Posting this again because it is so hopeful. Non violent protest is the way:

[applegrove]

https://thejenniwren.substack.com/p/to-the-naysayers-youre-wrong-were?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

To the Naysayers: You’re Wrong. We’re Still Showing Up.

How discipline, small towns, and endurance turn quiet protest into real pressure
Jennifer Canter

Violent uprisings rarely win. When they do, they often trade one strongman for another.

Nonviolent movements win because they pull more people in. Parents who cannot risk prison. Elders who cannot run. Workers who cannot vanish underground. Students who cannot afford permanent blacklists. That breadth creates legitimacy, strains security forces, and opens cracks inside regimes that violence usually slams shut.

Yesterday, when people gathered in Akron, Durham, Hattiesburg, Charlotte, Greensboro, Willimantic, and Martinsburg, they joined that arithmetic. Quietly. Publicly. On purpose.

Discipline Beats Decorum

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The point is not serenity. The point is discipline. Discipline denies authoritarians their favorite story: only extremists oppose us. Power craves images of fire and chaos because those images justify crackdowns and scare bystanders back onto their couches.

[murielm99]

1. We are showing up in the red areas

of my very blue state: Sterling IL, Oregon IL, Dixon IL.

People honk and wave. For the most part, we are getting positive reactions.