Yesterday, I covered how Project 2025 always intended to transform ALL welfare assistance into forced Christian Nationalist religious indoctrination in exchange for aid. If you missed that newsletter, please click the link below and share it with everyone you know:
@Sam Osterhout and I also covered this topic in our weekly chat at .
Fascists need COMPLIANCE. They strive to develop systems that make fascist constructs the only option for everyone.
Which is why it is vital that we take Project 2025 Christian Nationalist theocrats at their word when they say they will make Christian Nationalist religious indoctrination central to all taxpayer-funded welfare assistance. (If you doubt they said that, please go to yesterday’s newsletter and click through the links to read their actual words.)
Please let the impending cessation of SNAP funding and the expiration of the ACA tax credits galvanize YOU into community action. This is one area where WE THE PEOPLE still have so much power.
Stop worrying and hand-wringing and deploy one or several of these fascist-crushing ideas TODAY.
Join the Blackout the System Boycott (GO HERE to find out more and sign up.)
From 25 November to 2 December, Blackout the System is a worldwide boycott of fascism focused on shutting down the US economy. They ask participants to do as many of the below as possible (and I acknowledge that not everyone can afford to miss work…but they also have ideas for you to get your paycheck AND participate!)
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No Work
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No Spending
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No Travel
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No Projects
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No Events
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No Restaurants
NO BACKING OUT!!!
Yes, I know it’s happening during Thanksgiving. Yes, it means you’ll miss Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. THIS IS PART OF THE POINT. Rob fascist companies like Amazon and Walmart of their holiday sales surges and grind the system to a halt.
It’s a highly targeted general strike that only lasts a week. WE CAN DO ANYTHING FOR A WEEK.
Instead of giving holiday gifts, donate money and resources to local secular food banks and free healthcare clinics (where available.) BONUS: Make a donation in every MAGA relatives’ name and send them a lovely card letting them know of their “generosity.”
Long-time subscriber Christopher Cosma recommended this one, and it’s a banger. It continues to drive resources where vulnerable people need them most; it robs fascist companies of holiday profit; AND it makes a loud statement to MAGA connections.
For those who lack a secular food bank, World Central Kitchen is a great option. (It’s who I’m giving to.) GO HERE.
Organize Thanksgiving community potlucks or invite a vulnerable family to join you for holiday dinner.
Everyone complains about these forced family gatherings. Instead of enduring your MAGA relations (AGAIN), organize a Thanksgiving community potluck or invite a vulnerable family over for holiday dinner.
Plenty of federal employees (including our military) still won’t be recovered by Thanksgiving even if Republicans reopen the government.
Amazon is laying of 30,000 people.
And that’s on top of all the other Americans struggling through a loss of SNAP and skyrocketing health insurance premiums.
Readers won’t have to look far to find plenty of local people to celebrate Thanksgiving with. BONUS: You’re getting to know people face-to-face and making connections that will solve future community challenges.
Seriously, this one is a WIN.
“Adopt” a vulnerable person or family in your community.
This doesn’t have to mean providing financial support, though people can certainly give money.
It can also be about making sure they have a safe place to flee if ICE/CBP show up in your community. It can mean organizing meals and pharmacy trips and other necessity procurement should they be afraid to go out because of their skin color. It can mean helping them get healthcare, even if that means a ride to the doctor. It can mean watching their kids for an hour to give them a break. It can mean making sure they know about every available resource and helping them access those things safely.
Organize smaller food nodes.
If the regime continues to consolidate power, fascists may target established secular food programs as “domestic terror organizations” or “antifa.” Therefore, it is critical for communities to think long-term and decentralize food aid as much as they can.
It might be easy for CBP to raid a large community food bank, but it would be harder to find and destroy all the food resources stashed in hundreds of area garages, basements, and outbuildings. These could be set up neighborhood-by-neighborhood, where neighbors use their HOAs to identify vulnerable people living on their streets, decide which homes will stock food supplies, organize food drives, and schedule “opening” times.
Such diversification will mean the difference between starving and eating if this regime reaches its goal of destroying democracy.
Americans DO NOT have to settle for Christian Nationalist religious indoctrination in exchange for welfare assistance. Let the impending suspension of SNAP drive you to organize and provide secular food options for everyone in your communities.
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