Rebecca Rauber
@defeatthefascists.bsky.social
Former ACLU comms director, current fascist fighter
#FireSchumer #FuckTrump #NoFascistUSA
#FireSchumer #FuckTrump #NoFascistUSA
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Your activism will be even more important this year.
Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
10 Crucial Things You Can Do in 2026
Your activism will be even more important this year
robertreich.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Your activism will be even more important this year.
Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
Sen. Mark Kelly with an A++ statement of defiance. This is the energy and clarity all Democrats should bring. #NoFascistUSA
![@SenMarkKelly [on X, I assume?]
Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution - including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.
My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head- all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.
Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn't like, they will come after them the same way. It's outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.
If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country's history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn't get it. I will fight this with everything I've got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don't get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xnfuootbvsjfusgfonrnkf2u/bafkreibyqhhy4hp7umpqlxyf5ncws47xpuxngnsohafojiqg35iffnjnyu@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Sen. Mark Kelly with an A++ statement of defiance. This is the energy and clarity all Democrats should bring. #NoFascistUSA
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Trump floats the idea of canceling future elections
Trump: "They have the worst policy. How we have to even run against these people -- I won't say cancel the election, they should cancel the election, because the fake news with say, 'He wants the elections canceled. He's a dictator.' They always call me a dictator. Nobody is worse than Obama."
January 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Trump floats the idea of canceling future elections
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Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan—and about MAGA Voters
To some critics, it’s about plunder. To others, it’s about hemispheric hegemony. Actually, it’s about both.
newrepublic.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
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Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.
Good thread on the need to stand up to the 300-lb. pariah bully. #NoFascistUSA
4/ In reality, Europe has many levers, financial, economic, and security related. Last but not least, it has military forces that could be deployed to Greenland. The purpose would not be to win a war, but to make a Crimean style annexation impossible
January 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Good thread on the need to stand up to the 300-lb. pariah bully. #NoFascistUSA
Good thread on the Insurrection Clause and the illegitimacy of Donald Trump. #NoFascistUSA
14AS3 isn't some fanciful stretch of a technicality to get at Trump just b/c he's bad. He demonstrates the very core of its purpose: you can't have free and fair elections with opponents who violently reject them. You can't have democracy with a party that mixes electoral competition with terrorism.
January 6, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Good thread on the Insurrection Clause and the illegitimacy of Donald Trump. #NoFascistUSA
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Prominent MAGA figures are making it 100% explicit that MAGA is a neo-imperialist movement that's all about pillage and plunder justified by assumed racial superiority:
January 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Prominent MAGA figures are making it 100% explicit that MAGA is a neo-imperialist movement that's all about pillage and plunder justified by assumed racial superiority:
“[I]t’s just not true that Trump and MAGA are anti-war or anti-interventionist…Right here, we see Trump saying almost explicitly that they’re basically using the military abroad to pillage and plunder. I think this just breaks MAGA.”
#NoFascistUSA
#NoFascistUSA
Prominent MAGA figures are making it 100% explicit that MAGA is a neo-imperialist movement that's all about pillage and plunder justified by assumed racial superiority:
January 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
“[I]t’s just not true that Trump and MAGA are anti-war or anti-interventionist…Right here, we see Trump saying almost explicitly that they’re basically using the military abroad to pillage and plunder. I think this just breaks MAGA.”
#NoFascistUSA
#NoFascistUSA
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Why did Trump invade Venezuela
Maybe because Jack Smith said things like this in his deposition:
"why we felt we had such strong proof is all witnesses were..allies [of Trump]..We had an elector in Pennsylvania..who said that what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government"
Maybe because Jack Smith said things like this in his deposition:
"why we felt we had such strong proof is all witnesses were..allies [of Trump]..We had an elector in Pennsylvania..who said that what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government"
January 5, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Why did Trump invade Venezuela
Maybe because Jack Smith said things like this in his deposition:
"why we felt we had such strong proof is all witnesses were..allies [of Trump]..We had an elector in Pennsylvania..who said that what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government"
Maybe because Jack Smith said things like this in his deposition:
"why we felt we had such strong proof is all witnesses were..allies [of Trump]..We had an elector in Pennsylvania..who said that what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government"
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The media need to stop beating their chests about how powerful our military is.
It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace.
It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.
It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace.
It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.
January 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
The media need to stop beating their chests about how powerful our military is.
It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace.
It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.
It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace.
It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.
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Pretty hard to square this with freezing the Gang of Eight out for "security".
January 5, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Pretty hard to square this with freezing the Gang of Eight out for "security".
Jeezussssss
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Jeezussssss
This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.
January 4, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped
January 4, 2026 at 11:35 AM
New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped
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RIP Dick Cheney, you would have finally found something to like about the Trump presidency (illegally overthrowing a government for oil)
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 AM
RIP Dick Cheney, you would have finally found something to like about the Trump presidency (illegally overthrowing a government for oil)
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Tell your elected officials to do everything in their power to stand up to Trump and prevent war with Venezuela.
Email your Members of Congress: act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-tr...
Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
And call your representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email your Members of Congress: act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-tr...
Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
And call your representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Tell your elected officials to do everything in their power to stand up to Trump and prevent war with Venezuela.
Email your Members of Congress: act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-tr...
Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
And call your representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email your Members of Congress: act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-tr...
Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
And call your representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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How did they know before Congress
January 4, 2026 at 1:46 AM
How did they know before Congress
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
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It does not take a cynic to suppose that Trump and Putin have agreed to "swap" Venezuela for Ukraine, just as Fiona Hill described in 2019. But everything we've seen from Trump & Putin suggests that there are no depths to their own psychopathic cynicism & criminality.
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
January 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
It does not take a cynic to suppose that Trump and Putin have agreed to "swap" Venezuela for Ukraine, just as Fiona Hill described in 2019. But everything we've seen from Trump & Putin suggests that there are no depths to their own psychopathic cynicism & criminality.
Use Kruse’s concise messaging to demand that your congressional rep begin process to ring impeachment charges against our lawless POTUS. 202.224.3121 to reach any member’s office.
The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Use Kruse’s concise messaging to demand that your congressional rep begin process to ring impeachment charges against our lawless POTUS. 202.224.3121 to reach any member’s office.
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"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
January 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"