Trump Loves Dictators — But Wait: There’s More September 30, 2026 Monday’s Rachel Maddow is a must-listen. In the midst of elevated threats from Iran, Kash Patel demoted two top counterterrorism officials for not being adequately attentive to Stephen Miller’s wife. And it just gets more awful from there. The final segment — on Russia’s current election interference — is straight out of bizarro world. It would be amusing if it weren’t all real. But the answer isn’t to agonize, it’s to organize. Have you got your plan for October 17? Are you recruiting a dozen others to join you? “You can’t wring your hands when you’re rolling up your sleeves,” as another apt saying goes. Have you read or (even better) listened to Ben Wikler’s This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy. Have you given all you can to the races Oath currently assesses can most effectively use your help? Have you decided to listen to Monday’s Maddow right now, or on your way to work or as you climb the StepMaster, to see what’s got me so cranked up? I’m sorry to be so annoying (I assume you’re inured to it by now), but we just can’t let Trump and Putin — and Stephen Miller and the Proud Boys, et al — win. We need a massive, Hungary-like, too-big-to-rig repudiation of Trump’s cruel, corrupt, chaotic, erratic, shameful, spectacularly dishonest, shoot-from-the-hip, unsuccessful, profoundly unChristian, profoundly unAmerican “leadership.” And I think it’s coming.