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THEY can no longer be allowed to weaponize our empathy against US.
Sad individual stories CANNOT be used as defense against or justification for poor policies.
The elites WILL employ tactics that exploit US wanting the best for our fellow Americans.
Dismantle the Hollow State.
How do you fix a hollow state? You remove the rotten assumptions.
Rotten assumptions are assumptions that;
> were initially used to justify policies (programs, laws, or regulations), allocate funding, and hire people or companies to implement them.
> are either false at the start, proven false when tested by experience, or become false as conditions change.
> are never fixed, measured for effectiveness (measurements are ignored), discussed in public (discussions are shut down or shunned), and nobody responsible for them is held accountable.
See the report "Blitzing the Hollow State" for more.
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America is a nation at war - but not the type of war most people recognize. No air raids, no tanks, no ground game like we’re used to seeing. And yet this is the biggest war the world has ever known. Those who engineered & financed the first two world wars recognized the limits of conventional conflict & turned instead to unrestricted warfare. Rather than invading with bullets & boots, they went for infiltraton of the education system, media & govt while exploiting technology & systematic ramping up of mass illegal immigration & the dark art of stealing elections.
The conversations dominating the news & social media right now would likely not be happening if people inderstood where we really are. When bombs are dropping from the sky & your house is reduced to rubble & flames & you’re searching the wreckage for pieces of those you love, you focus sharply on survival & winning because that is all that matters. Everyone understands the true nature of the threat in moments like that. You don’t have to waste time or energy trying to get people to face reality because we are all living that reality. Petty differences evaporate. Harsh ideological divides disintegrate. We focus where we need to, because failure to do so is counted in terms we cannot escape & we all get it without anyone having to explain anything.
In the warfare we know, heroes & cowards are born in plain sight & easy to separate. Traitors can only hide for so long. There is no confusion about gender. And the cost of every decision we make is clear to all. We don’t whine about long days or hard work or taking risks & we don’t worry about what people are going to say about us. We don’t because the cost of not acting is death/defeat & we all know what that means.
We don’t lack motivation & we don’t focus all our effort on how we got here. We all know arm chair quarter-having & yelling at the TV are luxuries no one can afford. That time has already passed.
We recognize that the fight for survival is not across the ocean in Europe, or somewhere far away. It is right here at our door. And the worst things we can imagine don’t have to be imagined, they are happening all around us.
Right now we still have hope that unrestricted warfare means we will be spared the bullets and the bombs. But that’s because we don’t know this beast. It’s not the movie we’ve seen so many times. This performance doesn’t open with the bloodshed - they save it for the final act.
The truth is there is no escape. No one gets off scott free. Everyone pays the piper. You may be able to buy time for you & yours, but you cannot run or hide or go along with it for long. This same fight is everywhere. Just look right now at Brazil, Poland, Hungary, Paraguay, Germany, France, South Africa and so on. Same issues. Same ideological architechture. Tactics & strategy align - end goal is the same. So those behind it? Same organizations, same, same money.
No one can tell you what you do not want to hear. No eyes can see what is lost to the willfully blind. And more than that, we are out of time.
Figure it out - or not. There is only one truth & none of us can alter it.
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Good Morning,
You are warmly invited to join me for a daily scripture break.
Hebrews 4:13:
"Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”
Fingers are pointing in all directions. The election cycle for 2028 has begun and it is interesting; everything is up for grabs. One might ask, what can I learn from our culture at this specific snapshot in time? As voters, Americans represent a myriad of viewpoints. As Christians we are expected to judge and select the person who best personifies those things we hold so dear. This process of discernment will take time. However, I believe the most constructive action we can take at this very moment is to prepare for spiritual battle; as we must paddle against the stream and examine ourselves. So how do we prepare for spiritual battle? Consider this as your start point: what am I trying to hide from God? What do I mean by that? What am I justifying to myself that God’s Word instructs me to address? I unequivocally believe the Holy Spirit is instructing us to be faithful Christians and obedient followers. Many were disheartened by the results of the midterm elections last week. Sometimes, the Lord allows things to happen that appear to be detrimental but He will orchestrate circumstances for our good. Also, our culture is so corrupted we can’t allow ourselves the luxury of naivety any longer either; God 's judgment is evident in our land.
Let’s begin where we are. So I will ask again. What am I trying to hide from God? What am I justifying to myself that God’s Word instructs me to address? Is it unforgiveness towards someone, did I lie, cheat or steal something that wasn’t mine, did I commit acts of immorality, the list goes on.
We must encourage one another to share our insights. We obviously can’t control the unscrupulous behavior of our political leaders but we can seek to be informed and meticuously search the flawless guidance of the Holy Spirit. How? We can prepare ourselves for spiritual battle. The first step is what I want to spend our time together studying. What I am justifying in my life that God’s Word repudiates? This is where we, as Christians are vulnerable to the whispers of the enemy because we convince ourselves that all of the commandments we faithfully observe and the works of goodness and mercy we perform for the Kingdom of God, well that's good enough. It is better than most people. Whatever the sin is - stop and acknowledge this too must go. Before we approach God to seek forgiveness we must acknowledge the underlying problem. We are intentionally ignoring sin - something offensive to God.
Why am I going on about this? Because "...wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many enter through it." (Matthew 7:13) God doesn’t expect perfection from us. I believe He's delighted when we demonstrate we love Him so much we don’t want to sin, because we don't want to offend Him (not just to avoid eternal damnation). Please take a second and review these scriptures that reveal to us that there is nothing that can be hidden from God.
1. Psalm 139:1-4 - "You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.”
This passage so eloquently describes how God has an intimate familiarity with us. He knows our character, our inclinations, our humor, our pain; He knows us completely. So that there are no barriers between us and God (and sin creates a barrier between us and God); we are instructed by the Holy Spirit to correct our error and re-establish our harmonious communion with Him. This is such a beautiful passage because it clearly refutes the idea that God is far off from us; a disinterested bystander in our universe. No, on the contrary. We all know we will be waging a full scale spiritual war for the soul and survival of our nation. You should lay bare before Him; aligned in purpose with His Will.
2. Matthew 10:26 - “So do not be afraid of them (local councils, governors, or kings), for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.”
As we have discussed many times, II Chronicles 7:14 is our blueprint to pray exactly what the Holy Spirit informs us. It says, "if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
1. Humble yourself and be willing to lay bare before the Lord.
2. Pray.
3. Seek My Face - With the help of the Holy Spirit, we seek specifically how and in what manner to pray.
4. Turn from my wicked ways - all of them. God doesn’t negotiate; we either choose to obey or reject His commandments.
And when we have done these things; THEN God will listen to our prayers - forgive us - and heal our land.
If we try to ignore any of these steps then we will not be heard and we will lose our land because there are forces determined to destroy this land. They don’t even hide their intentions anymore because they think they have already won. So just let the Holy Spirit give you the perfect utterance for your prayers to God.
3. I John 1:8-9 - "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
So I will ask the question again. What are you hiding from God? What have you justified in your life that is contradictory to God’s Will? Is this secret thing more precious than your relationship with God? The fact is we can’t obscure anything from Him.
4. Psalm 32:5-6 - "Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.” And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Therefore let all the faithful pray to You while You may be found; surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.”
God faithfully listens to His faithful children who seek forgiveness for their sins and reconciliation with their Lord. We expect God to hear us and forgive us and reconcile with us. Now, He promised He would justly forgive our sin and reconcile with us; never forget that. God is also a just God and our nation has greatly sinned against God. Let us, His children obediently with a loving heart to the best of our ability be faithful to His Word.
5. I Timothy 5:24-25 - "The sins of some are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them. In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even those that are not obvious cannot remain hidden forever.”
No one is getting away with anything; good or bad all deeds will be revealed. Some of you last week were down in the dumps because you thought God didn’t answer our prayers. First and foremost, God’s timing is always perfect. Trust Him completely; a spiritual warrior will make sure they have done all they were instructed to do - trust your training. Secondly, example after example in the Word of God, the Lord has proven He will never leave us or forsake us.
6. Proverbs 28:13 - "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”
7. Jeremiah 23:24 - "Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord."
In this verse, God Himself confirms nothing is hidden from Him and so I implore you to check yourself. Be honest with yourself and if you are not sure, ask the Holy Spirit. If you get quiet before Him, the Spirit will show you what you need to do. Repent of all sin in your life.
For those of you who have been injured by others whatever the deed, forgiving the offender isn’t letting them get away with it. Take the pain, the hurt, and the burden and lay it on the altar of God. God wants you to let Him carry the burden; He will in turn grant you peace and healing. By forgiving those who have harmed you in any way, you must forego any vengeance and let God handle it. That is what He expects. Reconciling with someone who injured you and yet hasn’t asked for forgiveness and repented is not God’s expectation. You forgive and then rest in His peace. (That was for someone out there.)
Identify your secret (we all have one) and seek forgiveness with God so your prayers will be heard by God. We need to prepare ourselves so that we can effectively join the Body of Christ for the days ahead; waging a spiritual battle on behalf of the Kingdom of God (we all have different callings - fully embrace your calling like a faithful servant in the vineyard.)
Many blessings to you.
Peace and be prepared.
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The steal is designed to make it difficult/impossible for the public to get their hands on the evidence. We already know that from 2020. And if you do get evidence, judges won’t let it into the courtroom. But none of that means you just give up.
No way in hell.
Iowa did not vote for communism because of gas prices (that were the same or less than under previous admin) or a war to end a nuclear threat (w/ no boots on the ground).
I know Iowa.
Iowa raised me.
Iowa educated me.
The math isn’t mathing here.
Let’s audit this election to make sure the results are honest before we hand over the Hawkeye state and America to Communists.
Do not certify until you VERIFY the vote.
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🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / THE INSURRECTION PLAYBOOK, SPECIAL EDITION: ON CROSSING THE RUBICON 🚨
Many people on 𝕏 are calling for elections to not to be certified, or for Trump to not to seat the new Congress on January 3rd.
In a sense, attributing 2026 results to cheating is too narrow of a way to look at a much larger and a much worse problem.
The problem isn't that machines decided to flip 15% of Republican votes and stole the 2026 midterms from us.
The problem is that our elections are untransparent, monopolized by mysterious NGOs, and set up institutionally such that they are impossible to challenge or audit honestly.
I wrote a book, UNELECTED. It lays out the whole NGO Administrative Complex and how they have monopolized virtually every facet of our ordinary society and perform functions through, above, and despite Congress. This is what they do. They cut off every single plausible path to their own reform.
The last two chapters explain my remedy, but I do not believe these chapters are easily approached without reading the other 300+ pages first. And I've had fans compare it to "A Brief History of Time" in complexity ... while I wouldn't go that far, it is an enormous problem with an enormous network that developed over an enormous amount of time.
The good news is that our anger at finding out about this, and our lashing out at all this is the epistemic bubble popping. Regimes don't last long after that.
The bad news is - to borrow a phrase my friend uses - there are many ways to lose, and few ways to preserve our Republic.
I'm not here to tell you that President Trump shouldn't use the 2026 elections to force a showdown.
I'm here to tell you what happens if he does. If he goes down this route, he better treat it like crossing the Rubicon.
Pray for peace and wisdom for the administration as they deal with the many difficult decisions ahead.
Watch the video with an open mind and heart.
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Excuse me, @TheAtlantic.
I present:
Way of the Warrior Kid.
Five book series.
WarriorKid.com
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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If you’re right wing and you can’t admit liberals (not communists) are way better at art and design and boutique coffee shops and restaurants, you’re not living in reality.
If you’re left wing and you can’t admit conservatives are way better at running cities and businesses and police departments, you’re not living in reality.
You step inside a beautiful coffee shop in the PNW and think “man, these liberals are great at this stuff…conservatives should take notes.” Then the moment you step outside and trip over a homeless drug zombie shooting up fentanyl on the sidewalk, you think “man these liberals are terrible at this stuff…they should really take notes from conservatives”
Communists make disgusting anti-beauty art, but classical liberals aren’t like that. Put the libs in charge of the coffee shops, put the conservatives in charge of city hall. This is how you get a city that is beautiful, clean, and functional.
If you can’t accept that, you need to check your tribalism. We are never getting rid of each other, so figure out how we strike a balance or else the communists swoop in and take everything from us while we quarrel over stupid bullshit…which is exactly what’s happening now.
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Remember: WAPO wrote an entire hit piece on me for breaking ‘journalistic ethics’ because I said “I voted so hard for this” the first time @PeteHegseth swore in young soldiers.
$10 says WAPO doesn’t follow up with a hit piece on Dave.
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I’m a team player.
Not many things will make me go scorched earth.
Setting up @PeteHegseth as scapegoat is one of them.
And, yes, I know the blackmail.
You know who you are.
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Well this sucks.
I’m going to rant for a few moments and then move on in a positive way.
My three unvarnished thoughts on tonight:
1. Any MAGA voter who sat this out to "prove a point" to the eGOP who now lives under Democrat rule deserves what they are about to experience.
2. Trump knew Iran could cost the midterms. But he did it anyway. Because he knows that the Iranian mullahs are theocratic madmen who are trying to build nuclear weapons so they can use them on the USA and Israel, precipitating Armageddon so the Hidden Imam will arise from a well in Qom and force what’s left of humanity to convert to Shia Islam. So Trump had to choose. Win the midterms or save humanity? He chose wisely. Historians will eventually acknowledge this reality.
3. The PRIMARIES are where you make RINOs pay, not the general. Geez.
So THAT’S all over and it’s on to 2028 to save America. Let’s put this behind us, pull together as patriotic conservative Americans, squash the squabbling, infighting and name calling, and get back to where we need to be.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
No. No it was not.
Onward to 2028…. (I’m dropping the name of my preferred presidential candidate in the morning.)
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We don’t need a third party in the U.S. We need a second. Let’s get this party started… teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/2WXKJYyAO…
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And I won't stop. No matter who wins this race, LA loses. I will spend the next 4 years hounding either Bass or Raman to keep them in line and working for US.
Regardless of who officially wins the LA Mayoral race, the real winner is @spencerpratt.
I joined @tracegallagher on @foxnewsnight to discuss how Spencer has dominated this race even as a non-candidate, forcing Bass & Raman to actually campaign on issues by drawing attention to the many problems they’re responsible for & what Angelenos care about.
His voice has been a blessing to millions and he’s just getting started.
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The big wrong turn, as I see it, was the vast cultural and spiritual shift that came of defining ourselves by our pasts, our injuries, instead of by our destinies, our potentials. The idea became to repair, repair, not to prepare and strive.
Therapy overtook destiny.
"Don't look back."
An ancient warning, ignored.
But we are not the sum of what's happened to us, as individuals or groups; we are the carriers of what is possible for us -- as we divine it and go out to meet it.
Instead of obsessing on its own roots a tree should grow toward the sun.
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Hold on, I speak journovermin.
TRANSLATION:
Our push polls have been attempting to demoralize MAGA voters for months so they stay home. If that demoralization effort did not work, we'll be working well into tomorrow in not calling races so the Democrats will have sufficient time to come up with enough votes to close the gaps.
Democrats are heavily favored in public polling in the House and in several key Senate races. If those numbers prove accurate, it’s possible that NBC News could project control of both chambers on election night. But it’s more likely that determining the winners will take time. nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…
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No, Mr. Kinzinger.
Let's grant you that you will have a blue tsunami on Election Day. You have a mandate to do anything you want. You restore USAID. You start jailing everyone remotely associated with Trump. You pack the Supreme Court.
Guess what you've not solved?
The sovereign debt crisis still is accelerating at full speed ahead. Even George Soros warned that this was a supercycle that could not be sustained forever. DOGE was your best, last attempt at saving your regime from yourself.
Whatever fiscal apparatus comes next will be multilateral in scope - yes - but it will not be your coronation. It will pop the final epistemic bubble.
You have sided yourself with slow, bureaucratic systems which cannot adapt, which cannot maneuver, which only know how to make progress through coercion. Your entire power foundation is based on a civil society playbook that is 30+ years old, runs on enormous amounts of unsustainable deficit spending, and is increasingly ideological. We all saw what's happening to Brazil. We all see what's happening to Poland. We all know what you're trying to do here in America.
We embrace change. You fear change. We embrace SI. You are trying to cancel SI and data centers. We abhor bureaucracy. You embrace it as your power foundation.
Legitimacy has only ever lived in the consent of the governed, as the Founding Fathers wrote. You may have done regime change all over the world, but your color revolutions have never been successful in bringing prosperity because you do not believe humans possess God-granted natural agency.
My book UNELECTED is much more than a polemic, it is a manifesto to take our own sovereignty back.
A meteor is coming for you, and you can't even see it coming because you are drunk on your power.
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In just these past two weeks we have seen:
1. Widespread civil unrest and riots in France.
2. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Albania.
3. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Italy.
4. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Spain.
5. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Portugal.
6. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Belgium.
7. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Serbia.
8. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Georgia.
9. Widespread civil unrest and an apparent judicial coup in Poland.
10. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Czechia (including an attempted takeover of the Parliament building).
11. Widespread student protests in Greece.
12. Targeted student protests in Indonesia.
13. Localized violent protests in India.
14. An apparently fraudulent election in Brazil where the presumed presidential election winner was forced to flee the country under threat of arrest by his opponent.
15. The uncovering of a Color Revolution plot in the USA led by embittered former USAID employees and ex-military members.
That’s a lot to be happening all at once, don’t you think?
And the USA is having midterm elections next week.
You know, if I was a conspiracy-minded type I might be connecting some dots here. 🧐
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Before the witch had a broom, the sky did. Ancient astronomers called comets "broom stars", and their arrival was rarely good news.
On Halloween night, Randall Carlson sweeps through the real story behind the season's oldest symbols in an exclusive live talk inside Kosmogonia University. It's a never-before-seen version of his Halloween presentation, and it's interactive, so members can talk with Randall and ask him anything that comes up.
Saturday 31 October · 7pm EDT
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So I just received a phone call on my private number from "journalist" @jordangreennc of rawstory dot com.
He wanted to talk to me about @DataRepublican's "Democracy Files" and the ongoing Color Revolution revealed in those same files.
I did what I normally do when a "journalist" cold calls me and I reminded him that his chosen profession is a malodorous blight of infamous lies and misinformation, I recommended that he listen to the tapes and report fairly, and then I hung up.
However, I know he has also been contacting others via email, and I have seen the loaded questions he is asking to further the conclusion he reached before he ever started on his story. Those "questions" rotate around four assumptions that he has obviously already determined to be true:
1. Donald Trump is an illegitimate tyrant bent on destroying "our democracy."
2. The Color Revolution plotters are simply patriots trying to preserve "our democracy."
3. Everyone uncovering the plot is a liar trying to mislead the public into believing that this highly benevolent group of patriotic Americans is instead really mounting a coup, and we are irresponsible for creating such misinformation.
4. The people uncovering the coup plot are actually the ones trying to ignite a violent civil war.
Folks, please remember that the "Narrative" component of a textbook color revolution depends on a compliant media that actively seeks to undermine and destroy the "legitimacy" of the serving government in the days and weeks before the Color Revolutionaries get to the trigger event for their coup.
The article this man is writing is a part of that Narrative component. I'm not accusing him of being in bed directly with the plotters, but I do know that fellow travelers in the Democrat/Media Complex usually need no prompting to spread disinformation and lies when it comes to Donald Trump.
The Color Revolution attempt unfolds before our very eyes.
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Here is the Democrat plan to steal the election & the country - Sen Markey lays it out gleefully. When he speaks like this, it means this plan is already in motion. They have prepped the battlespace for a massive show of people on the streets to support their false narrative that Pres Trump is “desperate” & to prevent him from using any levers of power that he has, they are getting ahead of him & accusing him of an “election crime” when they will be the ones committing the crime.
Note how he says they have “lawyers” who have already drafted legal challenges & their plan is to use the show of force on the streets to pressure th Supreme Court justices to capitulate & rule in ther favor. If I was a betting man, I would bet that means they already have enough buy in from some of the justices (but not all) to be able to make that claim. Most notably, they are trying to separate Republicans from Trump, which means from the people of the United States. He offers Republicans a way out - which is really a veiled threat: come with us, abandon Trump & you will be good. That is the message here.
This is what an actual insurrection looks like - a real one. They have no intention of letting Pres Trump finish out his term. This is a plan for a total takeover. And if they didn’t already have some Republicans on board, they would not be making this offer publicly.
So there you have it - this is how they plan to screw the President & the people of this country. And all those eating their own side alive every day are playing right into their hands.
Well done to all. If you believe in the Republic, you are about to lose it. God help us.
Markey Reveals Color Revolution Plan: Unions & Workers to Shut Down Nation?
Senator Markey must have participated in the organized Ed Holder Election War Game Exercises.
In a interview conducted today, Senator Ed Markey stated that lawyers were already drafting an emergency case to bring before the U.S.
Supreme Court both before and immediately after the election. He added that thousands of lawyers were being prepared for deployment to key polling stations across multiple states.
Markey further said preparations needed to include readiness for a national strike on Election Day, with millions of people taking to the streets to protest what he described as an attempted electoral crime. He specifically called for workers, unions, and businesses to shut down in a manner similar to the response in Minneapolis following the deaths of Alex Freddi and Renee Goode.
Markey argued that the president was growing increasingly desperate because Republican fortunes had slipped, citing repeated visits to Texas to protect an otherwise safe Senate seat and campaigning in historically safe Republican states such as Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.
The Senator predicted that an anticipated large Democratic victory would prompt some Republicans in the House and Senate to distance themselves from the MAGA agenda rather than become “sacrificial lambs.”
Markey expressed concern that desperation could lead to the deployment of ICE agents or the military, and he said the public mobilization would demonstrate outrage to the Supreme Court if an emergency petition were filed.
This is why voters must choose common sense candidates in this midterm cycle. The modern Jacobins are out for blood, and only a decisive choice at the ballot box can save our republic.
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🚨🚨 THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨
I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it.
I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (below) to explain the whole thing to others are not on 𝕏 - feel free to distribute.
Here's the primer:
USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG.
Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance." They'd go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building.
You may have heard the term "color revolution." The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID's democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" in 2004, and many more.
Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn't stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.
This goal became a plan, called Renew American Democracy (RAD). It invoked the "4 B's" framework. Block - use lawfare and protests to make life harder for the Trump administration. Bridge & Belong - control dialogue and win people over. The final and most important B is Build. Build means redesigning the American government itself, and the crisis is the opening.
In their own words:
"We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment." - Danielle Reiff, DRG lead.
Calls show DRG working alongside DSA on ideas of creating a different government, one that does away with the Constitution itself.
DRG does not run the Block operations. They hand it to UDA, the United Democracy Alliance. One organizer calls it a "huge galaxy": lawsuits, street protests, non-cooperation. They list No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other mega-activist NGOs among their members.
Another organizer calls UDA Erica Chenoweth's project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor behind the three-and-half-percent rule of regime change: get that share of a country's populace onto the streets, and historically, the movement wins.
The UDA is very "hush-hush." They have no website, no roster, no filings.
Then come the red lines: things the Trump administration could do, such as calling the Insurrection Act on protesters, that would mean that the federal government, in their words, "crosses the threshold into illegitimacy." Nobody voted on those lines. There was no public debate. These red lines were developed within secretive working groups, and in a paper addressed to governors and staff.
In the words of Reiff/DRG:
"So that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a Constitutional crisis, like everyone's already pre-organized. And so Mike Smith actually said, he goes, oh, you guys have the day after tomorrow plan."
Cross a line, and the paper's options include states refusing to lend their resources to federal officials, and governors convening what it calls a "Third Continential Congress."
Running the UDA's Insurrection Act working group: Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET) of National Security Leaders of America (NSL4A). NSL4A is also credited with operationalizing UDA, the blocking operations. NSL4A consists of about 1,600 ex-officers, spies, diplomats. They're turning red lines into indicators and running a situation room to monitor them throughout the midterms and beyond.
The NSL4A's lawyers told them to stop recording meetings in case of subpoenas. But the rest of the network continued to record. DRG works in conjunction with Renew to Thrive (R2T), which ended up accidentally publishing 400+ calls and thousands of documents. These calls and documents were never meant for our eyes, but it's them, on tape.
Thousands of NGOs and billions of dollars are involved in this endeavor. Most of them believe they're saving democracy. The problem is that people who spent their careers deciding when other countries' governments had lost their legitimacy wrote that test for ours, in private, and planned for what comes after.
Who decides when your government is legitimate?
