The Trump-Musk administration thought they could just stomp on us and our Constitution, replacing democracy with a MAGA monarchy. But they had not reckoned with one fearsome opponent: Sen. Chuck Schumer.

The Senate’s top Democrat says he’s getting “furious” about the GOP’s oligarchic coup attempt. Wow, he might even fire off one of his strongly worded letters to the White House! So far, though, the Democratic “leader” is meekly urging a horrified public to just weather the storm, predicting that, “Trump will screw up.”

Hello, Chuck—history clearly teaches that to fight totalitarianism, you actually have to… fight.

People are asking: Why the hell is the party’s top leadership AWOL? The good news is grassroots people themselves—the little-d democrats—have taken to the streets, leading the charge to STOP this plutocratic, autocratic power grab. So, “leaders” ought to at least follow! All Democratic national officials (including former presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden) should literally come out and stand together, demonstrating solidarity with the majority of Americans fighting this far-right, un-American assault by rampaging billionaires.

Most encouraging is the fact that workaday people—in red states as well as blue—are erupting in spontaneous protests and unity actions. Ironically, Don & Elon’s self-serving plutocratic thuggery is rallying workers, veterans, schoolchildren, seniors, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, main street businesses… and, well, Americans—against them! The GOP assault on all of us reveals that we commoners really are in this together, and it will take all of us to defend the Common Good for one and all.

This is Jim Hightower saying, to get involved in some of the actions in your area, check out resources we’ve listed below.

There are loads of actions happening around the country, and it’s hard to collate them all! Here are just a few we’ve seen—leave us your recommendations in the comments, too.

* The newly-founded Federal Unionists Network (aka, “FUN,” we love it) had a day of action on February 19th. Follow along with their fight:

https://www.federalunionists.net/

* Stand Up for Science is back and hosting a day of rallies and action on March 7th. Get in on that here:

https://standupforscience2025.org/

* If you’re interested in defending veteran’s services of all kinds, check out Common Defense, who has a Project 2025 fight guide, too: https://commondefense.us/project-2025

* Indivisible has also lit up again—and we like that there are local groups you can join, not just national actions: https://indivisible.org/groups

* We also just found this Bluesky account that’s trying to track What Democrats Are Doing: https://bsky.app/profile/whatdemsaredoing.bsky.social

Oh! And let’s have some fun too—someone hacked into the monitors inside the Housing and Urban Development office yesterday:

And many more! We’ll do our best to keep track of what we’re seeing out there.

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