About the American Autocracy Universe
What if democracy dies, and nobody sees it coming?
The signs are everywhere. But most people aren't paying attention. You are.
Welcome to The American Autocracy Universe — a fictional exploration of how democracy can be dismantled through entirely legal means, and how ordinary people resist when extraordinary times demand it.
The Story
In the near future, America will become unrecognizable—not through violent revolution or foreign invasion, but through a carefully orchestrated plan outlined in a 942-page document called "The American Renewal Project."
They didn't hide their blueprint. They celebrated it.
The system now functions exactly as designed: voting rights systematically eroded, independent media captured or silenced, resistance networks scattered and surveilled. What was once democracy has become something else entirely — a carefully managed autocracy wrapped in the language of renewal and security.
But some people are still watching. Still documenting. Still fighting back.
This isn't just fiction. This is preparation.
The Resistance Network
Alex Parker | The Pattern Report
Investigative Journalist
Former mainstream journalist turned underground blogger after witnessing the systematic suppression of independent media. Alex connects dots others miss, providing data-driven analysis of authoritarian systems while cross-referencing multiple sources to reveal the machinery of control.
"They published the manual for ending democracy. We're living through page one."
Follow Alex: The Pattern Report →
Jamie Vega | Street Level Civics
Community Organizer
Grassroots activist building resistance networks at the community level. Jamie teaches organizing tactics, shares security protocols, and documents the real-world impact of authoritarian policies on ordinary people.
"They want us scattered, isolated, convinced we're powerless. But when we organize—when we connect the dots between their policies and our lived reality—that's when we become dangerous to their system."
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Rowan Idris | The Underground Archive
Digital Archivist
Former tech worker preserving truth in digital form. Rowan maintains secure servers, protects whistleblower communications, and ensures that evidence of authoritarian overreach survives for future generations. The backbone of the resistance's information infrastructure.
"They're not just rewriting the present. They're erasing the past. Someone has to remember."
Access the Archive: Underground Archive →
Rae Myles | WFTB 96.3 Underground
Radio Journalist
30+ year radio veteran operating an underground station after mainstream media was captured by the regime. Rae breaks resistance news, conducts anonymous interviews, and coordinates communication between isolated resistance cells.
"This is WFTB. Truth survives in the static. Feed the birds."
Listen: WFTB Underground →
Blake Morrison | President
Blake Morrison is the perfectly polished face of American authoritarianism—a silver-haired strongman who rose from political dynasty to the presidency not through ideology, but through narrative control. In his mid-fifties, Morrison cuts an imposing figure with steel-grey eyes and clinical handsomeness, every gesture deliberate and calculated.
His genius lies not in ranting tyranny, but in making extremism sound like reason, cloaking democratic dismantlement in measured tones that transform fear into reassurance. A master of psychological warfare and long-term strategy,
Morrison weaponizes language, shifting definitions until resistance sounds like sedition and authoritarian control feels like stability. He doesn't see himself as a dictator but as democracy's necessary evolution—the steady hand required to guide America through chaos, even if that means becoming the last leader the nation will ever need.
“Making authoritarianism sound reasonable.”
Cambria Hart | Legal Architect
Cambria Hart is the cold, brilliant architect of American legal authoritarianism—a 38-year-old former federal prosecutor and Supreme Court clerk who transforms constitutional law into a weapon against democracy. With platinum hair, pale skin, and dark suits devoid of jewelry, Hart embodies the clinical precision of her legal methodology.
As Chief Legal Architect of the National Integrity Initiative, she authors the Security Continuity Act, Voter Integrity Protocol, and countless other policies that disenfranchise, detain, and demoralize—all under the procedural guise of stability and order. Her genius lies in making oppression look legal, tyranny appear constitutional, and emergency powers seem like reasonable governance.
Detached and unemotional, Hart views morality as a distraction from order, believing freedom is too fragile for the modern world and that democracy must be "restructured for durability"—even if that restructuring eliminates democracy.
“Making oppression look legal.”
Brant Kellor | The People's Flame
Brant Kellor is the crude, charming voice of weaponized misinformation—a 56-year-old populist firebrand who transformed from fringe media personality to the regime's most trusted propaganda architect through his broadcast "The People's Flame." With his scruffy beard, black vests over rolled-up shirts, and tobacco-stained fingers, Kellor embodies the slouched-but-commanding aesthetic of a man who "tells it like it is" while systematically destroying truth itself.
His genius lies in cultural warfare—eroding objective reality by creating countless false ones, turning resistance fighters into foreign agents, protesters into crisis actors, and documented evidence into "deep-fake propaganda."
Recruited by Morrison's team after a key post-election riot was traced to his channel, Kellor doesn't just spread lies—he radicalizes viewers by making them complicit in constructing alternative realities where authoritarianism feels like patriotism and oppression looks like order.
“Turning truth into opinion. One lie at a time.”
Emerson Rake | CEO, RakeTech Industries
Emerson Rake is the smug, silver-haired architect of techno-authoritarianism—a 45-year-old billionaire who transforms surveillance into service and oppression into optimization. CEO of RakeTech Industries and Morrison's "Innovation Czar," Rake presents himself as a visionary problem-solver with his sleek minimalist fashion, chrome-gray suits, and performative habit of going barefoot in interviews to show how "grounded" he is.
Behind his constant smile and enlightened persona lies ruthless calculation; he sees resistance fighters as bugs in his perfect machine and takes genuine pleasure in crushing them. His empire spans surveillance drones with violet pulse lights, facial recognition systems, and infrastructure control networks that can shut off gas, water, or communications to entire neighborhoods.
Rake has monetized dystopia itself, selling the regime the tools of oppression while claiming to protect free enterprise, turning surveillance capitalism into the backbone of authoritarian control.
“Monetizing dystopia, one algorithm at a time.”
"Feed the Birds"
The resistance connection phrase.
When you hear it, you know: someone else is watching. Someone else is documenting. Someone else refuses to forget. It's how the network recognizes itself — a simple phrase that means everything in a world where truth has become contraband.
The Book: "The Vetted Vote"
The complete story of the resistance network unfolds in "The Vetted Vote" — following Alex, Jamie, Rowan, and Rae as they navigate an America where democracy dies not with a bang, but with a carefully planned whisper.
Coming soon. Pre-order information available to resistance network subscribers.
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Important Notice
The American Autocracy Universe is a work of fiction created for educational and entertainment purposes. All organizations, characters, policies, and events described are entirely fictional and do not represent any real government agency, political organization, or individuals.
Any resemblance to actual government documents, policy proposals, or political strategies is purely coincidental and intended to illustrate historical patterns of authoritarian governance for educational purposes.
This content is protected speech under the First Amendment and is not intended to promote, encourage, or provide instruction for any illegal activities.
About the Creator
Greg Wolford is the creator of The American Autocracy Universe. This multimedia storytelling project spans blogs, podcasts, newsletters, and fiction to explore themes of resistance, documentation, and hope in the face of systematic oppression.
© 2025 Greg Wolford. Truth survives.
"Democracy dies in darkness. But it also dies in plain sight, when people stop paying attention."