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Thank you Joyce. I will scream it loud and I will scream it proud. We must find the courage to stand up to such outrage. This is our country, our family, our life our democracy our constitution. Please continue to help us. I for one need guidance.

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Mike, While IтАЩm no substitute for Joyce, I believe all of us are obligated to take great effort to drive home what it would mean to lose our democracy and how our way of life would change. Trump already has stated he would enact the Insurrection Act on Day 1 of his presidency. HeтАЩs already spoken about rounding up his political enemies. Accordingly, we canтАЩt relent in urging people, whatever their reasons for remaining complacent or indecisive, to imagine what America would look like were the President to start moving the National Guard around to put down our voices, our right to protest policy with which we disagree, perhaps indefinitely detaining us. This is not without precedent. Trump had wanted to criminalize protests around Black Lives Matter for the murder of George Floyd.

Given the hour (ET), IтАЩve barely touched upon rights and freedoms that would be ripped away, nor have I yet mentioned women losing control of their bodies, nor what it would mean were we unable to depend on an independent judiciary (weтАЩre already starting to see what that would look like), or depend on the rule of law, or an independent justice department, or an independent federal communications committeeтАФall things Trump has said he would do if re-elected.

Ultimately, we have 7+ months to urge uncommitted voters to listen to the things Trump says and the people he admires. No one should doubt that whatever the freedoms we have in this country, whatever one likes about this country, dramatically would change.

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45 wants us to be afraid. That shows how desperate he is. But we are all in this together. Read Heather Cox RichardsonтАЩs March 15 substack where she describes how in the 1850s we the people saved our democracy from autocracy. An incredible story we all need to know about. It might help give you strength and some calm ЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕ЁЯЧ╜ЁЯеБ

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In the 1850s "we the people saved our democracy from autocracy." That saving was for Whites, because my people were still living under an autocracy, better known as slavery in the 1850s. Just thought I point out that very important aspect Heather Cox Richardson left out in her 3/15 Substack.

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Important to KNOW that you and anyone else whose forebears came here as slaves are certainly now among WE THE PEOPLE!

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Thanks Tutone, I would also like to suggest Heather Cox Richardson's letter today which covers the scary agenda of The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. This is REALLY scary stuff that, I beleive most people are unaware of.

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