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by Trevor Loudon<\/p>\n
Though I\u2019m a New Zealander, I know America and its people well. I\u2019ve travelled to every state in the Lower 48 and have addressed more than 500 audiences across this amazing nation. My message has always been the same: The United States is heading toward a brutally tyrannical socialist revolution\u2014and if America goes down, every free country follows.<\/p>\n
Well, now it\u2019s here, people, unfolding before our very eyes.<\/p>\n
So, what can be done? Can the Republic be saved? Honestly, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
However, I can suggest some steps that would at least give this country a fighting chance.<\/p>\n
1. Face Reality
\nMillions of Americans are still in complete denial. Many think the military is secretly in control\u2014that it\u2019s only a matter of time until justice is done and President Donald Trump is restored. There\u2019s a \u201csecret plan\u201d\u2014just \u201chave faith.\u201d The truth is that Trump was outmaneuvered by an alliance of communists, globalists, and even traitors in his own party. The \u201cdeep state\u201d is now almost fully in control.<\/p>\n
Trump isn\u2019t coming back into office any time before 2024\u2014if we still have meaningful elections by then.<\/p>\n
To make sure they can never be voted out of office, the Democrats plan to enfranchise 22 million illegal immigrants, abolish the electoral college, gain at least four more far-left senators through Puerto Rican and D.C. statehood, and flood the country with tens of millions more third-world refugees and illegal immigrants. They also plan to nationally introduce voting \u201creforms,\u201d i.e., mass mail-in balloting, abolition of ID requirements, etc. that will guarantee eternal Democratic Party control.<\/p>\n
If the Democrats can abolish the Senate filibuster and place at least four more leftist \u201cJustices\u201d on the Supreme Court, there\u2019ll be virtually no way to stop any of this if we rely on traditional political methods.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re undergoing a Marxist-Leninist revolution driven by China\u2014right now, in real time.<\/p>\n
The military can\u2019t save us, nor can Trump. On the contrary, it\u2019s up to patriots to protect Trump and the Armed Services from unrelenting Democrat\/communist attacks.<\/p>\n
When enough Americans face the unpleasant truth, then, and only then, can we talk about hope.<\/p>\n
2. Stop All Violent Rhetoric
\nViolence will not save America. The harsh reality is that President Barack Obama had eight years to replace patriotic generals with left-leaning political appointees. He did a great job. If violence breaks out (God forbid) the military will stand with the government, not the insurgents.<\/p>\n
Does anyone think Russia and China, and Cuba and North Korea and Iran would stand idly by while their Democrat friends are being defeated by a patriotic uprising? They would undoubtedly use the opportunity to finish off their \u201cmain enemy\u201d once and for all.<\/p>\n
Beware anyone inciting violence online, at a public gathering, or in a private meeting. Distance yourself fast. They will be at best hopelessly naive, at worst government provocateurs.<\/p>\n
The left is praying for \u201cright wing\u201d violence. It will give them an excuse for a massive crackdown on patriotic Americans. This country will be saved peacefully or not at all. If significant violence breaks out, it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n
Having said that, the Second Amendment must be preserved all costs. An armed populace is at least some check on tyranny, even if useless in the face of biological warfare or nuclear attack. Americans should keep their guns and work every day to ensure they never have to use them against their own people.<\/p>\n
3. Restore Election Integrity in All Red States
\nIf voter trust isn\u2019t restored within months, the Republican Party is doomed. Democrats will continue to vote. Large numbers of Republican voters will stay home. They won\u2019t trust the elections and will refuse to participate. We\u2019ve already seen this play out in the Georgia Senate elections.<\/p>\n
Thirty states are currently led by Republican legislatures. Some are already holding enquiries into fixing deficient electoral procedures. Most will be whitewashes unless the public gets heavily involved. If the resulting recommendations don\u2019t include the elimination of electronic voting machines and heavy penalties for organized voter fraud, it\u2019s likely to be a window dressing exercise. Be alert.<\/p>\n
Patriots must work to restore voting integrity first in the red states, then the red counties of the blue states\u2014then after 2022, the whole nation.<\/p>\n
Get involved in this process. It\u2019s a top priority.<\/p>\n
4. Close the Republican Primaries Immediately
\nThis should be a no-brainer, but no one is talking about it. Only five U.S. states have truly closed Republican primaries. This means that in most states Democrats and Independents (even communists) can vote in Republican primaries\u2014and they do. All over the country, the GOP\u2019s enemies vote in Republican primaries to pick the weakest, most wimpy candidate they can.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why the Republican base is super patriotic but most of their elected representatives in most states vote like \u201cprogressive\u201d Democrats.<\/p>\n
Close the primaries, Republican patriots. It will transform your party.<\/p>\n
5. Organize a Compact of Free States
\nMAGA folk need to build a \u201cnation within a nation.\u201d This doesn\u2019t mean secession\u2014Russia and China would be quick to exploit such division. What\u2019s needed is a re-affirmation of 10th Amendment rights as already outlined in the U.S. Constitution. The already out-of-control federal government is about to go on a rampage against every form of independence left in the country. Every red state with the courage to do so must immediately begin working toward a formal compact to collectively oppose all forms of federal overreach.<\/p>\n
Such a formal alliance should start with Florida and Texas, then grow by inviting Oklahoma, the Plains states, most of the Southern states, New Hampshire, the free Midwestern states, and the Republican-led Northern and Western states.<\/p>\n
Such an alliance, stretching from the Florida Keys and the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the Great Lakes and the Canadian border and even Alaska, would bisect the entire country.<\/p>\n
Adding the red counties of the blue states such as Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and California, would create a voting and economic bloc that Washington would find exceedingly difficult to challenge.<\/p>\n
When the Biden administration recently suggested that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis close all restaurants in his state to slow the CCP virus pandemic, the governor politely refused\u2014citing the ineffectiveness and horrendous economic consequences of mass lockdowns.<\/p>\n
Biden then reportedly hinted at an unconstitutional ban on air and road travel to and from Florida. This threat might work against Florida alone. It wouldn\u2019t work against Florida plus Texas and Oklahoma and 10 to 25 other states.<\/p>\n
The United States is technically a federation of free and independent states. It\u2019s time to fully realize that ideal.<\/p>\n
Southern states will soon be reeling under a massive new wave of illegal immigration. The federal government will do nothing to prevent it. Texas, Florida, Arizona, and the free counties of New Mexico and California need to be preparing to defend their borders now. This is not an immigration issue that is the Constitutional preserve of the federal government\u2014this is a state public welfare issue.<\/p>\n
Of course, the Biden-Harris administration plans to pack the Supreme Court with more left-wing justices to make virtually anything they want \u201cconstitutional.\u201d But this shouldn\u2019t even need to go the courts. State governments already have the power under the 10th Amendment to nullify Federal overreach. They simply have to band together to put Washington back into its constitutionally tiny box.<\/p>\n
The Republic will be saved through the courageous application of the First Amendment (free speech) and the 10th Amendment (state sovereignty).<\/p>\n
6. Republic Review
\nEvery free state should immediately embark on the adoption of the \u201cRepublic Review\u201d process. There\u2019s a small but growing movement in some Western and Northern states to review their engagement with the federal government to eliminate or nullify all unconstitutional relationships.<\/p>\n
Under the Constitution, the states are technically superior to the federal government. They\u2019re sovereign under the \u201cequal footing\u201d doctrine and have the legal power to refuse to engage in unconstitutional programs.<\/p>\n
For instance, most states only get about 10 percent of their education budget from the feds\u2014but are almost completely subservient to Department of Education dictates. Why not forgo the measly 10 percent in exchange for a return to local control over all public education? America is losing its youth in the public schools. Every patriotic parent knows that.<\/p>\n
This would give parents more control over their children\u2019s education and restore citizen\u2019s control over their own government. Is this worth 10 percent of your state\u2019s education budget?<\/p>\n
If the free states are willing to stand against federal government overreach they must also be prepared to forgo unconstitutional federal money.<\/p>\n
A thorough Republic Review audit would soon return power to the state legislatures\u2014where it belongs.<\/p>\n
7. Form a Multi-State \u2018America First\u2019 Popular Alliance
\nThe left has \u201cOur Revolution,\u201d a nationwide alliance of 600 groups operating both inside and outside of the Democratic Party. Operated by Democratic Socialists of America and the Communist Party USA, Our Revolution works in the Democratic primaries to elect far-left candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) into office. Our Revolution is not subject to Democratic Party discipline, but it does get to choose Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n
We need an \u201cAmerica First\u201d umbrella group to operate both outside and inside the Republican Party\u2014even possibly within the Democratic Party in some areas.<\/p>\n
This organization should be all about pushing the MAGA\/America First agenda at every level of government, in every state of the union.<\/p>\n
Such a movement could harness the energy of 70 million to 80 million Trump voters without being under Republican Party control.<\/p>\n
America First could unite the Tea Party and MAGA movements, grassroots Republicans, patriotic Democrats, and Independents to mobilize tens of millions of voters to transform the GOP into the truly populist, patriotic MAGA party it should always have been.<\/p>\n
Take that Mitch McConnell!<\/p>\n
Trump is already vetting candidates to stand against the Republican congressmembers and senators who betrayed their own base after the 2020 election.<\/p>\n
America Firsters should register Republican by the millions to primary out dozens of Republican sell-outs in 2022. The America First\/MAGA movement could \u201cown\u201d every level of the GOP by 2024. The GOP needs the MAGA movement way more than the MAGA movement needs the Republican brand.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, there are almost 70 far-left Democratic congressmembers in red states. Just restoring voter integrity alone could defeat several of them in 2022.<\/p>\n
Running MAGA candidates backed by Trump in every one of those races could flip many more. It would be more than feasible to take back the House in 2022 to make Biden a \u201clame duck\u201d president.<\/p>\n
8. Boycott\/Buycott Bigtime
\nPatriots should be abandoning Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. for more honest platforms. They should also enthusiastically support efforts by DeSantis to heavily fine Big Tech operators who \u201ccancel\u201d patriots. If 25 or 30 free states did the same, \u201cBig Tech\u201d would soon be little tech.<\/p>\n
Patriots need to organize nationwide boycotts of unpatriotic companies and buycotts for loyal American companies like My Pillow and Goya Foods.<\/p>\n
Already, local groups are drawing up lists of \u201cunfriendly\u201d local companies and friendly alternatives so patriots can stop supporting their opponents and spend more with their fellow MAGA supporters.<\/p>\n
It would also be smart to sequentially target vulnerable unpatriotic companies.<\/p>\n
Imagine if 80 million MAGA patriots resolved to begin a nationwide boycott of one such company starting now. The boycott would go on indefinitely until the target company was broke, or it apologized for \u201ccancelling\u201d patriots. If applicable, every MAGA family could simultaneously commit to buying at least one of the cancelled person\u2019s products this year.<\/p>\n
On April 1, another disloyal company could be targeted, then another on May 1, another on June 1, etc.<\/p>\n
After two or three companies had collapsed or apologized, we would soon see large companies start to back away from the \u201cCancel Culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patriots have spending power in this country, people. We need to starve our enemies and feed our friends.<\/p>\n
Again, patriots need to build a nation within a nation.<\/p>\n
It should be also a given that every American patriot boycotts all communist Chinese goods wherever possible. Check those labels! Buying Chinese communist products in 2021 is like buying Nazi products in 1939. It\u2019s immoral and it\u2019s suicidal.<\/p>\n
The Chinese Communist Party just crippled the U.S. economy with the CCP virus. Then, pro-China communists instigated mass Black Lives Matter rioting. Then the same people worked to influence the 2020 election.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about time Americans stop funding their number one enemy\u2014the CCP.<\/p>\n
9. Remove Malign Foreign Influence at State Level
\nDeSantis has unveiled legislation to massively curtail communist Chinese activity in Florida. The legislation also targets several other enemy states including Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela\u2014all of which interfere in this country\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n
In December 2020, Trump\u2019s Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed that the Chinese Communist Party was conducting a \u201cmassive influence campaign\u201d targeting dozens of members of Congress and their aides, including through attempted blackmail and bribery.<\/p>\n
Currently, thousands of foreign companies from hostile regimes are buying up land, food production facilities, technical companies, educational facilities, and infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of foreign agents are co-opting unpatriotic businessmen, unethical politicians, and sympathetic journalists in the interests of China and other malevolent states.<\/p>\n
Under the Biden-Harris administration nothing will be done to stop these activities at a federal level\u2014but much can still be done by the free states.<\/p>\n
If every free state cracked down on foreign bribery, corruption. espionage, and subversion, this country would be transformed.<\/p>\n
If hundreds of corrupt academics, journalists, businessmen, and politicians (from both parties) were exposed and punished, this country would soon be well on the way to moral, economic, and political recovery.<\/p>\n
What Do You Think?
\nThese steps alone will not save America\u2014but I believe they would be a huge step in the right direction. I will be following up with further suggestions and plans. But for now, I\u2019d love to see your comments, suggestions, and criticisms in the comments section.<\/p>\n
Thank you for reading. From a grateful Kiwi, God bless America.<\/p>\n
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics. He is best known for his book \u201cEnemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress\u201d and his similarly themed documentary film \u201cEnemies Within.\u201d His recently published book is \u201cWhite House Reds: Communists, Socialists & Security Risks Running for U.S. President, 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n
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by Trevor Loudon Though I\u2019m a New Zealander, I know America and its people well. I\u2019ve travelled to every state in the Lower 48 and have addressed more than 500 audiences across this amazing nation. My message has always been the same: The United States is heading toward a brutally tyrannical socialist revolution\u2014and if America … <\/p>\n