15. Migration Policy Institute. “A New Era of Immigration Enforcement: Assessing the 2025 Strategy.” July 2025. Analyzes the administration’s return to “shock and awe” tactics as a deliberate deterrence strategy rooted in spectacle and fear.
16. Physicians for Human Rights. “Patterns of Protest Suppression: Tear Gas and Medics in Portland.” October 2020. Investigates injury patterns and federal misuse of crowd-control weapons during protests, including attacks on medical personnel.
17. Oregon Health & Science University. “OHSU President’s Statement on Tear Gas and Public Health.” July 2020. Warns that federal agents’ use of tear gas during COVID-19 protests endangered respiratory health and public safety.
18. Department of Homeland Security. Intelligence Reports on Journalists, 2020 Leak. Internal memos exposed by the Washington Post showing DHS analysts compiled counterterrorism-style intelligence dossiers on U.S. journalists.
19. The Heritage Foundation. Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise. Washington, D.C., 2023. Project 2025’s detailed blueprint for government overhaul, including DHS and DOJ plans to expand federal police powers and override local discretion.