1. United States
2. Colo.
3. Letter

Please BE part of the resistance and Encourage other congresspeople to stand up to this insanity! Better to stop it now than have to undo (if possible) the possibly deadly outcomes of the current actions. Democrats in Congress could withdraw their cooperation and obstruct the coup, but they haven’t yet. They are normalizing the coup by treating the regime as though it were still a normal administration proceeding in a generally legitimate manner. At a minimum, anti-fascists in Congress could and should refuse their consent for anything the regime proposes, unless and until Musk and his coterie of putschists are stopped from pretending to exercise lawful authority, and Trump recognizes his Constitutional duty to effectuate the laws enacted by Congress and comply with the decisions of the courts. Members of Congress could and should filibuster every nomination, insist on a quorum, insist that every motion be read aloud in full, and insist that every vote be a roll call. Whenever the chair asks for “unanimous consent,” that consent should be withheld. Any one member of Congress has the power to be a hero by significantly slowing the national descent into fascism — but none has actually done so. They have only threatened it and, as such, are still protesting (while submitting), not yet resisting. Let’s see some real heros step forward! Be one of them!