The Dark Gothic MAGA oligarchs are going for everything at breakneck speed. We are playing defense and cleanup—and badly. It's time for a switch-up.

Let's talk about Canada—and the prospect of Blue States joining it.

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What if we used the legal mechanisms available to us to badger our governors and state legislatures to join Canada? What if they too saw the writing on the walls and decided to go for it? What if, for once, we put the oligarchs and MAGA on the back foot, forced them to spend their time and energy trying to stop such an effort?

Whatever you think about the prospect, the point I’m trying to make is that this is the kind of expansive strategizing and activity we need to undertake now. Mass protests are important signaling exercises but they are not going to cut it—especially because a lot of us already expect Trump & co to inject false flag violence into protests to lay the groundwork for martial law. We need to think bigger, weirder, messier. How can we use the legal mechanisms (still) available to us to become sand in the gears of the steamroller? Because the “Dark Gothic MAGA” movement is thinking massively. They are reaching for everything. Unconstitutional? No problem.

Because to recap what I’m sure most of you already know, the U.S. government is currently in the midst of a coup. Between President Donald Trump’s hundreds of executive orders—many of which are unconstitutional—and unelected co-President Elon Musk’s meddling with federal agencies, any semblance of the U.S. government is fast unraveling.

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