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Are you frustrated with how Hakeem Jeffries handled the Democratic response to the Joint Session? Wanting to see more bold action from the Democrats?

Well, a Redditor made a very profound “form letter” for us to submit to Hakeem Jeffries.

Here is the post:

Please Copy My Open Letter to Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

I wanted to share this letter I wrote today to Hakeem Jeffries, in light of the ridiculous SOTU “protest” and on the back of the astonishing failure of the Democratic party to form a coherent platform or guide members effectively in engaging the public.

I’m sharing this so you can write your own letter! Or, fuck it, take this letter and send it! But I think Democrats should be drowning in complaints as much as republicans. It took everyone to fail this badly.

The letter:

Dear Minority Leader Jeffries,

We are standing at the edge of a cliff, watching democracy be dismantled in real time. The Republican Party has Project 2025, a fully mapped-out plan for authoritarian control. They are executing it right now by purging agencies, firing anyone who won’t bend the knee, defunding entire sectors of government, and grooming the military for fealty. They are gutting democracy and constructing a fascist regime in broad daylight, and your plan is to wait for lawsuits? I see no action from official Democratic leadership. No mobilization. No plan. Just limp statements about how we should wait and see, and God is still on the throne, and what leverage do we have? What are you talking about?!

Wait for what? Have faith in what? Be real here. Do you think Trump and his allies will suddenly decide to play fair? That court orders and grumpy judges will stop them? The administration is already actively ignoring court orders. Who will come to arrest them, Bondi’s department of justice? What does it matter after Trump, with his immunity above the law, pardons anyone charged?

We’ll vote! Sure! Voters, who are being systematically purged from the rolls, will totally “vote harder” in 2026 and 2028. We love the status quo. It’s been working great! I’m not broke, or sick, or afraid my daughter won’t get an education, or afraid I’ll never save enough for retirement! We’ve got full faith in our election system, especially as Republicans are throwing open the doors for Russian interference, and as Elon and Trump openly admit their interference with voting machines in 2024.

Are you serious? The rules are dead. The status quo is dead. Watching the Democrat party cling desperately to the corpse of this broken system, which has been in death throes for decades, is frankly disgusting at this point. I’m being forced to watch ideological necrophilia.

Do you actually understand the stakes? If so, it’s hard to see it from the outside.

We don’t need cutesy bullshit. We didn’t need politicians dressing in Kente cloth to kneel for a photo-op during Black Lives Matter, and we don’t need Democrats in pink suits waving their little ping-pong paddle signs at the State of the Union. I’m hesitant to suggest everyone wear upside down flag pins, you might think it’s ok to stop there.

We the people are showing up. There are protests in my city nearly every day. There are protests in Washington D.C. nearly every single day. Why won’t you bolster these efforts? Why won’t you publicly and robustly encourage these grassroots movements? Why won’t you admit the scale of this crisis?

While you’re refusing to let go of what has died, leaders we actually trust are stepping in. AOC speaks directly to the people nationwide through social media. Sanders is taking his fight against oligarchy to red districts. Crockett refuses to mince words on the record or in hearings, she tells us what is real. Governor Mills told Trump to get bent directly to his face, that she won’t be following his dictatorial executive orders. Al Green yelled until he was escorted out, and you still let 10 democrats vote in favor of his censure. Across the nation, Democratic Attorneys General have been working around the clock for a year to organize themselves against this fascist takeover.

These leaders don’t need permission from you or Schumer or the Democratic National Committee to speak the truth, to take actions, or to encourage us to take actions. They are standing up, risking their positions, risking their safety, risking everything to fight back – just like me.

Follow their lead. Don’t wear pink suits or walk out of Congress in protest, be removed. Stand the fuck up and yell until they physically carry you out. Don’t tweet about how bad it all is, shut the whole fucking place down. We the people are already in the streets, we need you to match our energy in chambers. Interrupt every proceeding. Force roll call votes. Force procedural resets. Make every bill take days longer than it should. Refuse to participate in anything that legitimizes the fascist takeover. If nothing else, grind the House and Senate to a halt. Make them feel the pain of dysfunction the way they are forcing it onto me and my family.

Don’t hesitate to make a spectacle.

Stop clinging to decorum like it’s going to save us.

Stop clinging to the rulebook when the other side refuses to play by the rules.

Stop wringing your hands while the people who actually want to fight have to do it without you.

If you won’t fight, get the hell out of the way. If you won’t lead, step aside for someone who will.

If you cannot understand my fear or match my bravery, you don’t deserve to represent me.

Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]

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