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The Threshold

One more move, and the system doesn’t snap—it locks

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William A. Finnegan
Apr 21, 2025
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Good morning, and welcome to this week’s edition of The Brief.

Unlike my deep-dive essays, this is your start-of-week situational awareness. What’s happening, what’s brewing, and what could shove the entire American experiment off a cliff.

This week’s signal is clear: we’re not in the “slide toward authoritarianism” anymore—we’re on the edge of capture. One more strategic rupture, and it’s no longer creeping. It’s done.

Let’s walk through the pressure points.

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