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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHey, DNC! WAKE UP and help us stop the fascist takeover! Here's your blueprint:
What Real Resistance Looks LikeThe author is Dr. Pru Lee. She states: "Yes you may share and disseminate this freely. You can cite me as the author: Dr. Pru Lee."
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Dear Democratic Party,
I need more from you.
You keep sending emails begging for $15,
while were watching fascism consolidate power in real time.
This administration is not simply a different ideology.
It is a coordinated, authoritarian machine with the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the executive pen all under its control.
And you?
Youre still asking for decorum and donations. WTF.
That wont save us.
I dont want to hear another polite floor speech.
I want strategy.
I want fire.
I want action so bold it shifts the damn news cycle not fits inside one.
Every time I see something from the DNC, its asking me for funds.
Surprise.
Those of us who donate dont want to keep sending money just to watch you stand frozen as the Constitution goes up in flames shaking your heads and saying,
Well, theres not much we can do. He has the majority.
I call bullshit.
If you dont know how to think outside the box
If you dont know how to strategize
If you dont know how to fight fire with fire
what the hell are we giving you money for?
Some of us have two or three advanced degrees.
Some of us have military training.
Some of us know what coordinated resistance looks like and this aint it.
Yes, the tours around the country? Nice.
The speeches? Nice.
The clever congressional clapbacks? Nice.
That was great for giving hope.
Now we need action.
You have to stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will just time out in four years.
Were not even at Day 90, and look at the chaos.
Look at the disappearances.
Look at the erosion of the judiciary, the press, and our rights.
If you do not stop this, we will not make it 1,460 days.
So heres what I need from you right now:
1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition.
Im talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs.
Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse.
Make it public. Make it unshakable.
Let the people drag the rot into the light.
If you cant hold formal hearings, hold public ones.
If Congress wont act, let the country act.
This isnt about optics its about receipts.
Because at some point, these people will be held accountable.
And when that day comes, well need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silencedocumented.
Youre not just preserving truth youre preparing evidence for prosecution.
The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight.
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2. Join the International Criminal Court.
Yes, I said it. Call their bluff.
You cannot control what the other side does.
But you can control your own integrity.
So prove it. Prove that your party is still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership.
Join.
If youve got nothing to hide join.
Show the world whos hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts.
Force the GOP to explain why theyd rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty.
And while youre at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders.
Make this administration explain on camera why theyre terrified of international oversight.
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3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.
Dont just send postcards. Send resources.
Channel DNC funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training.
If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it.
If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly.
This is not campaign season this is an authoritarian purge.
Stop campaigning.
Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is.
We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries.
Fighting this regime should be your marketing strategy.
And lets be clear:
The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE.
They prepared for this.
They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions.
They built a machine while you wrote press releases.
Were reacting theyve been executing a plan for years.
Its time to shift from panic to blueprint.
You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029
a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.
You should be publicly laying out:
The laws and amendments youll pass to ensure this never happens again
The systems youll tear down and the safeguards youll enshrine
The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable
The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador
You say youre the party of the people?
Then show the people the plan.
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4. Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.
If theyre going to strip us of rights and lie about it arm the people with truth.
Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable Know Your Rights kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees.
Give people tools, not soundbites.
We dont need more slogans.
We need survival manuals.
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5. Leverage international media and watchdogs.
Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up.
Theyre too busy playing both sides of fascism.
Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to.
Make whats happening in America a global scandal.
And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth.
Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky.
Thats where the resistance is migrating. Thats where censorship hasnt caught up.
If the mainstream wont carry the truth outflank them.
Get creative. Go underground. Go global.
If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it and make sure were still able to say it.
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6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors.
Not everyone inside this regime is loyal.
Some are scared. Some want out.
Build the channels.
Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected.
Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes.
And while youre at it?
Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors.
Everyone makes mistakes even glaring, critical ones.
We are not the bullies.
We are not the ones filled with hate.
And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it.
They will have to deal with that internal struggle the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power.
But theyre already outnumbered. Dont push them back into the crowd.
We dont need purity.
We need numbers.
We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build.
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7. Study the collapseand the comeback.
You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship.
They didnt waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity.
They went after the structure.
The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects.
They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time
until the strongman had no one left to stand on.
And his power crumbled beneath him.
You should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025,
every aide who defies court orders,
every communications director repeating lies,
every policy writer enabling cruelty,
every water boy who keeps this engine running.
You cant stop a regime by asking the king to sit down.
You dismantle the throne hes standing on one coward at a time.
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Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution.
They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS.
A M E R I C A N S.
And your biggest move cant be another strongly worded email.
We dont want your urgently fundraising subject lines.
We want backbone.
We want action.
We want to know youll stand up before were all ordered to sit down permanently.
We are watching.
And I dont just mean your base.
I mean millions of us who see exactly whats happening.
Ive only got 6,000 followers but the groups Im in? The networks I touch? Over a quarter million.
Often when I speak, it echoes.
But when we ALL
speak, it ROARS with pressure that will cause change.
We need to be deafening.
You still have a chance to do something historic.
To be remembered for courage, not caution.
To go down as the party that didnt just watch the fall but fought the hell back with everything they had.
But the clock is ticking.
And the deportation buses are idling.
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Hey, DNC! WAKE UP and help us stop the fascist takeover! Here's your blueprint: (Original Post)
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bagimin
(1,558 posts)1. At least somebody is thinking.
Not me, I'm curled up in a corner.
WhiteTara
(30,695 posts)8. I'm under the bed
with the dust bunnies.
FirstLight
(14,935 posts)2. can someone staple this to some office doors?
I swear, we need to start SAYING OUT LOUD - NO more money till you ACT! ActBlue, DNC, ALL of them, can suck my left toe ... I lose thousands and they want $20? fuck them! I *really* do want to get someone there by the collar and give them a good shake!
jmbar2
(6,805 posts)3. K&R!!!!! Get to the greatest page!
Fighting this regime should be your marketing strategy.
Its time to shift from panic to blueprint.
You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029
a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.
You should be publicly laying out:
The laws and amendments youll pass to ensure this never happens again
The systems youll tear down and the safeguards youll enshrine
The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable
The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador
You say youre the party of the people?
Then show the people the plan.
You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029
a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.
You should be publicly laying out:
The laws and amendments youll pass to ensure this never happens again
The systems youll tear down and the safeguards youll enshrine
The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable
The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador
You say youre the party of the people?
Then show the people the plan.
dutch777
(4,236 posts)4. Right on! Hope the DNC is reading this too. Getting real hard to support them when they want to stand by and not fix..
...a losing, over broad party platform that left 25% of reigistered Dem voters at home on election day 2024 until the next national convention. Your point about local and state support is truly key to 2026-- House, Senate and state legislatures, and getting back in power to have a chance to stop the insanity and save the country.
niyad
(123,239 posts)5. Part of that letter is apparently making the rounds on curlytop zuck' site,
with credit to Liz Cheney. I din't know whether she credited the author or not.
gay texan
(2,962 posts)6. This!!!!! N/t
gab13by13
(27,712 posts)7. I'm still pushing for all Congressional Democrats to do town halls.
That's a good first step.
CaptainTruth
(7,548 posts)9. My current mental state, illustrated:
