Surveillance
Now in Effect: South Dakota Law Bans Credit Card Codes that Track Gun Purchases
PIERRE, S.D. (July 1, 2025) – Today, a new South Dakota law banning financial institutions from using credit card codes to track firearm and ammunition purchases went into effect. Senate Bill 81 (SB81) bars financial institutions operating in the state from requiring...
Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison
Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in transforming America from a constitutional republic into a digital...
How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. Replaced not by a charismatic autocrat or even a shadowy bureaucracy, but by artificial intelligence (AI) – unfeeling, unaccountable, and immortal. As we stand on the brink of a new technological order,...
Government Attacks on Private Property
A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the...