This is exactly the groundwork we need to be laying right now, and I’m delighted to hear it coming from a US Senator (!):
If Trump tries to prevent a fair election from happening, then we need “a true national strike in the sense that, if they do this, if they try to overthrow our democracy, if you are allied with democracy, do not go to work . If you’re a pilot, do not show up. If you drive a train, do not show up. If you’re a teacher, do not show up. We grind the country to a halt.”
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This part is especially important (emphasis added):
“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, •••the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility.••• There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”
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Lay the groundwork for a national strike, and lay it •loudly• so that the billionaires know — believe! — that it is a real possibility. Make them terrified of it.
It’s like the doomsday device in Dr. Strangelove: you have to tell them about it. And they have to believe it’s real.
How do we do that? It starts with talking to each other about it. •We• have to believe it’s real. We have to lay the groundwork.
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I consider the Jan 23 general strike in Minnesota to be fairly successful. It didn’t happen overnight, and it didn’t just happen because people posted about it a lot. There was a •lot• of consensus-building via social networks new and old. Unions got on board, lead the charge. Local businesses goaded each other into participating until •not• participating became a sort of black eye.
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The Jan 23 MN strike was the most successful such effort in the US in…decades, maybe almost a century? And it was baby-sized compared to what we’re talking about here.
I don’t know who needs to get on board to make a national strike a real possibility. But I do know that we should all be thinking about it now.
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@inthehands i think enough people across the country could be ready by the call for action on friday, may 1 (may day) for an indefinite general strike.
https://globalmayday.net/2026/02/08/gmd26-meeting2/
may day it might be tight, the next meaningful day would be juneteenth... then independence day weekend then... labor day. four excellent culturally significant days between may and september that leaders can lean on, i believe in us and our broad tent rainbow coalition of neighbors being neighborly.
the line has been crossed (for me long ago) for many. in san diego,the otay mesa concentration camp actions are getting stronger. you all in minneapolis are pushing back hard. the epstein files advocates are pushing, and bad bunny's recent big push... i expect the 3.5% ('rule' population threshold for nonviolent regime change) to be ready to punch up long and hard, long before november. 🕯
(edits for clarity and typos that hurt my soul, apologies for cluttering up your notifications and remaining i will hold as my humble human errors).
Paul Cantrell
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