grumps (aka John Hilbert)

just some grumpy old gen-x white dude

[grumps (aka John Hilbert) @GrumpySBM]

@BasedMikeLee And @FoxNews is merely controlled opposition. There is no legitimate major news outlet for the American citizen... anywhere.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

The single most important thing I can share with you going into Election Day is this website:

https://t.co/2442n8yKR5

If you encounter ANY suspicious activities, file a report immediately.

For all of the viral videos being shared, reply to them with the link.

[Mike Steger @StegerMG]

Trump is cleaning house in the final stages of the midterm, and purging the GOP establishment.

From Ukraine and Europe's war on energy to the upcoming APEC and G20 summits, Mike examines Trump's strategy for a new global order.

[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov]

“Leaving many unable to vote.”

You um…you want the non-citizens to vote? @washingtonpost

[Susan Kokinda @sjkokinda]

Let's take a step back and look at what has been announced since October 1.

[grumps (aka John Hilbert) @GrumpySBM]

@69News "Once again illegal aliens were caught voting in Pennsylvania & have been charged by the government" fixed your headline.

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Chatham House warns Trump could come out of the midterms "unshackled from electoral constraints."

Rubio: "We're no longer going to be defensive."

@SJKokinda on why the midterms can't stop him 👇

[grumps (aka John Hilbert) @GrumpySBM]

@FBIDirectorKash Good to hear. Just a few thousand to go

[grumps (aka John Hilbert) @GrumpySBM]

@SecRubio Funny, now we openly say what the @CIA does... oh my how things have changed.

[grumps (aka John Hilbert) @GrumpySBM]

@ICEgov Psssssst... theres some in congress.... just say'n

[grumps (aka John Hilbert) @GrumpySBM]

@WarClandestine Can't clean up our own yard til the outside sources are swept up... soon, very soon.

[grumps (aka John Hilbert) @GrumpySBM]

@SparkyBru @IlhanMN She's doing the job she was installed to do, just as the others have. This has been a controlled demolition of America for decades.

[grumps (aka John Hilbert) @GrumpySBM]

@philthatremains Because pissing off the wealthiest human alive is always a great idea.

[grumps (aka John Hilbert) @GrumpySBM]

@GovernorShapiro "Aspire to do better" aka, learn a trade, get a degree in an employable job. Do more with your life. But, let kids get jobs, dont overprice an entry level job & ruin it for every kid.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🚨 THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨

I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it.

I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (below) to explain the whole thing to others are not on 𝕏 - feel free to distribute.

Here's the primer:

USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG.

Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance." They'd go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building.

You may have heard the term "color revolution." The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID's democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" in 2004, and many more.

Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn't stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.

This goal became a plan, called Renew American Democracy (RAD). It invoked the "4 B's" framework. Block - use lawfare and protests to make life harder for the Trump administration. Bridge & Belong - control dialogue and win people over. The final and most important B is Build. Build means redesigning the American government itself, and the crisis is the opening.

In their own words:
"We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment." - Danielle Reiff, DRG lead.

Calls show DRG working alongside DSA on ideas of creating a different government, one that does away with the Constitution itself.

DRG does not run the Block operations. They hand it to UDA, the United Democracy Alliance. One organizer calls it a "huge galaxy": lawsuits, street protests, non-cooperation. They list No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other mega-activist NGOs among their members.

Another organizer calls UDA Erica Chenoweth's project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor behind the three-and-half-percent rule of regime change: get that share of a country's populace onto the streets, and historically, the movement wins.

The UDA is very "hush-hush." They have no website, no roster, no filings.

Then come the red lines: things the Trump administration could do, such as calling the Insurrection Act on protesters, that would mean that the federal government, in their words, "crosses the threshold into illegitimacy." Nobody voted on those lines. There was no public debate. These red lines were developed within secretive working groups, and in a paper addressed to governors and staff.

In the words of Reiff/DRG:
"So that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a Constitutional crisis, like everyone's already pre-organized. And so Mike Smith actually said, he goes, oh, you guys have the day after tomorrow plan."

Cross a line, and the paper's options include states refusing to lend their resources to federal officials, and governors convening what it calls a "Third Continential Congress."

Running the UDA's Insurrection Act working group: Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET) of National Security Leaders of America (NSL4A). NSL4A is also credited with operationalizing UDA, the blocking operations. NSL4A consists of about 1,600 ex-officers, spies, diplomats. They're turning red lines into indicators and running a situation room to monitor them throughout the midterms and beyond.

The NSL4A's lawyers told them to stop recording meetings in case of subpoenas. But the rest of the network continued to record. DRG works in conjunction with Renew to Thrive (R2T), which ended up accidentally publishing 400+ calls and thousands of documents. These calls and documents were never meant for our eyes, but it's them, on tape.

Thousands of NGOs and billions of dollars are involved in this endeavor. Most of them believe they're saving democracy. The problem is that people who spent their careers deciding when other countries' governments had lost their legitimacy wrote that test for ours, in private, and planned for what comes after.

Who decides when your government is legitimate?

[Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Is Telling Europe They Need to Have a Plan to Stop the War in Ukraine

When the U.S. said to Europe that there’s an unhinged theocratic government with enough enriched uranium to make nine missiles, it didn’t ask Europe to fight.

All it asked was to use NATO bases and fly over their airspace, but Europe said “No.”

Now, before the U.S. backs up Europe in Ukraine, Trump has some questions:

“What Trump is saying is, ‘We're not trying to thwart you. We just think that after almost five years, nobody has a plan how to stop killing two and a half million people.’”

Full episode: https://t.co/STQZ0apHkJ

@VDHanson

[Uncle Clif @ClifLewis3]

I’ll say it for everyone!!

[Leah Rain ✝️🇺🇸🎸🏝️ @LeahRain77]

You have got to listen to this former Navy seal, and Senator Tim Sheehy give a speech on the Senate floor in July of this year .
He speaks about terrorism and Islam with bravery like no one I have ever heard !
You will CHEER !

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Leaked internal documents suggest a coordinated effort to challenge federal authority and reshape the Constitution. Recent investigations highlight claims of organized unrest being planned to destabilize the current administration. Is this transparency? #Politics #News

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 4: YES, MANY ARE AWARE OF THE GOALS 🚨

This one is a thread because there are multiple materials.

On January 15, 2026, Renew American Democracy (RAD), the strategy built around the Democracy Renewal Group's (DRG) ex-USAID democracy officers, held planning exercises for "emergency scenarios" and how it'd affect their "strategic objectives."

RAD's explicit goal is in catalyzing those so-called "emergency scenarios" to manifest "structural reform" - the rewriting of American governance which the previous drops have covered.

RAD/DRG hold the unique role within the wider blocking / protest alliance of defining what the new government looks like, presumably because they are made of ex-USAID officers who have specialized in installing new governments. As @MikeBenzCyber last night said on his stream, these DRG members come from the CIA coup parts of USAID.

It's been suggested that DRG is just a fringe group within the much larger blocking/protest ecosystem. This morning's interim video mentioning Mike Smith disproved that. And PART 4 disproves that further - the wider network is well aware of DRG and that its goal is to secure a new government.

They will dress it in the language that it's Trump who will provoke it, and they're only preventing a true Constitutional crisis. In reality, there's a million ways to interpret what a "red line" is, and many ways to get Trump to cross it. Already, articles everywhere are telegraphing that Trump *will* cross it in the form of the Insurrection Act or martial law, softening us up for the coup ahead.

The materials I'm showing you are from a RAD/DRG-ran planning exercise in January 2026. Groups represented by participants include:

· National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A)
· Freedom Trainers / Beautiful Trouble
· Team Democracy
· Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy
· Civil Service Strong
· Project 2029
· Braver Angels
· Indivisible
· Better Together America
· Center for Collaborative Democracy
· Democracy Accelerator
· Paths to Understanding
· Co-Intelligence Institute
· Cohesion Strategy
· Community-Vision Solutions

One of the working groups concerned "National Deliberations" - which lays the groundwork for structural reforms post-crisis. So every single participant in this forum was well aware the end point is rewriting our governance.

Even more interesting, Tanya Alfredson of @BraverAngels participated in this particular working group - which should give pause to anyone who believes Braver Angels simply wants better dialogue.

As you watch the videos, watch out for the code language they use to hint towards the ultimate end goal.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇