Christopher Armitage

It’s time for soft secession How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

Mother Jones mentioned my work, so I guess I have that going for me 🌲🌲🌲

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Bending the knee has never stopped autocrats. Not once.

Letting law enforcement become a right-wing monoculture, then allowing that monoculture to radicalize, will be remembered as a critical American failure in the run-up to our current disaster.

Trump Cut Funding to 16 Dem States. Can States Cut His? Within 72 hours of the October 1st government shutdown, the Trump administration weaponized federal funding against Democratic states with surgical precision.

Defund Fasicsm

Will the Courts Stop Fascism? What do you do when SCOTUS is openly partisan and Republicans ignore the Courts.

Corrupt SCOTUS members belong in a cell.

Anti-Consumption is Anti-Fascist

The Long Coup: How 23 States Are Killing Democracy Donald Trump and the Republican Party have systematically dismantled free and fair elections in America.

Imagine a casino where the house edge grows through invisible changes: parking shrinks near transit, ATMs vanish, bet minimums rise unpredictably, IDs demanded selectively, windows close early. No signs announce changes. Each justified as "operational efficiency" or "security enhancements.

Simple fix to corruption:

If you take corporate money, you don't get on the ballot. Period.

Want corporate donors?

Fine. Run as a write-in.

Let voters decide if they care enough about corporate-backed candidates to literally write their names.

Republicans Broke Democracy. Here's How to Fix It Without Them. In November 2023, Ohio Republicans watched in horror as 57% of their voters enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.

If you live anywhere in Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, or Oklahoma, you can amend your state constitution. Your legislature is irrelevant. Pick your issue.

The most powerful message you can tell a politician:

"If you don’t take this seriously then expect us to begin contacting all of your donors to ask if they are aware of your compliance.”

It's the people’s duty to create a political environment where failure to comply with the public will is untenable.

Bending the knee has never once stopped an autocrat.

What Happens When Trump Tries to Cancel the Election? Here's how we stop it from happening.

Republican states have ignored federal authority for years without consequence.

Democratic states must be equally willing to act first and litigate later.

We must dare the federal government to try enforcing its unconstitutional will against half the country at once.

GOP controls the House.
GOP controls the Senate.
GOP controls the White House.
If the gov't shuts down, every missed paycheck, every closed office, every crisis?
That's their fault.
Every bit of it.

On tariffs….
This idiot cited “national security” as the legal justification for tariffs on kitchen cabinets, faucets, furniture, and bathroom vanities.

FFS y’all, is he at war with Ikea?

#FDT

States must act NOW.

If Trump attempts a 3rd term or cancels elections, your state needs laws ready that automatically ban any party nominating constitutionally ineligible candidates from the ballot.

What Happens When Trump Tries to Cancel the Election? Here's how we stop it from happening.

Republican states have ignored federal authority for years without consequence.

Democratic states must be equally willing to act first and litigate later.

We must dare the federal government to try enforcing its unconstitutional will against half the country at once.

Bending the knee has never once stopped an autocrat.

It's the people’s duty to create a political environment where failure to comply with the public will is untenable.

There is some hope there but I don't think we can count on having federal elections again. We need to plan accordingly and proactively.

Completely agree. They're parasites.

How to (Legally) Hit Politicians Where It Hurts You don't need money to influence politicians when you can cost them money.

"Our city just paid for a stadium downtown while closing homeless shelters and annexing livable space. Do you support Council member Whatever’s decision on this?"

Republicans Broke Democracy. Here's How to Fix It Without Them. In November 2023, Ohio Republicans watched in horror as 57% of their voters enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.

If you live anywhere in Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, or Oklahoma, you can amend your state constitution. Your legislature is irrelevant. Pick your issue.

When our vote means nothing, we’re obligated to peacefully separate ourselves from those who’d oppress us.

The Republican Party Chose Hungary's Playbook. Here's How That Movie Ends. Let’s begin with a principle that transcends partisan politics: democratic legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed, expressed through free and fair elections in which all citizens can part...

"What remains uncertain is whether enough Americans will acknowledge what the evidence demonstrates: that one of our major political parties has chosen a path incompatible with democratic governance."

States control voting and there's precedent discussed in my article

This is VERY doable!

Simple fix to corruption:

If you take corporate money, you don't get on the ballot. Period.

Want corporate donors?

Fine. Run as a write-in.

Let voters decide if they care enough about corporate-backed candidates to literally write their names.

The Wealth Primary: How Money Eliminates Candidates Before You Vote Every morning at nine, former Representative David Jolly would walk into a windowless room two blocks from the Capitol, pick up a phone, and start dialing.

You are sick of texts begging for money by your Party members. Read this: