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Senator Whitehouse Reveals Dems’ All-Day Eric Holder War Game Scenario! We have "adequate resources already in place and pleadings prepared in advance..." During a recent appearance on the KrassenCast podcast, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said he is worried about what he called a new and strange development in American politics that President Trump and his far-right backers have introduced. The Senator described the situation as alarming because it did not previously exist. Whitehouse added that he still believes things will be okay for a couple of reasons, starting with the fact that Democrats are better prepared than he has ever seen for election-related mischief. The Senator specifically noted that Democratic senators held an all-day war game in which they walked through the various ways such mischief could be carried out. Whitehouse further described a large apparatus of litigation groups and volunteers ready to respond no matter what happens or how it happens, with adequate resources already in place and pleadings prepared in advance so that they would not be caught unprepared. The Senator closed by saying it is a shame they have to get ready for a president who wants to upend the American election process if his side does not win. My previous reporting has disclosed Senate Democrats, under Chuck Schumer, conducting tabletop or “war game” exercises on potential election-disruption scenarios, with participants including former Attorney General Eric Holder. These closed door sessions focused on responses to hypothesized actions involving ballot seizures, agents at polling places, deepfakes, and similar issues. Former Attorney General Eric Holder noted that while this falls into the outer reaches of potential threats, they have thought about and prepared to litigate and figure out ways in which they can push back on such an action. Holder further clarified that using such powers in peacetime during an election would be unprecedented, stating that really is using powers there that have never been used before in peacetime and with regard to an electoral setting. These coordinated legal and public messaging efforts around election administration lawsuits are intended to capture public opinion, mobilize radicals, cripple the federal government’s capacity to react, and destabilize the country. These coordinated war games and tabletop exercises reveal the lengths to which certain political actors are prepared to go in order to challenge legitimate presidential authority during an election. This is why voters must choose common sense candidates in this midterm cycle. The modern Jacobins are out for blood, and only a decisive choice at the ballot box can save our republic.

Resistance Labs Color Revolution Training: Is Jayapal Tied to the Coup? Resistance Labs initiative, Erica Chenoweth 3.5 Rule Curriculum, a training program that has trained over 32,000 people across all 50 states. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal appeared on the It’s Open Podcast with Ilana Glazer, a comedian, actor, advocate, and creator appearing on Broadway in a George Clooney adaptation of Good Night and Good Luck. Jayapal discussed her Resistance Labs initiative, a virtual training program that has trained over 32,000 people across all 50 states on recognizing how authoritarians and dictators operate and how to engage in nonviolent resistance. The curriculum was developed with experts on democratic backsliding and nonviolent resistance, notably in collaboration with the Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard’s Kennedy School and Ash Center, where Erica Chenoweth has participated in sessions. It also draws on Jayapal’s own organizing background and various nonviolent resistance toolkits. Local hosts and co-organizers for events have included Minnesota DFL state lawmakers such as Katie Jones, Jamie Long, and Scott Dibble, along with New York figures such as Brad Lander, Nydia Velázquez, and the New York Working Families Party. Jayapal has offered the curriculum to other members of Congress and encourages independent local sessions or house parties. She stated that the MAGA movement makes people on the ground feel overwhelmed and that it is part of their project to make sure people are so overwhelmed that they cannot engage. She further urged people to refuse to be hopeless because hopelessness and powerlessness are tools of the oppressor, and she encouraged fostering human connections at a personal level with neighbors and family. It sounds kinda like the people's assemblies the RAD network has been promoting and organizing on the ground.