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Championing Popular Sovereignty Over Elite Privilege

Championing Popular Sovereignty Over Elite Privilege#

Welcome to People Over Privilege, where we explore the eternal struggle between the collective sovereignty of the populace and the forces of unaccountable power, structural privilege, and institutional capture.

This site intends to articulate and defend a simple but revolutionary principle: The collective sovereignty of the populace must always take precedence over unaccountable power, structural privilege, and institutional capture.

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Browse our latest essays exploring accountability, popular sovereignty, and the fight for structural parity.

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Two Suits, One Warrant

·1452 words·7 mins
In September the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty sued Waukesha County and eleven municipalities over warrantless searches of Flock plate-reader data. In October the ACLU of Wisconsin and EFF took the same question straight to the Wisconsin Supreme Court against Milwaukee, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha. What each asks for, and what the record says.

Green Bay Answered the Flock Hotlist Request

·813 words·4 mins
Records notice. Green Bay answered the Flock hotlist request in 34 days: no records on three items, the transparency portal for the fourth, and a written statement that the NCIC Immigration Violator file has never been enabled. Analysis is a separate post.

What Wisconsin Regulates

·2281 words·11 mins
Wisconsin wrote surveillance laws for some sensors and not others. A look at what the state governs, what it doesn’t, and what happened in Milwaukee in between.

Sorting Five: Sieving an American City

·2164 words·11 mins
Segregation isn’t held in place by inertia. Five forces do the sorting, and they multiply rather than add. A diagnosis from a drive across Milwaukee.