Tracking the slide into authoritarianism wihin the United States of America

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This move, which comes eight months after the president approved a raid to take out Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, is another sign of the way the Trump administration appears to be running Venezuela out of the White House. This is the same administration whose Secretary of Homeland Security threatened to prosecute election officials who don’t hand over sensitive voter data. We don’t know whether the president plans to follow through on this week’s threat against Welker, but the pattern is clear: the administration is weaponizing the FCC to make broadcasters think twice about how they cover the administration.

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