal residents were deported and rendered stateless; ICE raided U.S. citizens' homes without warrants, dragging families half-dressed into yards.
✅ DOJ/FBI weaponization: The FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan for obstructing ICE, a chilling message to the judiciary. Bondi used Fox News to publicly smear Dugan, threatening further prosecution.
✅ Healthcare revocations: AmeriCorps shut down, cutting 32,000 volunteer positions; reading programs for dyslexic children defunded; LGBTQ+ youth crisis hotline defunded.
✅ Clinic targeting: Rollbacks of protections for LGBTQ+ and disabled communities are underway, gutting access to services and civil rights enforcement.
Conclusion: Stage 2 is fully achieved -- government institutions now serve political and loyalty goals over public interest.

🟨 Stage 3: Authoritarian Entrenchment – ✅ COMPLETE

✅ Mass detentions and deportations: ICE conducted mass home raids, including on U.S. citizens; migrants in Texas detention facilities spelled "SOS" with their bodies as drones passed overhead.
✅ Border closures for dissenters: Internal deportations and blockades are being normalized; even citizens have no guaranteed right of return.
✅ Labeling of dissenters as enemies: Trump attacked journalists, judges, Democrats, and protesters as "disloyal" or "domestic threats."
✅ Surveillance state solidification: Musk's integration of Starlink into FAA infrastructure expands private-public surveillance reach.
✅ Asset seizure and retaliation: Trump attacked Amazon for showing tariff costs, calling it "a hostile and political act," signaling potential retaliatory regulation.
✅ State-controlled media dominance: CBS's 60 Minutes faced parent-company pressure for its coverage of Trump and the Israel-Hamas war, as Paramount seeks administration approval for a merger.
✅ Medical weaponization: Autism research is redirected toward ideological studies; LGBTQ+ health and disability services gutted; vaccine access undermined.
✅ Judicial nullification: The administration defied Supreme Court rulings on citizenship and deportations, openly dismissing the authority of the courts.
Conclusion: Stage 3 is complete -- de facto authoritarian rule exists; laws are selectively applied, and institutional independence has collapsed.

🔻 Stage 4: Loyalty Consolidation – ✅ COMPLETE

✅ Elections as loyalty tests: Trump framed loyalty as patriotism; dissenters are portrayed as traitors.
✅ IRS, DOJ weaponization: Democratic infrastructure like ActBlue faces federal investigations under vague fraud claims.
✅ Coercion of governors, judges, civil servants: Arrest of Judge Dugan sends a warning; loyalty vetting with polygraphs and sting operations are expanding across federal agencies. Federal agents dragged Senator Alex Padilla from press conference and handcuffed him.
✅ Resource access based on loyalty: Schools resisting conservative mandates face funding cuts; 60+ universities under DEI investigations risk losing federal grants.
✅ Elite political buy-in: The $500,000+ Executive Branch Club allows the wealthy to buy policy access to Trump's inner circle.
✅ Mass rallies: Loyalty rallies being held in support of the president.
✅ Military deployment against civilians: 4,000+ National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles; 700 Marines activated. First Marine civilian detention occurred June 13.
✅ Federal employee purges: Civil service system dismantled; 20+ career prosecutors fired; 8 senior FBI leaders forced out.
✅ Loyalty oaths and mandatory participation: Federal employees required to sign NDAs and undergo loyalty vetting; ideological tests for advancement implemented.
Conclusion: Stage 4 is complete -- independent institutions have been absorbed or collapsed; loyalty is required for resource access.

📛 Stage 5: Selective Targeting of Broad Groups – ✅ COMPLETE

✅ Disabled communities: Reading and math interventions for dyslexic and disabled children defunded overnight. Medicaid for disabled slashed.
✅ LGBTQ+ communities: LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline services cut; Supreme Court signaled openness to taxpayer-funded religious schools that can exclude LGBTQ+ students.
✅ Immigrants and citizens of color: U.S. citizens, including toddlers, are deported or separated from parents without legal recourse. Alien Enemies Act invoked for first time since WWII.
✅ Judiciary intimidation: Public smear campaigns, arrests, and threats against judges who resist administration policies.
✅ Education dismantling: Diversity and equity programs in schools face funding cuts; loyalty tests are expanding in public education. Universities have had tenure removed, and students are being asked to report on professors.
✅ Press targeting: Associated Press banned from White House; FCC investigations into ABC, NBC, CBS; broadcast license threats continue.
✅ Academic freedom attacks: Columbia student activist arrested by ICE; law firms sanctioned for representing Trump opponents; $100+ million in pro bono work extracted.
✅ Military occupation zones: 8-day military occupation of downtown LA with National Defense Zones where due process is suspended.
✅ Professional licensing threats: Revocation of law, medical, and teaching licenses for dissent being implemented.
Conclusion: Stage 5 is complete -- systematic targeting of broad groups is normalized; censorship is internalized; political opponents face arrest and exile.

⚫ Stage 6: Mass Suppression and Economic Reordering – 🔴 65% COMPLETE

✅ Assets seized under state-loyal oligarchs: Trump family profits explode through Dominari AI holdings; U.S. Steel under government control; Trump Mobile launching soon.
✅ Currency destabilization: U.S. GDP shrinks 0.3%; layoffs increase and tariff-induced shortages imminent. Fed Chair being replaced soon with a loyalist.
✅ Social hierarchies restructured: Loyalists get federal jobs, contracts, and access; dissenters face professional bans and resource denial.
✅ Re-education programs: Federal employees undergo loyalty vetting and ideological testing; universities require political conformity for funding.
✅ Compliance through scarcity: Data mining underway to tie healthcare, education, and basic services to political loyalty; AmeriCorps eliminated to reduce independent civic engagement.

Final Markers to Watch:
• Asset seizure of dissidents.
• Increased number of state-owned industries.
• Increased entry/exit issues for ideological dissidents.
• Formal detention or work programs for dissenters or "unproductive" citizens.
• Social services throttling based on Palantir loyalty scores.

🔴 Stage 7: Eugenics and Demographic Engineering – ⚠️ 40% COMPLETE

✅ Medical exclusion from care: Denial of treatment to disabled and chronically ill groups through program defunding; autism research redirected toward ideological studies.
✅ Reproductive control: LGBTQ+ health services gutted; Supreme Court supports religious schools that exclude LGBTQ+ students, laying groundwork for broader exclusions.
✅ Cultural group erasure: Education defunding for non-English speakers; Native American cultural programs and diversity initiatives eliminated.
✅ Vaccine access undermined: Public health programs gutted under "cost savings" rhetoric; medical weaponization against targeted groups.
🚧Pro-natalist policies: Reproductive health restrictions create infrastructure.

⚠️ Critical Warning Signs To Watch For:
• Forced sterilization or medical procedures
• Systematic denial of medical care based on group identity
• Mandatory genetic testing or "health screening" programs
• Reproduction incentives tied to political or racial criteria

🛡️ Civic Resistance Tracker – Score, C-, Resistance is Overall Weak

🚧 Judicial pushback: Courts continue to rule against the administration, but rulings are increasingly ignored; Supreme Court stripped nationwide injunction power 6-3.
✅ Academic and state resistance: Harvard's lawsuit continues; 180+ universities resist political control, though many face severe funding threats and investigations.
🚧 Protests: Symbolic protests emerge but face military crackdown in LA; 470+ protesters detained since military deployment began.
✅ Media leaks and whistleblowing: Whistleblowers continue to reveal internal abuses despite federal employee intimidation campaigns.
🚧 Media pushback: Major resignations at legacy outlets; independent journalism efforts increasing but severely under-resourced and targeted.
🚫 International response: European leaders voice concerns, but coordinated international condemnation remains weak; democracy ratings dropped from 67 to 55.

Recent key developments will be covered in a separate post due to the number of recent threats to freedoms.