People are rightfully feeling a ton of anxiety about the election.

We must take these last few days to calm and fortify ourselves, recognize the control we have, replenish ourselves, and decide how we will continue the fight to make the world better.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/fortifying-o… This podcast tries to provide strategies to overcome election anxiety and ground ourselves in reality and focus on what we can do to combat authoritarianism beyond Tuesday.

We need to take this anxious energy and convert it into actionable things.

One of the biggest issues of the 2024 Election is going largely unreported.

Elon Musk has used his wealth to buy the shambling, decaying corpse of Donald Trump and MAGA in order to seize control over the government without ever appearing on a ballot.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-billiona… Everyone knows Trump is in decline, and Musk recognizes a prime opportunity to install a puppet who will rubber stamp his agenda while handing him unmatched and unaccountable control over the functions of government.

This is a major, major threat.

It’s time for people to understand that Republicans and MAGA aren’t actually interested in curbing immigration.

They want to profit off fearmongering tethered to white paranoia and create an environment of sheer terror in which immigrants are more easily exploited. The billionaires puppeting the GOP rely on immigrant labor as a means of maximizing profit and circumventing regulation.

What they’re pursuing is a country where immigrants have a huge, brutal system over their heads to keep them from challenging anything.

The episode of The Midnight Kingdom is out and explores our present crisis, including the rise of authoritarianism, attacks on democracy by the wealth class, and what we must do to get out of this mess.

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The series tracks modern history, explaining how the powerful have used racism, religious mythologies, and weaponized conspiracy theories to control us and expand their power.

It's a reconsideration of where we came from and where we are.

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Last night JD Vance was allowed to lie and present himself and Trump as moderates.

It was repulsive and dangerous. Winning this election, and defeating MAGA as an authoritarian movement, means breaking this facade and communicating how extreme they are.

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It is disgusting how Vance, who has hundreds of hours of available podcasts and videotaped interviews, wasn’t confronted by his antidemocratic, misogynistic, and wildly authoritarian and extreme positions.

Instead, he was allowed to say time and again that he and Walz agreed.

There’s a real Roman-Empire-Telling-Britain-They’re-On-Their-Own vibe to everything right now. Only it’s now this weird, hard for some people to explain caveat of capitalism having fully possessed the US and overtaken its process for the purposes of system operation that just makes everything worse and very difficult to grasp for people who haven’t been taught about it.

Eric Adams selling out constituents for foreign bribes is just another example of a culture of corruption we have to take seriously.

Like Trump, Adams and others are signs of an authoritarian trajectory that depends on corruption to come into being.

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We do ourselves a disservice when we continue to focus on politicians as the drivers of politics versus a larger economic trajectory.

Instead, we need to recognize this environment rewards corruptible and corrupted individuals to carry out the business of other forces.

The Mark Robinson revelations are disgusting. But we can’t lose sight of something.

This is who the GOP is. A political party that represents a deep, deep unwellness in our culture that is based in -self loathing turned into hatred and violence.

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We knew who Mark Robinson was before these posts were unconvered. All you had to do was listen to him launder Nazism, attack gay and trans people, say women should be subservient, and call for violence against his enemies.

The rot he represented was on full display.

What Trump did at Arlington was disgusting and disqualifying, but his antics distract from the true danger he represents.

Trump is already promising to hand authoritarian power over to billionaires like Elon Musk and it’s being ignored.

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You’ll notice our media is always most concerned when Trump tramples norms.

But we never hear about the fact that Trump is just a spokesman for wealthy authoritarians who have systematically dismantled democracy and our institutions.

Kamala Harris rolled out some common-sense, fundamentally liberal economic proposals and the media freaked out

Why? Because the neoliberal consensus is obsessed with continuing unchecked domination by a small group of wealthy corporations and individuals

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Despite accusations that our media is “leftist,” the truth is that it is from a corporate lens as it is controlled by a small group of wealthy individuals and corporations.

This pushback, the first against Harris from our media, is telling.

The most important story of the 2024 Election is going untold.

Kamala Harris isn’t just facing Donald Trump, JD Vance, and the GOP. She’s squaring off against fascist Tech billionaires using them as puppets to destroy democracy.

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Vance becoming Trump’s VP pick was a political marriage between MAGA and Far Right Tech Fascism. They are now a front for Musk, Theil, and a generation of tech oligarchs who have been quite open about their desire to co-opt government for power and profit.

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JD Vance has happily sacrificed everyone and everything that has ever meant anything to him for power and profit.

He's the perfect running-mate for Trump and the heir apparent capable of taking MAGA to its next vicious level.

splinter.com/in-j-d-vance-t… Everyone is focused on how Vance criticized Trump, but this only obscures the power-hungry viciousness that he brings to the table.

His is a techno-fascist ideology. He's openly lusted after destroying democracy. And unless people recognize that, he'll get what he wants.

JD Vance is a historic piece of shit who sold out his family and people to make a buck and gain power. He’s in bed with techno-fascist billionaires and is one of the foremost advocates for a literal fascistic ideology that seeks to take MAGA to the next level of oppression. It’s bad enough that Vance is such a colossal asshole and that his ideology is literally fascistic, but he is capable of taking the MAGA baton and turning it into a force the likes of which most have yet to even imagine.

Terrible, terrible day for the country.

For years MAGA has promoted a culture of violence and oppression.

Now, in the wake of the shooting, calls to lower the temperature disgustingly obscure that fact and also undermine the need to protect millions of Americans from authoritarianism.

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This isn’t a “both sides” issue. One side has waged an authoritarian war on democracy predicated on violence. The other has said people deserve safety and dignity and shouldn’t be hunted and systematically erased.

This false equivalency is disgusting. And telling.

Absolutely disturbing but unsurprising that they’ve managed to equate a movement’s constant fearmongering and calls for literal violence and murder with people saying, hey, maybe this other side calling for literal violence and murder is dangerous. I just want people to remember that the reason this environment is so charged is because 1. One group has spent years openly talking about carrying out a bloody, reactionary revolution and 2. There are literal human beings whose lives and fates are on the line.

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Donald Trump capitalized on Right Wing, evangelical paranoia and created a cult that views him as a messiah.

Following the assassination attempt, the next stage in that evolution is likely to be violent and even more extreme.

splinter.com/trumps-hardcor… Trump has used Christianity’s persecution complex and obsession with apocalyptic danger to his advantage, crediting imaginary battles between Good and Evil.

Now, they have a ready-made situation that will inflame those fears and necessitate more extremism.

Churches around America today are undoubtedly framing the assassination attempt through Christian ideology, some adhering to dogma and others telling a story that forwards Donald Trump as a messiah figure God personally saved on behalf of Christendom and America. The response by GOP figures to say God saved Trump will not be isolated. Rhetoric will only become more and more apocalyptic, throwing gas onto an already raging fire of Christian Nationalistic radicalism.

People need to wrestle with this and get familiar with it in a hurry.

The Supreme Court is, and has always been, a tool of the wealth class in its war against democracy.

We should expand it, but that doesn’t go nearly far enough. Like the Senate before it, we need to make the Court democratically-accountable

splinter.com/the-supreme-co… Simply packing the Court only kicks the can down the road. Justices should be elected by the people, be restricted by term limits, and subject to some of the most stringent ethical oversight imaginable. Until then, democracy will continue to be strangled.

Just a free piece of political advice: get a bunch of progressive coalitions in a room and draft an aggressive and aspirational counter agenda to Project 2025.

Drag the bastards out of the shadows and make them defend their ambitions. Turn it into a referendum. Center the counter agenda on reproductive and voting rights with specific goals, refunding education, investing in public works, and push court reform as a means of putting it on the ballot.

Focus on expanding rights and protections rather than just holding the status quo.

If Biden is staying in can someone please tell anyone associated with emails and texts and social media posts to stop focusing completely on him staying in the race and, for the love of god, start talking about what he’s going to do to address our major problems if he wins. Like, talking incessantly about his status as a candidate is only feeding an out of control cycle and jockeying with Democratic members and donors. Say you’re going to expand the Court. Release a detailed plan to codify reproductive rights.

Hear me out here.

There’s a way to talk about what’s happening with Democratic Party and the conflict over the nomination while also not losing sight of the fact that Trump is a generationally dangerous figure being used as a weapon by a wealth class dismantling democracy. That’s not to say our media is doing it. The Biden story is rich for capitalization, drives clicks and draws eyes. It’s a media feeding frenzy lacking actual nuance or respect for the situation and its consequences.

It’s a colossal failure but that’s what this media does.