The Hound | April 20

Hi there,

It’s Monday. During last month’s No Kings rally, the Los Angeles Police Department deployed drones 32 times to spy on the protest. FBI Director Kash Patel is suing The Atlantic after the magazine published a piece alleging excessive drinking. And the Trump administration quietly created a “denaturalization” team inside of Citizenship and Immigration Services, an escalation of his deportation schemes and puts civil liberties in peril.

Yet too much media coverage treats this development as a niche immigration policy story rather than confronting its broader implications. When the government begins organizing resources to revisit and potentially revoke citizenship, the issue is not just immigration enforcement—it is about the security of rights, due process, and equal protection under the law. Framing this as bureaucratic restructuring obscures the magnitude of what is being proposed.

🖊️ Add your name to call on major news organizations to cover this denaturalization effort with the urgency it demands—examining who could be targeted, what legal standards are being applied, and how this policy could reshape the meaning of citizenship in the United States.

The public deserves clear reporting when fundamental rights are at risk.

Read about this, and more, with today’s stories:

Trump Secretly Created “Denaturalization” Team at Citizenship Agency (The New Republic)

Trump Sabotages His Own Much-Exaggerated Iran Deal (The American Prospect)

Kash Patel sues the Atlantic over article alleging excessive drinking (The Guardian)

Carney says Canada’s economic ties with US are a weakness that must be corrected (AP News)

Palantir Wants To Bring Back the Draft (Mother Jones)

Starmer says he made wrong judgment in appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador (The Guardian)

Data centers are expensive, unpopular — and could be a tipping point in the midterms (NPR)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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