Of course it's a coup

Ten constituents visited Senator Tammy Baldwin's La Crosse office on Wednesday morning to tell her she and her colleagues must take immediate action to stop the coup.  Unfortunately, the office was closed. But the message was left and the group pledged to call. You can call, too using the Indivisible call tool: https://indivisible.org/resource/tell-your-democratic-senator-shut-down-senate-during-trumps-power-grab

Wednesday morning, Yale History Prof. Timothy Snyder posted a new article, Of course it's a coup - miss the obvious and lose your republic. He is not some random anonymous bozo on X, he is a highly respected and credentialed authority on the Holocaust, fascism, and authoritarianism. He writes, "A coup is underway, against Americans as possessors of human rights and dignities, and against Americans as citizens of a democratic republic. Each hour this goes unrecognized makes the success of the coup more likely."

We can't be distracted by muzzle velocity.

Anchor and White House correspondent Jim Acosta, whose recent on-air resignation from CNN concluded with the words, "I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear," interviewed UVA professor Larry Sabato (Center for Politics) about the constitutional crisis and the way forward. Sabato warned, "We're at the point where we cannot survive as a Republic if we don't come down to Earth and sanity is not restored to these millions who incredibly believe things that cannot be true and are not true. ... Now, you've got half of the  Americans, almost, believing there was massive fraud (and there wasn't) in 2020."

Trump followers, urged on by Elon Musk and an army of social media liars, believe there is massive fraud in government programs that is being "rooted out" by the (imaginary) Department of Government Efficiency.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Several reporters have confirmed that Elon Musk and his team of unvetted hackers have illegally accessed, with edit capabilities, US government systems including, USDA, OPM, HHS, USAID, the VA, Treasury, NOAA, Medicare and Medicaid. Data is disappearing, employees are locked out of their accounts or dismissed, portals are blocked. At NSF, a long list of verboten words, including "women," "genders," and "biases" is being used to flag papers and research projects for possible deletion. Black health workers are being targeted on a "DEI Watch List." 

The poem is happening. Don't wait for the last line.

Time to take action. Call, email, show up. 

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AT THE CORNER OF FOURTH AND MAIN.