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We are DONE being shook-down by Trumpstein and his MagaTs. The time has come for Soft-Secession. NOW. Soft secession does not mean states and cities declaring independence or flying new flags. It means states, cities, and municipalities quietly building the capacity to govern without federal cooperation, so that when the federal government turns hostile, we have the infrastructure to say no. I) Accountability & Refusal Accountability When political accountability collapses, states aren't subordinate governments waiting for federal permission to act. They're sovereigns. Each state has its own criminal code, its own prosecutors, its own courts, and its own authority to punish crimes committed within its borders. The Supreme Court has confirmed this principle the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine. The federal government and each state are separate sovereigns, each with independent authority to define and punish crimes. When both have laws against the same conduct, both can prosecute. For proposed legislation to enforce Accountability, see: A Bribe is a Bribe Act: https://peppermintpixel.substack.com/p/a-bribe-is-a-bribe-act Refusal A second protection was built into the constitutional structure as well, called by the Supreme Court, in 1992, the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine, in which the Court held that Congress can't commandeer state legislatures by forcing them to enact federal policy. Five years later, the Court extended this principle to state executive officials when they struck down the Brady Act that required local Sheriffs to conduct background checks on gun buyers. "The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States' officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program," Justice Scalia wrote for the majority. "Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of Dual Sovereignty." The federal government can't force states to help. When states refuse to cooperate, the federal government must do its own work with its own resources and its own personnel. II – Independence from the federal government, is the second concept, where states create parallel systems that reduce their dependence on federal partnership and federal money. Included in these systems are public banking, following the North Dakota model, municipal broadband following Chattanooga, and interstate compacts that coordinate policy across state lines without federal involvement. For example, the Health Initiative formed in September of 2025 by Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii called the West Coast Health Alliance. Tax structures that generate revenue streams that Washington can't touch are another very important system. Financial independence enables political independence. A state that has built its own institutional infrastructure can absorb federal retaliation without collapsing. This is quiet-quitting. The state still shows up, still nominally participates in the federal system, but it's building alternatives on the side, ignoring federal directives when possible, making itself functionally independent while never formally leaving. The posture shifts: we don't need you, the federal government. These powers build on each other: refusal creates space, independence creates resilience, and both create the conditions for Oppositional Federalism: actively confronting and constraining federal authority. III – Oppositional Federalism, the last concept, goes on offense. It’s where states use their sovereign powers not merely to refuse cooperation or build alternatives, but to actively confront and constrain federal authority. Think of it as level I, Accountability, on steroids: - State Attorneys General prosecuting federal officials under state law - Legislation creating legal exposure for federal contractors and collaborators who participate in unlawful conduct - Coordinated litigation that forces the administration to defend itself on dozens of fronts simultaneously - Aggressive use of state regulatory authority to make federal priorities difficult and expensive to implement. Again, the posture changes: to we're coming after YOU. We have armed, masked men w/a budget larger than all but 2 militaries in the world, unchecked, who believe they’re impervious to prosecution – organized death squads, directed by Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem. Every State AG who claims to uphold the Constitution should come together and create a coalition and arrest and prosecute federal ICE agents for kidnapping both citizens and non-citizens, alike. There will be no PEACE until there is JUSTICE.