Yes thank you for your clarity. But when you write “It’s time to take our power back. No one is going to do it for us.” what do you suggest. How many people I support with substack subscriptions and almost all say the same thing yet dont offer the next sentence: what do you intend that we should do?
Exactly this. Fight it in the courts? No, Trump admin is actively going after lawyers who prosecute him and their objectives when they break the law, and the most powerful law firms are bending the knee. We've seen how they delay and rig the game so we cannot use the courts any longer.
Call our reps? No, because they're not answering, dodging town halls, or refusing to do anything of substance.
Take to the streets to protest? No, because we do and it's not listened to, the fourth estate is failing or being pressured into silence, and the admin is chomping at the bit for the 20th to roll around when they can take their "recommendation" and invoke the insurrection act. Next week all bets could be off: dragnets scooping up our data for years means there's already a target list for them. Not enough stood up for the least powerful, so now they're coming for the ever shrinking group who were willing to stand up.
What is left? Terrifyingly, the rest of the world already knows, and I don't think they're coming to save the US.
Giving up is not a choice. My father fought the Nazi in France and Germany. He didn’t give up (although he saw his comrades die right next him). Martin Luther King and John Lewis didn’t give up the fight for equal rights. Doing what we can do, no matter how small, is the least we can do to pass along our Democracy to the next generation. Every action we take, no matter how small and seemingly inconsequential it might seem, makes a difference whether the MSM cares or not!
Truth! We need to plant the seeds of resistance. All of it matters, even if we don't know what will result. Our actions will bear fruit in ways we can't imagine.
My thoughts exactly. It's horrific to contemplate. South Korea's National Assembly at least had a majority that could put a stop to its president's abuse. Unless enough Republicans have a major change of perspective, that won't be the case for us. That's probably why the prospects of being voted out of office don't worry them.
I support multiple Substack authors who provide lots of ways to take action: Jessica Craven, Robert Hubbell, Rev. John Pavlovitz to name a few. Alternately, join a local Indivisible group and organize or attend rally’s and protests or sign up with Commit to Democracy to write postcards to voters. Every action we take causes a reaction and when combined, our actions are POWERFUL!
We can still make and display signs carrying messages, right? We need potent slogans and short but clear explanations. We need to make sure folks are aware of what’s going on and not ignoring reality. So, everyday or at least weekly protests in places everyone visits. We must become like Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses, carrying our pamphlets at all times and offering them relentlessly. We need to go to Trump country and spread the word. We must speak louder than Fox News. We have to plan and pace ourselves because Nov 2026, the first weigh station, is some 19 months away. We cannot rely on the party alone; this is our country and we must help wake enough people up to reality.
1. Join protests to put pressure on political leaders, 2. Support (eg. $$) legal teams fighting in the courts (ACLU, Democracy Forward, Democracy Docket, Stare Democracy Defenders Fund, etc), 3. Call your reps at both federal and state level to urge more action
I restack the action item girls regularly. Jessica Craven, the five calls, Arianna Elm, election Truth Alliance.. plus… Beto has a 3 things we can do this week. And I promote the Action items from the Senators designated to lead on each issue or department.. so Sen Duckworths. Veterans survey … the action item being please encourage Vets to fill it out bc she needs 25,000 to build her amendments for their protection etc, and Rep Raskins daily and FOIA action item being please… haven’t been really active these past two weeks but I know Sen Schiff has started a bunch of YouTube channels to show the Shadow hearings in the floor… so follow and spread all those for the lawmakers… and Rep from New Mexico shows daylies… etc… feel free to restack or use anything I have there… like a scrapbook for Action…
Here's one thing I found and have already mailed-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
There’s a deepening sense of despair. I see that one of the only paths forward is through a grassroots movement that leaders like AOC, Bernie, and a few others in Congress are building. It’s going to be a long and difficult road, and I worry I may not make it through intact. I worry about the toll this will take on people of all ages—on the elderly, young children, students in college and how this not just affects the future of our climate and freedom, but encourages bullying and discrimination in schools and in the work force.
But this movement needs strong voices in the independent media, grounded in truth and knowledge—people like Allison. She’s not pretending this is easy. Without the independent media we go now where with the grassroots movement. with the current mainstream media, we are guaranteed to lose our battle to regain democracy.
The hard part is—I don’t know what my job is in this fight. That’s where I’m stuck right now. I feel paralyzed by everything happening. I’m scared. I’m scared of losing my job if I speak up or fight too loudly. There seems to be no limit to the extent they will go to break the constitution and harm people who disagree with them.
What I can do is share truth and information with others. AOC recently released a podcast that really speaks to this—how we can engage, even in small ways. Listening to smart, passionate leaders like her and other progressive members of Congress who can inform us on what is going on and what they are doing so that we can participate in a movement with information not rhetoric.
Dennis, thank you for re-sending the link. I read Aaron Flynn's letter, and was very impressed. I liked and restacked it, and I'll send it off as well - despite my reluctance and skepticism owing to the Court's clearly demonstrated venality, arrogance and treasonous inclinations (I refer of course to the clearly compromised majority). I doubt, of course, that they're likely to be moved, but Flynn's letter is so articulate and irrefutably reasonable that it deserves to be supported by as many people as possible.
Thanks for getting back to me. I’m glad that worked. Thank you for passing it forward. We all have to push and push some more to get through this mess.
It states in the Constitution that We the people can walk right into the White House and take back our government. Mussolini was dragged out and hung. Hitler killed himself because the revolt was coming to kill him. Joseph Stalin was rumored to have been poisoned which led to a stroke that ended his life.
This is the United States of fucking America. We are a democracy and we have rights that our forefathers put in place in case shit like this happens. Amendments added after WWII as safeguards.
The peaceful protests are not moving the needle with this regime. It's great seeing the numbers grow and people are finally waking up, but something needs to shake the MAGA foundation or we are all in danger of being disappeared. ALL. OF. US.
These protests need to be around everywhere he goes. White House, Bedminster, Mar-A-Lardo, fucking McDonald's, etc. We can't rely on our reps to save us. They are too busy saving their own asses by kissing Shitler's ass.
Ranting eases the stress. Now try this-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I do not call them the FASCIST SIX OF THE US KANGAROO COURT for nothing! As Barto O’Kavanaugh warned us at his liefest of a hearing before the judiciary committee of the Senate, what goes around comes around! It is coming Barto! It is coming Clown Roberts! It is coming Grifter Thomas! It is coming Ghoulish Gorsuch! It is coming Handmaiden Amy! And last but not least, it is coming Awful Alito!
We should encourage our governors to dissolve the federal government and become 50 separate states, or a handful of regional unions. We can't stop this from within, so I don't see any recourse but abandon it and start over.
This has been my response for a long time. The feds haven't been serving us since Citizens United and McConnell started stealing the SC seats. Allison is absolutely right - we should have seen this coming. But this latest assault and brazen talk about jailing US citizen is the final straw. IF we want a new formal government, I say go parliamentary style, and have some more direct say so these clowns can be voted out faster and we can have more coalitions that better align with our values and local needs. A two-party system only rewards the donor class.
Thank you, Allison. Constitutionally enabling the President and the Senate to decide who sits on the Courts (Federal and Supreme) has been a vast mistake because it has only enshrined partisanship and its attendant woes on the bench. That appointment should have been entrusted to an independent board or council of federal justices and Bar scholars, appointed by rules that board decides. We also should have separate bodies (not one) to rule on constitutional matters (as a constitutional court) and on judicial matters (as the highest appeals court), appointed by the same body or another, but the legislative and executive should have no say in it.
The way this concisely written summation of exactly how we got here makes me want to ask of you a favor … may I read this on social media (with the abject fury that I feel reading about just how truly FUCKED we all find ourselves? )Honestly, I’d like a LOT of people to shout these words at every fucking corner in every small town … this just cannot be who we are now … what the FUCK do we DO????
It wouldn’t be a “foreign affair” if they hadn’t been sent to another country which I wrongly thought was forbidden by the constitution. I guess they argue entirely based upon the deported not being citizens or immigrants but simply unwanted. I thought due process would protect those on our soil but the GOP’s president and congress have decided to continue paying Bukele for the prisoner’s care and well being while pretending it is a foreign affair. GEO must be fuming. Bukele may have reeled Garcia in for those he was originally running from? But this cruelty may isolate El salvadore internationally. Garcia was apparently well loved and productive and not criminal in any way in the US. Perhaps Garcia was caught by something like pallantir and they don’t want everyone to know just how truly good our surveillance has become or Musk got IRS (or?) data and found those paying in but no evidence of citizenship. Every angle makes me feel unclean as an American. Even scotus seems powerless and failed to complete their duty but managed to warn the lower court what the GOP was likely to say about the President’s power in foreign affairs. But they failed to admonish anyone for the GOP act that actually made it a foreign affair! Everyone is ineffective, except the original GOP perpetrators flying people around hiding them from everyone they need before spiriting them away to a location that was inaccurately shared with them or worse incompetently unknown!
This ignoring the scotus and lighthearted giggling at the outset of the oval office meeting while playing with the life of a father, brother, husband and son is disheartening. Deferring to Miller (also occurred on Hegseth’s call) is also alarming because he seems to think real people are just ants or hindrances to either his happiness or our budding greatness. Frustrating to watch.
"makes me feel unclean as an American." Perfectly stated. And now we know at least one goal of all that data-mining DOGE was doing. None of us are out of reach. That's what we need to hammer home to the rest of the country.
Isn’t he really the original leader/organizer/fund raiser/propagandist who started all of this White Christo/tech/Fascist movement? Doesn’t Leonard Leo now have billions by his oligarch funder, to use as he pleases? Isn’t he the puppet master? Where does he live? Vote? Practice law? How did he get to rule our nation? Now the world? Does he rule Musk, Theil and the other technocrats(seizing our nation for a technate) and insurgents/insurgencies?
Fully agree, thanks for summarizing the downward spiral SCOTUS has been on since its takeover by right-wing extremists/terrorists. The Abrego episode is just the last link in a pro-fascism chain the Court has been building over the years, but many commentators and all the press were -once again- fooled into believing SCOTUS was standing up for the Constitution when it was doing exactly the opposite. When Miller agrees with you is when you know you are totally, unethically, wrong.
Yes thank you for your clarity. But when you write “It’s time to take our power back. No one is going to do it for us.” what do you suggest. How many people I support with substack subscriptions and almost all say the same thing yet dont offer the next sentence: what do you intend that we should do?
Exactly this. Fight it in the courts? No, Trump admin is actively going after lawyers who prosecute him and their objectives when they break the law, and the most powerful law firms are bending the knee. We've seen how they delay and rig the game so we cannot use the courts any longer.
Call our reps? No, because they're not answering, dodging town halls, or refusing to do anything of substance.
Take to the streets to protest? No, because we do and it's not listened to, the fourth estate is failing or being pressured into silence, and the admin is chomping at the bit for the 20th to roll around when they can take their "recommendation" and invoke the insurrection act. Next week all bets could be off: dragnets scooping up our data for years means there's already a target list for them. Not enough stood up for the least powerful, so now they're coming for the ever shrinking group who were willing to stand up.
What is left? Terrifyingly, the rest of the world already knows, and I don't think they're coming to save the US.
Giving up is not a choice. My father fought the Nazi in France and Germany. He didn’t give up (although he saw his comrades die right next him). Martin Luther King and John Lewis didn’t give up the fight for equal rights. Doing what we can do, no matter how small, is the least we can do to pass along our Democracy to the next generation. Every action we take, no matter how small and seemingly inconsequential it might seem, makes a difference whether the MSM cares or not!
Truth! We need to plant the seeds of resistance. All of it matters, even if we don't know what will result. Our actions will bear fruit in ways we can't imagine.
Try this-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
My own parents were Holocaust victims and I will not be silent and I will NEVER GIVE UP!
Here's one way not to give up-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
My thoughts exactly. It's horrific to contemplate. South Korea's National Assembly at least had a majority that could put a stop to its president's abuse. Unless enough Republicans have a major change of perspective, that won't be the case for us. That's probably why the prospects of being voted out of office don't worry them.
Try doing this Aaron-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I support multiple Substack authors who provide lots of ways to take action: Jessica Craven, Robert Hubbell, Rev. John Pavlovitz to name a few. Alternately, join a local Indivisible group and organize or attend rally’s and protests or sign up with Commit to Democracy to write postcards to voters. Every action we take causes a reaction and when combined, our actions are POWERFUL!
We can still make and display signs carrying messages, right? We need potent slogans and short but clear explanations. We need to make sure folks are aware of what’s going on and not ignoring reality. So, everyday or at least weekly protests in places everyone visits. We must become like Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses, carrying our pamphlets at all times and offering them relentlessly. We need to go to Trump country and spread the word. We must speak louder than Fox News. We have to plan and pace ourselves because Nov 2026, the first weigh station, is some 19 months away. We cannot rely on the party alone; this is our country and we must help wake enough people up to reality.
That is an impossible question to answer. I don’t know what opportunities you have to resist, but will encourage you to do anything you can.
We each have to think about the groups we can plug into, the people we can support or who support us, and do something.
Resistance isn’t always active, sometimes it may be dormant waiting for the right chance to spring up.
How we spring up may be different for each of us.
Try this-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
1. Join protests to put pressure on political leaders, 2. Support (eg. $$) legal teams fighting in the courts (ACLU, Democracy Forward, Democracy Docket, Stare Democracy Defenders Fund, etc), 3. Call your reps at both federal and state level to urge more action
Here's #4-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I restack the action item girls regularly. Jessica Craven, the five calls, Arianna Elm, election Truth Alliance.. plus… Beto has a 3 things we can do this week. And I promote the Action items from the Senators designated to lead on each issue or department.. so Sen Duckworths. Veterans survey … the action item being please encourage Vets to fill it out bc she needs 25,000 to build her amendments for their protection etc, and Rep Raskins daily and FOIA action item being please… haven’t been really active these past two weeks but I know Sen Schiff has started a bunch of YouTube channels to show the Shadow hearings in the floor… so follow and spread all those for the lawmakers… and Rep from New Mexico shows daylies… etc… feel free to restack or use anything I have there… like a scrapbook for Action…
Here's one thing I found and have already mailed-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
This is really helpful information; how do i restack this?
Here's one thing you can do-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
There’s a deepening sense of despair. I see that one of the only paths forward is through a grassroots movement that leaders like AOC, Bernie, and a few others in Congress are building. It’s going to be a long and difficult road, and I worry I may not make it through intact. I worry about the toll this will take on people of all ages—on the elderly, young children, students in college and how this not just affects the future of our climate and freedom, but encourages bullying and discrimination in schools and in the work force.
But this movement needs strong voices in the independent media, grounded in truth and knowledge—people like Allison. She’s not pretending this is easy. Without the independent media we go now where with the grassroots movement. with the current mainstream media, we are guaranteed to lose our battle to regain democracy.
The hard part is—I don’t know what my job is in this fight. That’s where I’m stuck right now. I feel paralyzed by everything happening. I’m scared. I’m scared of losing my job if I speak up or fight too loudly. There seems to be no limit to the extent they will go to break the constitution and harm people who disagree with them.
What I can do is share truth and information with others. AOC recently released a podcast that really speaks to this—how we can engage, even in small ways. Listening to smart, passionate leaders like her and other progressive members of Congress who can inform us on what is going on and what they are doing so that we can participate in a movement with information not rhetoric.
Yes, Allison, AUTOCRACY is here - enabled in very large part by our corrupt and despicable OBSCENE COURT. As we stood by watching…
Send this Leon-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The link didn't work, Dennis.....
Try this link-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=uqhkz&utm_medium=ios
Let me know if it works. This is where I got it.
INDEPENDENT AF - AARON FLYNN <aaronflynn@substack.com
Dennis, thank you for re-sending the link. I read Aaron Flynn's letter, and was very impressed. I liked and restacked it, and I'll send it off as well - despite my reluctance and skepticism owing to the Court's clearly demonstrated venality, arrogance and treasonous inclinations (I refer of course to the clearly compromised majority). I doubt, of course, that they're likely to be moved, but Flynn's letter is so articulate and irrefutably reasonable that it deserves to be supported by as many people as possible.
Thanks for getting back to me. I’m glad that worked. Thank you for passing it forward. We all have to push and push some more to get through this mess.
It states in the Constitution that We the people can walk right into the White House and take back our government. Mussolini was dragged out and hung. Hitler killed himself because the revolt was coming to kill him. Joseph Stalin was rumored to have been poisoned which led to a stroke that ended his life.
This is the United States of fucking America. We are a democracy and we have rights that our forefathers put in place in case shit like this happens. Amendments added after WWII as safeguards.
The peaceful protests are not moving the needle with this regime. It's great seeing the numbers grow and people are finally waking up, but something needs to shake the MAGA foundation or we are all in danger of being disappeared. ALL. OF. US.
These protests need to be around everywhere he goes. White House, Bedminster, Mar-A-Lardo, fucking McDonald's, etc. We can't rely on our reps to save us. They are too busy saving their own asses by kissing Shitler's ass.
How many pitchforks in DC would it take? Problem is, it wouldn't be pitchfork and we aren't organized but pitchforks aren't organized either
I guess that would depend on how much you value your freedom. You don't take a knife to a gun fight. 🤷♀️
I'm old enough to lose my freedom if it secures my country. If not for millions of people in Washington DC, what do you suggest?
Personally I think the military should be involved, but they won't.
I saw a post on social that said it's the U.S. Marshall's duty to go in and arrest him. It's THEIR DUTY, but I doubt that they will.
Ranting eases the stress. Now try this-https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronflynn/p/open-letter-to-the-supreme-court?r=58ocxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Ok-Carry on ranting!
I would send it if there was an email link to send it to.
https://aaronflynn.substack.com/i/161400041/where-to-send-letters-or-messages
Does this work? Let me know.
April 5 Hands Off protests
I do not call them the FASCIST SIX OF THE US KANGAROO COURT for nothing! As Barto O’Kavanaugh warned us at his liefest of a hearing before the judiciary committee of the Senate, what goes around comes around! It is coming Barto! It is coming Clown Roberts! It is coming Grifter Thomas! It is coming Ghoulish Gorsuch! It is coming Handmaiden Amy! And last but not least, it is coming Awful Alito!
Wow! this is such an excellent breakdown. It gives great clarity and I'm happy someone is keeping score, in this period of insanity.
The majority of this SCOTUS are also religious fascists like this evil regime. Disgusting!!
The amount of deaths from miscarriages is enough, led alone everything else they're responsible for is despicable.
SCOTUS is accountable for the downfall of USA as much as the evil trump regime.
I hope I live to see them held accountable.
They're rotten to the core. Greedy, evil, money loving monsters. I wish them swift karma, for what they've done and continue to do.
We should encourage our governors to dissolve the federal government and become 50 separate states, or a handful of regional unions. We can't stop this from within, so I don't see any recourse but abandon it and start over.
This has been my response for a long time. The feds haven't been serving us since Citizens United and McConnell started stealing the SC seats. Allison is absolutely right - we should have seen this coming. But this latest assault and brazen talk about jailing US citizen is the final straw. IF we want a new formal government, I say go parliamentary style, and have some more direct say so these clowns can be voted out faster and we can have more coalitions that better align with our values and local needs. A two-party system only rewards the donor class.
Thank you, Allison. Constitutionally enabling the President and the Senate to decide who sits on the Courts (Federal and Supreme) has been a vast mistake because it has only enshrined partisanship and its attendant woes on the bench. That appointment should have been entrusted to an independent board or council of federal justices and Bar scholars, appointed by rules that board decides. We also should have separate bodies (not one) to rule on constitutional matters (as a constitutional court) and on judicial matters (as the highest appeals court), appointed by the same body or another, but the legislative and executive should have no say in it.
The way this concisely written summation of exactly how we got here makes me want to ask of you a favor … may I read this on social media (with the abject fury that I feel reading about just how truly FUCKED we all find ourselves? )Honestly, I’d like a LOT of people to shout these words at every fucking corner in every small town … this just cannot be who we are now … what the FUCK do we DO????
Brilliantly clear. If we make it to ‘26 and take Congress, Impeach the Six will be the demand. Hell yeah!
It wouldn’t be a “foreign affair” if they hadn’t been sent to another country which I wrongly thought was forbidden by the constitution. I guess they argue entirely based upon the deported not being citizens or immigrants but simply unwanted. I thought due process would protect those on our soil but the GOP’s president and congress have decided to continue paying Bukele for the prisoner’s care and well being while pretending it is a foreign affair. GEO must be fuming. Bukele may have reeled Garcia in for those he was originally running from? But this cruelty may isolate El salvadore internationally. Garcia was apparently well loved and productive and not criminal in any way in the US. Perhaps Garcia was caught by something like pallantir and they don’t want everyone to know just how truly good our surveillance has become or Musk got IRS (or?) data and found those paying in but no evidence of citizenship. Every angle makes me feel unclean as an American. Even scotus seems powerless and failed to complete their duty but managed to warn the lower court what the GOP was likely to say about the President’s power in foreign affairs. But they failed to admonish anyone for the GOP act that actually made it a foreign affair! Everyone is ineffective, except the original GOP perpetrators flying people around hiding them from everyone they need before spiriting them away to a location that was inaccurately shared with them or worse incompetently unknown!
This ignoring the scotus and lighthearted giggling at the outset of the oval office meeting while playing with the life of a father, brother, husband and son is disheartening. Deferring to Miller (also occurred on Hegseth’s call) is also alarming because he seems to think real people are just ants or hindrances to either his happiness or our budding greatness. Frustrating to watch.
"makes me feel unclean as an American." Perfectly stated. And now we know at least one goal of all that data-mining DOGE was doing. None of us are out of reach. That's what we need to hammer home to the rest of the country.
Thank you for bringing so much clarity to nebulous issues.
As long as FOX 🦊 a the likes of Newsmax 📺 continues the narrative of PROPAGANDA it doesn’t matter!
So is it the Federalist Society or Rupert Murdoch who destroyed us? With a nice assist from bloody Vladimir.
Merrick Garland, too.
Combination of The Federalist Society and The Heritage Foundation with the assistance of Mitch McConnell and Stephen Miller.
Leonard Leo ?
Isn’t he really the original leader/organizer/fund raiser/propagandist who started all of this White Christo/tech/Fascist movement? Doesn’t Leonard Leo now have billions by his oligarch funder, to use as he pleases? Isn’t he the puppet master? Where does he live? Vote? Practice law? How did he get to rule our nation? Now the world? Does he rule Musk, Theil and the other technocrats(seizing our nation for a technate) and insurgents/insurgencies?
Fully agree, thanks for summarizing the downward spiral SCOTUS has been on since its takeover by right-wing extremists/terrorists. The Abrego episode is just the last link in a pro-fascism chain the Court has been building over the years, but many commentators and all the press were -once again- fooled into believing SCOTUS was standing up for the Constitution when it was doing exactly the opposite. When Miller agrees with you is when you know you are totally, unethically, wrong.
Share this on other social media, someone will read!
an important read !!!