Sitemap - 2026 - The Steady State
Is Putin Winning Without Firing a Shot?
The Weekly: Death By A Thousand Small Surrenders
It’s a Free Country … Isn’t It?
Common Sense, Take 2: Democracy as a Patient, Part II
Democracy Dies the Death of a Thousand Cuts
Common Sense Take 2: Democracy as a Patient
The Weekly: Connecting the Dots - A Democracy Under Stress
210 Days to Break an Intelligence Community
Follow The Money: A Slush Fund Presidency?
“Common Sense Take 2” : Change is up to Us
Common Sense for a Democracy in Crisis
Introducing Common Sense: Take 2
Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline - Periodic Update
America First? History Says Otherwise.
The Weekly: Democracy Beyond the Ballot
Will “Nice” Still Play in Peoria?
They Can Cancel the Show, Not the Audience
ICYMI: “He’s Trying to Destroy the First Amendment” – Bob Drogin on Trump’s War on the Press
Lies + More Lies= $1.8 Billion
The Steady State Auxiliary: A Deeper Way to Engage
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself
The War on the Press: How Trump Attacks the First Amendment
Who Will Stand for the Republic?
The Constitution or Commander-in-Chief?
“The Thin Red Line” - An Open Letter to Non-MAGA Republicans
The Gateway Drug to War in Iran: How America's "War on Narco-Terrorism" Became a War on Law Itself
The "Long Con" - Trump’s Billion Dollar Ballroom
Sabotage in the Baltic Sea, Implications for European Security, and Lessons for the Indo-Pacific
ICYMI: “Which Side Are You On?” – Ambassador Eric Rubin on the Dismantling of American Diplomacy
The Court That Erased a People—Again
🎧 Saving My Life's Work: Eric Rubin on the Dismantling of American Diplomacy
When Intelligence Bows to Power
The Weekly: The New Rules Are No Rules
Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline A Periodic Update
FREDONIA PROJECT SITREP 25: U.S. POLICY DEVELOPMENTS 28 Feb - 29 Apr 2026
🎧 The Fragile Glue: Mark Zaid on Whistleblowers, Retaliation, and the Rule of Law
All Aboard the Retribution Train
The Weekly: The Erosion Is the Event
Who’s Really Deranged? Trump’s Favorite Insult Reveals More About its Author Than its Targets
ICYMI: The MAGA Crack‑Up: David Corn on Schisms, Spies, and the Burning of the FBI
What We Don’t Know About Government Can Hurt Us
As We Argue About Red and Blue, the Guardrails Are Disappearing
The MAGA Crack-Up: 🎙️ David Corn on Iran, the FBI, and a Democracy Under Siege
Important Stuff to Know About: The Laws of War Still Apply
The Weekly: Anatomy of a Breakdown
ICYMI: Sentinel Podcast - Protecting Liberty in the Age of Surveillance
A View from An Iranian Observer: Strategic Pressure or Dangerous Precedent?
FREDONIA PROJECT SITREP 24: U.S. POLICY DEVELOPMENTS (27 Jan - 16 Apr 2026)
🎙️ Sentinel Podcast - Protecting Liberty in the Age of Surveillance
Trump Unleashed: Leadership Patterns and Implications in the Second Term
A Kremlin Talking Point Becomes an American Accusation
Trump: Big Talker, Pitiful Leader – What Has He Achieved?
Let Me Count the Ways: How Hegseth is Harming the Military
If the ODNI Won’t Assess Threats, Who Will?
Putin’s Window in Ukraine, Courtesy of Donald Trump
The Counterrevolution: Tom Shannon on America’s Retreat from the World
Autocrats and the Broken Window Effect: Global Edition
The Counterrevolution: Tom Shannon on America’s Retreat from the World
The Cost of Gaslighting: Trump Must Now Reap What He Has Sown.
The Steady State Weekly Digest
Why a Superpower Finds Itself Alone
DHS- ICE: The Making of a Paramilitary Force Plain Sight
Robert Mueller: A Hero Remembered, A Presidency Revealed
From Caracas to Tehran: The Same Failed Playbook
The Ice Gulag-Power, Surveillance, and Fear Undermine Our Democracy; Push Back.
Leaving MAGA: Identity, Propaganda, and the Path Back
Reckless Power: Steering America Toward a Deeper Middle East Quagmire
Leaving MAGA: Identity, Propaganda, and the Path Back
Threatening War Crimes: Has Trump Finally Crossed the Line?
Trump Has Created a Strategy to Make U.S. Less Secure
The Steady State Announces Partnership with “No Kings” Movement to Defend Democracy
Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline A Periodic Update
Important Stuff to Know About: Building the Ice Gulag, Part 4: Emptying the Gulag - Removal
Robert S. Mueller III: Servant Leader
Important Stuff to Know About: Building the Ice Gulag: Part 3, Detentions
Important Stuff to Know About: Building the Ice Gulag - Part 2, Apprehensions
🎬 🎙️ From Iran to Ukraine: Inside America’s National Security Breakdown
From Iran to Ukraine: Inside America’s National Security Breakdown
Important Stuff to Know About: Building the ICE Gulag, Part 1 - Laying The Foundation
Conflicting Signals – Trump’s Semi-Forever War
Statement on the Passing of Robert S. Mueller III
The War with Iran May Already be Lost
Hormuz 2026, Suez 1956 – Déjà Vu?
AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE STEADY STATE TO THOSE STILL ON DECK
“Just for Fun”- A Presidential Remark and the Law of War
When War Is Just a “Short Excursion”
Ask Me Anything - Live with The Steady State
ICYMI: The Steady State: "Quick Hit:" Attack on Iran and Aftermath
Strange Bedfellows and the Defense of Democracy – No Kings!
The Steady State on the Resignation of NCTC Director Joe Kent
🎙️🎬 Allies, Intelligence, and a Fraying American Center
Allies, Intelligence, and a Fraying American Center
Cui Bono? Trump, Bibi, and the Iran ‘War’
The World Just Became Less Secure: America’s Emergency Preparedness Is Not Ready for What Comes Next
We Ultimately Lose When We Ignore The Rules
Failure to Adhere to the Just War Theory Threatens to Turn Epic Fury into an Epic Failure
As He Later Acknowledged, That Evidence Was "Flawed"
Our Constitution’s Halting Evolution Toward Equality Undermined by Authoritarianism
The Rise and Fall of Congressional Oversight
The International Rules-Based Order is NOT “Cloud Castle Thinking”
Tomorrow! Steady State Video Podcast: "Reporting in the Crosshairs" With The Atlantic's Shane Harris
Coming Tuesday: The Steady State Sentinel, Episode 16, "Reporting in the Crosshairs"
Epic Fury: Our Own-But-Not-The-First “Pearl Harbor”: Will We Never Learn?
Judicial Constraint of President’s Security Clearance Authority Affirmed
Unlike George Washington, Trump Lies Easily. Which Matters How?
Intelligence First. War Second. What Justified the U.S. Attack on Iran, and What Comes Next?
The Evolution of War Powers: Congress, Presidents and Military Action
The Iran War: A Thumb-Nail Strategy Analysis
The Decisions and Consequences of War
America After Trump: The Exhausted Majority’s Mission is to Build Back Better.
🎙️🎬 Might Makes Right? Michael Morell on U.S. Power, Allies, and Adversaries
Might Makes Right? Michael Morell on U.S. Power, Allies, and Adversaries
Has the U.S. Been Set up for a Reichstag Moment?
The Steady State Sentinel Goes Video! Tuesday, March 3
Regime Change Abroad to Avoid Regime Change at Home
THE STEADY STATE Statement on U.S. Attack of Iran
The Steady State Sentinel - Exciting Update
Steady State Ask Me Anything 7pm ET Feb 26
Trump, Big Talker, Pitiful Leader, Playing With Fire
Loyalty in Crisis: Civil-Military Tensions in the Second Trump Presidency
The Steady State Sentinel Episode 14: An Apolitical FBI is Vital to National Security
An Apolitical FBI is Vital to National Security
Should the military be expected to have to say "no" to civilian authority?
The Steady State Sentinel Episode 13: America’s “Strategic Self-Immolation”
America’s “Strategic Self-Immolation”
The Steady State Sentinel Podcast, Episode 13 Coming Tomorrow: America's "Strategic Self-Immolation"
Jeremy Carl and the Road to Munich
Judge Luttig’s Warning: A Constitutional Conservative Sounds the Alarm
Standing Together, Disagreeing Later: The Logic of the “Strange Bedfellows” Strategy
🎙️ A Chilling Warning of Racial Cleansing: Counter-Extremism Leaders Sound the Alarm
The Steady State Sentinel Podcast: Coming Tomorrow, "Chilling Racial Cleansing"
OIL OVER DEMOCRACY: THE UNITED STATES EMBRACES A NEW AUTHORITARIAN IN VENEZUELA
The Steady State Sentinel: "No Rules of Engagement"
Trauma in the Twin Cities: Effective Federal Civil Rights Oversight is Desperately Needed
Growing US Vulnerability Under Trump: Chinese and Russian Perceptions
The Steady State Sentinel Podcast: Coming Tomorrow, "No Rules of Engagement"
We are Living Through a Giant Civics Lesson
We are Living Through a Giant Civics Lesson
Coming Tomorrow: The Steady State Sentinel Podcast, "We are Living Through a Giant Civics Lesson"
Don’t Take My America Away – Immigration and Soft Power
The Guardrails are Coming Down; Presidential Power Run Amok
Coming Tomorrow: The Steady State Sentinel Podcast: "Rubicon Moments"
THE U.S. RETREAT FROM THE UNITED NATIONS: AUTHORITARIAN ABSURDITY
A Two Minute Primer - The Organization of the Department of Homeland Security
The Steady State Live - with Steven Cash and Marc Cardwell at UConn
The Threat to American Civil Liberties
The Epstein files—a choice between accountability and a spectacle
Coming Tomorrow! The Steady State Sentinel “The Most Perilous Time” with Terry Virts
Trumping the Rules-Based International Order
TikTok: Technical Issues or Platform Enforcement?
Tulsi Gabbard Drags U.S. Intelligence into Trump’s Election Fraud Campaign
No, ICE Officers, You Can’t Force Your Way Into Diplomatic Missions
Executive Order 12333: The Most Important Guardrail You Never Heard Of
What Happens to People Under Autocratic Rule?
Sentinel Episode 6: A Terrible Way to Govern
FREDONIA PROJECT - SITREP 23: US DOMESTIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY - 6-26 January 2026
Steady State Short -- The evolution of DHS
The Department of Homeland Security becomes our own Ministry of Interior.
A short video in the wake of January 24, 2026 Minneapolis shooting
Statement on the January 24, 2026, Minneapolis Shooting
Is the U.S. approaching autocracy, or are we already there?
Ask Me Anything -- Steven Cash of The Steady State
Sentinel Podcast: The Country is Suffering
Administration Cover-up: The Shooting of Renee Good
Open Letter to General Dan Caine, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Fourth Amendment Was Built to Stop Fear — Not Just Bad Evidence
“He Can’t Do That” Is a Hope, Not a Strategy
FOLLOW UP - Announcing: The Steady State Auxiliary
Sentinel Podcast - America's Soul: Adam Kinzinger on Courage and Country
The MAGA Threat to Europe: Broader and Deeper than the Trump National Security Strategy
Is Trump’s Ambition Outrunning His Grasp?
E03: No One Is Protected: Immigration, Institutional Trust, and Arbitrary Enforcement
After the Capture: Six Tests the U.S. Must Pass in Venezuela
How Do You Know You're Living in an Autocracy? Just Look Around You.
THE STEADY STATE SENTINEL PODCAST: "An Existential Threat to The Republic"
Sentinel Podcast:An Existential Threat to the Republic
America Once Knew How to Name Fascism
Fearing the Stranger: The Autocratic Logic (and the Danger) of Ending Refugee Admissions
Power, Dominance, and the Authoritarian Temptation
It’s Not Sedition; It’s American
FREDONIA PROJECT - SITREP 22: US DOMESTIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY - January 3-7, 2026
The Steady State "Quick Hit" - The U.S Attack on Venezuela
The Wrong Question About Venezuela
Too Many Of Our Leaders Are No Longer Accountable
U.S. National Security and Globalism Take a Hit
Venezuela After Maduro: Six Questions That Matter Now
The Staffing of Trump 2.0 – Part 2: Rules of the Road and the Danger of Ignoring Them
Going to Venezuela, a Policy Patchwork
Announcing: The Steady State Auxiliary
The Staffing of Trump 2.0; Creating his own Personal Swamp - And One Day We'll Have to Drain it.