Ready To Save The Country? February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 Writes Parker Molloy: In the past two weeks, Elon Musk — a man no one elected to any office — has gained unprecedented access to Social Security payment systems, fired federal workers, shuttered entire agencies, and installed his loyalists throughout the government. If this were happening in any other country, we’d call it what it is: a coup. . . . Worth reading in full if you’re not already horrified and ready to act. Once you are ready . . . . . . sign up with Indivisible. Their latest to-dos: Show up at your senators’ offices. This week, we’re asking Invisibles all over the country to plan visits to your closest US Senate offices to push your senators to take a stand against Trump’s lawless overreach. The ask will be slightly different if your senator is a Democrat or Republican. We’ve put together a full toolkit here explaining the strategy, messaging, and logistics. Dozens of visits have already been scheduled. See if there’s a visit happening near you. And if there’s nothing close by, grab some friends, organize a visit, and register it here. Call your Republican senators and demand they vote NO on Russell Vought’s confirmation.* Trump’s funding freeze wasn’t his idea. It wasn’t even Elon Musk’s idea. It was the brainchild of Russell Vought, who wrote an entire chapter of Project 2025 on how the OMB can bypass Congress (and ignore the Constitution) in order to implement MAGA’s extreme agenda. If confirmed to lead the OMB, Vought would control federal spending and abuse his power to choke off government programs and agencies that don’t align with MAGA ideology. The Senate will vote on his confirmation this week, so make sure they hear from you right away (calls are better than emails, but if you find your senators’ voicemail is full, you can also send them an email using this tool). Rally at the Department of the Treasury on Tuesday, February 4, at 5pm.This one is for folks who are in DC or who can get to DC — on Tuesday afternoon, a broad coalition of groups will be peacefully protesting the handing over of massive amounts of sensitive data and the payment systems for our entire federal government to an unaccountable, unelected far-right billionaire. Musk has been given seemingly unchecked power to remove career civil servants, sabotage agencies like USAID (risking millions of lives), and treat the US government like one of his corporate acquisitions. Pissed off? Show up. P.S. — With social media companies bending the knee to Trump, Project 2025 purging the government of dissenters, and corporate media companies caving in the face of speech-chilling lawsuits, it’s never been more important to invest in organizations you believe in that are willing to speak out and defy autocracy. Please consider chipping in with a monthly or one-time donation to help us keep up the fight. * Throughout the day, the Senate phone system has been crashing. Hopefully the issue is resolved by the time you read this, but if our call tools fail to connect, go to your senators’ websites, visit their contact sections, and you’ll find numbers for their in-state offices. You’ll be able to reach them via those numbers. If you want a pep talk to get you moving, watch this recording of the Zoom that 50,000 of us joined Sunday night. (Start here, with 28-year-old Congressman Maxwell Frost, and click and set the playback speed to 1.5X if you want to pick up the pace.) It’s all hands on deck. And how wonderful to be given a chance to help save democracy with cell phones and credit cards rather than muskets or bayonets. I count my lucky stars.