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Donna Murray
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Child of God, Wife, Mom, Mimi. NC is home. MAGA conservative. Romans 8:28. May God bless America.
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I knew it was my calling to teach. Growing up, I could never understand how my peers didn’t know what they wanted to do as a lifelong career. It eluded me.
I was born to be a teacher.
I spent approximately a third of my career teaching third grade, another third at the district level in technology, and the final third at the state level department of education in digital learning and digital accessibility for students with disabilities.
For the past few years, my husband (patiently) tried to explain to me that kids are being indoctrinated in college, and even in K-12. I could not wrap my head around that. I called it a conspiracy theory and dismissed it outright.
But once I pulled that thread, everything unraveled.
For 29 years, I gave everything I had to support children, and the educators who served them. I have to admit that I have struggled since retiring earlier this year. How do I reconcile spending my entire career in a space I felt led to serve in, while developing a growing disillusionment for so much of our education institution?
That is an internal struggle I imagine I will be grappling with for some time.
In the meantime, I want to help others understand what is really happening, in case you are dismissing the truth- like I once did.
Let’s start with the “Democratic Erosion” college course:
I was born to be a teacher.
I spent approximately a third of my career teaching third grade, another third at the district level in technology, and the final third at the state level department of education in digital learning and digital accessibility for students with disabilities.
For the past few years, my husband (patiently) tried to explain to me that kids are being indoctrinated in college, and even in K-12. I could not wrap my head around that. I called it a conspiracy theory and dismissed it outright.
But once I pulled that thread, everything unraveled.
For 29 years, I gave everything I had to support children, and the educators who served them. I have to admit that I have struggled since retiring earlier this year. How do I reconcile spending my entire career in a space I felt led to serve in, while developing a growing disillusionment for so much of our education institution?
That is an internal struggle I imagine I will be grappling with for some time.
In the meantime, I want to help others understand what is really happening, in case you are dismissing the truth- like I once did.
Let’s start with the “Democratic Erosion” college course:
Until my last breath. God bless America. 🇺🇸
Stand. Fight. Defend the Republic.View quoted post on X
Yes. Hope for Democracy lists these 15 states as the ones with a viable citizen-initiated constitutional amendment path that could be used to enact the SCALE model without legislative support:
Colorado (their 2028 pilot state), Ohio, Missouri, Oregon, Nebraska, Arizona, North Dakota, South Dakota, California, Massachusetts, Nevada, Michigan, Florida, Montana, Arkansas.
They rank them by a mix of signature/process difficulty, existing deliberation activity, and national political perception. Colorado is the clear priority; they also flag Missouri, Ohio, and Oregon as early follow-on targets.
Note that several of these have real practical barriers (Florida’s ~880k signatures + 60% threshold, Massachusetts’ indirect process, Nevada’s two consecutive elections, etc.), which is why they treat “viable” as a spectrum rather than a pure yes/no.
hopefordemocracy.org/research/state…
Colorado (their 2028 pilot state), Ohio, Missouri, Oregon, Nebraska, Arizona, North Dakota, South Dakota, California, Massachusetts, Nevada, Michigan, Florida, Montana, Arkansas.
They rank them by a mix of signature/process difficulty, existing deliberation activity, and national political perception. Colorado is the clear priority; they also flag Missouri, Ohio, and Oregon as early follow-on targets.
Note that several of these have real practical barriers (Florida’s ~880k signatures + 60% threshold, Massachusetts’ indirect process, Nevada’s two consecutive elections, etc.), which is why they treat “viable” as a spectrum rather than a pure yes/no.
hopefordemocracy.org/research/state…
@MurrayGirl Wow! Were you able to ID the 15 states where they’re doing this?View quoted post on X
I started looking into “citizens’ assemblies” after seeing Data Republican’s Democracy Files. What I found is a coordinated push to treat small, lottery-selected groups as more legitimate than elected legislatures or ordinary voters, and to convert their recommendations into law.
(The Democracy Files: x.com/DataRepublican…)
(The Democracy Files: x.com/DataRepublican…)
🚨🚨 THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨
I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it.
I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (below) to explain the whole thing to others are not on 𝕏 - feel free to distribute.
Here's the primer:
USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG.
Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance." They'd go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building.
You may have heard the term "color revolution." The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID's democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" in 2004, and many more.
Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn't stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.
This goal became a plan, called Renew American Democracy (RAD). It invoked the "4 B's" framework. Block - use lawfare and protests to make life harder for the Trump administration. Bridge & Belong - control dialogue and win people over. The final and most important B is Build. Build means redesigning the American government itself, and the crisis is the opening.
In their own words:
"We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment." - Danielle Reiff, DRG lead.
Calls show DRG working alongside DSA on ideas of creating a different government, one that does away with the Constitution itself.
DRG does not run the Block operations. They hand it to UDA, the United Democracy Alliance. One organizer calls it a "huge galaxy": lawsuits, street protests, non-cooperation. They list No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other mega-activist NGOs among their members.
Another organizer calls UDA Erica Chenoweth's project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor behind the three-and-half-percent rule of regime change: get that share of a country's populace onto the streets, and historically, the movement wins.
The UDA is very "hush-hush." They have no website, no roster, no filings.
Then come the red lines: things the Trump administration could do, such as calling the Insurrection Act on protesters, that would mean that the federal government, in their words, "crosses the threshold into illegitimacy." Nobody voted on those lines. There was no public debate. These red lines were developed within secretive working groups, and in a paper addressed to governors and staff.
In the words of Reiff/DRG:
"So that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a Constitutional crisis, like everyone's already pre-organized. And so Mike Smith actually said, he goes, oh, you guys have the day after tomorrow plan."
Cross a line, and the paper's options include states refusing to lend their resources to federal officials, and governors convening what it calls a "Third Continential Congress."
Running the UDA's Insurrection Act working group: Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET) of National Security Leaders of America (NSL4A). NSL4A is also credited with operationalizing UDA, the blocking operations. NSL4A consists of about 1,600 ex-officers, spies, diplomats. They're turning red lines into indicators and running a situation room to monitor them throughout the midterms and beyond.
The NSL4A's lawyers told them to stop recording meetings in case of subpoenas. But the rest of the network continued to record. DRG works in conjunction with Renew to Thrive (R2T), which ended up accidentally publishing 400+ calls and thousands of documents. These calls and documents were never meant for our eyes, but it's them, on tape.
Thousands of NGOs and billions of dollars are involved in this endeavor. Most of them believe they're saving democracy. The problem is that people who spent their careers deciding when other countries' governments had lost their legitimacy wrote that test for ours, in private, and planned for what comes after.
Who decides when your government is legitimate?View quoted post on X
