The Rutherford Institute is a national civil liberties organization working to reshape the government into one that abides by the rule of law.
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The Constitution was not written to ensure that the government would survive at any cost. It was written to ensure that freedom would survive a tyrannical government.
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LIKE, READ, SHARE: The Doomsday Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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No matter who wins this upcoming election, the Constitution will still need defending.
The Rutherford Institute holds the government accountable no matter which party is in power.
Don’t just read about the fight for freedom. Help fund it.
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The Constitution is not supposed to change depending on who occupies the White House.
Trump wants Americans to vote as if HE were on the ballot.
Here's a better idea: Vote as if the CONSTITUTION were on the ballot.
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“National security” should never be a blank check for government power.
The Rutherford Institute has spent more than 40 years challenging government overreach and defending constitutional freedoms.
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In 'They Live,' you needed special glasses to see the ugly truth. Today, government brutality, corruption and abuses of power are happening in plain sight. The problem isn't that we can't see. It's that we choose not to.
Read: The Politics of Denial
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Trump promised to shrink the federal government.
But what if Trump’s pledge to cut the federal work force wasn’t really about eliminating government bureaucracy but outsourcing it to AI?
AI Authoritarianism: A Government Without Constitutional Brakes
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From mass surveillance to mass detention: this week’s Freedom Watch tracks warrantless phone searches, Flock, Palantir, ICE detention, emergency powers, attacks on press freedom—and the court battles testing the limits of government power.
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America, you got fooled.
Again.
Think the breakdown of due process only affects immigrants? Think again.
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First Them, Then Us: America’s Shift from Police State to Prison State | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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When “national security” becomes an all-purpose justification for government power, constitutional limits can quickly become casualties.
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Freedom Watch (9/27/26) • How Government Power Keeps Expanding
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The president cannot weaponize the government to punish speech he dislikes.
That was true under Biden.
And it is no less true under Trump.
The right to criticize those in power is the whole point of the First Amendment.
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Tariffs. A ballroom. A triumphal arch. The press.
A government that can declare anything a national-security concern can eventually declare anyone a national-security threat.
When Everything Becomes a National Security Threat | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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Government power rarely expands all at once.
It advances through exceptions, emergencies, workarounds—and precedents that become the new normal.
This week’s Freedom Watch tracks war, surveillance, press freedom, executive power and the courts.
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The Constitution cannot protect itself.
The Rutherford Institute’s 2026 Mid-Year Report reveals the battles underway.
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On Constitution Day, the question isn’t whether we still celebrate the Constitution. It’s whether we still live by it.
The Constitution can’t defend itself.
Stand with The Rutherford Institute in our efforts to make America free again:
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What's the point in celebrating the Constitution one day a year if we permit the government to violate it the other 364?
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The Constitution Can’t Protect You If You Don’t Protect It | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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READ: The Washington Post's profile on @JohnW_Whitehead, his role in helping to launch the religious freedom movement in America, and how it has changed.
"Why a lawyer who launched the Christian legal movement believes it’s gone astray"
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, the question is not only what happened that day, but what happened to America in the years that followed.
What did we surrender in the name of security—and what did we become in the process?
Twenty-five years after 9/11, has the nightmare ever really ended?
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America After 9/11: 25 Years of War, Surveillance and Permanent Emergency | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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When technicalities are all that stand between us and tyranny, we’re in trouble.
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Tyranny by Technicality: The Supreme Court Will Not Save Our Republic | By John & Nisha Whitehead
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