If that were the case, why couldn’t blue states activate their own National Guard to protect polling places?. We already know that the National Guard can be activated by the state when there’s ice on the road.
I think they could be outnumbered. May be best for state election officials to begin training of volunteer “forces” to guard elections; find a way to whisk ballots and if possible voting equipment to undisclosed secure spot so chain of custody cannot be broken; and encourage voting by mail to approved drop boxes - not through federal USPS.
But, putting up a good and VISIBLE fight might be one way to gain more people on our side.
Also I am hoping the economy/living conditions do not get a visible boost from the short term tax breaks but instead become visibly dire so this becomes more haves versus have nots instead of red vs blue.
YOU are missing the point that this Clown is trying to subvert the Vote which is a HUGE red flag to Democracy.Once it’s allowed there’s no more Freedom in America NO coming back to Normal
Reason being, Joanne, is voting rolls are being purged in all states. And the reason being is a false one. "To UPDATE the rolls". That's total BULLSHIT; they will purge the Dems while they're at it. And maybe THAT'S ALL THEY WILL DO!!!!
Feel so helpless, time for some mental adjustments to stay, at a minimum of sanity, doing what we can hoping to block whatever to slow it down, unfortunately knowing ultimately it’s out of our control. 🤯🤬
Oh, they will try. But by November I pray the Hive will be in prison, or detained, 😊 However, it will take the CIA to bundle up the Dung Beetle. This must happen soon before the protesters begin citizens arrests.
Under Trump vs Illinois all Trump has to call is call out the US Marines and then he can then federal the state militia despite what the governor has done
For the President to unleash the US military inside the states he'd need to invoke the Insurrection Act. The governor of each state has control of that state's National Guard, which could help protect polling places. The US Marines are part of the US military and not legal.
I have been thinking the same way for a while. Announce in advance so the people know that the Guard are the good guys and there to protect their rights.
Wake up and be reasonable. You think you can fight the US Marines and the local militia which Trump will have federalized under Trump vs Illinois? Trump has the Supreme Court behind them and they have Wall Street. Why do you think Trump has been building concentrations camps? For illegals? He will deport them and deported people need no concentration camp
Yeah, the marines would be a tad more intimidating than ICE if we believe they can be “turned against us” in the next 9 months. But, 60% of us do not approve of this and ya gotta think a few more would be on our side given the intensified circumstances.
Not sure if Trump can command National Guard if states have already deployed.
if you have a more workable plan, bring it on!
The concentration camps will not be deporting people…too expensive…they will kill them.
Are you certain? Seems I would know if locals got booted out.
Do you believe Trump will send Marines to wvery polling place? And mail in voting? I am thinking he will fond a less confrontational way in order to maintain a semblence of democracy.
People whose lives are upended by imperial occupation do not easily surrender to their invaders, especially by those who know nothing of the countries they are raping.
I think you're right... What about voting at fire departments? First responders have integrity; I don't think that they can be bought like dirty cops... 🤔
This never-ending avalanche of bad news - Epstein, voting, ICE etc - is a demoralizing military tactic used to take down societies, and it is being fully deployed here at home.
President Obama's Warning: "You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage, you just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe. Once they lose trust in their leaders, in mainstream media, in political institutions, in each other, in the possibility of "truth", the games won."
Who is behind this? The 1%:
Here is well over a dozen Fox, CBS, ABC, & NBC local news stations all reading an identical script sent down from their singular overlord to crash & burn alternative media in order to de-fang the Oligarchy’s Overwhelming threat to [theor total control of] our democracy:
Ultimately we are not consuming news. We are consuming a product manufactured by the richest men in human history, and that product is designed to do one thing: keep us so busy fighting our neighbors that you never notice the chains being fastened around our wrists.
Totally agree. But articles packed with overwhelming despair, presenting huge, powerful forces we're powerless against, is also a form of capitulation, of obeying in advance. We need to know a. what realistically is likely to happen because realistically he's not going to do all of this and b. what is being done to fight back (because a lot is) and what can WE do to fight back?
It's already working. I see comments telling people to stay away from protests and "leave the agents alone to do their job." I get that some people are too scared to speak out, but don't try to scare the whole nation! Our federal government is already doing that job.
Apparently ignorance is power too, if you have enough ignorant people, willful or otherwise. Ignorance won the election and ignorance is dividing us & our country. It seems, like a bad strain of bacteria, that this level of ignorance is immune to the power of knowledge. Where do we go from here?? I'm not sure. I imagine just keep learning, teaching, spreading the word, documenting, helping, fact-checking and resisting. This is a cult we are up against, unprecedented and dangerous. It has to 'play itself out'. It's frustrating because we know the story, we know the beginning, middle and end, because of knowledge, because of history. We just have to keep on keepin on and doin what we can do. 💫💙
Ignorance can be changed. We must teach them somehow. School House Rocks, cuz knowledge is power. Yet even if it was something we could teach adults, how would we get the message out in our now world.
We stream what we watch on tv. No commercials... Maybe flyers? Saying what?
Checks and balances; if we could get that across , the rest can come from questions folks have from the first flyer. LoL I just remembered Harry Potter's Hogwarts letter and all of the owls.... Cute.
Oh, yes! The glue that keeps us together, is the AmeriCAN spirit. We will be back stronger than ever. You could say that we are like tea bags; we don't always recognize our strength until we're put in hot water. Start calling governors. Get them to assign National Guards. Or as someone suggested in reverse, the Marines can guard voters. But something's gotta start now.... Oh where is the CIA? Good gosh alFriday we need them.
We first need to build a platform of local strength, self-dependence, and resiliency. Once done, and we have a solid foundation from which to stand, from there we begin working on taking back the higher levels: country, state, federal.
The solution is to get local, get self-dependent, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors and sherrif's office, and town councils (the last places we still hold all of the cards), get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and, if so inclined, get God.
Thanks, TriTorch!!! Great post! You've got the answers!! Citizens are more powerful than THIS STUPID, corrupt government of ours. Just wish more people were paying attention and realized THERE'S POWER IN NUMBERS!!!!!
Be sure to read those Epstein files. Epstein had his fingers all through USgovernment, Hollywood, finance, other countries governments, and contacts with so many billionaires. He had links to Q Anon. As if child sex trafficking weren't bad enough, he was making serious inroads on planning to take over the world evidently.
My point earlier…..the Dem’s dropped the ball a while ago, when garland was in office. Since then, Dem’s talk a great story, but hasn’t done near enough considering the dire of the situation. The blues are just not made for this dilemma.
People are their own worse enemy when it just doesn’t click what kind of self serving S.O.B. Trump is…Unfortunately we also suffer for it, however he can’t stop elections and there needs to be a plan to outsmart him..Just wonder if the states can come up with a legal way to avoid his tactics..
It was the blue that sailed the sea to land at Plymouth Rock.
It was the blue that drafted the constitution; that fought in the Revolution, that secured our democracy well enough until the Dung Beetle started rolling his crap across our great land. The red financed the trip. They have soft little hands that couldn't push their way out of a wet bag.
Thank you for compiling this!!! I often try to use some of these figures in comments and it's great to have them all in one place! Hope you don't mind if I take advantage of your work in compiling this!
Say NO to the SAVE act! You should not have to show a birth certificate to vote. The SAVE act would do significant harm to women and people that have legitimate name changes.
The election is very worrisome. I was starting to relax. This must be Miller. Tacos just not this smart. Since the states are in charge of elections, how does the feds get in legally? He’s needs to be treated like Nixon. Admittedly, Nixon was easier to deal with, and he did have a bit of respect for the law, but we just witnessed what we already knew, taco has NO respect for the law! I just hope that blue wins midterms. Any reassurances?
Thank you Governor Inslee! We greatly appreciated your work previously and are glad you are adding your voice as a warning for the great problems we are facing with voting thx to this vile turd attempting to overthrow our democracy.
If you haven't read this article, you definitely must do so. If you have read it than share it widely. Everyone needs to call their U.S. Senators now. This is a 5 alarm fire.
Thing is that special election in Minnesota where the Democratic candidate got like 95 percent of the vote just proves that voters would probably crawl through broken glass to make it to the polls come November. And I kinda doubt that just four members of a goon squad would be equipped enough to bluff their way into convincing everyone that they have a official roll there that wouldn’t be met with an official kick rocks from the local cops. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be worried about the regime trying some dirty unhandled tactics to suppress voters in certain spots. Trick is just being smarter than them and not letting them get away with it.
"Kick rocks from the local cops" ?? Take a good hard look at what Minneapolis cops SAID versus what they DID. They DID NOTHING. The cops say one thing for the public, but carry on aiding ICE. Wake Up. The cops are NOT helping the public.
Even if they going into black or brown democratic controlled areas to intimidate, they are probably not going to have the numbers to really do anything if they are spread out thin enough. Plus worrying about this now might just inspire some members of the local community to vote early, where it’s just that much harder to be an intimidating force at, and then be there on Election Day scaring the goon squad right back.
Which candidate was that? That would be overwhelming even in a deep blue district like mine unless a candidate was unopposed. (My congresswoman typically wins with about 80% of the vote.)
Meg-Luger Nikolai. It was for a Minnesota State representative district. There was 2 of them having special elections last week at the same time, just in the other one the democrat candidate ran unopposed. This one they did have a token GOP candidate running that Nikolai beat like a drum. Small districts in the greater twin cities area, but helps keeps the Minnesota State Legislature balanced.
Great piece, and chilling. Hope it gets the attention it deserves, more importantly action. And I am no authority, but I’d be willing to bet their long guns still have the rock-n-roll lever. (as full auto is affectionately known.)
I hope they don't deter anyone from voting. I know some changes have been made to ICE. Now they have to wear body cameras. I think it's more important that they be unmasked. I think many would think twice about how they behave if they were recognized in pics and videos.
They won't be wearing cameras anytime soon!!!!!!!, something is going on with ice because from what I understanding they haven't been receiving pay some for weeks some for months!!!, Congress is questioning where is the money?!!!!.
If that were the case, why couldn’t blue states activate their own National Guard to protect polling places?. We already know that the National Guard can be activated by the state when there’s ice on the road.
I like your idea. Trump & Johnson are already talking negative with plans on the 2026 elections.
Trump knows he will voted out so he’s desperate..
I think they could be outnumbered. May be best for state election officials to begin training of volunteer “forces” to guard elections; find a way to whisk ballots and if possible voting equipment to undisclosed secure spot so chain of custody cannot be broken; and encourage voting by mail to approved drop boxes - not through federal USPS.
I think this idea should have been sprung in 2024. Now it is too late. What you've said takes logistics and thorough planning.
Thank you for saying this, I was starting to think it was just me! 💙
Don't listen to the naysayers. They're just troublemakers.
Are you ready to fight the US Marines?
Nope.
But, putting up a good and VISIBLE fight might be one way to gain more people on our side.
Also I am hoping the economy/living conditions do not get a visible boost from the short term tax breaks but instead become visibly dire so this becomes more haves versus have nots instead of red vs blue.
A revolution more than a coup…
Just a correction 😇
The Marines know their oath to this country.
And constitution. 🇺🇸
😡😡😡WTFK!
You must not know any Marines. They will not follow orders to kill civilians, nor hurt and maim.
I agree. Thank you for this.
YOU are missing the point that this Clown is trying to subvert the Vote which is a HUGE red flag to Democracy.Once it’s allowed there’s no more Freedom in America NO coming back to Normal
Do you feel this 2026 midterm election will be free & fair? Just wondering
No
Thanks, i keep hearing the opposite. I agree with you 💙✌🏽
Reason being, Joanne, is voting rolls are being purged in all states. And the reason being is a false one. "To UPDATE the rolls". That's total BULLSHIT; they will purge the Dems while they're at it. And maybe THAT'S ALL THEY WILL DO!!!!
Feel so helpless, time for some mental adjustments to stay, at a minimum of sanity, doing what we can hoping to block whatever to slow it down, unfortunately knowing ultimately it’s out of our control. 🤯🤬
Oh, they will try. But by November I pray the Hive will be in prison, or detained, 😊 However, it will take the CIA to bundle up the Dung Beetle. This must happen soon before the protesters begin citizens arrests.
Make Americans AmeriCANs Again 🇺🇸
We need the CIA
Under Trump vs Illinois all Trump has to call is call out the US Marines and then he can then federal the state militia despite what the governor has done
For the President to unleash the US military inside the states he'd need to invoke the Insurrection Act. The governor of each state has control of that state's National Guard, which could help protect polling places. The US Marines are part of the US military and not legal.
And they have integrity. They will not fire, hurt or maim civilians.
😡
They won't fire on civilians. The United States Marines have integrity. Semper Fi !
I have been thinking the same way for a while. Announce in advance so the people know that the Guard are the good guys and there to protect their rights.
Agree!
Exactly 🇺🇸 Please keep restacking Mike's comment. Then the CIA can bring in Trump.
Someone had better start something before the thousands of protesters decide to do a citizens' arrests.
What about all the blue districts in red states?
That's a toughy. It's not like the guard will wear armbands... I don't know. What do you think?
I like the idea of restriction of all ICE and CBP activities on election day and 3 days before.
But DHS has already been in contempt 96 times in the last year. This is too big for them not to disobey a court order. A court order is not enough.
I agree. We must fight fire with fire. Volunteer “forces”…
Wake up and be reasonable. You think you can fight the US Marines and the local militia which Trump will have federalized under Trump vs Illinois? Trump has the Supreme Court behind them and they have Wall Street. Why do you think Trump has been building concentrations camps? For illegals? He will deport them and deported people need no concentration camp
Yeah, the marines would be a tad more intimidating than ICE if we believe they can be “turned against us” in the next 9 months. But, 60% of us do not approve of this and ya gotta think a few more would be on our side given the intensified circumstances.
Not sure if Trump can command National Guard if states have already deployed.
if you have a more workable plan, bring it on!
The concentration camps will not be deporting people…too expensive…they will kill them.
Yep, and we will be none the wiser. Prolly just dump unwanteds off shore MILES OUT. PROLLY ALREADY HAVE.
Pig Hegseth has already purged the Marines, et alia
Are you certain? Seems I would know if locals got booted out.
Do you believe Trump will send Marines to wvery polling place? And mail in voting? I am thinking he will fond a less confrontational way in order to maintain a semblence of democracy.
The Viet Cong and Irag insurgents gave US forces a hard time.
People whose lives are upended by imperial occupation do not easily surrender to their invaders, especially by those who know nothing of the countries they are raping.
Too bad about the soldiers.
I disagree.
I think you're right... What about voting at fire departments? First responders have integrity; I don't think that they can be bought like dirty cops... 🤔
This never-ending avalanche of bad news - Epstein, voting, ICE etc - is a demoralizing military tactic used to take down societies, and it is being fully deployed here at home.
President Obama's Warning: "You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage, you just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe. Once they lose trust in their leaders, in mainstream media, in political institutions, in each other, in the possibility of "truth", the games won."
Who is behind this? The 1%:
Here is well over a dozen Fox, CBS, ABC, & NBC local news stations all reading an identical script sent down from their singular overlord to crash & burn alternative media in order to de-fang the Oligarchy’s Overwhelming threat to [theor total control of] our democracy:
https://substack.com/@tritorch/note/c-208406729
Ultimately we are not consuming news. We are consuming a product manufactured by the richest men in human history, and that product is designed to do one thing: keep us so busy fighting our neighbors that you never notice the chains being fastened around our wrists.
Totally agree. But articles packed with overwhelming despair, presenting huge, powerful forces we're powerless against, is also a form of capitulation, of obeying in advance. We need to know a. what realistically is likely to happen because realistically he's not going to do all of this and b. what is being done to fight back (because a lot is) and what can WE do to fight back?
It's already working. I see comments telling people to stay away from protests and "leave the agents alone to do their job." I get that some people are too scared to speak out, but don't try to scare the whole nation! Our federal government is already doing that job.
Knowledge is power.
Apparently ignorance is power too, if you have enough ignorant people, willful or otherwise. Ignorance won the election and ignorance is dividing us & our country. It seems, like a bad strain of bacteria, that this level of ignorance is immune to the power of knowledge. Where do we go from here?? I'm not sure. I imagine just keep learning, teaching, spreading the word, documenting, helping, fact-checking and resisting. This is a cult we are up against, unprecedented and dangerous. It has to 'play itself out'. It's frustrating because we know the story, we know the beginning, middle and end, because of knowledge, because of history. We just have to keep on keepin on and doin what we can do. 💫💙
Ignorance can be changed. We must teach them somehow. School House Rocks, cuz knowledge is power. Yet even if it was something we could teach adults, how would we get the message out in our now world.
We stream what we watch on tv. No commercials... Maybe flyers? Saying what?
Checks and balances; if we could get that across , the rest can come from questions folks have from the first flyer. LoL I just remembered Harry Potter's Hogwarts letter and all of the owls.... Cute.
Oh, yes! The glue that keeps us together, is the AmeriCAN spirit. We will be back stronger than ever. You could say that we are like tea bags; we don't always recognize our strength until we're put in hot water. Start calling governors. Get them to assign National Guards. Or as someone suggested in reverse, the Marines can guard voters. But something's gotta start now.... Oh where is the CIA? Good gosh alFriday we need them.
We first need to build a platform of local strength, self-dependence, and resiliency. Once done, and we have a solid foundation from which to stand, from there we begin working on taking back the higher levels: country, state, federal.
The solution is to get local, get self-dependent, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors and sherrif's office, and town councils (the last places we still hold all of the cards), get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and, if so inclined, get God.
Thanks, TriTorch!!! Great post! You've got the answers!! Citizens are more powerful than THIS STUPID, corrupt government of ours. Just wish more people were paying attention and realized THERE'S POWER IN NUMBERS!!!!!
Ditto.
Communication. Just as we're doing here. Some talented person will take our ideas, musings and rants and turn it into plans.
Be sure to read those Epstein files. Epstein had his fingers all through USgovernment, Hollywood, finance, other countries governments, and contacts with so many billionaires. He had links to Q Anon. As if child sex trafficking weren't bad enough, he was making serious inroads on planning to take over the world evidently.
Yes, true, true, true.
Sinclair owns nearly all of those stations. They infiltrated mainstream media to disseminate misinformation and disinformation a while ago.
Yeah that is an 8+ year old video, but it has never been more relevant
My point earlier…..the Dem’s dropped the ball a while ago, when garland was in office. Since then, Dem’s talk a great story, but hasn’t done near enough considering the dire of the situation. The blues are just not made for this dilemma.
People are their own worse enemy when it just doesn’t click what kind of self serving S.O.B. Trump is…Unfortunately we also suffer for it, however he can’t stop elections and there needs to be a plan to outsmart him..Just wonder if the states can come up with a legal way to avoid his tactics..
Sure seems like that, huh. Joanne. Grrrr
It was the blue that sailed the sea to land at Plymouth Rock.
It was the blue that drafted the constitution; that fought in the Revolution, that secured our democracy well enough until the Dung Beetle started rolling his crap across our great land. The red financed the trip. They have soft little hands that couldn't push their way out of a wet bag.
Agree, 🤯🤬😱
Spooky. I must absorb this before I can comment. 🤔🫣
I will be ready to vote...no matter what because it's my rights.
We all should, ABSOLUTELY, but what is done with those votes …..
I would hope states would come up with securing the votes in a safe secured place after voting is done…There must be a way to outsmart the Monster…
😂🤣🤣 Agreed, maybe having the states National Guards watch from vote close time thru final count & confirming.
What USA thinks it's #1 in (and its actual rankings):
Life Expectancy: 46th
FreePress: 42nd
Healthcare: 30th
Education: 26th
Happiness: 23rd
Freedom: 17th
What the USA is #1 in:
Military Spending
Number of Billionaires
Incarceration
Bankruptcy filings
Medical debt
Gun deaths
Funding israel
Thank you for compiling this!!! I often try to use some of these figures in comments and it's great to have them all in one place! Hope you don't mind if I take advantage of your work in compiling this!
This has been his purpose all along
There is no "all along" with this man; he's a creator of impulse and goes with what sounds good at that minute.
Trump does what The Heritage Foundation tells him to do.
It's like he has some table maps with army men and then he does it on the teal world.
Say NO to the SAVE act! You should not have to show a birth certificate to vote. The SAVE act would do significant harm to women and people that have legitimate name changes.
The election is very worrisome. I was starting to relax. This must be Miller. Tacos just not this smart. Since the states are in charge of elections, how does the feds get in legally? He’s needs to be treated like Nixon. Admittedly, Nixon was easier to deal with, and he did have a bit of respect for the law, but we just witnessed what we already knew, taco has NO respect for the law! I just hope that blue wins midterms. Any reassurances?
States control their own elections but Trump only responds to superior fire power or monetary damage.
Thank you for defending democracy, Jay! All immigrants must vote without ID through mail. I wrote a poem for Liam Ramos, a brave boy who was almost deported by the fascists: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/liam-ramos-poem
Every city has an Election Services office,( usually at City Hall), so use your car to drop off absentee ballot in person.
We do exactly this.. thanks for the reminder!
Not through federal USPS mail….
Amen, thank you, Governor! We need this!!!
Thank you Governor Inslee! We greatly appreciated your work previously and are glad you are adding your voice as a warning for the great problems we are facing with voting thx to this vile turd attempting to overthrow our democracy.
If you haven't read this article, you definitely must do so. If you have read it than share it widely. Everyone needs to call their U.S. Senators now. This is a 5 alarm fire.
Thing is that special election in Minnesota where the Democratic candidate got like 95 percent of the vote just proves that voters would probably crawl through broken glass to make it to the polls come November. And I kinda doubt that just four members of a goon squad would be equipped enough to bluff their way into convincing everyone that they have a official roll there that wouldn’t be met with an official kick rocks from the local cops. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be worried about the regime trying some dirty unhandled tactics to suppress voters in certain spots. Trick is just being smarter than them and not letting them get away with it.
"Kick rocks from the local cops" ?? Take a good hard look at what Minneapolis cops SAID versus what they DID. They DID NOTHING. The cops say one thing for the public, but carry on aiding ICE. Wake Up. The cops are NOT helping the public.
A lot easier to be intimidated, if you don't have,"White Privilege. "
Even if they going into black or brown democratic controlled areas to intimidate, they are probably not going to have the numbers to really do anything if they are spread out thin enough. Plus worrying about this now might just inspire some members of the local community to vote early, where it’s just that much harder to be an intimidating force at, and then be there on Election Day scaring the goon squad right back.
Which candidate was that? That would be overwhelming even in a deep blue district like mine unless a candidate was unopposed. (My congresswoman typically wins with about 80% of the vote.)
Meg-Luger Nikolai. It was for a Minnesota State representative district. There was 2 of them having special elections last week at the same time, just in the other one the democrat candidate ran unopposed. This one they did have a token GOP candidate running that Nikolai beat like a drum. Small districts in the greater twin cities area, but helps keeps the Minnesota State Legislature balanced.
Great piece, and chilling. Hope it gets the attention it deserves, more importantly action. And I am no authority, but I’d be willing to bet their long guns still have the rock-n-roll lever. (as full auto is affectionately known.)
So it’s November. OK. Time to get ready.
I hope they don't deter anyone from voting. I know some changes have been made to ICE. Now they have to wear body cameras. I think it's more important that they be unmasked. I think many would think twice about how they behave if they were recognized in pics and videos.
They won't be wearing cameras anytime soon!!!!!!!, something is going on with ice because from what I understanding they haven't been receiving pay some for weeks some for months!!!, Congress is questioning where is the money?!!!!.
😆 Good. I hope they and their families starve in the dark.