<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Laura Minces]]></title><description><![CDATA[Laura Minces]]></description><link>https://lauraminces.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0o1T!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Flauraminces.substack.com%2Fimg%2Fsubstack.png</url><title>Laura Minces</title><link>https://lauraminces.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:05:43 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://lauraminces.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Laura Minces]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[lauraminces@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[lauraminces@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Laura Minces]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Laura Minces]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[lauraminces@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[lauraminces@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Laura Minces]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Time for Action!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thanks for posting Derek Proudian]]></description><link>https://lauraminces.substack.com/p/time-for-action</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lauraminces.substack.com/p/time-for-action</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Minces]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 15:14:01 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for posting Derek Proudian</p><p>Author is still up for debate. </p><p>What is written is not! </p><p>Totally worth a read and ACTION </p><p>Dear Democratic Party,</p><p>I need more from you.</p><p>You keep sending emails begging for $15,</p><p>while we&#8217;re watching fascism consolidate power in real time.</p><p>This administration is not simply &#8220;a different ideology.&#8221;</p><p>It is a coordinated, authoritarian machine &#8212; with the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the executive pen all under its control.</p><p>And you?</p><p>You&#8217;re still asking for decorum and donations. WTF.</p><p>That won&#8217;t save us.</p><p>I don&#8217;t want to hear another polite floor speech.</p><p>I want strategy.</p><p>I want fire.</p><p>I want action so bold it shifts the damn news cycle &#8212; not fits inside one.</p><p>Every time I see something from the DNC, it&#8217;s asking me for funds.</p><p>Surprise.</p><p>Those of us who donate don&#8217;t want to keep sending money just to watch you stand frozen as the Constitution goes up in flames &#8212; shaking your heads and saying,</p><p>&#8220;Well, there&#8217;s not much we can do. He has the majority.&#8221;</p><p>I call bullshit.</p><p>If you don&#8217;t know how to think outside the box&#8230;</p><p>If you don&#8217;t know how to strategize&#8230;</p><p>If you don&#8217;t know how to fight fire with fire&#8230;</p><p>what the hell are we giving you money for?</p><p>Some of us have two or three advanced degrees.</p><p>Some of us have military training.</p><p>Some of us know what coordinated resistance looks like &#8212; and this ain&#8217;t it.</p><p>Yes, the tours around the country? Nice.</p><p>The speeches? Nice.</p><p>The clever congressional clapbacks? Nice.</p><p>That was great for giving hope.</p><p>Now we need action.</p><p>You have to stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will just time out in four years.</p><p>We&#8217;re not even at Day 90, and look at the chaos.</p><p>Look at the disappearances.</p><p>Look at the erosion of the judiciary, the press, and our rights.</p><p>If you do not stop this, we will not make it 1,460 days.</p><p>So here&#8217;s what I need from you &#8212; right now:</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition.</p><p>I&#8217;m talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs.</p><p>Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse.</p><p>Make it public. Make it unshakable.</p><p>Let the people drag the rot into the light.</p><p>If you can&#8217;t hold formal hearings, hold public ones.</p><p>If Congress won&#8217;t act, let the country act.</p><p>This isn&#8217;t about optics &#8212; it&#8217;s about receipts.</p><p>Because at some point, these people will be held accountable.</p><p>And when that day comes, we&#8217;ll need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence&#8212;documented.</p><p>You&#8217;re not just preserving truth &#8212; you&#8217;re preparing evidence for prosecution.</p><p>The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>2. Join the International Criminal Court.</p><p>Yes, I said it. Call their bluff.</p><p>You cannot control what the other side does.</p><p>But you can control your own integrity.</p><p>So prove it. Prove that your party is still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership.</p><p>Join.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve got nothing to hide &#8212; join.</p><p>Show the world who&#8217;s hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts.</p><p>Force the GOP to explain why they&#8217;d rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty.</p><p>And while you&#8217;re at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders.</p><p>Make this administration explain &#8212; on camera &#8212; why they&#8217;re terrified of international oversight.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.</p><p>Don&#8217;t just send postcards. Send resources.</p><p>Channel DNC funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training.</p><p>If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it.</p><p>If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly.</p><p>This is not campaign season &#8212; this is an authoritarian purge.</p><p>Stop campaigning.</p><p>Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is.</p><p>We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries.</p><p>Fighting this regime should be your marketing strategy.</p><p>And let&#8217;s be clear:</p><p>The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE.</p><p>They prepared for this.</p><p>They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions.</p><p>They built a machine while you wrote press releases.</p><p>We&#8217;re reacting &#8212; they&#8217;ve been executing a plan for years.</p><p>It&#8217;s time to shift from panic to blueprint.</p><p>You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029 &#8212;</p><p>a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.</p><p>You should be publicly laying out:</p><p>&#8226; The laws and amendments you&#8217;ll pass to ensure this never happens again</p><p>&#8226; The systems you&#8217;ll tear down and the safeguards you&#8217;ll enshrine</p><p>&#8226; The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable</p><p>&#8226; The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador</p><p>You say you&#8217;re the party of the people?</p><p>Then show the people the plan.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>4. Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.</p><p>If they&#8217;re going to strip us of rights and lie about it &#8212; arm the people with truth.</p><p>Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable &#8220;Know Your Rights&#8221; kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees.</p><p>Give people tools, not soundbites.</p><p>We don&#8217;t need more slogans.</p><p>We need survival manuals.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>5. Leverage international media and watchdogs.</p><p>Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up.</p><p>They&#8217;re too busy playing both sides of fascism.</p><p>Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel &#8212; hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to.</p><p>Make what&#8217;s happening in America a global scandal.</p><p>And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth.</p><p>Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky.</p><p>That&#8217;s where the resistance is migrating. That&#8217;s where censorship hasn&#8217;t caught up.</p><p>If the mainstream won&#8217;t carry the truth &#8212; outflank them.</p><p>Get creative. Go underground. Go global.</p><p>If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it &#8212; and make sure we&#8217;re still able to say it.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors.</p><p>Not everyone inside this regime is loyal.</p><p>Some are scared. Some want out.</p><p>Build the channels.</p><p>Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected.</p><p>Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes.</p><p>And while you&#8217;re at it?</p><p>Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors.</p><p>Everyone makes mistakes &#8212; even glaring, critical ones.</p><p>We are not the bullies.</p><p>We are not the ones filled with hate.</p><p>And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it.</p><p>They will have to deal with that internal struggle &#8212; the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power.</p><p>But they&#8217;re already outnumbered. Don&#8217;t push them back into the crowd.</p><p>We don&#8217;t need purity.</p><p>We need numbers.</p><p>We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>7. Study the collapse&#8212;and the comeback.</p><p>You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship.</p><p>They didn&#8217;t waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity.</p><p>They went after the structure.</p><p>The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects.</p><p>They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time &#8212;</p><p>until the &#8220;strongman&#8221; had no one left to stand on.</p><p>And his power crumbled beneath him.</p><p>You should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025,</p><p>every aide who defies court orders,</p><p>every communications director repeating lies,</p><p>every policy writer enabling cruelty,</p><p>every water boy who keeps this engine running.</p><p>You can&#8217;t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down.</p><p>You dismantle the throne he&#8217;s standing on &#8212; one coward at a time.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution.</p><p>They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS.</p><p>A M E R I C A N S.</p><p>And your biggest move can&#8217;t be another strongly worded email.</p><p>We don&#8217;t want your urgently fundraising subject lines.</p><p>We want backbone.</p><p>We want action.</p><p>We want to know you&#8217;ll stand up before we&#8217;re all ordered to sit down &#8212; permanently.</p><p>We are watching.</p><p>And I don&#8217;t just mean your base.</p><p>I mean millions of us who see exactly what&#8217;s happening.</p><p>I&#8217;ve only got 6,000 followers &#8212; but the groups I&#8217;m in? The networks I touch? Over a quarter million.</p><p>Often when I speak, it echoes.</p><p>But when we ALL</p><p>speak, it ROARS with pressure that will cause change.</p><p>We need to be deafening.</p><p>You still have a chance to do something historic.</p><p>To be remembered for courage, not caution.</p><p>To go down as the party that didn&#8217;t just watch the fall &#8212; but fought the hell back with everything they had.</p><p>But the clock is ticking.</p><p>And the deportation buses are idling. </p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>