The Idiots Guide to Stopping a Coup

The greatest threat to a coup is unified, collective resistance. When people stop being afraid and divided — it’s over.

History Backs it Up
Political scientist Erica Chenoweth’s key finding:
➡️ No government can withstand a sustained, nonviolent movement involving just 3.5% of the population actively participating. In many cases, even less was enough to force collapse or major reforms.

What does peaceful mass movement look like?

• 🔹Cross-sector labor strikes (France 1968, Poland 1980).
• 🔹Mass noncompliance (Portugal 1974, Serbia 2000).
• 🔹Viral clarity that breaks propaganda (Arab Spring, Georgia 2003).

The Truth Is Simple
➡️ For them to stay in power they need our buy in, our labor, our consumerism - and now our minds as the products for their data harvesting tech platforms.

They actually need us more than we need them. And if we remembered our collective power instead of fearing theirs, they’d be out of power by morning

Where We Are Now
And here’s an even deeper truth about the US right now: Political capture happened because of corporate consolidation. What we are seeing isn’t an anomaly, it’s the culmination of 50 years of systematic dismantling of our democracy through:

• Congressmen bought out
• Watchdogs and regulatory agencies dismantled through revolving door appointments.
• Judicial courts stacked
• Worker, consumer, and human rights protections shredded

All to serve Christian nationalist and techno-feudalist ideologies — backed by Big Business.

So undoing political capture means breaking the economic stranglehold at its source. We must opt out together as one now. We don't have time for perfect plans or petty divisions. If we don’t stand together immediately — across all lines — democracy falls.

The full strategy is simple:

• ➡️ Unite. Now. Move. Together.
• ➡️ Digital exits. Economic strikes. Mass noncompliance.

What You Can Do Now
Take part in these activities and spread the word to your entire email list (or at least those that know something is wrong but don’t know what to do). This is not a time to worry about losing a few friends - they will thank you later.

• 🌟 May 1st Workers Strike: The first major worker’s strike in the US, backed by 50501 and MayDay Strong: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
  
  
• 🌟 Digital Exodus - Boycotting the Big 5: this is not just symbolic. It’s direct leverage on the real power centers that politicians answer to.
  
  
• 🌟 General Strike US - This site is collecting signatures to trigger a mass general workers’ strike once it hits 11 million https://generalstrikeus.com/
  
  

Mass noncompliance is a real revolution without firing a single bullet.

It’s beautiful. It’s peaceful. It’s brilliant.

The Outcome

• ⚡ We stop feeding the monopolies.
• ⚡ Monopolies lose profit and stability
• ⚡ Investors panic. Executives panic.
• ⚡ They demand “leadership change” to stop the bleeding.
• ⚡ The regime collapses without needing traditional "reform."

Because Big Tech and Wall Street NEED constant growth, consumer spending, user data, and investor confidence to survive.

It’s not about one giant showdown. It’s about cutting off the fuel so they choke on their own excesses. As we opt out, the regime slowly deflates, wobbles, and sags into the ground — under the weight of what it built on lies and stolen power.

And that’s how we end this fascist coup — and the 50 years of corporate corruption and public passivity that made it possible.