1/ A decade ago, I debated tactics with a friend that worked for DC Democrats. She was a lovely person who died from Covid in 2020. Anyway, she liked to say that we needed to fight fire with water until the far right's fever broke. I fiercely retorted ...
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2/ that's what the Weimar Republic believed until it was too late. She claimed we could fix all with GOTV success. Folks, Dems have done remarkably well at the ballot box since 2017 despite gerrymandering. Yet our democracy is still being systematically dismantled at ...
3/ every level. Saving democracy means prevailing against a kind of asymmetrical warfare that's happening all over America. Yes, we must continue to organize and turn out voters. But we also need a strategy to mobilize and promote a non-violent but ferocious movement ...
4/ to save America from facism's metastasizing menace. Provocative civil disobedience, strikes, street protests. It's OK to be scared. I'm scared, too. What if I lose my job? What if these crazy sociopaths with AR-15s shoot me while protesting? What if they kill my family? ...
5/ Abolitionists and Civil Rights activists confronted similar fears. Freedom and democracy is not cheap or easy. It requires courageous integrity.
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