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[Frank D. Lincoln]

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[Frank D. Lincoln]

1. I'm going to gradually break down the wall of text in the OP into more digestible pieces.

The catalyst for this Call to Action is Trump's funding freeze, which in my opinion is vastly more important than most people realize.

For background information on why the funding freeze is so important, as well as to see the inspiration for this call to action, please quickly scan through the information at the following link:

[https://indivisible.org/omb|

[Frank D. Lincoln]

2. What Trump and Musk fear the most.

DU, in my opinion, what Trump and Musk would fear the most is if DU members en masse switched from passive mode to activist mode and engaged in a highly organized, targeted, and effective course of action. That's what pursuing this call to action would do.

Think about it. DU members are some of the most informed and politically savvy people on the planet. We know what's going on vastly more than the general population ever will. We are a sleeping giant that Trump and Musk hopes never wakes up.

There are enough of us here at DU that, if we implement this call to action on a large enough scale, we could quickly energize the whole country and stop the fascist takeover led by Trump and Musk dead in its tracks.

We could become a force to be reckoned with.

Then we could crush the Republicans in 2026 and completely take back our country in 2028.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

3. 2nd Part from the OP.

The bottom line is that Trump is attempting to usurp Congress's constitutional authority to control federal spending. Trump plans to use OMB nominee and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought (last name pronounced VOTE) as his primary instrument to help him (Trump) arbitrarily control where congressional funding goes. If Trump succeeds, our democracy will be dead.

This is a constitutional crisis. The balance of power is hanging by a thread.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

4. 3rd Part from the OP.

DU, if you feel powerless and/or scared, then this particular call to action, in my humble opinion, is the single most important and effective action you can take right now to push back on what Trump is doing and plans to do. And the time to act can't be emphasized enough. Because of how fast Trump is moving with his sinister agenda, literally every second counts in pushing back against it.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

5. 4th Part from the OP.

The more DU members who quickly implement this call to action, the better our chances will be of stopping Trump and his dictatorial power grab to shift the balance of power in his favor.

(Note, for people with one or more Republican U.S. senators, there‘s a different plan of action for contacting those senators. That can be found at the Indivisible website I linked to above. But, this call to action is designed for Democratic senators.)