Fighting Fascism: The Battleplan to Break the Regime

The Final Battle for American Democracy Begins Now

Nine months ago, I wrote a piece called Fighting Fascism: How We Push Back and Win. Back then, I said the guardrails were gone and the fight had to change. Since then, everything I warned not only has come to pass but has escalated further.

When I wrote the original, many people refused to accept what I said was in front of them: a fascist regime seeking to consolidate power by exploiting the democratic process. That denial is no longer possible.

The fever has broken. We’ve watched the military deployed into our streets. We’ve seen masked, unidentified men disappear people who were never a threat to their communities. We have seen our economy wrecked by tariffs while the cult cheers its own immiseration under the delusion that other countries are paying for them. We have seen the regime, from top to bottom, do everything in their power to bury the truth about pedophiles and their accomplices, treating them better and with more respect than their victims.

The time for shock is over. The time for blind hope is over. All that remains is the fight itself. By the end of this article, you will have the strategy and the tools to win. But to fight, we must first understand the stakes.

The Stakes Could Not Be Higher

Now that we’ve finally accepted the fascism in front of us, we don’t have the luxury of time to slowly accept what that means. So, I’ll give it to you as bluntly as I can. The first thing you need to understand, immediately, are the stakes:

No authoritarian regime in modern history that consolidated power through democratic processes has ever been toppled by protests and the courts alone. Not Mugabe. Not Perón. Not Hitler. Not Modi. Not Orbán. Not Putin. Not Erdoğan. Or any of the others. Whether they rose a century ago and sparked world wars or still reign today under the mask of “elections” and “freedom,” the story has only ever ended two ways: either they were brought to their knees, or they ravaged their people until collapsing under the weight of their own decay. And let me spare you any hope for the latter: once regimes consolidate power, they last an average of twenty years—longer still for some of the ones alive and well today.

Let me make this clear: I’m not saying not to protest. I’m not saying not to file suits. Both have their place. Protests offer catharsis and create unity. Lawsuits buy us precious time and runway. But neither can, nor must, be the end of our strategy. If they are, then we are condemning ourselves to live—likely for decades—under the thumb of a fascist regime armed with nearly limitless resources, funneling them into surveillance and into the most powerful war machine in the history of mankind. And make no mistake: there is no rival force on Earth that can ever hope to topple it in a contest of sheer power.

Even Ezra Klein—about as big a liberal pundit as they come—who at the beginning of the regime arrogantly claimed (which I skewered him for) that as long as we “did not believe” Trump to be a king, the courts would keep him in check, has finally come around. Not only has he accepted—however reluctantly—the error in his assessment, but in one of his latest podcast episodes, he sat with Kate Shaw, a former Supreme Court law clerk, to go over the many ways in which the courts—especially the Supreme Court—are now vastly conceding to and empowering Trump, despite the many “wins for democracy” in the lower courts. As Shaw notes, Trump currently has a 16-case win streak for his fascist regime, many secured through the Supreme Court’s shadow docket.

The point is not to dwell on pundits, but to make clear that even those who once swore by the courts are now realizing this truth: the courts will not save us. They can only buy us precious runway—and we have already wasted eight months praying they would deliver us from fascism.

Finally, if you need any more convincing of the stakes, Trump just renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War. And on the same day, he posted the following to his social media site:

Trump’s Post to TruthSocial

Make no mistake: the President of the United States has declared war on Americans. Now more than ever I will repeat what I said before: “when they go low, we go high” must be buried and forgotten. Getting on our knees and politely begging a fascist dictator not to crush us—or sticking our noses up because we’re “too above the fray”—is not the answer. And if you think the absurdity and clownishness of his post means it’s all just a joke, then you’re the butt of the joke. This is exactly what he and his cult want: for you to dismiss it, so you act without the urgency the moment demands.

Language Is Power

Fascism thrives on lies, but its survival depends on whether we dignify those lies with debate. Every time we let them set the terms—every time we respond as if their absurdities deserve good-faith engagement—we’ve already lost ground. Fascists don’t argue to persuade. They argue to confuse, to stall, to wear us down until exhaustion feels like surrender.

That’s why language is not just how we fight—it is the fight. The side that defines the terms wins. The side that spends its time explaining, loses.

Take Epstein. For years, the opposition has begged for the files, chased the “client list,” demanded one more dump of documents. I’ve already laid out the truth in Trump Is a Pedophile—The Republican Party Is the Pedo Party: waiting on a list is the perfect alibi for inaction. The verdict of conscience is already clear. Trump and his party are pedophiles—not criminally, but morally. If you enable it, you own it. That is enough to judge.

Yet what do we keep doing? We let them string us along with absurdities. Mike Johnson claims Trump was an FBI informant on Epstein. Trump claims the whole thing is a hoax. Both claims are mutually exclusive, both are transparently false—and yet the very act of engaging with them legitimizes them.

That is how fascism thrives: by keeping you in the courtroom of their lies, instead of on the battlefield of truth. Our job is not to “debate” whether Trump was an informant, or whether Epstein was a hoax. Our job is to declare what’s already obvious and hammer it until it sticks. We must always be in attack mode. Anything else legitimizes the absurdity.

Being on the attack doesn’t mean foaming at the mouth—screaming louder or playing the caricature they want you to be. It means being incisive. Surgical. Strategic. As I laid out in my Anti-MAGA Messaging Guide, it’s about chipping away at the cult’s hold over its followers by exposing the betrayal at its core.

Because not everyone inside this movement is the same. Some are acolytes: propagandists, influencers, and diehards who know exactly what they’re doing. They deserve contempt and exposure. These are the people you humiliate publicly with precision receipts, so their followers can see the fraud.

But many are followers: people who were disillusioned, isolated, or coerced into believing the cult was their only path. They’re not innocent bystanders, but they’re not hardened fascists either. With them, the job isn’t to scream or shame. It’s to create a sense of betrayal. To show them how they were lied to, used, and sold out. And then to offer them an offramp.

That doesn’t mean everyone needs to be confrontational. Some of you might not want to jump into debates online or fight with family at Thanksgiving. That’s fine. You can still make a difference by working with the people in your life you know are reachable. The ones who aren’t acolytes, but followers—who deep down know something is wrong, but haven’t yet had the betrayal spelled out to them.

The point is simple: stop debating lies as if they’re opinions. Stop legitimizing gaslighting. And start declaring betrayal as fact. When you say, “Trump’s tariffs wrecked your wallet while he told you China was paying”—you’re not arguing, you’re declaring. When you say, “They scream about drag queens while protecting hundreds of pedophile pastors”— you’re not litigating, you’re indicting.

Attack the betrayal. Offer the offramp. That’s how you chip away at the cult without reinforcing it.

Never Play Defense

For eight months we have sat and watched the same story play out: the regime takes a more aggressive step, and Democrats answer with protests, lawsuits, and strongly worded statements. We protest, we sue, we wait. And while we wait, Trump consolidates more power.

Back in February, Democrats had the chance to wield the only weapon they had left: the power of the purse. They could have shut down the regime’s government, forced concessions, and exposed Trump’s agenda for what it was. Instead, Schumer caved. He funded Trump out of fear of how it might look. I broke down the scale of that cowardice in Schumer’s Surrender . It wasn’t just a missed opportunity—it was a lifeline thrown to the very regime dismantling our democracy.

We cannot let that happen again. The government runs out of money in three weeks. This is the battlefield. And this time, Democrats must not only hold the line—they must win.

That means no more defensive posturing. No more “debating” the regime’s lies, no more legitimizing their absurdities. We don’t ask whether masked men disappearing Americans are “legal.” We don’t ask whether tariffs are “working.” We declare: masked forces in our streets are a coup. Tariffs are a scam that taxes Americans while Trump lies to their faces. Trump and his party are pedophiles, laundering the crimes of Epstein and his accomplices while treating victims with contempt.

And then we turn that offense into leverage. Democrats must shut down the government unless and until three non-negotiable concessions are met and written into the very law that funds the government for the next fiscal year:

1. Release the Epstein files. As a condition of good faith before any funding agreement, the regime must:

   • Order the full, immediate release of all Epstein documents, unredacted except for information identifying or endangering victims.

   • Ghislaine Maxwell must be immediately placed back at a security level that respects Bureau of Prisons policy unless the government can show the material contribution provided by her to justify her transfer to minimum security.

   • Any attempted redactions outside that exception must also be disclosed.

2. End the tariff lie. The regime must concede that it falsely declared an emergency to justify tariffs, admit that it lied when it claimed foreign countries would pay, and cease any further attempts to disguise taxes on Americans as “tariffs.”

3. No rule by force. This clause is to be written as a Standing Order to the United States Military within the funding law: any attempt to deploy the military or masked, unidentified forces into American cities, against the will over Governors, must be treated as a coup attempt. Such an act is to initiate the immediate and unconditional removal of the current government by the military, under the command of those members of Congress who choose, at the time, to stand against the coup, with the power of the presidency itself immediately following the chain of succession to the first person not to have enabled the wannabe dictator during his regime.

I am not under any delusion that this regime would ever agree to these terms. But that is precisely the point. The goal is to force them onto the defensive, to make them explain to the entire country—under the shadow of a government shutdown—that they would rather keep burying Epstein’s truth and protecting his accomplices than keep the government open. That they would rather keep lying to their cult about tariffs while wrecking the economy than keep the government open. That they would rather reserve the power to invade American cities with soldiers and masked agents than keep the government open. And I promise you this: they will hang themselves before they ever concede a single one of those points.

And when they do, we will let them. We will hold the line until their regime collapses. Only then will we fund the government—however long it takes, however much it hurts. Because whatever pain a shutdown brings, it pales in comparison to the devastation that will follow if we fail.

We must also be crystal clear: this is not about holding the country hostage over some policy disagreement. We are not demanding that a favored program be funded. We are not trying to impose an agenda on the American people. These are the lowest possible bars—Truth, the Economy, and the use of Force—the core of what it means to be a free country. That we even have to demand them would be laughable if not for the seriousness it represents. And the fact that this regime will let the government burn before conceding to any of them will be the very sword by which it ends.

The regime has played its hand. Now it’s time for Democrats to play ours.

Our Battleplan

And this is how we are going to make sure this plan succeeds: rather than protesting Trump, we will pressure Democrats. From here until the end of the funding battle, we will remind them—incessantly—that the future of their political careers depends on executing this plan. That if they budge, we will end their careers at the ballot box. We will fund every single candidate that challenges them. We will canvas for those challengers, we will phone bank for them, and we will donate to every single one of their campaigns. We will make sure that any Democrat who funds this regime cannot even be elected dog catcher at the local park.

And here are the steps we will each take to make sure they listen—and never forget:

1. Shut down the phones. From now until Congress votes on funding the government—and especially during the shutdown that will likely ensue—you will call your House Representative and both Senators every day. Either succeed once per day, or try at least three times during business hours. The goal is simple: their lines should be so overwhelmed they can’t function. The central switchboard is (202) 224-3121. Senators’ contact info: senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm. Your Representative: https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house?ZIP=<5digitzip> for example https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house?ZIP=20001 (D.C).
   And when you call, your message is simple and unwavering:
   “Do not fund the government unless these three demands are met: release the Epstein files, end the tariff lie, and prohibit the use of force against Americans. I know the regime will never concede, and that is the point—to force them to defend why, until their collapse. If you cave, your career ends. We will fund your primary challengers, we will canvas, we will donate, and we will make sure you are finished.”
   If you feel comfortable going into further detail on the demands, by all means.

2. Stay disciplined with your language. From here on out, you will use the strategies laid out in the Anti-MAGA Messaging Guide. Don’t forget: Language is Power. Never Play Defense. Attack Betrayal, not Belief. Offer offramps to those trapped in the cult. Remember: your future—and that of everyone you care about—rests on whether we succeed. If you’re planning a protest, please consider planning one to put pressure on Democrats rather than making it against Trump. He can’t care less, if anything it makes him happy that you’re doing something that can’t change the path we’re in meaningfully as opposed to something that can.

3. Spread the message. Share this with everyone you trust to care about our country. Our power comes from numbers, but it will be measured by the cohesion of our message, the conviction of our character, and our love for the promise of America—however flawed its execution may have been—freedom for those who live here, opportunity for those who try, and moral clarity as our guiding principle.

This is not just another fight. As much as I wish it weren’t true, I have been right about this regime every step of the way, well ahead of time. And now I will do something I have not done until now: I’m setting a countdown on American democracy. Ninety days. Either we defeat this regime by then, or it’s over. This is the fight. What we do in these next weeks will decide whether America still belongs to its people, or whether it is handed over to a tyrant in the skin of democracy. If we win here, we break the regime. If we lose here, we may never get another chance.

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