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Defend Democracy.
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We are empowering people to protect their neighbors and their rights. It's not your poor neighbors causing our problems — it's the billionaires.

Move your money. Plant a garden. Call your reps. Share this with everyone you know. One bite at a time — just do something that speaks to you.

Ask everyone you know to take ONE action a day.

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🗳️ Check Your Voter Registration NOW

This administration is purging voter rolls in multiple states. Don't wait until election day to discover you've been removed. Verify your registration today — and screenshot it with today's date. If you're not on the list, re-register immediately.

Vote.org — Check Now

After registering: also use Vote411.org to look up candidate info in your area for free.

🌱 Food Security

Hormuz, Fuel, Fertilizer — Plant Now

The Strait of Hormuz controls the oil needed for fuel and fertilizer. China is keeping its fertilizer to feed its own people. Other countries are quietly warning their citizens of fall food shortages — but ours is not. Plant gardens now.

Free fertilizer at home: Start a worm bin — worm castings are the richest natural fertilizer you can make. A backyard duck pond doubles as nitrogen-rich water for crops.

Vertical crate gardens (works on decks & small yards): Stack a crate with straw on the bottom, a layer of topsoil, seed potatoes around the edges, then stack another crate on top and repeat 3–4 levels high. One crate stack can feed a family for weeks.

Natural pest control (no chemicals needed): Marigolds repel beetles; garlic and onions confuse aphids; wood ash sprinkled around bases keeps slugs out and adds potassium.

Free expert help: Call your county Extension Office, the nearest university horticulture department, or a local botanical garden. Bring a sketch of your yard's sunny vs. shady spots and a small bag of soil from each area. Most will spend 20–30 minutes with you for free.

Take Action

What You Can Do Today

💰

Move Your Money

Boycott billionaire corporations. Move accounts to credit unions. Use OpenAlternative.co for non-tech-bro software. Check Chilli.app to find businesses supporting ICE. Hurt their wallets, protect yours.

ResistandUnsubscribe.com →
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Call Congress

Call 202-225-3121. Demand senators object to unanimous votes, demand quorum calls, filibuster, and boycott their donors. Vote NO on the SAVE Act. No fair elections = no taxes.

NoKings.org →
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Plant Gardens Now

Massive unemployment is coming. Start seeds NOW for mid-May gardens. Start compost with worms for free fertilizer. Build duck ponds. Enlist local botanical gardens and university horticulture departments.

Emergency Plans ↓
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Stop the War

Military members: call 877-447-4487 or Center on Conscience & War 800-379-2679 to object to fighting in an illegal war. Share this with every service member you know.

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Protect Your Privacy

Close the FISA data broker loophole. No-warrant surveillance violates the 4th Amendment. Demand the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale. Opt out of data broker lists today.

Privacy Tools ↓
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Protect Your Vote

Screenshot your voter registration 60 days before any election. Use Vote.org and Vote411.org to verify. Be ready with proof if you're purged.

Vote.org →

Call Congress Now

Demand accountability. Demand enforceable laws. Demand they stop funding cruelty with our tax dollars.

📞 202-225-3121
🕵️ Anti-Surveillance

DeFlock Your Town — Stop Predictive AI Surveillance

Flock AI cameras don't just read license plates — they connect data to social media, drones, and predictive policing systems. Communities are fighting back and winning.

What's Actually Happening

Flock initially claimed they were only license plate readers keeping data 30 days max. In Schmidt v. City of Norfolk (No. 2:2024cv00621), plaintiffs proved Flock was keeping data longer and connecting it to social media and other surveillance systems. They are not being honest with our cities.

Angela Robin Lipps — an innocent grandmother — was flown to a different state and held in jail for nearly 6 months because of an AI error. She lost her job, her house, and her dog before authorities admitted the AI was wrong.

Flock has moved into predictive drones with facial and "gait" recognition. In Oxford, England, the same tech is being piloted alongside digital ID for "15-minute cities" where residents are charged for leaving their zone too often.

When one town fought back, Flock refused to remove their poles — then rented private poles and empty buildings to keep watching. This isn't about crime. It's about control.

Tools to Fight Back

Take to Your City Council

When drafting a Flock policy in your town, make sure it includes:

  • ✓ No renting private poles or buildings to host cameras
  • ✓ No hiding cameras in construction cones, lamp posts, or signs
  • ✓ No drone deployment of Flock or predictive AI
  • ✓ No redacted contract clauses — full transparency on data flow
  • ✓ Hard 7-day data retention limit, independently audited
Demands

What We Demand From Our Senators

Enforce the Law

Pass the Philly-style law to arrest and prosecute ICE agents breaking laws. Repeal the 1983 Bevine Act so victims can sue ICE. Abolish qualified immunity.

Rescind ICE Funding

Support Bernie Sanders' measure to rescind the $75 Billion ICE got from the Big Bill. Redirect our taxes to FEMA, food, and healthcare — not private prison profits.

Tax Escrow Trigger

Blue governors: create a trigger law so that if voter suppression passes, federal business taxes divert from DC into a Constitutional Restoration Escrow.

📨 Letters That Move States

Send Letters to Governors NOW

Copy the letter below and send it to your governor. Then call them. Blue states need to act first — here's how.

Letter to Your Governor

Dear Governor, Can you please work to get the following items done soon? 1. Constitutional Restoration Escrow Declare an emergency and invoke the Constitutional Restoration Escrow to divert federal business taxes to the Escrow if voter suppression laws pass, elections are federalized, or armed agents are placed near polling areas. 2a. "Good Samaritan" law for community garden donors If someone slips, falls, or animals contaminate produce, no one can sue the donor of the land. Annual forms kept at township/city halls. 2b. Farm Co-ops Ask your state extension office and farm bureau to make farm co-ops NOW so billionaires don't take all our food supply this fall. Equipment sharing, crop coordination, ag tourism, central drop-off points. 2c. Protect farm ground as our food supply Pass laws protecting farmers — food is a national security issue. 3. Statewide Community Garden Campaign Have everyone start planting seeds NOW for gardens in mid-May. Start worm compost. Build duck ponds. Enlist Botanical Gardens, Extension offices, and university horticulture departments. 4. Convert strip malls into housing For Medicare patients leaving nursing homes (Dec 2026). Add roll-in showers, laundry, small lofts. Free rooms for foster-care youth who volunteer 20 hours/week with elderly. 5. PA+ Healthcare Program Physician Assistants with 5+ years experience write limited scripts. Fire stations host clinics on rotating days. 6. Direct Physician Care Plans GPs, pediatricians, dentists, eye doctors that do NOT use insurance. Statewide catastrophic and international health insurance at bulk discount rates. 7. Emergency Plans Communicated to Communities Plans for what people do if the electrical grid, water treatment, wastewater, or internet goes down. Each township designates warming centers, clean water stations, soup kitchens, phone-charging spots. Print paper guidelines. 8. Protect Our Vote Manual ballots with SSN + name + address. Counted by hand by people of two different parties. Totals sent to governor and independent observers. 9. Manually counted votes — sent to multiple verifiers Require manually counted votes by 2 people of different parties. Totals emailed or portal-sent to the governor's office AND to the UN or The Guardian for independent verification. See Election Truth Alliance and Smart Elections for documentation of Nov 2024 swing-state irregularities — manual ballots are the only fix. 10. Voter registration verification campaign Have people screenshot their voter registration 60 days before voting. Pass a law: voters with SSN, address (2 bills as proof), name on a valid ID, and registration screenshot can sue election workers who refuse them. 11. National Guard & State Trooper leadership If there is any sign the National Guard may be used against the citizens of this state, fire and replace the Generals and State Trooper leaders immediately. Build "at-will" interstate compacts with other blue governors so we can come to each other's mutual defense — National Guard, lawyers, supplies — if any state is federally invaded or has its elections seized. How do we enact these changes as soon as possible? Best regards, [Your Name]

Tap "Copy Letter" → paste into email or print. Send to your governor today.

Blue State Governors — Contact Now

Call. Email. Mail the letter. Pick your state.

California
Gov. Gavin Newsom
📞 (916) 445-2841
Contact form →
New York
Gov. Kathy Hochul
📞 (518) 474-8390
Contact form →
Illinois
Gov. J.B. Pritzker
📞 (217) 782-0244
Contact form →
Minnesota
Gov. Tim Walz
📞 (651) 201-3400
Contact form →
New Jersey
Gov. Phil Murphy
📞 (609) 292-6000
Contact form →
Oregon
Gov. Tina Kotek
📞 (503) 378-4582
Contact form →
🛡️ Police vs ICE

Make Local Police Defend Us, Not ICE

A five-part plan to contractually require local and state police to refuse illegal ICE cooperation — and to arrest ICE when they break the law.

1

Police Contracts: No ICE Cooperation Without Judicial Warrant

Draft and pass contracts for your local police, state police, National Guard, and State Defense Forces. Judicial-warrant-only rule: police may not assist ICE on any administrative warrant. Any officer who refuses to sign is fired. Any officer who violates the contract is fired and barred from federal-agency rehire for 7 years — the duration DHS has been funded.

2

Petitions: Demand Police Arrest ICE for Illegal Actions

Start a petition in your area demanding police arrest ICE for breaking the law — kidnapping without warrant, assault on civilians, theft of property, chemical weapons on peaceful protesters. Bring the signatures to your township hall meeting. Once enacted, ICE faces consequences for the first time.

3

Sheriff Deputization of Trained Citizens

Good sheriffs can deputize trained citizens. We need a single national training video covering: rules of engagement, use-of-force limits, what constitutes lawful arrest. Deputized citizens get a standard badge and handcuffs and operate strictly within the sheriff's authority.

4

Rapid Response Teams — Role-Based

Each neighborhood organizes a response team with assigned roles: Veteran (comms / radio), Paramedic (injuries), Cook (feeding people in standoffs), Bodies (peaceful mass presence). Use color codes: Blue = someone is injured. Yellow = ICE incoming. Red = ICE on location now.

5

Recall Sheriffs Who Side With ICE

Any sheriff actively helping ICE violate the law qualifies for "dereliction of duty" recall. You pay them to protect your community — not to assist federal agents committing crimes. Begin recall paperwork through your county clerk.

⚠️ ICE Accountability

ICE Abuse — Documented & Prosecutable

This isn't speculation. Federal judges, whistleblowers, and 60 Minutes have already documented the pattern. Demand your state mirror the laws that work.

What the Courts Are Finding

Ryan Goodman, NYU law professor and head of a non-partisan law journal, compiled over 35 federal cases in which judges — both Democratic and Republican appointees — explicitly stated the government provided false information, including false sworn declarations. One judge called it "highly misleading." Another wrote it was "a serious violation of the court's order." A third warned that "trust earned over generations has been lost in weeks." 60 Minutes — Oct 19, 2025

Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard guards at his detention camp running a betting pool on which detainee would die by suicide next. One guard had reportedly put $500 into the pot. Ramsingh said the conversation was devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself. Reported via AP / Corporate Clapback Substack

These are not isolated incidents. They are pattern evidence. The states that already moved on this — Illinois (prosecution law), New York (SB 2235 / A 3506 blocking police-ICE cooperation), New Jersey (F.U.C.K. I.C.E. bill) — give every other governor a tested template.

Demand Your Governor Mirror These Laws

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Massachusetts — Reporting Portal

Witness ICE misconduct? Report it directly to the state: mass.gov/FedMisconduct. Every blue state should have one of these by next week.

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Washington — AG Email Line

Submit evidence of federal agents breaking state law: [email protected]. Direct line to the state attorney general's office.

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Illinois — Prosecution Law

IL passed a law allowing prosecution of ICE agents when they violate state law. Ask your state to mirror it. This is the single most powerful tool any state can adopt.

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New York — SB 2235 / A 3506

Blocks state and local police from helping ICE. Push your state legislature to copy the bill text directly.

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New Jersey — F.U.C.K. I.C.E. Bill

The most direct legislative answer to ICE overreach. Speak to your democratic representatives about introducing parallel legislation.

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Demand on Day One

Mayor Mamdani (NYC) has been asked to demo a public reporting app. Every blue mayor and governor should be asked the same question this week.

ICE Resources — Bookmark These

Live ICE tracking, legal hotlines, and rapid-response tools.

🤝 Mutual Aid — Protect Your Neighbors

Free clinics, legal aid, cheaper meds, immigrant defense, and community resources.

🖨️ Printable Sign

Anti-ICE Sign for Businesses, Homes & Election Sites

Print and post at every entry/exit. Notify your local police of this law and ask them to assist in arresting anyone who violates it during voting periods.

No Consent Given

Judicial Warrant Required

This property is protected by the Castle Doctrine and the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Federal agents may not enter without a warrant signed by a judge — not an administrative warrant, not an ICE detainer.

Trespassers will be reported to local law enforcement and prosecuted under state law.

💰 Move Money Movement

Boycott billionaires & pocket the money. Move your bank accounts to credit unions. Cancel Amazon, Whole Foods, Tesla, Disney+, Paramount, Bezos's Washington Post. Every dollar you stop sending is a dollar they can't use against you. Hit their wallets — and yours quietly fills back up.

ResistandUnsubscribe.com →
🌐 Global Unions

Move Your Pension Out of War Profits

Unions worldwide hold trillions in pension funds. A coordinated move out of war-profiteering banks and weapons companies would shake the system in days.

Letter to Global Unions

Dear Union Leadership, We are writing to ask your pension fund managers to divest from banks and companies actively profiting from war, surveillance, and immigrant detention. The financial institutions most exposed to these activities include BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and the Rothschild banking network. These same institutions hold significant stakes in the surveillance and private prison industry — Palantir, Geo Group, Core Civic — as well as the weapons manufacturers supplying the ongoing wars in Iran, Gaza, and Ukraine. We are asking for the following: 1. A full audit of current pension fund holdings disclosed to membership. 2. A divestment timeline — phased exit from war-profit equities and the named banks within 18 months. 3. Reinvestment into worker-aligned funds: domestic infrastructure, renewable energy, healthcare cooperatives, and credit unions. 4. Cross-union coordination — public commitment to share divestment templates with allied unions globally so the move is collective. Solidarity, [Your Union / Local]
🏥 2027 Healthcare

Send to Your HR Department — Before Jan 2026

HR1 cuts ACA funding January 2026. December 2026 brings a $500B Medicare cut. December 2028 brings the ~$1 Trillion Medicaid cut. Get your HR moving now — there are workable alternatives.

Letter to Your HR Department

Hello leadership that evaluates healthcare benefits, I'm writing about the 2027 healthcare cliff our coworkers are about to fall off. HR1 (the "Big Bill") passed in July is already cutting ACA funding starting January 2026. The bill's deficit triggers "Pay-As-You-Go" rules, which mean: • $500 billion cut from Medicare in December 2026~$1 Trillion cut from Medicaid in December 2028 As more people lose ACA coverage and end up uninsured, they will flood emergency rooms. Those ER costs get amortized across every health insurance plan in 2027 — including ours. Premium increases will be steep and unavoidable unless our company plans ahead. I'm asking you to evaluate the following four options before our 2027 renewal: 1. Catastrophic Insurance for All Employees Trump's new rules allow medical debt collection to reach a patient's home. Company-paid catastrophic coverage (hospitalization, surgery, accident) keeps employees from losing housing over a single ER visit. It's the cheapest tier of coverage and prevents the worst outcomes. 2. Cheaper Online Pharmacy Options Direct employees toward verified lower-cost pharmacies: • Cost Plus Drugs (Mark Cuban) — flat 15% markup, limited but growing formulary • Licensed Canadian and Mexican online pharmacies • Costco Pharmacy — Costco membership unlocks both human and pet medication discounts 3. International Health Insurance for Chronically Ill Employees For employees with diabetes, MS, cancer, chronic conditions: international health insurance plans (treatment abroad) are often 60–80% cheaper than equivalent US care. Several US-based brokers can write group policies. 4. Direct Physician Care Plans For healthy employees and families: contract directly with GPs, pediatricians, dentists, and eye doctors who do NOT use insurance. Flat rates. A family of four typically pays around $4,000/year all-in. The company could either subsidize this or negotiate a group rate. If we want to keep our coworkers healthy and out of medical bankruptcy in 2027, please put one or more of these in front of decision-makers this quarter. Thank you for your work in this area. Sincerely, [Your Name]

Copy → email to HR → CC your union rep if you have one.

👩 Women Lead

To Every Woman With a Male Relative

The men in your life say they love you. Now ask them to prove it — by calling their GOP reps and demanding NO on the SAVE Act, NO new ICE funding, NO new DHS budget.

Text, email, or call every man who says he loves you — father, husband, son, brother, partner. Tell him: "I do not feel safe. The GOP is stripping my rights and funding ICE. If you love me, you will call 202-225-3121 right now and tell them you will never vote GOP again unless they vote NO on the SAVE Act and stop funding cruelty."

Equal rights are not optional. Safety is not negotiable. The men who love us need to start actually protecting us, not just saying they will.

#BedroomBlackout #TieTubesNOW #NeverMarry #NeverChangeYourName #DivorceNOW #MenCauseTheirLoneliness #ControllingNeanderthalsDieALONE #LavenderMarriages
⛪ Women's Church

Why We Need Women-Led Churches

In July 2025, Secretary Rubio shut down the Department of Women's Rights. The Institute of Women's Health was eliminated. Domestic violence prevention programs were defunded. 69 separate anti-trafficking and child labor programs were cut. The Bureau of Labor reclassified women-dominated careers — nursing, teaching, social work — as "non-professional," which directly affects student loan eligibility and salary floors.

The federal infrastructure protecting women has been quietly dismantled. We need to build our own — fast.

The proposal: Women-led 501(c)(3) churches in commercial real estate that has gone bankrupt. Bankrupted office buildings, vacant strip malls, half-empty hotels — these are everywhere right now. Each building becomes:

  • Free lodging for women working at the church and any woman fleeing danger
  • Domestic violence shelter — replacing the federal programs that were just defunded
  • Theology degree pipeline — federal loans still apply to theology degrees, and 2.5 years of credits transfer to nursing or teaching certifications
  • For-profit after-school daycare on the lower floor — a direct counter to the propaganda being pushed in public schools

Multi-story buildings let you stack: shelter on floors 4+, theology classrooms on floor 3, daycare on floors 1–2, common worship and community space on the ground floor.

How To Start a Women's Church — 9 Steps

This is a working sketch. Talk to a non-profit attorney and an accountant before each step. Every state has slightly different rules.

1

Name, Vision & Mission

Pick a clear name. Write a one-paragraph vision and a one-paragraph mission. These are the foundation documents the IRS and your state will both ask for.

2

File 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Status

File Form 1023 (or 1023-EZ if revenue is projected under $50k/yr) with the IRS. Churches get automatic recognition, but filing creates a paper trail that protects you from challenges. Cost: $275–$600 in filing fees.

3

EIN & State Permits

Get a free Employer Identification Number from the IRS (5 minutes online). Then register with your state's Secretary of State and get any required charitable solicitation permits.

4

Land or Building

Target bankrupted commercial real estate: vacant strip malls, abandoned office parks, half-empty hotels. Many counties auction these for back taxes — often under $50k for buildings worth millions. Lease-to-own can work if cash is tight.

5

Zoning Approval

Most commercial buildings need a zoning variance to host worship + lodging + daycare. Apply for "place of worship" zoning, which usually covers ancillary uses. Bring community supporters to the zoning hearing.

6

Building Codes & ADA Compliance

Hire a licensed contractor familiar with mixed-use rehabs. You'll need fire sprinklers, ADA-compliant ramps and bathrooms, separate sleeping/cooking ventilation, and exit signage. Budget 20% over your contractor's first quote.

7

Finances & Bookkeeping

Open a separate bank account in the church's EIN. Use accounting software (Aplos and QuickBooks Nonprofit are designed for this) from day one. Donor records must be kept for at least 7 years.

8

Community Outreach

Partner with local domestic violence shelters, food banks, and women's clinics before you open. A church without community ties is just an empty building — but a church plugged into existing networks fills up the day it opens.

9

Ongoing IRS Compliance — Form 990

File IRS Form 990 every year. Even churches that aren't required to file should file the 990-N postcard for transparency. This single annual filing protects your nonprofit status from challenges down the road.

🌍 International Pressure

Email Foreign Governments — Use Proton Mail

Foreign governments respond to pressure from foreign citizens, especially when it lands in many inboxes at once. Use a free proton.me address (no SIM card, no real name required).

Letter to Foreign Governments

To Whom It May Concern, I am writing as a concerned citizen of the United States. The current administration is engaged in actions — illegal warfare, mass detention without judicial warrants, suppression of voting rights, and the funneling of public money to executives with direct financial interests — that meet the international legal definition of crimes against humanity and, in several cases, war crimes. I am asking your government to consider the following actions, which would create accountability that our own justice system is no longer providing: 1. Passport locks Will your country lock the passports of named US officials and their family members who have profited from current policies — preventing entry to your nation for tourism, business, or transit? 2. Frozen business licenses Will your country freeze business licenses of US companies (Palantir, Geo Group, Core Civic, named weapons contractors, named investment vehicles) operating in your territory while these investigations are ongoing? 3. Frozen contracts and assets Will your country freeze all government contracts and named individuals' personal assets held in your banking system pending review? 4. Active investigations and prosecutions Will your country open active investigations under universal jurisdiction laws — and pursue prosecutions where the evidence supports it? 5. Alternative vendors For routine government procurement currently fulfilled by US corporations: will your country actively source alternatives from non-US suppliers until accountability is restored? 6. Divestment from named US financial institutions Will your country review and divest sovereign wealth and pension fund holdings in BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, the Rothschild network, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan — the institutions most exposed to the war-profit and surveillance ecosystem? I would appreciate a response indicating which of these actions, if any, your government is willing to consider. Sincerely, A US Citizen Asking for International Help P.S. I would also ask your government to publicly call for the release of the full Epstein files, with redactions limited solely to protecting the identities of survivors. The public interest in transparency at this point clearly outweighs every other concern.

Send from a free proton.me address. No SIM required, no personal info needed.

Where to Send It

🔍 Investigate

Investigate Your Representatives

Everything they don't want you to find is sitting in public records. Here's the order to look in.

1

Start with Epstein Search

Check EpsteinSearch.info or Jmail.world first. Type the rep's full name. These databases compile court filings, flight logs, and email releases.

2

Your State's Office of Open Records

Every state has one. File a free public records request for: campaign donors, stock holdings, affiliated companies, and any prior offenses or judicial referrals. Replies typically arrive in 10–30 days.

3

OpenSecrets.org

The single best public database of campaign finance. Search the rep's name → see exact donors, dollar amounts, and the industries those donors represent. Cross-reference with their votes.

4

Kait Justice Toolbox

Investigative journalist Kait Justice has compiled a step-by-step toolbox for citizen investigations. ko-fi.com/s/2f5d041f0e — small one-time fee, used by hundreds of citizen sleuths.

Suggested Targets (Public Record)

  • Sen. Rick Scott (FL) — Florida Medicare fraud history (HCA / Columbia case) is in the public record.
  • Rep. Cory Mills (FL) — Stolen valor allegations have been documented by multiple outlets.
  • Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) — Ohio State wrestling case files are in court records.

Pull the documents yourself. Read them. Send what you find to your state attorney general — not to social media first.

📱 Spread It

The Democracy Challenge — Social Media Template

Copy this post. Paste it on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn — tag 10 friends. Ask each friend to repost and tag 10 more.

Democracy Challenge Post

🇺🇸 The Democracy Challenge 🇺🇸 Go to www.UnitedWeStand.shop and pick ONE thing you'll do every day — or once a week. This is my pledge. I'm tagging 10 people and asking each of you to do the same — so we can protect our rights, our neighbors, and our wallets, while hitting the billionaires where it actually hurts them. I've already saved money making these changes. So can you. My four pledges: ✅ 1. AFFORDABLE 2027 HEALTHCARE I will read the HR Healthcare letter at UnitedWeStand.shop and send it to my HR department this month — before the 2027 cliff hits. ✅ 2. MOVE MY MONEY I will move at least one account from a billionaire bank to a credit union. I will cancel one billionaire subscription (Amazon Prime, Tesla, Paramount, Disney+, etc.) and use OpenAlternative.co instead. ✅ 3. INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE I will send the foreign government letter at UnitedWeStand.shop to at least three countries — from a free proton.me email. ✅ 4. PROTECT MY VOTE I will verify my voter registration at Vote.org and screenshot it with today's date. Then I'll check candidates at Vote411.org before any election. Now your turn. Tagging: @friend1 @friend2 @friend3 @friend4 @friend5 @friend6 @friend7 @friend8 @friend9 @friend10 #DemocracyChallenge #UnitedWeStand #OneActionADay
🔒 Protect Your Privacy

Stop Funding Your Own Surveillance

Every app you use, every data broker, every credit bureau is selling your life to the highest bidder — including law enforcement that bypasses the 4th Amendment by buying instead of warranting.

Switch to Non-Tech-Bro Alternatives

Data Broker Opt-Outs (Do These Once)

📚 Disaster Prep

Read These Before You Need Them

None of these are doomer books — they're calm, practical, and most are written by professionals who've trained others for decades.

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A Navy Seal's Bug-In Guide

By Clint Emerson. How to shelter in place during civil unrest, infrastructure failure, or extended power outage. The Navy SEAL framing makes it readable — the content is regular-citizen practical.

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The Prepper's Water Survival Guide

By Daisy Luther. Everything you need to know about water — sourcing, filtering, storing — when the grid goes down. The single most important resource you don't currently think about.

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Suburban Defense

A cop's guide to protecting your home and neighborhood without becoming the problem. Practical hardening of doors, windows, lighting, neighborhood watch coordination.

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Medical Aid & Edible Plants

Get one wilderness first-aid book and one regional edible/medicinal plant book for your area. Falcon Guides and Peterson Field Guides both have state-specific editions.

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If Crisis or War Comes (Sweden)

Free PDF from the Swedish government, written for ordinary citizens. The English translation is calm, clear, and exactly the kind of plain-language guide the US needs.

Download Free PDF →
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Where to Buy

Order from Bookshop.org (supports independent stores) or your local library. Avoid Amazon for these specifically — they track everything you read.

✍️ Independent Journalism

Substack Journalists to Follow

Most are free. A few have optional paid tiers. None take billionaire money — they answer to readers.

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Investigative reporting on Latino communities, immigration, and the parts of the news cycle the mainstream press won't cover.

Kait Justice

Investigative reports on the current administration. Built the citizen-investigator toolbox most people are now using.

Ellie Leonard

Crowd-sourcing the Epstein file review with a community of trained researchers. Free updates as new documents drop.

Malcolm Nance

Former Navy intelligence. Iran coverage is the sharpest in independent media right now. Subscribe before the next escalation.

Shane Yirak

Geopolitics with depth. If you only read one writer on US-Russia-China-Iran dynamics, this is the one.

Zev Shalev

Investigative journalism — financial crimes, corruption, sanctioned individuals. Long-form, sourced, defensible.

🗳️ We Need a Third Party

One that doesn't take big money, so they actually work for us. Working Families Party is the most established option already on the ballot in many states — small-dollar funded, worker-aligned, no billionaire owners.

WorkingFamilies.org →
🏛️ Run for Office

You Can Win a Local Race

School board, city council, county commissioner, state house — most local races are won with under $5,000 and a few hundred door knocks. The hardest part is deciding to run.

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RunForOffice.org

Enter your address. See every elected office you could run for in your district — federal, state, county, township, school board — with filing deadlines and contact info.

RunForOffice.org →
🤝

RunForSomething.net

Help to actually run — staff, training, fundraising guides, peer network. Founded by Amanda Litman. Has trained 10,000+ first-time candidates, with hundreds in office now.

RunForSomething.net →
📰

Amanda Litman's Substack

Free weekly newsletter specifically for new and first-time candidates. Tactical, calm, and full of stories from people who've already done it.

Survival & Preparedness

Emergency Plans for Our Communities

Community Gardens

Plant seeds now for mid-May. Compost with worms for fertilizer. Build duck ponds. Enlist botanical gardens, extension offices, and university horticulture departments. Push "Good Samaritan" laws to protect garden donors.

Strip Mall Housing

Convert strip malls into housing for Medicare patients leaving nursing homes (Dec 2026). Add roll-in showers, laundry, small lofts. Free rooms for foster care youth who volunteer 20 hours/week with elderly.

PA+ Healthcare Program

Physician Assistants with 5+ years experience write limited scripts. Fire stations host clinics. Cheapest way to serve ACA patients priced out and unemployed flooding ERs in 2027.

Direct Physician Care

Build out flat-rate GP, pediatrician, dentist, and eye doctor plans without insurance. Statewide catastrophic and international healthcare insurance at bulk discount rates.

Grid-Down Plans

Governors: communicate what to do if power, water, wastewater, or internet goes down. Designate warming centers, clean water stations, soup kitchens, phone charging spots. Print paper guidelines.

Protect Your Vote

Screenshot your voter registration. Manual votes with SSN + name + address. Counted by hand by people of 2 different parties. Totals sent to governor and independent observers.

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