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Alyssa Milano sums it up perfectly: DO SOMETHING NOW To: Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and the Democrats campaigning for the future while failing the present—Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Gretchen Whitmer: Stop pretending your hands are tied. What is happening right now with ICE, with federal intimidation, with Minnesota as a test case, is not a messaging problem. It is a constitutional emergency. And your response has been delay, deference, and hope that the midterms will absolve you of having to act. They won’t. And no your statements are not enough. Your carefully worded Instagram posts are not leadership. Your “we’re monitoring the situation” tweets are not action. Social media is not governance, and outrage-by-caption does nothing to stop harm. Authoritarianism advances when leaders confuse restraint with virtue and visibility with power. You are not protecting democracy by posting. You are documenting its erosion. Schumer, you control the Senate calendar. Jeffries, you control House strategy. And the rest of you control attention. Where cameras go, where pressure lands, where history starts paying attention. And yet you are absent. No emergency sessions. No forced hearings. No subpoenas that bite. No boots on the ground where people are being targeted. Just statements. Let me be clear: I will not vote for a Democratic presidential nominee who looked at this moment and chose ambition, optics, and algorithm-friendly outrage over intervention. If you cannot use power now, I do not trust you with more of it later. History does not remember who posted. It remembers who interrupted abuse in real time. Get on planes. Force hearings. File injunctions. Choke off funding. Name names. Do your damn jobs. Footnotes: What You Can Actually Do (as curated by chatGPT) Congressional Oversight & Subpoenas Congress has explicit authority to investigate executive conduct, compel testimony, and demand documents through subpoenas.¹ Emergency Sessions & Hearings Senate and House leadership can call emergency sessions and convene committees immediately.² Contempt & Referral Failure to comply with subpoenas allows Congress to hold officials in contempt and refer matters for prosecution.³ Funding Power Congress controls federal spending. DHS and ICE funding can be conditioned, frozen, or reallocated.⁴ Injunctions State attorneys general can seek temporary restraining orders and injunctions when constitutional rights are plausibly violated. Courts can act fast—if pressured to.⁵ Physical Presence There is no constitutional barrier to elected officials showing up. This is not symbolism; it changes legal and political dynamics.⁶ No, you cannot personally arrest Kristi Noem. But you can make lawlessness expensive, visible, and impossible to normalize. That is leadership. Everything else is content. Sources U.S. Constitution, Article I; McGrain v. Daugherty (1927) Article I, §5; Senate & House Rules 2 U.S.C. §§ 192–194 U.S. Constitution, Article I, §9 28 U.S.C. § 1651; Federal Rules of Civil Procedure U.S. civil rights precedent (1960s congressional action)