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Tesha

(21,048 posts)
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 07:44 AM Jun 26

This is the only way forward

unless we just give up_
______________________

Written by Pru Pru/ not Liz Cheney


Dear Democratic Party,
I need more from you.
You keep sending emails begging for $15,
while we’re 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?
You’re still asking for decorum and donations. WTF.
That won’t save us.
I don’t 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, it’s asking me for funds.
Surprise.
Those of us who donate don’t want to keep sending money just to watch you stand frozen as the Constitution goes up in flames — shaking your heads and saying,
“Well, there’s not much we can do. He has the majority.”
I call bullshit.
If you don’t know how to think outside the box…
If you don’t know how to strategize…
If you don’t 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 ain’t it.
Yes, the tours around the country? Nice.
The speeches? Nice.
The clever congressional clapbacks? Nice.
That was great for giving hope.
Now we need action.
You have to stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will just time out in four years.
We’re not even at Day 90, and look at the chaos.
Look at the disappearances.
Look at the erosion of the judiciary, the press, and our rights.
If you do not stop this, we will not make it 1,460 days.
So here’s what I need from you — right now:

1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition.
I’m talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs.
Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse.
Make it public. Make it unshakable.
Let the people drag the rot into the light.
If you can’t hold formal hearings, hold public ones.
If Congress won’t act, let the country act.
This isn’t about optics — it’s about receipts.
Because at some point, these people will be held accountable.
And when that day comes, we’ll need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence—documented.
You’re not just preserving truth — you’re preparing evidence for prosecution.
The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight.

2. Join the International Criminal Court.
Yes, I said it. Call their bluff.
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 you’ve got nothing to hide — join.
Show the world who’s hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts.
Force the GOP to explain why they’d rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty.
And while you’re at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders.
Make this administration explain — on camera — why they’re terrified of international oversight.

3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.
Don’t just send postcards. Send resources.
Channel 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 let’s be clear:
The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE.
They prepared for this.
They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions.
They built a machine while you wrote press releases.
We’re reacting — they’ve been executing a plan for years.
It’s time to shift from panic to blueprint.
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 you’ll pass to ensure this never happens again
• The systems you’ll tear down and the safeguards you’ll enshrine
• The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable
• The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador
You say you’re the party of the people?
Then show the people the plan.

4. Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.
If they’re going to strip us of rights and lie about it — arm the people with truth.
Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable “Know Your Rights” kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees.
Give people tools, not soundbites.
We don’t need more slogans.
We need survival manuals.

5. Leverage international media and watchdogs.
Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up.
They’re too busy playing both sides of fascism.
Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel — hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to.
Make what’s happening in America a global scandal.
And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth.
Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky.
That’s where the resistance is migrating. That’s where censorship hasn’t caught up.
If the mainstream won’t carry the truth — outflank them.
Get creative. Go underground. Go global.
If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it — and make sure we’re still able to say it.

6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors.
Not everyone inside this regime is loyal.
Some are scared. Some want out.
Build the channels.
Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected.
Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes.
And while you’re at it?
Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors.
Everyone makes mistakes — even glaring, critical ones.
We are not the bullies.
We are not the ones filled with hate.
And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it.
They will have to deal with that internal struggle — the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power.
But they’re already outnumbered. Don’t push them back into the crowd.
We don’t need purity.
We need numbers.
We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build.

7. Study the collapse—and the comeback.
You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship.
They didn’t waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity.
They went after the structure.
The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects.
They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time —
until the “strongman” had no one left to stand on.
And his power crumbled beneath him.
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 can’t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down.
You dismantle the throne he’s standing on — one coward at a time.

Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution.
They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS.
A M E R I C A N S.
And your biggest move can’t be another strongly worded email.
We don’t want your urgently fundraising subject lines.
We want backbone.
We want action.
We want to know you’ll stand up before we’re all ordered to sit down — permanently.
We are watching.
And I don’t just mean your base.
I mean millions of us who see exactly what’s happening.
I’ve only got 6,000 followers — but the groups I’m in? The networks I touch? Over a quarter million.
Often when I speak, it echoes.
But when we ALL
speak, it ROARS with pressure that will cause change.
We need to be deafening.
You still have a chance to do something historic.
To be remembered for courage, not caution.
To go down as the party that didn’t 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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This is the only way forward (Original Post) Tesha Jun 26 OP
Post removed Post removed Jun 26 #1
It's the message that's important... MiHale Jun 26 #2
Unfortunately, the messenger is equally important Blaukraut Jun 26 #6
I was having to make peace with someone with her history MadameButterfly Jun 26 #20
Liz Cheney is getting awfully Blue. marble falls Jun 26 #3
Liz Cheney did NOT write this Jilly_in_VA Jun 26 #7
But she did share it JI7 Jun 26 #22
k and r BoRaGard Jun 26 #4
Holy shit! Yes! Biophilic Jun 26 #5
Yup Magoo48 Jun 26 #8
Well, the DNC meets twice a year gab13by13 Jun 26 #9
K&R Wicked Blue Jun 26 #10
WTF is Pru Pru? nt Tommy Carcetti Jun 26 #11
Dr. Pru Lee? SpankMe Jun 26 #17
Personally... WinstonSmith4740 Jun 26 #12
The solution is simpler Gordcanuck Jun 26 #18
Document everything! Identify the crimes of this regime! Martin Eden Jun 26 #13
No gumption. Hotler Jun 26 #14
There are so many requests for money in my dnc emails Linda ladeewolf Jun 26 #15
Consider donating through oath.vote Qutzupalotl Jun 26 #21
A Plan of Action Kid Berwyn Jun 26 #16
Dr. Pru Lee IcyPeas Jun 26 #19
I find it exhausting seeing a lengthy "plan" openly posted live love laugh Jun 26 #23
P2025 creators didn't find it exhausting Tesha Jun 27 #24
Perhaps we should all copy and paste this excellent plan Linda ladeewolf Jun 27 #25
Maybe if we all changed to unaffiliated the Party would wake the fuck up? CrispyQ Jun 27 #26
Demo Donkey KICK! Kid Berwyn Jul 1 #27

Response to Tesha (Original post)

MiHale

(11,966 posts)
2. It's the message that's important...
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 07:49 AM
Jun 26

Not the origin…a link to Robert Reich’s Substack.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-message

Friends,

I’m told that the following message, which I received earlier today, purporting to be from Liz Cheney, is a hoax. She didn’t send it. It’s an excellent and important message nonetheless. (Several of you say it originated with Dr. Pru Lee.)

My words…
Some people have a thing about Cheney … you don’t have to agree on all points, it’s this message.

Blaukraut

(5,967 posts)
6. Unfortunately, the messenger is equally important
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 08:00 AM
Jun 26

If not more so. Liz Cheney is well known and has some sway. If she had delivered this message, people would have paid attention.

MadameButterfly

(3,325 posts)
20. I was having to make peace with someone with her history
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:36 AM
Jun 26

saying anything like this. It kind of makes more sense that it's not from her.

i agree with the sentiment here-in of not shaming MAGAs who come around, and that could include conservative Republicans who have drawn the line at ending democracy. And as you have said, it's powerful hearing from people who have had the courage to change and help dismantle the problem they helped create, and the focus needs to be their heroic new stance than their former mistake.

But man, Liz Cheney could have helped it NOT HAPPEN. For example, does she see the connection between her opposition of Voting Rights bills to the rise of Trump and MAGA?

Naming Liz as author has made me wrestle with this issue. Easier for me to respect Liz for what she has actually done on our behalf without painting her as more liberal than is plausible.

Then, lets focus on the message. Is anyone doing any of this? Is there anyone with the power and skills hearing this and responding? How do we get this to the people who need to see it, and hear back from them, instead of just hoping?

gab13by13

(29,067 posts)
9. Well, the DNC meets twice a year
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 08:26 AM
Jun 26

The right wing propaganda machine meets every day.

Ken Martin has been disappointing.

I also get 5 or 6 texts every day asking for 15 dollars, I guess they want to save it up for the next election? I now donate to Indivisible and the ACLU.

I have posted 37 times here about how Chuck and Hakeem need to organize the town halls and change the format a bit. Do town halls like the MSNBC town hall that put faces to the fired federal workers. Do town halls about specific issues and bring in people that put faces to those issues.

Right after SignalGate and NLRB Gate where Musk's cyber-punks got caught giving usernames and passwords to Russia, Chuck and Hakeem could have organized a similar town hall with Malcolm Nance moderating it, with cyber security experts putting a face to how Magats have endangered our national security, could have brought in big name Generals or other military officers like Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and General Milley. The MSM would have covered it.

Today, Magats are using personal phones and computers and using Signal to do government business. IMO that's on Democratic leadership.

The fucking vote for the Big Ugly Death Bill is fast approaching, goodbye democracy, goodbye healthcare, goodbye Medicare, and Medicaid and Social Security. Could have held town halls that put faces to the devastation that the Big Ugly Death Bill is going to cause.

I am sick of seeing GOTV, I mean yeah it must be said, but damn, people, they stole the last election.

The American people as can be seen by their protests and attendance at town halls are waiting for guidance from Chuck and Hakeem. Saying to let Krasnov burn it all down and then win the next election is not an inspirational strategy.

Gordcanuck

(122 posts)
18. The solution is simpler
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:50 AM
Jun 26

than you propose. Get the people who hold 20+ trillion of your paper to call the loan. When that house of cards falls you will find your nation has more than enough resources to live within its means. It’s the gutsiest move you can make and it won’t be pretty,
but your domestic oppressors wil be on the run, the lot of them.

Martin Eden

(14,671 posts)
13. Document everything! Identify the crimes of this regime!
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:34 AM
Jun 26

Organize and publish incontrovertible FACTS to inform the public in real time, and to be used in criminal prosecutions later!

Millions of people want to help save our Constitutional rule of law. Help organize the people, and grow our numbers!

Make this happen!

Hotler

(13,364 posts)
14. No gumption.
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:40 AM
Jun 26

I have yet to hear a single person who's taken the oath of office or, military oath to defend the constitution
against ALL enemies foreign and domestic use the words 'Domestic Enemy'.
If one really wanted to start some shit go before a floor mic and label the orange convict and is administration Domestic Enemies and call for their immediate arrest by the military, Then just sit back and watch heads explode.

Linda ladeewolf

(977 posts)
15. There are so many requests for money in my dnc emails
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:42 AM
Jun 26

That I only visit that mail box once a week, then delete without reading over 800 emails on the average. Each one a request for money.thats more than 3000 requests for money per month. Does everyone get that many? Oh and the surveys, I fill them out, at the end they always ask for money. They don’t really want suggestions, they want money. It’s no wonder they keep losing ground.

Qutzupalotl

(15,444 posts)
21. Consider donating through oath.vote
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:03 PM
Jun 26
https://app.oath.vote/set?p=top-issues

They don't spam unnecessarily and don't sell your info to related groups.

The site is set up to highlight close races in need of a little push, but you can search for individual races if you prefer.

Hat tip to former DUer brooklynite for this valuable tip.

Kid Berwyn

(21,525 posts)
16. A Plan of Action
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:46 AM
Jun 26

A PLAN OF ACTION IS NEEDED TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY.

“WE THE PEOPLE”

NOT, “ME KING TACO.”


live love laugh

(15,690 posts)
23. I find it exhausting seeing a lengthy "plan" openly posted
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:42 PM
Jun 26

that will hardly be seen by the people who it is targeted for. This is worthless as a DU post.

Republicans don’t openly post drafts of their plans and strategies. Project 2025 was floated AFTER it was strategized and finalized behind closed doors.




Tesha

(21,048 posts)
24. P2025 creators didn't find it exhausting
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 07:32 AM
Jun 27

No one person did all the nitty-gritty work

The problem I see is that a few people seem to have all the power, they surround themselves with a select team, and then at election time everybody wakes up and comes in to knock doors

In NH we have a chair that's interested in federal seats and the work of finding and supporting all other candidates is left up to local committees who get zero support. Practically nothing. The election for state chair is limited as to who can vote and that's the entrenched old guard.

Squeaky wheels are not welcomed - new ideas, training, work groups, any ask for power sharing, work division, even using social media to talk up what's happening -


It's worthless as a DU post?

Only if it stops here

Linda ladeewolf

(977 posts)
25. Perhaps we should all copy and paste this excellent plan
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 09:37 AM
Jun 27

And then email it to every democratic senator and representative? If everyone does this, perhaps one of them might read it? Even an actual printed copy might work.

CrispyQ

(40,031 posts)
26. Maybe if we all changed to unaffiliated the Party would wake the fuck up?
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 12:47 PM
Jun 27

If democratic registrations dropped by tens of thousands? Then again, they'd probably just ask us for $30 next time.

My two dem senators have voted for multiple Trump noms, one only a few times less than Fetterman. Cory Booker gave a 25-hours long speech & then voted yes on Charles Kushner, a convicted felon & Jared's dad, for Ambassador to France, Several dem senators voted yes on the crypto bill. Here are the dem senators who voted yes on the crypto bill. I'm stunned by some of the names!

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-21-democratic-senators-deserve-primary-crypto-bill/

The Crypto Sixteen are the following: Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who co-sponsored the bill, Adam Schiff (D-CA), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Mark Warner (D-VA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), John Fetterman (D-PA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE).


WTF don't these guys understand about give fascists no quarter?
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