We Alone Can Fix It January 13, 2026January 12, 2026 NO NEED TO CLICK: THE HEADLINES SAY IT ALL Trump’s Smithsonian censorship agenda is escalating. E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution. ‘Incomprehensibly stupid:’ How U.S. cuts in vaccine recommendations will impact Canadians. DOJ launches criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Trump calls for $1.5 trillion military budget — a 50% increase, none of it aimed at aiding Ukraine. Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted. CAROLE CADWALLADR: Peter Thiel’s New Model Army This newsletter is going to cover three crucial subjects today: How Britain’s national security is hopelessly compromised. We’ve sold out our military to a key Trump ally in what I believe is a catastrophically naive and dangerous deal. (If you’re American, this affects you too.) The global war on truth. And why sticking to the facts is now a radical act. How we fight back. In which I post a whole smorgasbord of inspiring videos that I grabbed off social media that you didn’t know you needed. I’ve never started with a bulleted list before but then I can’t remember a NATO country threatening to invade a NATO country before either. I figured you might need 3) after reading 1) and 2). . . . [We Brits] are now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trump fascist project. We’ve sold out everyone in America who’s trying to fight back against it. I’m not using the f-word lightly or facetiously. I’ve avoided it for a year. But what is so dangerous right now is the assault on truth, on facts, on the evidence of our own eyes. What is happening right now in America is fascism. And we, the UK, are now up to our necks in it too. Former-Republican strategist Rick Wilson: . . . We have squandered the astounding inheritance of ten generations of Americans before us, shattered the bond of faith and trust in a system of representative government unique in the history of the world, and replaced it with a grotesque mirror image of freedom, liberty, and self-government. What has replaced it is dark, sick, and broken. It is a government led by the most egregious criminal in American political history, a man with a dark soul, a twisted mind racked with mental disorders and pathologies, and a will to power that rivals the dictators and strongmen we once understood without a blink of doubt or question to be the antithesis of our values. He is the kind of man Americans once sent their son to fight and defeat. He is served by a party, a movement, and a media that view him as a nearly religious figure, a man of destiny willing to smite the people and cultures they hate. . . . BRIDGES VERSUS BUSES Imagine you have to get a whole lot of people across a river 40 weeks from now. You need to begin building a bridge long before you charter the buses. NOW is the time to support infrastructure (the bridges); next summer and fall is the time to support candidates (the buses). If everyone followed this strategy, declining all candidate appeals until next summer, it would be a problem. For better or worse (worse, actually), few do. All 50 state Democratic parties rely in some measure on an adequately funded DNC, as do the 8,000 or so Democrats who will be running for various offices November 3. > If you can, please dig deep to help fund the opposition party. > Join Indivisible. > Volunteer with your local Democratic party (just Google to find it). If it’s semi-moribund, inject your energy to revitalize it! Get friends to join you! We alone can fix it.