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RE: https://mastodon.social/@austinkocher/117037993913854308

Tracking #ICEtapo atrocities--now more difficult thanks to this complicit Congress.

One more reason to fire everyone with an R after their name (and a few with a D, too!) this November.

#DefendDemocracy -- #DefeatRepublicans. Every Last One.

Signed, a #GOPRefugee.

ARBEIT MACHT FREI.

In #AgolfShitler's #TurdReich, you work or you die.

Or even work SO you'll die.

Defend human dignity. #DefeatRepublicans. Every last one.

Signed, a #GOPRefugee.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/30/judge-declines-to-block-medicaid-work-rule-01016889

May Allah bless his efforts with success, and humiliate the #Donjjal. 🤲

From the article: "The First Amendment is not a dial: it's on or it's off."

'We, the People' choose ON. This fall, #DefendDemocracy: #DefeatRepublicans. Signed, a #GOPRefugee.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/10/nx-s1-5716101/mahmoud-khalil-legal-fight

"On Tuesday, some moderate Democrats privately and publicly argued a more centrist candidate might have won, or come closer to it, reflecting the party's debate over whether to nominate 'electable' moderates or progressives who energize young voters."

What a surprise: quislings argue the opposition should run more quislings.

One of the biggest lessons of last year was that the 'choice' presented here is a false framing: as the tax firehose is connected ever more directly to the bank accounts of our #AmericanOligarchs, and #AgolfShitler rails about human garbage while he prepares to deploy the #TurdReich's #ICEtapo against another nonwhite community, Americans WANT radicals who will actually wrest power back for 'We, the People' -- of EVERY color, creed, origin, and identity -- and hold fascists ACCOUNTABLE for their crimes.

Not 'moderates' who want to act like we're still playing politics, when it's long since seen "the addition of other means."

Yesterday's results in Tennessee say more about the state of play in districts torn between LIKING the #fascism -- but NOT liking suffering its effects THEMSELVES -- than they do about what fascism's electable OPPONENTS look like.

And i say that as a lifelong CONSERVATIVE, and #GOPRefugee.

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/03/house-special-elections-tennessee-takeaways

Apropos of nothing, it strikes me that we might, maybe, WANT TO CHALLENGE the framing of political violence against the #TurdReich as "left-wing political violence."

Conservatives, Reagan Republicans & unrepentant neocons, and #GOPRefugee's can be antifascist too. 😅

Just posted this over on LinkedIn:

A Call to Action, for Fellow #GOPRefugee's

As I've reflected further on this today, what started out to be a reminder of one of the facts of Trump's rise to power that I've personally found most frustrating has evolved into a call to action--for those in the categories I'm about to name, and for ANY of us who have watched OUR political party turn away from us toward fascism, pushing us to ally with the one whose policies we've most often OPPOSED...but which continues to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States" like so many of us swore our Oath to do.

See, while Stephen Miller--who somehow manages to be BOTH Goebbels & Eichmann rolled into one, for the #TurdReich--would LOVE to cast this in terms of "the left," one of the most astounding things about Trump's political successes has been how consistently his opposition has come NOT just from the left, but with equal (sometimes more!) stridency FROM THE (TRADITIONAL) AMERICAN RIGHT.

Remember the original NeverTrumpers? Almost the entire REPUBLICAN national security establishment left en masse--after TRYING to warn us BACK IN MARCH 2016 that Trump was a con man in league with the Russians, and manifestly unfit to be POTUS. There were even a significant number of old school, Reagan Republicans IN CONGRESS who saw through him from the beginning, and fought hard enough to oppose him that he put political targets on their backs and forced them out of the party (and generally into retirement).

And let us not forget that EVEN HALF OF HIS FIRST-TERM CABINET MEMBERS and other senior officials ultimately realized that NO number of "adults in the room" was going to be sufficient to keep him from doing irreversible damage to America's national interests; even jeopardizing THE SURVIVAL OF OUR DEMOCRACY, and urged us NOT to vote for him last year! "Unpresidented!"

So here's the call to action for these folks, many of whom are connected with me here: now would be a good time for us to make our voices heard. LOUD AND OFTEN. Trump and his allies disingenuously call for unity--let's GIVE it to them (and good!), reminding them of just how much--and just how long--America has been united AGAINST his motley gang of fascist white nationalists, misogynists, Russian agents, and concentration camp enthusiasts.

Because if you DON'T like political violence, next year's elections may be our last chance to avoid a choice between it the Christofascist Gilead of their dreams.