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Below is an article. There are many like it. You need to understand what republicans are doing is not the type of things Americans have historically stood for. Republicans are attacking the constitution. If you’re not helping to stop it, I see you as a traitor to the United States. As do others. Because you do not respect the constitution or the rights of people. “We cannot give everyone a trial.” The president said that out loud, defending the removal of people from the country without a hearing. The sentence is the whole argument in six words, because a government that decides who deserves a trial has already decided the Constitution is optional. A right that protects only some people is not a right, and a hearing taken from one person is a hearing lost to the country. The Republican Party is replacing the constitutional order, and they no longer conceal the objective. The targets are the term limit, the definition of a citizen, the separation of church and state, the right to speak, the right to a hearing, and the classroom. The party is working all six at once. The term limit falls first. Republicans are engineering a path past the two-term limit. Article V lets 34 states compel Congress to call a convention that proposes amendments. Fourteen states have filed for congressional term limits, and nine more have filed applications that include them. Advocates now press the amalgamation theory, which would combine unrelated applications toward the 34-state trigger, so a cooperative Congress could declare the threshold met without a clean count. The operators driving this also built Project 2025. A convention called this way can propose more than one amendment. The stakes are plain: a party that controls the count controls the new text. Citizenship becomes conditional. Trump signed an order in January 2025 ending birthright citizenship, and his lawyers told the Supreme Court it merely “restores the original meaning” of the 14th Amendment. He is rewriting the amendment without amending the text. Every court rejected the administration. The Supreme Court heard argument in April 2026, so a sympathetic bench now decides a settled clause. The stakes are plain: redefining citizenship by order strips the birthright from anyone the order names. One faith rules. Trump created a Religious Liberty Commission, a White House Faith Office, and a Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. He told the country why: “to have a great nation, you have to have religion.” A federal appeals court ruled 9 to 8 in April 2026 that Texas can post the Ten Commandments in every classroom, and the same ruling strengthens identical laws in Arkansas and Louisiana. The commission closes July 4, 2026, after it delivers a national report on church and state. The stakes are plain: a government that establishes one faith stops protecting the rest. Free Speech becomes grounds for removal. On day one Trump signed Executive Orders 14161 and 14188, directing agencies to investigate, detain, and deport noncitizens for their political views. Nineteen state attorneys general called it an ideological deportation policy. Agents arrested Columbia graduate and legal permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil over campus protests, and Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk over an op-ed. A Trump order against a law firm drew a ruling from Judge Beryl Howell, who wrote that it ran “head on into the wall of First Amendment protections.” The stakes are plain: speech the government can punish is not free speech. The hearing disappears. The administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan men with no process, sending more than 200 to a prison in El Salvador. In May 2025 the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that 24 hours’ notice, with no way to contest it, failed due process. Trump answered the principle directly: “We cannot give everyone a trial.” Then the Court let the deportations proceed anyway. In June it stayed a lower-court order 6-3 in Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., and in July it cleared the way to send eight men to South Sudan, a country on no one’s paperwork. Sotomayor’s dissent called the majority “rewarding lawlessness.” In February 2026 Judge Brian Murphy ruled the policy unlawful in an 81-page decision, the administration appealed, and the case now waits at a federal appeals court, with Supreme Court review years away. The cases involved noncitizens, yet the principle covers everyone. In 1886, Yick Wo v. Hopkins held the 14th Amendment protects any person on U.S. soil, citizen or not. Strip the hearing from one, and the next person loses it too. The stakes are plain: removal without a hearing ends due process for everyone. For readers who have considered supporting Glass Empires, I created a limited discounted annual membership for the first five patrons. The annual plan costs about 17 cents daily. Click To Use Code: 30% Of Annual (https://wendy664.substack.com/011ed80a) The classroom turns into a pulpit. In January 2025 Trump signed Executive Order 14190, reestablishing the 1776 Commission inside the Department of Education to promote what the order calls “patriotic education” and to broadcast bi-weekly patriotic lectures through 2026. The department also launched an America 250 Civics Education Coalition. July 4 launches all of it at once: the religious-liberty report, the patriotic curriculum, the lectures. The stakes are plain: a party that controls the lesson controls the next generation’s idea of the country. Russia already ran the whole play. Putin killed the term limit first. The Kremlin rewrote the constitution in 2020, hid the change inside more than 200 amendments, and reset his term count to zero, clearing him to rule until 2036. Parliament rubber-stamped it in days, the constitutional court approved it two days later, and the state claimed 78 percent approval while the opposition documented pressure on voters and barred monitors. The Kremlin wrote one faith in next. The same package declared “belief in God” a core value, defined marriage as a union of a man and a woman, and gave the Russian Orthodox Church the reference to God it demanded. Putin seized the schools last. The Kremlin forced a mandatory class on every student in September 2022, named it “Conversations About Important Things,” and put Putin in front of the first lesson himself. Patriarch Kirill preaches to the children by video. A new required course, “Spiritual and Moral Culture,” enters every classroom in January 2027. The clock. Some of the republican party’s efforts to end the US Constitution are in motion. The rest of the plan to sabotage the Constitution can be stopped. In force now: The deportations without hearings are operating. Agents have made the speech arrests. Trump has signed the religion orders, and the Ten Commandments ruling stands for now. Congress funds the school directives through 2026. Pending, and beatable: Birthright citizenship sits undecided at the Supreme Court. The term-limit convention needs 34 states and remains short of that count. November 2026: The midterms are the first gate. A lost House slows the convention drive and ends easy federal cooperation. 2028: The term-limit question turns live only as the next election nears, and it depends on a convention or a workaround that does not yet exist. The executive branch and the courts are moving now. The ballot still controls the two hardest targets. The conclusion. The deadliest threat to a constitution rises from inside the government sworn to defend the charter. The Republican Party owns the presidency, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, and turns that captured power against every limit the founders set. The world has watched this crime before. Orbán gutted Hungary and kept his crown. Erdoğan ran the play in Turkey, Chávez in Venezuela, and Nancy Bermeo named it in 2016: executive aggrandizement. The slow legal pace is the weapon, because it isn’t as obvious as a sudden coup. The founders fought a war to end the