RingTheAlarmUS

We are everyday Americans working together to stop the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. Join us. #RingTheAlarm

[RingTheAlarmUS @RingTheAlarmUS]

“Not everybody wanted to listen”

Movement leaders and truth tellers have been ringing the alarm for YEARS: American #authoritarianism is here, right now. And it’s on ALL OF US to end it. #MaskUp! Get Ready.

#RingTheAlarm #WeReady

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

The next fascist will be smarter and better looking and more polite. Our job is not to wait for them to run for office and beat them, but to enact systemic change that makes them unviable.

[Paul Cogan @PaulCogan]

Hitler was found guilty of treason and sentenced to five years in prison after the Beer Hall Putsch. He served nine months before he was pardoned in the name of "unity and healing." And after that, as we all know, everything was fine.

[RingTheAlarmUS @RingTheAlarmUS]

At least we know where they stand
https://t.co/BjYeDPEIVy

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

I am going to introduce legislation aimed at combating the epidemic of right-wing extremism in law enforcement. The siege on the Capitol appears to have been aided by extremists in law enforcement.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Historian of coups and right-wing authoritarians here. If there are not severe consequences for every lawmaker & Trump govt official who backed this, every member of the Capitol Police who collaborated with them, this "strategy of disruption" will escalate in 2021

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

"I just want to find 11,780 votes" is cheating. We don't have to pretend it was "highly improper," or "extraordinary," or some other damned euphemistic nonsense.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

CNN headline just now:

"Trump has told some advisers he will refuse to leave White House"

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

If we don’t hold Trump accountable once he’s no longer protected by presumed immunity, we will be dealing with another version of Trump one day, but a smarter and ultimately more dangerous one.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

21st century authoritarians are against counting votes, but they legitimate themselves through elections. Their big lie is that we would somehow be a better democracy if “the people” just meant the right people, and not all people. https://t.co/8Vn8STrT6W

[Yolanda Pierce, PhD @YNPierce]

White supremacists are tearing down and burning Black Lives Matter signs from churches. These are acts of both racial terror and religious violence. +

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

Good news. An amendment to the NDAA, which goes to the President today, bans weapons of war—bayonets, grenades, tanks and tank-like combat vehicles, and weaponized drones—from being transferred to law enforcement agencies under the 1033 program.

[RingTheAlarmUS @RingTheAlarmUS]

In the "No sh*t Sherlock" category. #DemilitarizeThePolice
https://t.co/7WYkTQdQh3

[RingTheAlarmUS @RingTheAlarmUS]

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[RingTheAlarmUS @RingTheAlarmUS]

RT if you agree!

"It’s not enough to remove this man from power. His authoritarian presence on the political stage, the cancer that he represents on the American body politic, must be obliterated, leaving absolutely no possibility of a second act."
https://t.co/uieOiJxOhv

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

It’s just weird how every single thing you’re told happens under socialism is happening under capitalism. The bread lines, the unemployment, the authoritarianism.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Watch @jon_rauch talking about info-warfare:

Trump is running a "classic Russian-style disinformation campaign," known as the "firehose of falsehood," which is when you "push out as many different stories and conspiracy theories and lies and half-truths as you possibly can."

[RingTheAlarmUS @RingTheAlarmUS]

"The lesson from all of this cannot possibly be how effectively the guardrails of democracy have performed. The lesson, rather, is how narrowly our nation escaped disaster." - @curtisabradley
https://t.co/gcwLBJTHSC

[m. gessen @mashagessen]

In which a coup IS a con and my great-grandpa thought the Bolsheviks were clowns. The Coup Stage of Donald Trump’s Presidency https://t.co/Z66b5Qmanl via @NewYorker