Before the Election Preparing for Election Theft

In the two years between the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election, there are multiple logical maneuvers which the DJT, MAGA, and Project 2025 regime (collectively: 'the MAGA regime') will consider in order to remain in power.

The extreme measures they are likely to entertain and employ will be motivated by their fear of being prosecuted for their many crimes during their regime.

The following list includes many obvious threats, but also some that the reader may have a hard time accepting:

To readers who have a hard time giving credibility to these threats, consider the following: . Remember how extreme January 6th 2021 seemed, . Consider how the violent perpetrators (and their supporters) have avoided justice — including by receiving DJT pardons, . Consider how such avoidance of consequences works to embolden even more inconceivably illegal and violent moves. . Consider that we are now facing a MAGA regime Department of Justice (DOJ) which has been weaponized to use its powers (including physical force) to keep the MAGA regime in power. . Consider the power under current law that DJT has to take-over Washington DC with armed troops. . Consider DJT’s Executive Order of August 25, 2025 directing the Department of Defense to create a "specialized unit within the District of Columbia National Guard" and to "deputize the members of this unit to enforce Federal law." ^[1]

If the reader seriously considers these

Once the electoral map is set, the counter moves to voter suppression techniques involve increased grass-roots and Democratic party attention to straightforward poll-watching and poll activism.

This phase will begin as the poll-watching phase winds down within each voting district across the country.

We should expect areas with a high brown-american demographic to receive the worst treatments, just as we did in the 2020 election. Places like Georgia and Arizona.

But also there have been efforts to manipulate the allowed voter pool after an election. ^[4]

It is likely that the MAGA regime candidates will be widely unpopular and therefore more desperate to employ the same kinds of post-vote manipulations.

Grass roots organizations should make this take-away: we need redundant sets of lawyers and law teams working to oppose any and all such efforts because the level of fight that we should expect from losing MAGA regime members (who face possible prosecution once they lose power).

There should also be a robust and centralized public messaging response from the winning Presidential candidate as well as his/her surrogates. This effort must be pre-organized in every state to include locally trusted politicians who can appear on local media.

We should prepare for violence from losing MAGA members, and violence met with the support of the Federal MAGA regime. Local grass-roots need to plan ahead to constitute formally trained bodyguards and security for legal teams working in states that are run by Republican governors.

Democratic governors should explore legal means that their offices can employ to send security personnel (perhaps as clandestinely as legally possible) to assist in the security for legal teams in Republican led states.

We should expect a more sophisticated repeat of the methods attempted to subvert the Presidential Electors system.

This repeat, however, will be buttressed by a compromised DOJ who will work to embolden and support fake claims of wrongdoing in support of sending fake Electors to Washington.

Therefore, we need the Democratic party and grass roots organizations to also prepare a separate set of lawyers and law teams to counter such efforts.

As with the previous section, we also need a robust and centralized public messaging response from the winning Presidential candidate as well as his/her surrogates. This effort must be pre-organized in every state to include locally trusted politicians who can appear on local media.

We should prepare for violence from losing MAGA members, and violence met with the support of the Federal MAGA regime. Local grass-roots need to plan ahead to constitute formally trained bodyguards and security for legal teams working in states that are run by Republican governors.

Democratic governors should explore legal means that their offices can employ to send security personnel (perhaps as clandestinely as legally possible) to assist in the security for legal teams in Republican led states.

The most extreme threat will be the actual use of force against Americans and against Congress by the MAGA regime (who will be motivated to stop at no measures because losing power means facing Justice and prosecution).

The natural weak point in our Constitution has already been found: January 6th, 2029.

Because members of Congress convene in Washington DC, and Washington DC is the one place in the United States where Federal Law permits the President to declare an emergency and then use Federal Forces, including the National Guard, that day is uniquely vulnerable.

While the Constitution Article I, Section 6, Clause 1 grants members of congress immunity from arrest while traveling to the Capital, the exceptions include Treason and Felony. But it doesn’t specify at what stage in a Treason or Felony case (investigation, ) grants is exceptionally clear that

An example of such an order would be: 'detain Mr. Blue-state Congressman on January 5th for the Department of Justice investigation into Treason and Felony charges for attempting to overthrow the validly elected New President of MAGA. Hold them until January 7th.'

This rationale is the one that was used to incite the mob that invaded the US Capital on January 6th, 2025.

The current MAGA regime has several years to distill enough MAGA-loyalists into units positioned around the US Capital to make this a viable use of force option, should it appear to the MAGA regime that all other measures are at risk of failing.

The MAGA regime has already begun planning for this: see Executive Order mentioned above

There are several counter-moves to this use-of-force strategy, all of which are poor because none of them offer a high probability of success.

The final one offers the greatest probability of success because it retains the most of our Constitution.

This needs further attention from a larger group of experts and politicians.

The counter-moves fall into these groups: . Repeal the power of the President to use federal forces in Washington DC. . Defund and disperse the MAGA loyalist unit. . Impeach DJT during the 200th Congress, replacing him with JD Vance, and hold the line on confirmation of JD Vance’s nomination of a replacement Vice President to someone like Mike Pence who will perform his duty to execute the will of the people in the 2028 election. . Convene Congress outside Washington DC to avoid the likely use of force by the MAGA regime to cherry-pick the Electors in a Venezuela-style steal of the US Election . Call on the Military to move against the MAGA loyal units in DC to prevent them from using force to cherry-pick electors. . Call on masses of demonstrators to fill the streets of DC to overwhelm potential use of force in a Yeltzin-style defense of Democracy.

Counter-move 1: Repeal Use-of-Force in DC

If possible, have Congress repeal the law permitting the President to use force in the District of Columbia. The likelihood of success is low because it would require having enough non-MAGA regime votes to override a Presidential veto of the revocation of that Presidential power.

Counter-move 2: Defund and disperse the MAGA loyalist unit

If possible, have Congress use budget authority to attempt to disband the MAGA loyalist military force. The likelihood of success is low because it would require having enough non-MAGA regime votes to override a Presidential veto of the budget. It also leaves plenty of wiggle-room for the MAGA regime to use accounting tricks to maintain their force.

Counter-move 3: Impeachment

If impeachment and removal of DJT is not possible, JD Vance remains vice president, he has vowed to do whatever DJT requests, including attempting to throw out valid Presidential Electors.

If impeachment and removal of DJT is possible, then it seems nearly impossible to imagine that it would also be possible to impeach and remove JD Vance. In such a case, the political pressure to confirm JD Vance’s proposed VP replacement would be extremely high, and if JD Vance manages to nominate someone sufficiently loyal, then we are in the same position we were with DJT as President and JD Vance as VP.

Counter-move 4: Move Congress outside Washington DC

Congress has the power to determine where it will convene. This can be engineered without ever going to Washington DC (as outlined in the following paragraphs).

However, the Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution requires the counting of Electors to be officiated done by the "President of the Senate," and Article 1, Section 3, Clause 4 specifies the Vice President as the President of the Senate.

Therefor, a bad-acting Vice President could create a constitutional crisis by simply not showing up to preside over the vote count.

Without their presence at the vote count, it would be valid for the nation not to see the elected president as the valid president.

As to how the Congress could be convened outside of Washington DC, it would work as follows:

Constitutionally, while the timing of when Congress must meet is set by the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, the location is up to Congress. This has been a long practice. Every Congress since the attacks of 9/11 have had their first organizing Joint Resolution H.Con.Res.1 give the leaders of the House and Senate the authority to direct Congress to convene at another location.

If Democrats and those loyal to the Constitution of the United States have won a majority at any time during the 200th Congress (the one beginning on Jan 3rd, 2027 and running until Jan 3rd, 2029) the most prudent action they should take to counteract the use of MAGA regime forces on January 6, 2029, would be to reword H.Con.Res.1 to allow the majority leaders to name another place for the 201st Congress to convene. This would have the benefit of removing the danger to members of Congress of going to DC at all after a MAGA regime loss in the 2028 election.

If Democrats and those loyal to the Constitution have not won a majority in the 200th congress, once they are certified as a majority, they should declare another meeting place to convene on January 3rd, 2029 and maintain their presence there until January 20th. This will be a much more difficult path, but offers the hope of convincing the country of the legitimacy of the incoming Congress and Administration because the MAGA regime will attempt to counter-strike both in the courts and with their small group of MAGA loyalist forces.

The place they should select will need to be a State loyal to the Constitution which has a facility within their legislative building that can allow the elected congress to convene in one room. There is currently no such pre-built chamber, but it should be possible to find a cafeteria or other such room that can accommodate 535 members of congress.

Counter-move 5: Mass Demonstrations Protect Congress from MAGA Force

This is one for the history books.

Call on masses of demonstrators to accompany each and every member of Congress to the Capital on January 3rd, 2029.

Then have the demonstrators remain for three days to protect the Capital building from military forces.

If there are enough people, and if they are willing to let themselves be potentially fired upon, this will work.

For the contingency of the demonstrators who are protecting the capital being fired upon, the governors of Maryland and Virginia should have pre-marshalled their State Guards and be prepared to send them into Washington DC to rescue their state’s delegates from the attack by MAGA loyalist forces.

Note: Virginia and Maryland will need to invoke control over their National Guards on December 3rd to avoid the President doing it — there is a 30 day limit on how long the President can maintain control of a National Guard in a state. (Need a footnote for this.)

Counter-move 5: The Military Rescues the Constitution

There are several possible ways for the military to defy its training and defy civilian control to restore the US Constitution.

But these are all for movie scripts.

Pentagon Constitutional loyalists could mobilize military units loyal to the Constitution, once the illegal dis-enfranchisement of the 2029 election becomes clear, and by force create a 'do-over' counting of the Electoral College votes in Congress.

The Virginia National Guard could take over the Pentagon itself, and use the Pentagon’s command structure to demobilize MAGA loyalists in Washington DC and force a 'do-over' counting of the Electoral College.

Special forces could decapitate the leadership of the MAGA loyalist forces (who will be few in number) with force (bloody) or subterfuge (non-violent) and thereby short-circuit MAGA plans to use force.

Counter-move 6: Mass Demonstrations Protect Congress from MAGA Force

This is one for the history books.

Call on masses of demonstrators to accompany each and every member of Congress to the Capital on January 3rd, 2029.

Then have the demonstrators remain for three days to protect the Capital building from military forces.

If there are enough people, and if they are willing to let themselves be potentially fired upon, this will work.

For the contingency of the demonstrators who are protecting the capital being fired upon, the governors of Maryland and Virginia should have pre-marshalled their State Guards and be prepared to send them into Washington DC to rescue their state’s delegates from the attack by MAGA loyalist forces.

Note: Virginia and Maryland will need to invoke control over their National Guards on December 3rd to avoid the President doing it — there is a 30 day limit on how long the President can maintain control of a National Guard in a state. (Need a footnote for this.)

This strategy is nonetheless vulnerable to a bad-acting Vice President who refuses to participate at the Capital.