Christopher Armitage

Meta asked the same question in 2020, in a deactivation study of their own, and never published the answer. https://theexistentialistrepublic.com/articles/fracking-attention-and-strip-mining

Wendy is a great writer, love her perspective The Last Resignation https://wendy664.substack.com/p/the-last-resignation

Why I follow and support this author! He's on it!

Blue states finance an apparatus that occupies their own territory, corruptly prosecutes their own officials, and violates their own constitutionally codified authorities. https://gavelgrab.org/2026/09/experts-say-blue-states-can-stop-8dd/

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Trump took out two Palm Beach mortgages seven weeks apart and called each home his principal residence. https://theexistentialistrepublic.com/articles/i-reported-trump-for-fraud-on-his

Marin County approved a policy barring use of county property, resources and information for federal immigration enforcement. The federal government wanted state cooperation; the Constitution said it couldn’t compel it. https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-american-reformation-part-one

California law has a name for a lie told to take someone’s property, and the name is theft. https://gavelgrab.org/2026/10/california-penal-code-532-musk-theft-false-pretenses/

I'd love to be more active on Bluesky, if anyone wants to follow and be part of that it would be appreciated 🌲 🌲 🌲

If someone lies about the toaster they're selling we can charge them with fraud. If someone lies about the politics they're selling, we put them in charge.

Frequency, Duration, Intensity. That's the secret sauce for change. We need to be LOUD, show up OFTEN, and do that for YEARS. Then we get to have a free and fair nation. It just has to be earned. The bad guys have been showing up consistently for a long time. Now it's our turn.

Still important 5 Phone Calls Can Stop American Fascism. Here Are the Numbers. https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/5-phone-calls-can-stop-american-fascism

Sometimes I feel like a sports reporter for a team that keeps getting walloped, has tons of heart, but terrible management.

Coup Where You Can

“The poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you know what I’m saying? It’s gonna be like — there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.” Tupac Shakur

One of the most important articles I've published while studying the rise of modern American authoritarianism. Trump Won't Cancel Elections. There's a Far More Dangerous Plan in Motion. https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-wont-cancel-elections-theres

Consider this: if the director of the FBI got a DUI in Lexington while on duty, the Lexington Police Department would arrest him, right? https://theexistentialistrepublic.com/articles/legislators-in-7-states-want-a-bill

Sometimes I forget to keep my anger focused on the fascists and not pointed at the home team. They have their flaws but they're what we have got.

As a writer, I want to say this. It is far more difficult to write an exceptional poem than to write an exceptional book. Thank you to those of you who can make us feel so much in so few words. And for those plying that trade in service of yourself and others.

State's rights can be for fighting fascism, spread the word 🌲🌲🌲

State's rights can be for fighting fascism, spread the word 🌲🌲🌲

Fuck the high road I'm here for the results

Why would the Saudis invest $2 billion in a fund run by someone their own advisors said was unqualified, then keep paying fees for three years while the fund produced nothing? https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/jared-kushner-is-acting-as-an-unregistered

Be like Elaine 🌲 🌲 🌲 Elaine DiMasi: I’m sending a paper print of this post to my state legislator, Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, who has co-sponsored or written at least a half dozen fascism-fighting bills for the CA legislature to work this summer!

One of my favorites 👇 👇 👇 Going Broke on Purpose: The Bipartisan Budget Scam https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/going-broke-on-purpose-the-bipartisan

To put it simply, Ken Paxton has spent eight years arresting Texans for the offense he now appears to have committed. https://theexistentialistrepublic.com/articles/texas-attorney-general-and-senate

The rights the founders wrote down are not the only rights you have. https://gavelgrab.org/2026/10/ninth-amendment-unenumerated-rights-dobbs/

This guy could lose 99.9% of his wealth and still be in the top 0.0003% One day he will be held to account for the lies and crimes that wealth is built upon.

Time to vote in opposition candidates from school board, dog catcher and city counsel to state senate, judiciary and county board. Repugs adopted this strategy in the 1970’s. Simple but effective.

The “MAGA coalition finally cracking” crowd sure are about as quiet as the GOP right now. Soft Secession. We have options and we have power.

Oregon State Police asked ICE to stop using its lots for immigration enforcement, saying it violates state law. Tier 1 is uncooperative federalism, in which a state lawfully withholds its own personnel and money from federal work. https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-states-new-deal-a-program-for

I think we should campaign for policy rather than candidates.

An agent acting outside the Constitution is not acting in pursuance of it. https://theexistentialistrepublic.com/calls-to-action/america-has-the-parts-to-build-what

How many stolen elections should it take for Blue State's to metaphorically “take the kids and leave.”

I like seeing all the righteous anger. It shows we haven't given up. Don't forget to invite friends 🌲 🌲🌲

Modern elected Republicans see it as an error to force Nixon's resignation. They will never willingly give up power and we MUST understand that.

Governmental Judo vs Governmental Krav Maga Ep 41: Go Soft on Soft Secession? https://pacifictimepodcast.substack.com/p/ep-41-go-soft-on-soft-secession

A Law Without Enforcement is a Strongly Worded Letter. There are an awful lot of press conferences and meetings and civil suits that often take years to sort out, and may then be tossed by SCOTUS or ignored by the regime. Coup Locally, End Fascism Globally.

The Roberts Court has struck down campaign finance regulations in every major case since 2006.

This is the grave of Technical Sergeant Leonard Maltovich. It does not bear his name because he intended it to be a monument to all gay veterans.

Acquiescening doesn't prevent fascist progress, it facilitates it.

👇 👇 👇 Get the daughters’ and granddaughters’ passports right now. https://elainedimasi.substack.com/p/get-the-daughters-and-granddaughters

Even the people in Idiocracy listened to the smartest people in the end. We're worse than Idiocracy.

I don't care for “electability” conversations. Let the voters decide who they want, that's what primaries are for!

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government..." - Declaration of Independence of the United States, 1776

Minneapolis has over 13,000 trained legal observers.

I think we need to elect lions to our state houses. Literal lions.

Philadelphia knows what's up 🍉 🍉 🍉

My new book is around 400 pages. Physical copies are at theexistentialistrepublic.com and free downloads of it are in the shop at http://buymeacoffee.com/TheER I Wrote a Book. Here's Why I'm Giving It Away. https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-book-heres-why-im-giving

I need to get some coffee ☕ ☕ ☕ My 2 cents If you want to be a writer then you need to write. Daily. Forever. Possibly with nobody reading what you write. Because a writer writes.