Hey, how are you guys doing? Any anxiety or fear? Does it feel like you’re living through the Last Days of the American Empire?
We’re only 2 Weeks into the Trump reign of terror and so far, it’s feeling kinda surreal.
But, it’s pretty much EVERYTHING WE WARNED YOU ABOUT from Project 2025. So, if you’re curious what’s coming next week and the week after, just flip through that 1,000 page PDF and take note of what’s left on the checklist.
[SPOILER ALERT: It’s not going to be fun].So…what do we do?
Pray?
Check.
Freak out?
Check.
Curl up in a ball and rock back and forth?
Yes.
But…then what?
I’ve talked about shining our light as a way to push back the darkness. I still think that’s our best [and only?] hope right now.
And if you get a chance to stand up, speak out, get in the way, disrupt the Fascists, and/or make a real difference, by all means, DO THAT!
Sadly, I think whatever is going to happen is going to happen. There’s not much we can really do to stop it other than sit back and watch it burn.
We can also weep and mourn.
Hopefully, we also learn from this.
I don’t know how bad it’s going to get before our heroes emerge.
Bishop Budde was the first. But we need a few more people willing to stand up and put their reputations, their jobs, and their livelihood on the line for Truth, Justice and Mercy.
They’re planning to ship 30,000 human beings to a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay.
That will probably happen.
The fact that it’s in Cuba means we can’t observe what’s going on. We can’t visit those prisoners. We can render aid. We can’t even interview them to find out how they’re being treated, or if they even deserve to be incarcerated at all.
I’m not sure there are any Journalists left willing to risk it all to tell those stories.
Jeremy Scahill used to be one of those Journalists. Glenn Greenwald used to be until he went full MAGA.
Is anyone left to speak the truth?
Are there any elected officials willing to throw themselves on the gears and levers of the machine and make it all stop?
None that I can see just yet.
Recording YouTube videos and Instagram reels is probably not enough. We need decisive action. We need an organized resistance movement. We need people on both sides of the political spectrum to wake up, stand up and speak out against this Fascist dictator who is already threatening to silence the press, take control of the federal government, commandeer the federal bank accounts, fire and prosecute FBI and Justice Department officials who investigated his crimes, and shut down and defund our school systems.
That’s just in the last 2 weeks.
Next week? I’m afraid to guess.
But this will continue to happen as long as we all continue to allow it to happen.
This won’t stop until we demand it to stop.
Everyone.
So, whatever that looks like for you, I encourage you not to wait.
Don’t worry about offending people when the second coming of Hitler is in the process of implementing his Final Solution.
There will be time to apologize later.
At least, I hope so.
Until then, keep shining your light wherever you can. Keep speaking up. Keeping showing up.
Don’t be afraid to rock the boat. It’s sinking anyway.
Help your neighbors. Love the stranger. Be the person you always hoped you could be.
This is the time for heroes. This is the time for proactive love and preemptive action.
Remember: There is no THEM. There is only US.
Don’t let them separate us. Don’t let them make you believe we’re not all human.
Look for the Divine in everyone. Call it out. Reflect it back. Make it visible.
Remind us who we all are before it’s too late.
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Keith Giles is the best-selling author of the Jesus Un series. He has appeared on CNN, USA Today, BuzzFeed, and John Fugelsang’s “Tell Me Everything.”
He co-hosts The Heretic Happy Hour Podcast and his solo podcast, Second Cup With Keith which are both available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Podbean or wherever you find your podcast fix.