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Just posted the following to Mr Marc Elias, please share widely:

Dear Mr Elias, 

The following is a summary of CA State Law regarding acts of terrorism against residents of the State: 

California law criminalizes terrorism-related activities, such as making criminal threats (Penal Code 422) and committing acts of violence to intimidate the public or influence policy (Penal Code sections 11410 et seq.), often with penalties up to life imprisonment or death, and also addresses terrorism through hate crime laws like The Ralph Civil Rights Act (Civil Code 51.7) which protects residents from violence due to identity-based discrimination. 

Key California Laws Addressing Terrorism:

This act defines and prohibits terrorism, which involves acts of violence or threats intended to:

Intimidate a civilian population. 

Influence government policy through intimidation. 

Affect government conduct by killing or kidnapping. 

Examples of such offenses include murder, kidnapping, assault with a weapon, stalking, and tampering with the food supply. 

This statute makes it a crime to make a credible threat to inflict death or great bodily injury on another person, even if the person doesn't intend to carry out the threat. 

Terrorism in the Context of 

 (Civil Code 51.7): This law provides protection from violence or the threat of violence when it stems from hate or discrimination based on a person's actual or perceived sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

Penalties 

Penalties for terrorism-related offenses are severe, with potential prison sentences ranging from years to life, and can even include the death penalty, depending on the nature and severity of the underlying offense.

Bone spurs trump and his numerous minions have TERRORIZED California Residents non-stop since 20 Jan 2025. 

Governor Newsom should bring charges against trump & everyone who has participated in their incessant acts of domestic terrorism. 

Nothing in the US Constitution, irrespective of the current, corrupt SCOTUS, prohibits a State from PROTECTING ITS RESIDENTS from COUNTLESS, CONTINUES ACTS OF TERRORISM. 

Bring it, Mr Elias!

Thank you,

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A Glass-1/8th-Full Perspective's avatar

Gentlemen, please click on the link to evaluate the possibilities that #ProjectCarrot can offer for a Democratic Party that is largely just treading water right now.

We can’t wait until January 2027 to pry back apart the three branches of government. Let’s find a way to reach the good parts left in the souls of House Republicans, and make them aware of the tremendous power for good that they hold in this moment. We can instill in them the will to stand against Trumpism if Dems can prove that this won’t be a painful dead end for them.

#ProjectCarrot provides the path to a #BlueHouse absolutely shredding the Trump administration for their #OverreachRampage BY THIS SEPTEMBER. And the carrots dangled in front of these House Republicans - career sustainability, bipartisan clout, and a leg up in GOP 2.0 - can make them personally responsible for ending the Trump madness ahead of schedule.

The escape hatch from Trump’s dumpster fire can be triggered through the simple choice by DNC Chair Martin to vow not to support or fund a Dem against a House Republican who declares him or herself an independent, caucusing with Dems. He’ll instruct the state chairs to do the same.

If Trump’s cruel overreach dooms their seat anyway, urge them to #FlipTheHouseNOWandBeHeroesForever

This is the first stage of what I call #ProjectCarrot. Read the link to discover the whole extended plan, from this and other DNC inducements to switch, through the first phases of a #BlueHouse, and on to #PresidentialCensure. This last phase is a way to get Trump to roll back many of his travesties, with greed as his personal carrot: if he’s impeached and removed, he can’t keep his $400M jet.

https://open.substack.com/pub/toddtelford/p/forget-the-gerrymandering-wars-take?r=13imj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

If just the first phase of Project Carrot above is confirmed, then Indivisible and other groups can join in the online and curbside messaging. Ask these potential defectors to rebrand #ConstitutionalConservatives. There are mountains of evidence pointing to breaches of either concept.

They can be #PolarOppositePatriots, working alongside Dems to stop Trump despite massive philosophical differences.

Be sure to check out the list of #PresidentialCensure requirements that Trump must adhere to through the link above. And feel free to add more suggestions as comments to that posting.

This is the fastest way out, folks. And it requires us to change how we participate in politics. No matter how gratifying little victories may be, there’s no point now in left/right face-offs that waste time.

Instead, we must seek out and support our friends and neighbors that too could be #PolarOppositePatriots. If they’ve fallen strangely silent about their MAGA, tell them that this is a way to have their voice without having to become Democrats.

The dots are so easy to connect these days. It’s hard to avoid seeing the damage to each family’s economic and physical health. They’ll hear you when you say that THIS MUST BE HALTED NOW because the harm compounds daily.

Even if they support some of Trump’s most horrific policies, they have to admit that the methods of implementation are well off the rails. That’s the first crack that you can use to pry open their absolutism.

And if you have to, break out The Golden Rule. The fact that it is absent completely within Christian Nationalism is very, very telling. Remind them that when they participate in shaping GOP 2.0 down the road, they can rebuild it with a focus on honor and making life easier for families. This means embracing bipartisanship any time that goal is in play.

We can be careful not to alienate our conservative neighbors. They may finally be ready to hear that today’s GOP is not conservative, they are #CORPservative - in sertitude only to their corporate and billionaire donors. And the #BBBbetrayal proves that they are #ProSTRIFE, inflicting economic gut punches to weaken our resolve.

If they finally feel alienated by the party of their birth, please encourage them, empower them, to completely overhaul it from the top down as #ConstitutionalConservatives, adopting that moniker too.

Imagine the strength of our patriotism if the #WokeRevolt and #ConstitutionalConservatives can put their vast differences aside for the benefit of extracting Trumpism and starting the long process of building back all that we’ve lost in just 6 months.

We now all know the preamble for the MAGA hat:

“After Trump, It Will Take a Decade to… MAGA“

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A Glass-1/8th-Full Perspective's avatar

We can’t wait until January 2027 to pry back apart the three branches of government. Let’s find a way to reach the good parts left in the souls of House Republicans and give them the credit for saving America.

Progressives, THIS.  CAN.  WORK. #ProjectCarrot provides the path to a #BlueHouse absolutely shredding the Trump administration for their #OverreachRampage BY THIS SEPTEMBER. And the carrots dangled in front of these House Republicans, career sustainability, bipartisan clout, and a leg up in GOP 2.0, can make them personally responsible for ending the Trump madness ahead of schedule.

The escape hatch from Trump’s dumpster fire can be triggered through the simple choice by DNC Chair Martin to vow not to support or fund a Dem against a House Republican who declares him or herself an independent, caucusing with Dems. He’ll instruct the state chairs to do the same.

If Trump’s cruel overreach dooms their seat anyway, urge them to #FlipTheHouseNOWandBeHeroesForever

This is the first stage of what I call #ProjectCarrot. Read the link to discover the whole extended plan, from this and other DNC inducements to switch, through the first phases of a #BlueHouse, and on to #PresidentialCensure. This last phase is a way to get Trump to roll back many of his travesties, with greed as his personal carrot: if he’s impeached and removed, he can’t keep his $400M jet.

https://open.substack.com/pub/toddtelford/p/forget-the-gerrymandering-wars-take?r=13imj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

If just the first phase of Project Carrot above is confirmed, then Indivisible and other groups can join in the online and curbside messaging. Ask these potential defectors to rebrand #ConstitutionalConservatives. There are mountains of evidence pointing to breaches of either concept.

They can be #PolarOppositePatriots, working alongside Dems to stop Trump despite massive philosophical differences.

Be sure to check out the list of #PresidentialCensure requirements that Trump must adhere to through the link above. And feel free to add more suggestions as comments to that posting.

This is the fastest way out, folks. And it requires us to change how we participate in politics. No matter how gratifying little victories may be, there’s no point now in left/right face-offs that waste time.

Instead, we must seek out and support our friends and neighbors that too could be #PolarOppositePatriots. If they’ve fallen strangely silent about their MAGA, tell them that this is a way to have their voice without having to become Democrats.

The dots are so easy to connect these days. It’s hard to avoid seeing the damage to each family’s economic and physical health. They’ll hear you when you say that THIS MUST BE HALTED NOW because the harm compounds daily.

Even if they support some of Trump’s most horrific policies, they have to admit that the methods of implementation are well off the rails. That’s the first crack that you can use to pry open their absolutism.

And if you have to, break out The Golden Rule. The fact that it is absent completely within Christian Nationalism is very, very telling. Remind them that when they participate in shaping GOP 2.0 down the road, they can rebuild it with a focus on honor and making life easier for families. This means embracing bipartisanship any time that goal is in play.

We can be careful not to alienate our conservative neighbors. They may finally be ready to hear that today’s GOP is not conservative, they are #CORPservative - in sertitude only to their corporate and billionaire donors. And the #BBBbetrayal proves that they are #ProSTRIFE, inflicting economic gut punches to weaken our resolve.

If they finally feel alienated by the party of their birth, please encourage them, empower them, to completely overhaul it from the top down as #ConstitutionalConservatives, adopting that moniker too.

Imagine the strength of our patriotism if the #WokeRevolt and #ConstitutionalConservatives can put their vast differences aside for the benefit of extracting Trumpism and starting the long process of building back all that we’ve lost in just 6 months.

We now all know the preamble for the MAGA hat:

“After Trump, It Will Take a Decade to… M

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SLMontgo's avatar

Did we ever have a "pro-Democracy" mass movement? Because, at 77, I am finding it difficult to recall a time. I think over all the presidencies I have experienced, and only one seemed "pro-Democracy: JFK ... and look how that ended. LBJ tried his ass off but the 'nam quagmire killed his presidency. After that, Nixon... and bupkis. When was there ever a pro-Democracy mass that wasn't daily attacked by "conservatives"? Name even one.

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Beth's avatar

Congrats and thank you for the thoughtful discourse.

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Meg Daley Olmert WE/US's avatar

ICE IS???

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Nansu19's avatar

Does anyone have contact with the upper echelon of the military to find out how many military personnel are aware of and against being part of the coup they are part of? Will they all just go along? Do we have any underground supporters? It’s coming down to a serious confrontation and they cannot be complicit! We need powerful allies.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto and Social Security Data Breach

This should be concerning to all of us, WE the People DOGE lackies in the Social Security Administration(SSA) were told not to dump into the public internet space, but they did it anyway, releasing 100’s of millions of personal data including names, addresses, Social Security numbers into the internet spaces

Now that this personal data is now in the public space, Cheeto and his Nazi allies particularly Peter Thiel with his Palantir software platform, now have public permission to use this data go after registered voters in order to disqualify these legitimate voters across the country through the Vigilante assault like they experienced in 2024 According to Greg Palast the investigative reporter who exposed this Nazi scheme According to Palast just by eliminating this influence would have given Harris the win

Again what is not being covered by Substack authors about this threat WE the People have to be prepared for this voter assault and let friends, relatives, family, and neighbors know about this to protect their right to vote

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Dick & Janet Avery's avatar

Rick, will you contact the Chairman of the Dems & suggest the following: (1) Make a list of All of the House members that voted for the "Big Shitty Bill"; (2) Cross reference that with the district they represent (3) Cross reference that list with the majority of the aspects of the bill that effect THEIR district. (Kitchen table issues ONLY, Remember the KISS principle. No esoteric subjects about economics, law, or any of the usual Dem pearl-clutching tut-tuts.) (4) get that info into the hands of a team of Dems that visit EVERY aforementioned district and inform as many people as possible of what the bill will do to THEIR SPECIFIC district). Start this program in the spring of next year so it will be fresh in the minds of people just before the mid-terms. THEN, we'll take back the House! Loving being a Square with Lincoln!

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A Glass-1/8th-Full Perspective's avatar

May I add that we include the winning margins in 2024 on that list of House Republicans to gauge their true vulnerability?

With both candidates and ballot measures, there have often been blue shifts of 15 to 20%. And for many of those whose margin of victory was well below that range, let’s call each of them an #FTR

#FinalTermRepublican

It will remind them of the cost of their destruction of the social safety nets that FDR, and later President Johnson, provided to enhance America’s greatness.

Let them know that we know that they are complicit in Trump‘s #SquanderingAmericasGreatness. They will pay with their careers for that - unless they decide to declare as independent, causing with Democrats, and thereby help #FlipTheHouseNowAndBeHeroesForever.

Help them understand that this could be a great moment to be on the right side of history.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

great ideas

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P J Johnston's avatar

I have one big question...how in the world did Project 2025 interject into this whole thing. Oh wait they amassed tons of "Dark Money" and funded campaigns to get all the chaotic clowns that we now have in our government. All the sycophants and loyalist that tell "HIM" go ahead and do this crap! I hope to see all of them in jail in the future without parole! BTW I don't like the VP any better than I like the current leader. Yes TACO has DVT which is a horrible disease and him losing weight won't help anymore.

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Maxine Hunter's avatar

Watched the chap live last night. Listen to the discussion again this morning. Stop on. Always interesting to see what come up in the live chap. The chap goes fast and furious. Whew... Anyway, thanks Joe, Sturat and Rick for all you do. Take care.

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Marta's avatar

Institutional Washington is under the matress.

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Kathy  Utley's avatar

Joe Trippi. You are spot on. This is way beyond party politics. There is a strong movement against this bullshit. I am seeing a rise in the progressive Christian community to fight against Christian Nationalist movement

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Marta's avatar

The USA fought against Fascism, now we have the enemy within. The military mission is “ to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic”……I would like to hear your words about it, Lincoln Square.

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Leigh Horne's avatar

I so appreciate the fact that you're finally starting to talk about one of the more serious (and well funded!) threats to democracy: Peter Thiel and his similars, including the excreble Curtis Yarvin. The sheer entitlement and arrogance of this cabal of tech oligarchs might be unmatched in history. More, please.

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Kathy  Utley's avatar

There is an authenticity and honesty to your commentary and reporting.

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