Are you asking yourself, why isn’t more happening to stop these fascists?
Trump has literally destroyed our white House, East Wing, including Revolutionary era colonnades put there by Thomas Jefferson. Trump is abducting, torturing, and killing people with no accountability.
Why can’t we stop him?
Does this mean they are winning?
I hope to reassure you that they are not, and to help explain why it seems like nothing is happening right now, but that, in fact, it is.
You’ve heard of of fight or flight? Then you know there’s that third option: and that is freeze.
But we’re human beings, and we don’t freeze like deer or possum.
Yet we freeze all the time. If you’ve had a bad coworker or housemate or neighbor. We don’t go hit them or scream at them. We don’t want to quit our job and move away. Those would be the fighting or fleeing options.
Generally (your mileage may vary) we don’t.
Instead, we buckle down and we grin and bear it.
That’s our freeze. And it’s a rational human-strategy play: we avoid the risk of losing in a fight, but we’re not giving up by fleeing. We’re biding our time.
We’re planning (because we’re humans) and that’s our purpose: to wait for the right moment to change things.
So we should all understand that we’re not directly fighting, we’re not fleeing, and we’re not exactly frozen.
We’re preparing.
It’s late October 2025: we’re protesting which is slowly expanding our numbers. There were millions more of us in No Kings 2.0 than there were in 1.0.
Let your mind focus on what we’re trying to achieve.
What we want is a functioning constitutional republic that protects Freedom and Justice for all of us.
We have a long, long, long cultural muscle memory on how we govern ourselves. We know that we do not have a direct say: we’re a republic. We vote every two years for our representatives, and they run our government. They get a two year chance, and then we can vote them out. That’s our system.
And yes, it is broken.
Our election was in November 2024 and we as a nation blew it. We allowed 33% of our citizens to vote these tyrants into power, and now they’re exploiting the broken parts of our system to install themselves forever. That’s their plan. Our damned conundrum is we have to let them grow stronger until the rules say we get to vote them out in November 2026 and 2028.
We want a functioning Constitutional Republic that protects Freedom and Justice for All of us.
We have a long, long, long cultural muscle memory on how we govern ourselves: and we know we do not have direct say. We’re a republic, we vote every two years for our representatives and they run our government. They get a chance, and then we can vote them out. That’s our system.
And yes, it is broken.
Our election was in November of 2024 and we as a Nation blew it.
We allowed 33% of our citizens vote these tyrants into power.
And now they’re exploiting the broken parts of our system to install themselves forever. That’s their plan.
Our damned conundrum is that we have to let them grow stronger until the rules say we get to vote them out again in November 2026. That’s just because that’s the Constitutional system we have and the very thing we want to defend!
And so we’re playing the freeze and prepare gambit, because, strategically, we don’t have another option for achieving our goal.
Now, of course: the correct tactical answer in our Constitution to a fascist authoritarian and arguably mad president is to Impeach and remove him.
The fact that this is not happening is Exhibit A in why our Constitutional system is broken.
(Fixing that system is the goal of Project Liberty 2029: if you want to do more, go to the wiki and delve in!)
A few more words here about these three modes: fighting, preparing, and fleeing.
Most of us can’t directly fight: but some are: there’s hundreds of here’s a partial list of lawsuits, for example.
To those of us who are not positioned to fight: let us prepare. Build your community to strengthen our will for the window of attack.
These No Kings marches? They’re not fighting, no they’re not storming the beaches at Normandy.
But they are transporting the troops to England to prepare for the attack.
We are preparing for the challenging voting environment which we are going to face in 2026 and 2028.
But Finally:
Do not Flee.
Some of us will be falling prey to a particular kind of fleeing. It’s one we do in the privacy of our mind and in the low stakes conversations with the people around us.
You may have done it a moment ago when you read my words about voting.
This is one of their weapons.
They are spreading the fear that you won’t be able to vote, or that voting will be stolen.
This is the Big Lie.
They use the Big Lie both as a weapon to galvanize their people to outrage when they don’t get what they want, and to demoralize those of us who oppose them to make us easier prey.
Do Not Surrender to the Big Lie.
It is not only surrender, but a form of fleeing. It’s a really easy kind of fleeing, because we don’t have to sell our things and move.
We just have to give up hope.
It’s a moment where one may feel a sense of agency, but you will pay for it with a lifetime of hopeless misery for you and your descendants.
The enemies of our Freedoms are actively trolling us, our families and friends on social media with this careful message.
They are making people think they thought this up all on their own. Do you feel like you’re smart to be thinking this? Do you think those who don’t believe it are suckers?
Or do you get that attitude from your family and friends?
Push back!
Because the irony is, of course, that they engineered this viral message to steal our hope and seal their victory. And if they succeed in the end, it will be those who believed this message who were the suckers who helped them win.
Our Job #1 is to not give up hope. That is our strength.
Hope in the future.
If your friends cannot muster hope for themselves, then call on them to do do it for their children. Know that someday someone whose hope remained will grab the flag of Liberty and march it to the hilltop to show the enemies of Freedom that We the People still Stand. That the enemies of Freedom are the ones defeated.
Job #2: be loud.
Go to the protests. Tell your friends. Show the world and the rest of us that we are getting ready. We are building up our steam.
Job #3 is to quietly build your circle and your community. We must do this so that when the time comes to vote, and when the time comes to protect that vote, we are part of We the People: ready for the fight and sacrifice.
You can make Project Liberty 2029 part of your protest, and part of your community, part of your time spent prepping for what comes next.
At the wiki site ProjectLiberty2029.info, I identify ten stages of this struggle up to the point of winning in 2028.
Then we move on to the swift actions we must take, in 2029.
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And if you want to do even more, you can help contribute to the proposals. Lend us your expertise under Stage Zero: “how to participate.”
And finally, as wonky as this sounds, call your representatives, your senator, and your candidates. Tell them you want to see changes: either the proposals here at Project Liberty 2029 or ones you support elsewhere.
For we must find a path to a better future Constitutional system here in America: one that truly serves Liberty and Justice for All.
As always,
Amen, America.
