Semantics & Mechanics: Three Acts to Restore Citizen Power and Rebuild the American Republic is a forensic exposé and operating manual for an age of institutional collapse. Across law, economics, media, medicine, technology, and governance, Gregory Jess Halpern exposes how language has been deliberately weaponized to sever citizens from truth, accountability, and power. Words no longer describe reality — they manipulate it. This book shows how that happened, why it worked, and how to dismantle it. Drawing on real-world legal battles, congressional testimony, economic analysis, and lived experience across five decades, Semantics & Mechanics reveals the hidden machinery behind systemic fraud, judicial corruption, regulatory capture, financial engineering, and narrative control. It replaces outrage with clarity — and clarity with action. This is not a political book. It is a citizen’s book. A restoration manual for those who refuse to be governed by lies. If you’ve ever sensed that something fundamental is broken — and that fixing it requires more than voting, protesting, or posting — this book was written for you.