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You need to sit with this for a second.
A masked federal agent recently told a protester, “We have a nice little database, and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.” Not charged. Not arrested. Just warned.
When asked about it, the Department of Homeland Security flatly denied the claim. No database. No list. Nothing to see here.
That denial doesn’t hold up.
Behind the scenes, pressure has been building for years as federal agencies quietly expand how they monitor protests, track networks, and label “concerning” behavior. Not violence. Not crimes. Behavior. Filming. Yelling. Standing too close. Knowing the wrong people.
This isn’t happening through one big program with a name everyone recognizes. It’s happening through overlapping systems, internal tools, and classifications most Americans will never hear about — unless they end up inside them.
And here’s the part that should worry you most: you don’t get notified. You don’t get to challenge it. You don’t even know when it starts.
Once dissent becomes something that gets logged instead of heard, accountability disappears fast. What replaces it isn’t safety. It’s silence.
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