1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

We are in the middle of a constitutional crisis and a fascist coup. And you are blowing it. 1. Republicans are no longer your colleagues, and they sure as hell aren’t your friends. Any Republican who approaches you to work together, even if it’s ostensibly against Trump, get collateral and lock down consequences before you even start talking. And no more confirmations, not one, until you get a handle on the Trump administration. 2. Stop making it easy and fun for fascists to take over the Democratic senators, someone needs to object to unanimous consent every single time. Make them take the hours it takes to override your objection. And hey, remember those years when the Republican minority was such a pain in the ass that they essentially got their way all the time even though they shouldn’t have? Do that! At a bare minimum, do that. 3. Understand that you cannot ride this out. Trump wants to be a dictator. There will be an enormous midterm backlash when they have crashed the economy and people are keeping their eggs in safety deposit boxes. That means that impeachment proceedings against Trump — or JD Vance, after Trump’s own team Article 25s him — could succeed. If our elected officials do not step up to do everything in his power to stop the roll of fascism, I will join my fellow constituents in voting his comfortable ass out, and he will deserve it. May we all be lucky enough that he only loses his job that way. 4. Stop playing by the rules. Stop being polite. Stop letting this happen Accurately call a fascist a fascist and a racist a racist and let them howl all they want. Oh, and speaking of racists and fascists … 5. Get Elon Musk the hell out of our government. Stop playing along with the pretense that DOGE is a real thing, or in any way official. If they want to be real and official, then Musk should have to glower and preen through confirmation hearings and must stop all activities until he does so. Delay those hearings. Ask in every public format you can why a multibillionaire from a foreign nation has his hands on everyone’s banking information. Shout in front of every camera that you can get to that he has the power to stop people from getting their tax refunds, their social security, their Medicare. And then ask why Republicans want this. Ask why someone who couldn’t get top security clearance and violated the clearance he had has his hands all over your constituents’ tax dollars. Ask it loud and long and make Trump answer. Put it all over social media when Trump refuses to answer. 6. Force them to eat each other. Once you have made Elon Musk radioactive, hang him around Trump’s neck. Throw Musk’s crimes at Donald Trump’s feet, over and over. Did Trump plan this assault on everyone’s personal information or is he too weak and ineffective to stop this bad actor from coming in? WHICH IS IT? Line up the votes, line up the penalties for chickening out, and impeach that pathetic, treasonous felon.