Trump calls for another insurrection and promises pardons for insurrectionists - Lock him up

Trump has been allowed to walk free for over a year since he incited the January 6th Insurrection. Now, he feels bold enough to tell his supporters they have a duty to launch the biggest insurrection the nation has ever seen if Trump faces any legal consequences.

And, no, I am not exaggerating Trump's sentiment. His call to arms for January 6th was the following Tweet:

"Peter Navarro releases 36-page report alleging election fraud 'more than sufficient' to swing victory to Trump [...]. A great report by Peter. Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"

-Dec 19th 2020

Useful idiots in the media thought barely anyone would show up. But everyone who was paying attention knew that Trump was issuing a violent call to arms...

(Also, coup organizer Peter Navarro continues to advocate for coups, see our post here:
https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2022/01/this-is-why-we-need-to-lock-red-coup-organizers-up-peter-navarro-coup-vote-green-bay-sweep.html )

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The lack of consequences Trump has faced his entire life and entire presidency has created a constant feedback loop to embolden him to commit greater and greater crimes. The most absurd example of this was how Trump made his infamous phone call to Ukraine on July 25, 2019--just hours after the Democrats and media declared any hopes of impeachment over the Mueller Report were dead. Trump felt invincible and that criminal phone call ironically led to his first impeachment. But he faced no consequences for that because he knew his party would stand behind him no matter what--so he and the Republican party went on to organize a bloody coup attempt against our nation... Now that the Republican party and Trump have faced no consequences for literal treason, they have continued to publicly advocate for and organize another coup attempt...

He needs to be locked up immediately, and we need to take his threats for a future civil war very seriously.

All non-treasonous Americans need to get armed NOW, train NOW, and organize within our local communities NOW. Trump is basically giving the signal to start "The Storm"--a massive civil war/purge of all left-wing people in America--that the QAnon cult was prophesizing he would give during the Insurrection.

Considering that Trump's previous "wild protest" was an Insurrection where cops were murdered and permanently mutilated, and where politicians were within minutes of being murdered, the only possible interpretation of Trump demanding "the biggest protest we have ever had" is a full-scale civil war. Republican politicians like Madison Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene have already been advocating for a civil war, as well as the far-right militias who were involved in the Insurrection... Even worse, the majority of the Republican party supports them!!!

We need to take these threats extremely seriously, because they have acted on them before. We saw what happened with Trump before--the media told us to underestimate him, but he went on to commit the greatest act of treason since the Civil War...

All non-treasonous Americans need to get armed NOW, train NOW, and organize within our local communities NOW. Or we will be slaughtered during Trump's next insurrection.

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On January 29, 2022, at a rally in Conroe, Texas:

"Trump calls for 'the biggest protest we have ever had' in DC and other cities if prosecutors investigating him 'do anything illegal'

[...]

Speaking at a Texas rally, former President Donald Trump called for nationwide protests if prosecutors investigating him and his businesses "do anything illegal."

In the speech, he appeared to link the investigations to his baseless claim that the 2020 election was rigged, which led to the January 6 Capitol riot.

"If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington DC, in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere because our country and our elections are corrupt," Trump told the crowd in Conroe, Texas on Saturday night.

[...]

"In reality, they're not after me, they're after you, and I just happen to be the person in the way," Trump told his supporters at the rally.

[...]

"For years, they've been going after my company, many years, using every trick in the book in an attempt to literally, if they can, put me in jail. They want to put me in jail," Trump said at the rally on Saturday.

The former president repeatedly called the prosecutors "racist," said they were "mentally sick," and accused them of "prosecutorial misconduct at the highest level."

"They're going after me without any protection of my rights by the Supreme Court or most other courts," Trump said."

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-for-mass-nationwide-protests-prosecutors-investigating-him-2022-1

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At the same rally, he promised to pardon everyone involved in the January 6th coup attempt if he comes to power again. Obviously, if he comes to power from the upcoming coup that Republicans have promised to engage in, he will pardon everyone involved in that as well.

"Trump made the promise at a rally in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday.

“If I run and if I win,” he said, referring to the 2024 presidential election, “we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”

[...]

More than 700 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack, around which seven people died as Trump supporters tried to stop certification of his election defeat, in service of his lie that it was caused by electoral fraud. More than 100 police officers were hurt.

Eleven members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia have been charged with seditious conspiracy.

[...]

John Dean, 83, was White House counsel from 1970 to 1973 before being disbarred and detained as a result of the Watergate scandal, which led to Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Dean responded to Trump on Twitter.

“This is beyond being a demagogue to the stuff of dictators,” he wrote. “He is defying the rule of law. Failure to confront a tyrant only encourages bad behaviour. If thinking Americans don’t understand what Trump is doing and what the criminal justice system must do we are all in big trouble!”

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Others deplored Trump’s words in Texas. Richard Painter, a White House ethics counsel under George W Bush, said the promise of pardons should, constitutionally speaking, stop Trump running again.

“This alone is giving aid or comfort to an insurrection within the meaning of the 14th amendment, section three,” Painter wrote. “Trump is DISQUALIFIED from public office.”

[...]

Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor now a legal analyst for NBC, said: “Trump is not only encouraging his supporters to violence if he’s arrest[ed], he’s also signaling that he’ll pardon them, just as he’ll pardon the [January 6] insurrectionists.

“Will this finally move prosecutors to hold him accountable for his crimes?”"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/30/trump-pardon-promise-capitol-rioters-dictators-john-dean-nixon

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We are not safe when these treasonous anti-American demons continue to cause havoc without any consequences. We need to get armed with whatever legal means we have available and prepare to defend ourselves when they come knocking on our door to slaughter us.

Democratic politicians warn us that the next Republican coup is already in progress!

I believe this is a new milestone. Although politicians have warned that Republican attempts at voter suppression would sort-of potentially be paving the way for potential future coups, this is the first time I am aware of a politician affirmatively saying that the next Republican coup attempt is indeed in progress.

And once again, it is Ilhan Omar who is saying what needs to be said:

"The next coup is not only possible; it has already begun." -Ilhan Omar

While Biden, Garland, and others said nothing of substance during their speeches commemorating January 6th, Omar demonstrated true leadership by commemorating the day by declaring we must step up our efforts to hold Republicans accountable and not shy away from talking about the crimes that have been inflicted, and will continue to be inflicted, upon our nation.

January 6, 2022:

Rep. Ilhan Omar Statement on One Year Anniversary of January 6th Insurrection

“Today marks one year since the attacks of January 6th. I will never forget the experience of fearing for my life, my fellow members, and staff on a day designed to show the strength of our democracy. I will never forget the call I made to the father of my children, asking him to tell my children I loved them if I couldn’t.

But the insurrection of January 6th was not solely significant for the havoc that it caused, the property destroyed, or the lives it cost. [...] With each passing day, it becomes more and more clear that the outgoing President of the United States planned and executed the coup attempt, refusing a peaceful transition of power, pressuring election officials and his own administration to overturn results, and organizing a rally and march on the seat of government when his other efforts failed.

I know personally what happens when a government fails, civil strife takes hold, and people are displaced. And I know that coup attempts are rarely one-time affairs.

In fact, as we speak, Donald Trump’s allies in statehouses across the country are seeking to erect barriers to voting—largely affecting low-income people, people of color, and seniors. If that’s not enough, they are stripping power from nonpartisan election officials and rewriting state laws to seize partisan control over election certification.

The next coup is not only possible; it has already begun.

But the causes of the attempts to overturn our democracy run much deeper than Donald Trump. For decades, our institutions have been failing to meet the needs of the people they are tasked to represent. Inequality has skyrocketed, as has the cost of basics like healthcare and education, while the average American’s wages have not kept pace. Self-interested elites have prioritized profit and greed over the common good. Trust in our government’s ability to tackle the biggest problems we face—from healthcare to climate to food insecurity—has cratered as a result. Borrowing from demagogues around the world, authoritarians like Donald Trump filled the void, offering false promises while scapegoating immigrants, and religious and racial minorities.

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To stop the next coup, we must reinvigorate the democratic experience. That requires, at a minimum, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and strengthening election laws around the country to prevent the next coup. But it also requires reforming our institutions so that they are once again responsive to the core demands of our constituents. That requires abolishing fundamentally antidemocratic elements of our system like the Senate filibuster and the electoral college, and it requires major investments in childcare, education, health and climate like the Build Back Better Act.

The coup attempt on January 6th was a warning for what’s to come if we don’t act. The work to prevent the next coup begins now.”

https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ilhan-omar-statement-one-year-anniversary-january-6th-insurrection

The only criticism I have of Omar's message is that democracy never has, and never will be the foundation for liberty or justice. Our history has demonstrated as much. Far-right electoral success from the days of slavery to today has demonstrated as much. The coup attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and the Republican Party's embrace of coup attempts as an acceptable part of their political strategy signaled that democracy is already dead in the US. The unwritten norms and "gentlemanly" conduct that have thus far sustained the operation of the US bureaucracy are completely dead. The willpower does not even exist to enforce the written rules, laws, and even the Constitution itself (e.g. 14th Amendment)!

The only battle left is who will emerge as the leaders in a post-democracy US. As it currently stands, only mainstream--elected--Republican politicians have rejected democracy. Therefore the far-right will be able to create their one-party Russia-style oligarchy without any genuine opposition... The sooner leftists can choose liberty, justice, and freedom over the tyranny of the majority that is democracy, the better.

Omar is correct that we need to reform our institutions so they are responsive to the needs and welfare of non-elites. But she does not seem to realize that at no point in US history has democracy or voting ever allowed such a thing. In fact, it was democratic tyranny of the majority that prevented it every time...

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Imagine if Biden or Garland had the same attitude and took things just as seriously as Omar does? This crisis would be over by now if they did, and America would be safe. ...At least until the next democratic crisis arose.

So long as the government does nothing to punish the organizers of the coup attempt--and does nothing to punish those who are already boasting about organizing upcoming coups--we are not safe. So long as members of Congress and far-right militias which participated in the Insurrection can openly promise literal "bloodshed" against us, we are not safe.

All non-treasonous Americans must get armed, train, and organize within our communities so we can keep each other safe. (Legally) getting armed and encouraging your entire social network to do so is the best way to "commemorate" January 6th.

If we can survive that, we may have a chance to reform the government to a system which actually upholds the maxim of "liberty and justice for all".

This is why we need to lock Red Coup organizers up - Peter Navarro explains the Coup Vote and claims it is still "legal"

On January 4th, 2022, coup planner Peter Navarro was interviewed by Ari Melber on MSNBC. Navarro described in detail the coup plan he and Bannon formulated, which they call the "Green Bay Sweep". In short, it is what we have more accurately called the Coup Vote. This was one of the plans that Republicans actually (attempted) to carry out!!!

To summarize Navarro's explanation of the intention of the Coup Vote: Republican members of Congress would object to the legal electoral votes in "swing states", and send the electoral votes back to the states so the Republican-controlled state legislatures could "decertify" the electoral votes (resulting in no candidate receiving 270 electoral votes, allowing for the Republican-dominated House of Representatives to vote on the President), or so Republican-controlled states could have 10 days to "recount" the votes--throwing out just enough "illegal" Biden votes to tip the tide in Trump's favor.

Read our blog post about the Coup Vote below (which includes a list of the 147 Republicans who committed sedition by carrying out the seditious "Green Bay Sweep" conspiracy by voting to overthrow the election):
https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-coup-vote.html

Here is the 12-minute interview with Navarro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPDSWK8d_tI

Partial transcript:

Melber:
So go ahead and tell us in your own words, what was the plan, and who was in on it besides you, Bannon, and Trump.

Navarro:
Sure, the back story is while I was in the administration, after the election, beginning on Thanksgiving, I produced what would be an exhaustive 3-volume report and I went over tens of thousands of pages of documents and proved that the election was on all likelihood stolen through fraud and election irregularities. That's the background.

[...]

The plan was simply this. We had over a hundred Congressmen and Senators on Capitol Hill ready to implement the sweep. The sweep was simply that we were going to challenge the results of the election in the six battleground states. They were Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and basically these were the places where we believed that if the votes were sent back to those battleground states and looked at again that there would be enough concern amongst the legislatures that most or all of those states would decertify the election. That would throw the election to the House of Representatives.

And I would say to you here Ari, that all of this again, it was in the lanes legally. It was prescribed by the Constitution. There is a provision to go, rather than through the Electoral College, to the House of Representatives, and all this required [laughs] was peace and calm on Capitol Hill.

And at 1:00PM, Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Gosar started the Green Bay Sweep, beautifully, challenging the results of Arizona.

Here's the most important thing I can tell you about this. The thing that we were trying to deal with was a media which refused to acknowledge any kind of possible fraud or irregularities.

Melber:
You just described this plan as a way to take an election, where the outcome was established by independent secretaries of state, by the voters of those states, and legal remedies had been exhausted--with the Supreme Court, never even taking, let a lone siding with, any of the claims you just referred to, so legally they went nowhere. Then you're describing a way that the incumbent [interrupted] Then you will use the incumbent losing party's power--that was the Republican Party that was losing power--to overtake and reverse that outcome.

Do you realize you are describing a coup?

Navarro:
No. I totally reject many of your premises there. First of all, the election was still in doubt and would be until it was certified. Second, [laughs] the idea that secretaries of state, particularly in Michigan and Pennsylvania were like innocent parties--I mean Jocelyn Benson and Kathy Boockvar, the secretaries of state in Michigan and Pennsylvania, they were put in power by George Soros for the express purpose of shifting the playing field to the Democrats. They were found in both states to have broken the law.

The point here Ari is that we were following the Constitution and rules of the Senate to simply get a recount of what the votes were. And we were looking for these battleground states to basically review whether there [interrupted] That's by the book! That's by the book!

Melber:
Peter, people don't always hear directly from the folks involved. Steven Bannon, as you know, is risking going to jail rather than just provide testimony about it. You, by contrast, are describing it in your book--some of the same stuff. So I don't know what he's afraid of that clearly you're not.

But when you describe a system where, after all of the legal remedies are exhausted, the people who lost just make noise and then say that they won and seize power. Don't you understand? This is my question for you since I get to talk to you directly here. Don't you understand that if that actually were the system it would be dumb and dangerous? If the people who lost could just get up there and say, "well we want to do our own count, not the state law recount, not what the Supreme Court provides for everyone"--everyone remembers Bush v. Gore; there are situations where they get involved--but just people in the Trump administration decide, "well, we disagree."

Don't you understand why people see your--whatever you want to call it--you don't want to call it a coup-- your thing where when you lose you stay in power--they see that as really dangerous?

Navarro:
Your presumption is the remedies were exhausted. My presumption is the remedies weren't exhausted at all. The remedy was for Vice President Pence, as the quarterback in the Green Bay Sweep, to remand those votes back to the six battleground states for ten days for a look to see if there were any election irregularities or fraud.

Now that was part of the remedy!

Melber:
Let's get into that in your book. I'm going to read from your book and then I'm going to go back to you.

[...]

Let's read from your book with regard to your contention about the Vice President. You say, "[Pence] refused to take my repeated phone calls about... election irregularities despite, a direct request from President Trump to do so."

What was your vision, that you would get Pence to do that which Trump couldn't get him to do?

Navarro:
No. My only reason to talk to Vice President Mike Pence was to explain to him, as I documented in my 3-volume report, that in all likelihood there was significant election fraud and irregularities across the six battleground states. I mean these were ubiquitous six dimensions of fraud. I simply wanted to brief Mike on what I had found. I had what we call the receipts, and that's all the conversation.

[...]

Mike was always good to me, until that day. The thing about Mike's betrayal of President Trump, which is really interesting, is he never shared the legal analysis of his general counsel Greg Jacob and Marc Short with Pat Cipollone [interrupted] That was bad process betrayal right there.

Melber:
Peter, that brings us back to the same point, and this may be relevant, sir, in future elections, which is, don't you think that somebody would have thought of this? If the incumbent administration, through the President or Vice President, could just cancel the election outcome because he goes down to the Senate. Well, then a lot of people would try to stay in power. We have an entire system designed to thwart, and I want to say this respectfully, but it's the truth, people like you. To stop people like you who think that you can anoint yourself the reviewers of the voters--of the American people--of what they lawfully did. That you Trump the Supreme Court, no pun intended. People like you are what the Constitution are designed to stop. And it worked. And it did stop you.

Which I guess brings us to this idea of the goals you talk about in the book.

[...]

In the book you say, "the goal is not to get the election overturned today. The goal is to subject the ballots... to careful scrutiny and investigation."

What do you say to the system doing that, not through partisans like you, ... but that's what the states and courts already do?

[...]

Navarro:
I reject the idea that we were trying to cancel the election, and you yourself just read from my book. All we wanted was to look at what I found. Look, Ari, the difference between me and virtually everybody else in this debate is I did the homework. I'm the guy who looked at thousands of pages of documents, did the analysis, I went in with an idea just trying to figure out what happened. And what happened was a very elaborate steal.

Navarro is right, the steal was pretty elaborate. Over 147 members of Congress participated, dozens of Trump administration advisors and officials helped organize and plan it, and it even occurred in multiple phases, beginning prior to the election with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's implementation of the plan to sabotage the Postal Service. A massive inside job. (DeJoy has faced no punishment and is still Postmaster General under Biden, by the way!)

Now, let's take a step back.

NAVARRO ADMITTED TO ORGANIZING THE COUP VOTE ON LIVE TELEVISION. HE CONFESSED THERE WAS INDEED A SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW THE ELECTION. HE PROVIDED ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE PROVING THIS WHOLE THING WAS AN INSIDE JOB COORDINATED BY THE MAJORITY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

HOW HAVE HE AND HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS NOT BEEN ARRESTED YET?

During the interview, his hands are shaking as he explains the plan behind the Coup Vote. I assume he is shaking with nervousness and adrenaline as he gets a rush from openly admitting his crimes on live TV, knowing he will likely face no punishment. What a cruel joke.

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Navarro's confession generated a lot of media coverage. The next day, Ari Melber summarized the buzz surrounding Navarro and the prior day's interview.

"After Trump Aide’s Admission On Air, New Heat On Coup Plot"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB8wwHJ4LFs

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As an additional tidbit, how did the Trump administration find Navarro, you may wonder? ...Kushner went on Amazon and looked for people who wrote anti-China books:

"Report: Kushner found Trump advisor Navarro by browsing Amazon

[...]

There, he found a book co-written by Peter Navarro and was struck by its title, "Death by China."

Kushner then cold-called Navarro and invited him to be an adviser to the Trump campaign, according to the report. Navarro now directs the White House National Trade Council and serves as the Assistant to the President.

When the Trump campaign brought on Navarro, he was the only economic adviser on the team and likely reinforced Trump's convictions about China's trade policies."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328969-report-kushner-found-trump-economic-advisor-navarro-by-browsing

...Yet liberals are trying to compete with rightists over who can be more Sinophobic, falling hook, line, and sinker for Russian geopolitical aims to stoke a new cold war between the US and China, to weaken both nations for Russia's benefit. (Which, by no coincidence, is a plan also shared by Navarro's partner-in-crime, Bannon).

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Coup organizers are going on live TV confessing their role in organizing the coup attempt, and they face no punishment. They declare that their plan is still legal, and their co-conspirators continue to publicly announce they are planning for the upcoming coup.

Our nation is in grave danger. We need to prepare to defend ourselves when things start falling apart. We need to get armed, train, and organize within our communities so we can defend each other from the coming chaos.

This is why we need to lock Red Coup organizers up - Ted Cruz announces the Republican self-coup will continue

Ted Cruz, one of the key participants and organizers of the Coup Vote in Congress, has announced that when Republicans retake a majority in Congress, they will once again ignore the Constitution and use the Legislative branch as a political tool to suppress their opponents. In no uncertain terms, they will continue the self-coup which they had fully enacted during the Trump administration.

"Ted Cruz says GOP will impeach Biden if it retakes Congress — whether it’s “justified or not”

Cancún frequent flyer floats Republican revenge fantasy, claiming Democrats "weaponized" impeachment against Trump

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, last week predicted that Republicans would impeach President Biden if the party wins control of the House in the 2022 midterms (as is widely expected).

On the latest edition of his "Verdict with Ted Cruz" podcast released last Friday, the senator said he expects House Republicans to retaliate against the Biden administration for the numerous investigations Democrats launched into Donald Trump's scandal-plagued administration.

"If we take the House, which I said is overwhelmingly likely, then I think we will see serious investigations of the Biden administration," Cruz said. He predicted that Republicans may also impeach the president "whether it's justified or not."

"They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him," Cruz said, referring to Democrats. "One of the real disadvantages of doing that, and it is something you and I talked about at great length, the more you weaponize it and turn it into a partisan cudgel, what is good for the goose is good for the gander."

[...]

I said at the time, when we have a Democratic president and a Republican House, you can expect an impeachment proceeding," Cruz said on the podcast. "That is not how impeachment is meant to work. But I think the Democrats crossed that line."

Cruz claimed that there are "potentially multiple grounds" to consider a Biden impeachment.

"Probably the most compelling is the utter lawlessness of President Biden's refusal to enforce the border," he said, even though Biden has left many of Trump's controversial border policies in place. "That is probably the strongest grounds right now for impeachment, but there may be others," Cruz continued. "Because the Democrats decided this is just another tool in the partisan war chest, I think there is a real risk that this turnabout will be fair play."

Cruz predicted that Republicans have a 90% chance of regaining the House this November. Election analysts generally expect Democrats, who control the House by just a handful of seats, to lose the chamber due to a combination of aggressive Republican gerrymandering, Biden's low approval ratings, the party's unusual 2018 success in red areas during Trump's tenure, and the stalled Democratic agenda in Congress, largely due to resistance from "centrist" senators such as Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

[...]

In fact, Republicans are not even waiting for a legitimate chance to impeach Biden. Rep. Bob Gibbs, R-Ohio, and three other House Republicans filed articles of impeachment in September, seeking to remove Biden from office over his border policies, his withdrawal from Afghanistan and his extension of the pandemic eviction ban. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed similar articles of impeachment last summer. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., went further in September, introducing articles of impeachment against both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing them of "giving aid and comfort to America's enemies and colluding with the Taliban" by going through with Trump's plan to withdraw from Afghanistan."

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/04/ted-cruz-says-will-impeach-biden-if-it-retakes-congress--whether-its-justified-or-not/

Yep, that's right. Cruz has announced they are going after Biden simply because they disagree with him. Not because he committed any crimes (like Trump did on an almost monthly basis). Not because he did anything unethical (like Trump did on a daily basis). Just because they can. Because they have successfully gotten away with violating the Constitution and operating with unlimited power in the past without any consequences, they will continue to do so.

Ironically, Cruz is correct about Biden being "lawless". ...Because Biden and his so-called Justice Department refuse to arrest the politicians (such as Cruz) who attempted to overthrow our government. Multiple organizers of the previous self-coup and coup attempt are publicly announcing their intentions to continue committing crimes, and STILL aren't facing any consequences. The Democratic Party is encouraging this lawlessness by legalizing all of this criminal behavior through their active refusal to do anything about it.

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The Constitutional Crisis that began over 6 years ago has only intensified and has no end in sight. Republican politicians and far-right militias are openly declaring that there will soon be "bloodshed" and a civil war. Republican politicians and strategists have time and time again announced that they not only support additional coup attempts in the future, but THEY ARE ALREADY ORGANIZING THEM. As Cruz is demonstrating, they are not even pretending to care about following the Constitution any more.

And the Democratic Party has done nothing to keep us safe and enforce the most basic of laws...

We are not safe. We must prepare for the worst. Non-treasonous Americans must arm ourselves, train, and organize within our communities so we can defend ourselves from the chaos that they are going to unleash against us. If the Republican Party can simply suspend the Constitution whenever they have a majority, then we do not have a functional system of laws or government, and we are not safe.

One Year Later

It has been one year since the Insurrection. It has been one year since the bloody culmination of the Republican coup attempt to steal the 2020 election.

I will remember that day for the rest of my life.

On that day and the days that followed I spent every waking moment reading every available article, trying to make sense of the insanity that I had watched play out on live broadcast. As my blog posts from that time period demonstrate, on January 6th and the days immediately following it, it was already obvious that the Insurrection was an inside job and part of the much larger coup attempt that Republicans had set in motion months prior when they began sabotaging the Postal Service to rig the election. Although I have not made any updates to the large compilation posts since January 2021 (and much new information has come out since then--ranging from the presentation created by the House impeachment managers for Trump's 2nd impeachment trial in the Senate, to information being uncovered by the January 6th Select Committee, to many pieces of investigative journalism digging deeper into the identities of the insurrectionists), I still think those blog posts are some of the most comprehensive articles written on the Red Coup and the Insurrection.

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Even more shocking than watching a livestream of the coup attempt has been watching the coverup over the past year.

None of the coup organizers have been arrested or faced any consequences at all. None of the coup supporters and participants in Congress have been arrested or faced any consequences at all. What has happened as a result?

General Michael Flynn has urged for another military coup.

John Eastman has boasted his plan for a Vice President to overthrow an election is still "solid".

Steve Bannon has promised that he will ensure Republicans control the entire "election apparatus" by the next elections.

Peter Navarro confessed to planning the Coup Vote and insisted it is still legal.

Representative Madison Cawthorn has promised literal "bloodshed" against us in the near future.

Representative Matt Gaetz boasted that "We’re ashamed of nothing. We’re proud of the work we did on Jan. 6."

None of them have any faced punishment and so they have continued to organize another coup. Not only that, but they are doing so publicly and proudly.

Out of the 147 Republican politicians who voted to overthrow the government, none of them have faced punishment for their crimes. None of them have even been removed from office, despite the clear language of the 14th Amendment! (At least Representative Cori Bush has not given up hope on enforcing the 14th Amendment.)

The Republican politician(s) who held literal "reconnaissance tours" days before the Insurrection have not faced any consequences. The Republican politicians (e.g. Brooks, Biggs, Gosar) who were directly implicated as working with insurrection-organizer Ali Alexander have not faced any consequences.

Rudy Giuliani has not faced any consequences for telling an angry mob to march to the Capitol and have a literal "trial by combat".

Donald Trump has not faced any consequences for anything at all. Not the election fraud where he repeatedly pressured Georgia election officials to fraudulently "find 11,780 votes" so he could steal the state (nor has Senator Lindsey Graham been punished for his role in this election fraud conspiracy either.) Nor has Trump faced consequences for the multiple crimes meticulously investigated and documented by the Mueller Report. Not even the campaign finance crime that was serious enough to send his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to jail.

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Why not?

At this point, the only explanation that makes any sense is that the so-called Justice Department and the Democratic Party want Republicans to attempt another coup.

Over 700 insurrectionists have been arrested, many of them for nothing more than "parading" in the Capitol without a permit. Trespassing was a severe enough crime to warrant their immediate arrest, and cell phone GPS data was solid enough evidence to take them to court.

But INCITING and DIRECTING the insurrectionists is not a severe enough crime to merit any arrests? Spending months publicly organizing a coup on live TV and Twitter is not solid enough evidence to merit any arrests? A video tape of a FORMER GENERAL saying a military coup needs to take place is not enough to merit his immediate arrest?

Investigations take time, but how much time do you need when all of the smoking guns and confessions were recorded on live TV? Garland has tried to reassure us that it is normal for investigations into crime networks go from the bottom up, yet how long can you conscionably allow the bosses to walk free when each passing day they continue to do unspeakable damage? When each passing day they and their over 40 million followers become bolder and more determined to continue the crime spree at any cost? The crime that happened is not a "normal" crime. Legally speaking, it is one of the highest crimes ever committed in this country, arguably second only to the Civil War. The organized crime network under investigation is not just a "typical" network. It consists of over 147 members of one of our two major political parties--who are still in the House and Senate making our laws as we speak.

By delaying justice for a year, irreparable damage has been done. The coup organizers have had a year continue organizing for future elections. They have proudly said as much, and some--like General Flynn--have committed additional, clear-cut crimes in the process... Public trust in the bureaucratic institutions has reached a new low, from which it is unlikely to ever recover.

This miscarriage of justice by sweeping the coup under the rug and shielding its organizers is what we would have expected to happen if Republicans had retained power... We were instructed to "vote blue no matter who" as our only chance to bring Trump and his co-conspirators to justice. Yet, by doing literally nothing, Democrats have essentially legalized coup attempts. ("Low class" people trespassing remains illegal, though.)

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We are not safe when one of the major political parties remains openly insurrectionary, supportive of coup attempts, and a safe haven for terrorism, and when the other political party refuses to uphold the most basic of laws.

We are not safe when the organizers of the Red Coup are publicly boasting about how they are planning the next coup. We are not safe when the far-right terrorist cells who participated in the Insurrection are publicly announcing their intentions to incite a civil war. We are not safe when sitting Republican politicians, in no uncertain terms, publicly promise that there will be literal "bloodshed" against us in the near future.

Every non-treasonous American needs to get armed, train, and organize within our communities so we can defend ourselves against the terrorists who are warning us, in no uncertain terms, that their next coup attempt will be much better organized and much more bloody than the last.

Hopefully justice will be dealt to all who were involved in organizing the coup attempt and the carnage that the far-right gleefully wishes to inflict will never occur. But that seems more and more unlikely each passing day...

We must prepare now, or else it will be too late. Few seriously believed Trump would launch a bloody coup attempt to hold on to power, but he did. Even fewer believed a majority of the Republican Party would go all in and commit treason, but they did. Had they actually succeeded, it would have been too late for us. The people behind the coup attempt are telling us there will be an even more deadly one in the near future, and we must heed their warnings. this time around.

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The one year anniversary of the Insurrection should have been marked with tangible accomplishments to show the American people that there will be justice for this evil. It should have been marked with renewed vigor to demonstrate to us and the world that this will never happen again.

Instead, we have drifted further into darkness.

This is why we need to lock Red Coup organizers up - Eastman reiterates that his coup plot is still "solid"

Back in September, investigative journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa published a book titled Peril, outlining various crimes and juicy drama from the Trump administration. One of the most important things revealed by the book is that Trump lawyer John Eastman crafted one of the most coherent plots to overthrow the election.

The Eastman memo was a simple two-page document that outlined 6 clear steps on how the Vice President and Congress could overthrow the election during the counting of electoral votes on January 6th. Eastman soon fleshed this plan out into a six-page plan. CNN published both memos on September 21st. Below is an excerpt of the 6 steps:

"So here’s the scenario we propose:

1. VP Pence, presiding over the joint session (or Senate Pro Tempore Grassley, if Pence recuses himself), begins to open and count the ballots, starting with Alabama (without conceding that the procedure, specified by the Electoral Count Act, of going through the States alphabetically is required).

2. When he gets to Arizona, he announces that he has multiple slates of electors, and so is going to defer decision on that until finishing the other States. This would be the first break with the procedure set out in the Act.

3. At the end, he announces that because of the ongoing disputes in the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States. That means the total number of “electors appointed” – the language of the 12th Amendment -- is 454. This reading of the 12th Amendment has also been advanced by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe (here). A “majority of the electors appointed” would therefore be 228. There are at this point 232 votes for Trump, 222 votes for Biden. Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected.

4. Howls, of course, from the Democrats, who now claim, contrary to Tribe’s prior position, that 270 is required. So Pence says, fine. Pursuant to the 12th Amendment, no candidate has achieved the necessary majority. That sends the matter to the House, where the “the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote . . . .” Republicans currently control 26 of the state delegations, the bare majority needed to win that vote. President Trump is re-elected there as well.

5. One last piece. Assuming the Electoral Count Act process is followed and, upon getting the objections to the Arizona slates, the two houses break into their separate chambers, we should not allow the Electoral Count Act constraint on debate to control. That would mean that a prior legislature was determining the rules of the present one — a constitutional no-no (as Tribe has forcefully argued). So someone – Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, etc. – should demand normal rules (which includes the filibuster). That creates a stalemate that would give the state legislatures more time to weigh in to formally support the alternate slate of electors, if they had not already done so.

6. The main thing here is that Pence should do this without asking for permission – either from a vote of the joint session or from the Court. Let the other side challenge his actions in court, where Tribe (who in 2001 conceded the President of the Senate might be in charge of counting the votes) and others who would press a lawsuit would have their past position -- that these are non-justiciable political questions – thrown back at them, to get the lawsuit dismissed. The fact is that the Constitution assigns this power to the Vice President as the ultimate arbiter. We should take all of our actions with that in mind."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/trump-pence-election-memo/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/read-eastman-memo/index.html

And here is an excerpt from the detailed six-page memo:

"BOLD, Certainly. But this Election was Stolen by a strategic Democrat plan to systematically flout existing election laws for partisan advantage; we’re no longer playing by Queensbury Rules, therefore.

[...]

I have outlined the likely results of each of the above scenarios, but I should also point out that we are facing a constitutional crisis much bigger than the winner of this particular election. If the illegality and fraud that demonstrably occurred here is allowed to stand—and the Supreme Court has signaled unmistakably that it will not do anything about it—then the sovereign people no longer control the direction of their government, and we will have ceased to be a self-governing people. The stakes could not be higher."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/read-eastman-full-memo-pence-overturn-election/index.html

The gaslighting is unbearable. Eastman needs to be put on trial and executed for treason. Otherwise, in Eastman's own words, "the illegality and fraud that demonstrably occurred here" will be "allowed to stand", and the people will "no longer control the direction of their government, and we will have ceased to be a self-governing people." I agree with those words 100%. But it is not the Democratic Party who is attempting to destroy the government, it is Eastman and the Republicans.

Eastman's own words are warning us of what is to unfold. We need to take them seriously.

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Eastman had previously attempted to help overthrow the election by aiding in Trump's unsuccessful lawsuits. Eastman also joined Trump on January 6th and addressed Trump's rally. Now we know why Trump was putting so much pressure on Pence--he was going all in on the last-ditch plan authored by Eastman.

"After the election, Eastman represented the Trump campaign in its attempt to intervene in several Republican states’ unsuccessful attempt to have the Supreme Court overturn the election. The court rejected that suit on Dec. 11. The following month, Eastman, Trump and Pence discussed their options.

“You really need to listen to John,” Trump told Pence in the Jan. 4 meeting with Eastman, according to CNN’s description of “Peril”’s reporting. “He’s a respected constitutional scholar. Hear him out.”

Pence reportedly sought out his own counsel too, including from the Senate parliamentarian and former Vice President Dan Quayle — both of whom said his authority included counting the Electoral College votes and nothing more. Pence opted to take that advice and count the Electoral College votes as the states had submitted them, certifying Biden’s win.

Responding to the Post’s reporting on his memo, Eastman told the paper that the document merely “explored all options that had been proposed.” But on the day of certification itself, Jan. 6, Eastman was standing on a stage outside the White House to tout the memo’s theory. He was joined by Giuliani, who demanded “trial by combat!” over Trump’s election lies.

“All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president, and you are the happiest people!” Trump would tell the crowd later that day.

Eastman was one of several speakers to address the D.C. rally Trump had beckoned — the rally that turned into a mob — and he didn’t mince words.

“We know there was fraud,” he said, falsely. “We know that dead people voted.”

Then, he aimed his fire squarely, and publicly, at Pence.

“All we are demanding of Vice President Pence is this afternoon at 1 o’clock, he let the legislatures of the states look into this so we get to the bottom of it and the American people know whether we have control of the direction of our government or not!”"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-the-newly-revealed-e2-80-98eastman-memo-e2-80-99-fits-into-trump-e2-80-99s-election-theft-conspiracy/ar-AAOG4zU

"Two speakers immediately preceded Trump on stage that day: Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, legal advisers to Trump who made the case that Pence could and should prevent the counting of slates of certified Electoral College votes that day.

“Every single thing that has been outlined as the plan for today is perfectly legal,” Giuliani said at the rally. He continued (emphasis added):

I have Professor Eastman here with me to say a few words about that. He’s one of the preeminent constitutional scholars in the United States. It is perfectly appropriate given the questionable constitutionality of the Election Counting Act [sic] of 1887 that the Vice President can cast it aside and he can do what a president called Jefferson did when he was vice president. He can decide on the validity of these crooked ballots, or he can send it back to the legislatures — give them five to 10 days to finally finish the work.

When Eastman spoke that day, he echoed Giuliani’s claims regarding the conspiracy theory that voting machines had fraudulently changed the vote tallies in Georgia. “We now know, because we caught it live last time in real time, how the machines contributed to that fraud,” Eastman said of the Georgia Senate and 2020 presidential-election results. “They put those ballots in a secret folder in the machines, sitting there waiting until they know how many they need.”"

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/john-eastman-vs-the-eastman-memo/

On the evening of January 6th, Eastman sent an angry email to Pence's office, which can only be interpreted as Eastman blaming Pence for the coup attempt's failure.

"The More We Learn About John Eastman’s Involvement in Trump’s Coup, the Worse it Gets

While rioters raged through the Capitol, he blamed Mike Pence for the insurrection.

[...]

According to an email obtained by the paper, Eastman (who was responding to an angry email from a Pence staffer) wrote that “The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened.” What’s more, the Post reported, Eastman continued to advocate for the electoral college results to be rejected after Congress returned to business following the riot.

Eastman, at the time (but no longer) a professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law, had spoken alongside Rudy Giuliani at Trump’s rally on the National Mall that morning, where he alleged widespread fraud from Georgia voting machines and stated that if Pence didn’t delay the certification of the Electoral College, “We no longer live in a self-governing republic.”"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/the-more-we-learn-about-john-eastmans-involvement-in-trumps-coup-the-worse-it-gets/

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On October 22, after Eastman started drawing media attention, he gave an interview where he tried to cover his criminal ass by saying his memo was not "viable" an was "crazy". ...Hmmm, he, Giuliani, and Trump sure thought it was viable during their coup attempt.

"“So anybody who thinks that that’s a viable strategy is crazy,” Eastman tells National Review.

[...]

“The memo was not being provided to Trump or Pence as my advice,” he insists. “The memo was designed to outline every single possible scenario that had been floated, so that we could talk about it.”

[...]

Whatever Eastman’s intent may have been when he wrote the memos, most media outlets have accurately described their content. The two-page memo includes prescriptive language: “So here’s the scenario we propose.” The final version of the memo is less prescriptive about how Pence should prevent the counting of Biden’s electoral votes on January 6, but both versions of the memo include the following sentences: “The fact is that the Constitution assigns this power to the Vice President as the ultimate arbiter. We should take all of our actions with that in mind.”

[...]

While Eastman calls the two-page memo a “preliminary” memo for “internal discussion” purposes only, there is plenty of evidence that it reflected the official position of Trump."

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/john-eastman-vs-the-eastman-memo/

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Days later, on October 26, investigative journalist Lauren Windsor talked to Eastman and recorded Eastman reiterating his support for the coup plan. Eastman once again blamed Pence for the coup's failure (see the video at the link below):
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1453110960638496770

In the following days, Windsor released 3 more videos of her conversation with Eastman.

Part 2:
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1453365068779835393

Part 3:
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1453885240707977217

Part 4. This is one of the most interesting videos, as Eastman says he, Trump, Giuliani, and 300 Republican legislators met on a conference call on January 2nd. He may be referring to state level legislators, who were being encouraged to decertify their states' electors. Although, it could also be referring to meeting with Republicans in federal Congress in order to run through their plan for the Coup Vote. Worse, Eastman says in "every precinct across the country" there are "homegrown" Republican agents who are preparing to steal the upcoming elections.
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1454108075225276425

At the same event, she also recorded a video of Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams saying Eastman was "still very involved with a lot of the state legislators and advising them on election integrity stuff."
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1453477418245574656

(Please watch the full videos, each one is only around 2 minutes long.)

"John Eastman Busted On Camera Bragging About His Coup Memo

[...]

Eastman told the activist that there was “no question” that his legal reasoning was solid.

Eastman also said that the reason why Pence ultimately didn’t go along with the lawyer’s plot was because the then-vice president was “establishment guy at the end of the day.”"

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/john-eastman-undercover-video-election-memo-coup

"Former Trump lawyer says his coup plan would have worked if it wasn't for Mike Pence

No regrets: John Eastman is caught on camera bragging about his plan to overturn the 2020 election

John Eastman, the former Trump lawyer who authored the infamous "coup memo" on how to overturn the 2020 election, was caught on camera saying his coup plan would have worked if it wasn't for former Vice President Mike Pence."

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/27/video-former-lawyer-says-his-coup-plan-would-have-worked-if-it-wasnt-for-mike-pence/

Is the Biden administration going to let him get away with that? Is Attorney General Garland going to allow an unrepentant coup plotter to continue plotting coups? General Flynn still hasn't been arrested, despite repeatedly advocating for a military coup, so I guess they don't care...

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If every single Republican politician and member of Trump's inner circle who helped to organize the coup are not arrested, they will launch another coup in the near future. Eastman just boasted about how his plan is still "solid". If the Democratic Party decides there is no punishment for HIGH TREASON, then of course Republicans are going to try again and again and again until they finally seize power.

So far, nearly 700 people have been charged for participating in the Insurrection:
https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1

Many of them were arrested for nothing more than trespassing on the evidence that their phone GPS showed them inside the Capitol. Yet Eastman and others who CREATED AND IMPLEMENTED A PLAN TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT are not arrested? Yet Eastman and others (like General Flynn) who are on film bragging about the coup attempt and encouraging Republicans to attempt another coup are not arrested?

Meanwhile, more and more far-rightists are literally asking when they will be allowed to start murdering us:

"At this point, we're living under corporate and medical fascism. This is tyranny. When do we get to use the guns? No, and I'm not — that's not a joke. I'm not saying it like that. I mean, literally, where's the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?"

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/pushing-election-lies-tpusa-audience-member-asks-charlie-kirk-when-they-can-use-guns

The fact that people like Eastman and Flynn have not yet been arrested demonstrate that the Democratic Party has abdicated their duty to govern, and that our nation does not have a functional federal government. Insurrection participants have been arrested over phone GPS data, but documents and videos from the COUP ORGANIZERS clearly showing how they organized and directed the coup attempt and how they continue to advocate for another coup apparently aren't enough evidence of a crime...? If that is so, we do not have a functional system of laws or a functional system of government.

We are not safe when Republicans are openly plotting another coup and when Republican voters are explicitly asking when they can cease being "civil" and just start murdering us. All non-treasonous Americans need to get armed, train, and organize within our communities to defend ourselves from the coming chaos.

The traitors aren't even trying to pretend to be nice anymore. They are literally plotting our murders as we speak. We should heed their warnings and prepare now, or it will be too late when they knock on our door to slaughter us.

Democrats lost the Virginia Governor's election, and will keep losing

The projections for the Virginia Governor's election are in:

Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor's race Tuesday night, CNN projects, rolling back progressive gains in Virginia as he became the first Republican to win statewide office in the commonwealth since 2009.

McAuliffe's loss in a state that President Joe Biden won by double digits last year showed the enormous challenges that Democrats are facing next year as they attempt to maintain control of the US House and Senate. McAuliffe, who served as governor from 2014 to 2018 in a state that does not allow successive terms, had struggled to find a message that would galvanize Democrats at a time when Biden's approval ratings have sagged and the party has been unable to deliver a clear message amid bickering over the President's agenda in Congress.

[...]

Late Tuesday night, Youngkin was exceeding the performance of the previous Republican gubernatorial candidate four years ago and also significantly outperforming Trump's margins in the Virginia suburbs, which had been trending increasingly Democratic. McAuliffe's margins, by contrast, fell below the tallies in previous contests of Biden and Virginia's current Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, in key areas throughout the state.

[...]

Without a tangible achievement to point to from Democratic-controlled Washington, McAuliffe didn't hide his frustration. He demanded that members of Congress "do your job and quit the posturing," in an interview with CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/politics/virginia-election-results/index.html

I saw in the media that they are blaming this on the lack of major legislation that has been passed in Congress. That probably contributed to this result, no doubt. But they are overlooking the real reason. They are overlooking the reason that is so obvious to every single average American.

The reason no one bothers to vote for the Democratic Party? They are unwilling to enforce the laws against the political party that organized a coup attempt and tried to overthrow our government. They are unwilling to enforce the laws against the political party which continuously reaffirms that they view the coup as a valid strategy to hold on to power. They are unwilling to enforce the laws against a political party who has openly promised "bloodshed" against us and is promising to carry out another coup in the future.

Ever since the surprising loss in the Presidential election in 2016, American citizens have clearly said that the Democratic Party is losing ground because they are out of touch and have abandoned the needs of regular Americans. The politicians have heard us, for sure. It is easy to imagine them as wealthy elites who never leave their gated neighborhood and old codgers who don't even know what an internet is, but the staffers of these politicians consist of many young people who are truly aware of the attitudes and views of young and non-elite Americans. The politicians have heard us, and they know why they are really losing.

At this point, the Democratic Party has not just passively abandoned us--they are actively betraying us by refusing to enforce the laws against the political party which committed literal treason and attempted to overthrow the government itself.

Why the hell would any of us go to vote for this party when they appear to be controlled opposition??? Life gets worse for us after every election, no matter who is in power. At some point, the difference between the lesser of the two evils and the greater of the two evils is so small that this sort of metaphor isn't enough to begrudgingly get people to the polls.

As the media correctly points out, the results of the Virginia Governor's race are important, because they are a taste of what is to come. Trumpists are still as strong and energetic as ever. And Democrat voters are just as demoralized as ever. Congress is split almost evenly in both the House and the Senate. With results like these, which party do you think will gain the upper hand after the November 2022 midterms...?

There is a way forward for the Democratic Party to inspire voters, but the party seems more and more unwilling to do it each passing day. We DEMAND justice against all of the traitors within the Republican Party who attempted to overthrow our government by attempting to steal the 2020 election. The politicians in the Republican Party who supported the insurrection and coup attempt should have been kicked out of Congress due to the 14th Amendment, but the Democrats don't even have the will to do something as basic as that... Of course they are going to lose elections if they are unwilling to do their job and enforce some of the most basic and clear parts of the Constitution.

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Yet, as terrible as democracy is, it is what we currently have. Getting demoralized and not voting at this moment in history will be disastrous for Americans. As soon as the Republican Party retakes control of the government, they will carry out another self-coup and attempt to overthrow the government entirely once more. So, anyone who reads this blog and agrees with the opinions expressed here needs to go and vote.

It is most important to vote in election primaries, in order to replace the traitors in the Democratic Party with people who courageously challenge the status quo of the party and demand that justice be dealt. It is also highly important to vote in state-level elections, although they are rarely hyped as much as national elections.

A grassroots movement gets its strength from the bottom up, and we must never forget there are millions of others who think just like us. We just have to get involved in the system to actually get things done. And we should never forget that many Americans who are willing to do their duty have been elected not too long ago. Rashida Tlaib heroically demanded Trump be impeached the very first day a non-treasonous majority got sworn into Congress in January 2019 (which was also her first day in Congress). Ilhan Omar, another heroic American who was among the first politicians to ever call out Congress's crooked obedience to the apartheid state of Israel, also started in Congress in 2019. Eric Swalwell, who demanded a Crimes Commission to root out the corruption in the Trump administration, only joined Congress in 2013.

You could join them one day, so long as you participate in the system, rather than getting discouraged and dropping out completely (like Republicans and "establishment" Democrats want you to do).

We get discouraged because no matter if Republicans or Democrats are in office, life keeps getting worse. We get discouraged because the Democratic Party tells us to vote, and then nothing ever changes for the better. We get discouraged because brain-dead political activists tell us to write to our politicians, which never changes their minds on anything (you know, since regular people don't have a few million dollars in bribes campaign funds laying around like the lobbyists do).

What they don't want to tell you is that you can run for office yourself. What they don't want you to believe is that you are infinitely more qualified than 99% of the people currently in Congress. Yes. You are more qualified than them. Even if you have no experience in politics, as long as you are willing to enforce the law and not be a traitor to the American Dream, you are infinitely more qualified than them. "Experience" did not help Hilary Clinton beat Donald Trump. Many of the most "experienced" politicians (e.g. Pelosi, Biden, McConnell) are the most corrupt! All you need is a willingness to serve American citizens as a whole rather than the wealthy elite.

Yes. You are qualified not only to run for office, but to win elections. There is evidence that Republicans may even be hiring literal actors to run for office. Lauren Boebert was a high school drop out and only got a GED months before being elected. Ffs, TRUMP got elected to the office of PRESIDENCY! Literally all you have to do to get elected is go out there and tell the people what they need to hear.

If Trump and all these other literal con-men can do it, a sincere American like you can as well.

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The way for the Democratic Party to start winning elections is for people like us to run, and for people like us to inspire Americans by telling them what they need to hear: we will hold ALL of the traitors in the Republican Party responsible to the fullest extent of the law (and all of the traitors in the Democratic Party who have broken the law by covering up their corruption and enabling them). This kind of change isn't going to come from the corrupt, "experienced" mainstream of the Democratic Party.

We will replace them.

But in order to do so, we have to show up and engage in the system. Both the Republicans and corrupt "mainstream" Democrats want us to become discouraged and drop out entirely.