This Trump administration is not simply “a different ideology.” It is a coordinated, authoritarian machine — with the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the executive pen all under its control.
And you?
You’re still holding out for decorum. WTF.
That won’t save us.
I don’t want to hear another polite floor speech or online debate.
I want strategy.
I want fire.
I want action so bold it shifts the damn news cycle — not fits inside one.
To watch us stand frozen as the Constitution goes up in flames — shaking our heads and saying, “Well, there’s not much we can do. He has the majority.”
I call bullshit.
If we don’t know how to think outside the box…
If we don’t know how to strategize…
If we don’t know how to fight fire with fire…
what the hell are we doing taking up air anyways?
Some of us have two or three advanced degrees.
Some of us have military training.
Some of us know what coordinated resistance looks like — and this ain’t it.
Yes, the tours around the country? Nice.
The speeches? Nice.
The clever congressional clapbacks? Nice.
That was great for giving hope.
Now we need action.
We have to stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will just time out in four years.
We’re not even at Day 90, and look at the chaos.
Look at the disappearances.
Look at the erosion of the judiciary, the press, and our rights.
If we do not stop this, we will not make it 1,460 days.
So here’s what we need to do — right now:
⸻
1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition.
Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse.
Make it public. Make it unshakable.
Let the people drag the rot into the light.
If we can’t hold formal hearings, hold public ones.
If Congress won’t act, let the country act.
This isn’t about optics — it’s about receipts.
Because at some point, these people will be held accountable.
And when that day comes, we’ll need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence—documented.
You’re not just preserving truth — you’re preparing evidence for prosecution.
The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight.
⸻
2. Join the International Criminal Court.
Yes, I said it. Call their bluff.
We cannot control what the other side does. But we can control our own integrity. So prove it. Prove that we are still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership.
Join.
If we’ve got nothing to hide — join.
Show the world who’s hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts.
Force the GOP to explain why they’d rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty.
And while you’re at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders.
Make this administration explain — on camera — why they’re terrified of international oversight.
⸻
3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.
Don’t just send postcards. Send resources.
Channel all funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training.
If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it.
If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly.
This is not campaign season — this is an authoritarian purge.
Stop campaigning.
Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is.
We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries.
Fighting this regime should be the marketing strategy.
And let’s be clear:
The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE.
They prepared for this.
They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions.
They built a machine while you wrote press releases.
We’re reacting — they’ve been executing a plan for years.
It’s time to shift from panic to blueprint.
We should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029 —
a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.
You should be publicly laying out:
• The laws and amendments we’ll pass to ensure this never happens again
• The systems we’ll tear down and the safeguards we’ll enshrine
• The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable
• The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador
⸻
4. Use our platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.
If they’re going to strip us of rights and lie about it — arm the people with truth.
Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable “Know Your Rights” kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees.
Give people tools, not soundbites.
We don’t need more slogans.
We need survival manuals.
⸻
5. Leverage international media and watchdogs.
Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up.
They’re too busy playing both sides of fascism.
Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel — hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to.
Make what’s happening in America a global scandal.
And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth.
Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky.
That’s where the resistance is migrating. That’s where censorship hasn’t caught up.
If the mainstream won’t carry the truth — outflank them.
Get creative. Go underground. Go global.
If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it — and make sure we’re still able to say it.
⸻
6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors.
Not everyone inside this regime is loyal.
Some are scared. Some want out.
Build the channels.
Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected.
Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes.
And while you’re at it?
Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors.
Everyone makes mistakes — even glaring, critical ones.
We are not the bullies.
We are not the ones filled with hate.
And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it.
They will have to deal with that internal struggle — the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power.
But they’re already outnumbered. Don’t push them back into the crowd.
We don’t need purity.
We need numbers.
We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build.
⸻
7. Study the collapse—and the comeback.
You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship.
They didn’t waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity.
They went after the structure.
The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects.
They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time —
until the “strongman” had no one left to stand on.
And his power crumbled beneath him.
We should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025,
every aide who defies court orders,
every communications director repeating lies,
every policy writer enabling cruelty,
every water boy who keeps this engine running.
We can’t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down. We dismantle the throne he’s standing on — one coward at a time.
⸻
Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution.
They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS.
A M E R I C A N S.
And our biggest move can’t be another strongly worded email.
We want backbone.
We want action.
We want to know you’ll stand up before we’re all ordered to sit down — permanently.
We are watching.
I mean millions of us who see exactly what’s happening.
I’ve only got 6,000 followers — but the groups I’m in? The networks I touch? Over a quarter million.
Often when I speak, it echoes.
But when we ALL
speak, it ROARS with pressure that will cause change.
We need to be deafening.
We still have a chance to do something historic. To be remembered for courage, not caution.
To go down as the people that didn’t just watch the fall — but fought the hell back with everything we’ve got.
Jim, I'm so glad you mentioned the idea of just defying orders from Trump. I've been saying that for a long time and I'm really glad to hear it being echoed by you. Someone else, maybe on Substack, suggested that it would be important if numbers of White House personnel all resigned on the same day, making a sweeping gesture and statement about working conditions being intolerable, even abusive.
Journalists and people in the media shouldn't be calling him, "the President, "or paying him any deference at all based on everything you said in your article. He is not any kind of president and certainly not living up to any aspect of his oath of office. Even to have to say this is ridiculous because he's nothing but a wrecking ball and a psychopath, to put it mildly. So the dominoes have started to fall, it seems to me. Yay!!!
A flurry of tea bags might be sent to Mitch McConnell, all Republicans that did not vote for Impeachment the 2nd time, current Republican Congressional members and State Legislators. Call them out for supporting King George (I mean King Donald) and tell them they are Tories, traitors to the American revolution. As loyalists to the King, they do not deserve to have or hold political power in local, state or national political positions. Therefore, they, too have illegitimate authority. Renouncing their King and their political party and its current shredding of the Constitution could or might restore their authority depending upon the will of the people. Until then, they are just Tories trampling on the graves of men who founded the country they now stand on.
Nancy, I agree completely with your perspective and feel that this is exactly a second revolution. 250 years later, we are doing this again. Someone cleverly stated, in updated Paul Revere fashion, One, if by land...two, if by D.C. 🕯️🕯️
All around we hear the sound, the voices in our ear
Trying to bring our whole world down, playing on our fear
With their silent moves, they're deciding who, they're going to give the chance to
All the while, their phony smile just wants to romance you
It's time that we see
We're going to be free
Did you hear what they said
They're telling us that we're dead
But we ain't dead yet.
-Legendary Canadian songwriter and guitarist, SJW, and my hero, Frank Marino
Resist :)
Rest at the gates, and your soul shall live in the halls that smell so foul
Shall we turn triumphant when we hear their bloody howl
We're of the swords of righteousness, so razor sharp and narrow
Sink the blades into their flesh, into their very marrow
So it continues....I thought that was appropriate. :)
Dear Americans,
I need more from you.
This Trump administration is not simply “a different ideology.” It is a coordinated, authoritarian machine — with the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the executive pen all under its control.
And you?
You’re still holding out for decorum. WTF.
That won’t save us.
I don’t want to hear another polite floor speech or online debate.
I want strategy.
I want fire.
I want action so bold it shifts the damn news cycle — not fits inside one.
To watch us stand frozen as the Constitution goes up in flames — shaking our heads and saying, “Well, there’s not much we can do. He has the majority.”
I call bullshit.
If we don’t know how to think outside the box…
If we don’t know how to strategize…
If we don’t know how to fight fire with fire…
what the hell are we doing taking up air anyways?
Some of us have two or three advanced degrees.
Some of us have military training.
Some of us know what coordinated resistance looks like — and this ain’t it.
Yes, the tours around the country? Nice.
The speeches? Nice.
The clever congressional clapbacks? Nice.
That was great for giving hope.
Now we need action.
We have to stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will just time out in four years.
We’re not even at Day 90, and look at the chaos.
Look at the disappearances.
Look at the erosion of the judiciary, the press, and our rights.
If we do not stop this, we will not make it 1,460 days.
So here’s what we need to do — right now:
⸻
1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition.
I’m talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs.
Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse.
Make it public. Make it unshakable.
Let the people drag the rot into the light.
If we can’t hold formal hearings, hold public ones.
If Congress won’t act, let the country act.
This isn’t about optics — it’s about receipts.
Because at some point, these people will be held accountable.
And when that day comes, we’ll need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence—documented.
You’re not just preserving truth — you’re preparing evidence for prosecution.
The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight.
⸻
2. Join the International Criminal Court.
Yes, I said it. Call their bluff.
We cannot control what the other side does. But we can control our own integrity. So prove it. Prove that we are still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership.
Join.
If we’ve got nothing to hide — join.
Show the world who’s hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts.
Force the GOP to explain why they’d rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty.
And while you’re at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders.
Make this administration explain — on camera — why they’re terrified of international oversight.
⸻
3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.
Don’t just send postcards. Send resources.
Channel all funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training.
If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it.
If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly.
This is not campaign season — this is an authoritarian purge.
Stop campaigning.
Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is.
We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries.
Fighting this regime should be the marketing strategy.
And let’s be clear:
The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE.
They prepared for this.
They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions.
They built a machine while you wrote press releases.
We’re reacting — they’ve been executing a plan for years.
It’s time to shift from panic to blueprint.
We should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029 —
a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.
You should be publicly laying out:
• The laws and amendments we’ll pass to ensure this never happens again
• The systems we’ll tear down and the safeguards we’ll enshrine
• The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable
• The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador
⸻
4. Use our platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.
If they’re going to strip us of rights and lie about it — arm the people with truth.
Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable “Know Your Rights” kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees.
Give people tools, not soundbites.
We don’t need more slogans.
We need survival manuals.
⸻
5. Leverage international media and watchdogs.
Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up.
They’re too busy playing both sides of fascism.
Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel — hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to.
Make what’s happening in America a global scandal.
And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth.
Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky.
That’s where the resistance is migrating. That’s where censorship hasn’t caught up.
If the mainstream won’t carry the truth — outflank them.
Get creative. Go underground. Go global.
If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it — and make sure we’re still able to say it.
⸻
6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors.
Not everyone inside this regime is loyal.
Some are scared. Some want out.
Build the channels.
Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected.
Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes.
And while you’re at it?
Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors.
Everyone makes mistakes — even glaring, critical ones.
We are not the bullies.
We are not the ones filled with hate.
And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it.
They will have to deal with that internal struggle — the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power.
But they’re already outnumbered. Don’t push them back into the crowd.
We don’t need purity.
We need numbers.
We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build.
⸻
7. Study the collapse—and the comeback.
You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship.
They didn’t waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity.
They went after the structure.
The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects.
They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time —
until the “strongman” had no one left to stand on.
And his power crumbled beneath him.
We should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025,
every aide who defies court orders,
every communications director repeating lies,
every policy writer enabling cruelty,
every water boy who keeps this engine running.
We can’t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down. We dismantle the throne he’s standing on — one coward at a time.
⸻
Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution.
They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS.
A M E R I C A N S.
And our biggest move can’t be another strongly worded email.
We want backbone.
We want action.
We want to know you’ll stand up before we’re all ordered to sit down — permanently.
We are watching.
I mean millions of us who see exactly what’s happening.
I’ve only got 6,000 followers — but the groups I’m in? The networks I touch? Over a quarter million.
Often when I speak, it echoes.
But when we ALL
speak, it ROARS with pressure that will cause change.
We need to be deafening.
We still have a chance to do something historic. To be remembered for courage, not caution.
To go down as the people that didn’t just watch the fall — but fought the hell back with everything we’ve got.
But the clock is ticking.
Jim, I'm so glad you mentioned the idea of just defying orders from Trump. I've been saying that for a long time and I'm really glad to hear it being echoed by you. Someone else, maybe on Substack, suggested that it would be important if numbers of White House personnel all resigned on the same day, making a sweeping gesture and statement about working conditions being intolerable, even abusive.
Journalists and people in the media shouldn't be calling him, "the President, "or paying him any deference at all based on everything you said in your article. He is not any kind of president and certainly not living up to any aspect of his oath of office. Even to have to say this is ridiculous because he's nothing but a wrecking ball and a psychopath, to put it mildly. So the dominoes have started to fall, it seems to me. Yay!!!
A flurry of tea bags might be sent to Mitch McConnell, all Republicans that did not vote for Impeachment the 2nd time, current Republican Congressional members and State Legislators. Call them out for supporting King George (I mean King Donald) and tell them they are Tories, traitors to the American revolution. As loyalists to the King, they do not deserve to have or hold political power in local, state or national political positions. Therefore, they, too have illegitimate authority. Renouncing their King and their political party and its current shredding of the Constitution could or might restore their authority depending upon the will of the people. Until then, they are just Tories trampling on the graves of men who founded the country they now stand on.
Nancy, I agree completely with your perspective and feel that this is exactly a second revolution. 250 years later, we are doing this again. Someone cleverly stated, in updated Paul Revere fashion, One, if by land...two, if by D.C. 🕯️🕯️