September 2026 · 9.7 / 10
The definitive period record showing how constitutional responsibility shifted toward courts, civil society, state officials and professional actors.
Reports are the durable, more structured companion to the live warning system. They are designed for readers who want a cleaner monthly record, clearer score drivers, and a format that can be shared as a polished PDF.
The reports preserve the formal monthly record. Democracy Deprogramming turns the same civic warning into explainers, propaganda autopsies, political cartoons, and memorable arguments readers can share.
The definitive period record showing how constitutional responsibility shifted toward courts, civil society, state officials and professional actors.
The definitive August record of converging pressure on election administration, Justice Department independence, institutional oversight, and independent information before the midterms.
July documented simultaneous pressure on election administration, press freedom, agency independence, DOJ compliance, and war-powers accountability.
June deepened the Red Zone through election, due-process, coercive-power, and military-intelligence pressure.
The preserved May report shows how the Red Zone deepened after April, with election fairness, due process, institutional checks, and war-powers accountability all worsening further.
The aligned formal report version of the April threshold month, showing how the index crossed from severe warning into explicit Red Zone conditions before May confirmed the warning.
March moved the index from 8.4 to 8.9 as press freedom, election administration, court compliance, executive power, and military/intelligence neutrality all sharpened as risk categories.
February held the index in a critical range, with sustained structural stress around court compliance, detention due process, coercive state power, and election governance.
January concentrated risk around institutional independence, legal constraints, and personnel strain inside government service.
December was more structurally severe than November, with sharper collisions between enforcement power, due process, and institutional independence.
November showed the archive moving firmly into High Risk territory as multiple categories began reinforcing one another.
October linked domestic-terror framing, deployment litigation, and widening federal-state conflict into a higher-risk trajectory.
September moved the archive into a more structurally serious zone as the legality of domestic deployment became a central risk question.
August showed slower deterioration, but deployment and enforcement pressures normalized rather than receded.
July continued the upward move as war powers, immigration conflict, and domestic deployment pressures remained active.
June rose as immigration raids, protest response, and federal deployment converged in the public record.
May 2025 is the reconstructed starting point for the twelve-month backfill, already elevated before the sharper summer escalation.
The reusable formal report structure for future monthly pages before PDF export.
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