What to Do When Tyranny Targets You: Part 1
How to Defend Yourself, Your Family & Your Home from MAGA Violence
Author’s Note: This guide will deal with various threatening incidents recently impacting people who did not vote for Trump. The information I will provide comes from decades of security consulting experience, including being a principal security consultant to the US Peace Corps and major Non-Governmental Organizations in wartime. Unfortunately, the return of Trump and MAGA to the White House has resulted in a startling number of acts of intimidation, verbal and written threats, and stalking that could lay the groundwork for physical attacks. This information is provided as general guidelines. Only the reader can decide what security measures to take in each situation.
When I published They Want to Kill Americans in 2022, I had already collected years of intelligence on the American MAGA and Q-anon movement. The one common denominator was that they were organizations of ideological cultists whose central theme was revenge and retribution against liberals and conservative enemies of Donald Trump.
Worse, I warned that these insurrectionists would become a version of Trump’s self-deputized political enforcers, the American version of the Nazi Brown Shirts. Now that Trump has pardoned over 1,600 violent extremists, their threat has magnified now that we know that the US Government may become their official sponsor.
With individuals, military groups, released criminals, radicalized law enforcement, and potentially the military, knowing how to defend and prepare yourself for a human disaster of a political origin. That could be intimidation, violent marches, riots, or even government agents that may target a political body or minorities for harassment or arrest.
To non-Trump voters, it feels as if a MAGA campaign of vengeance is ascendant and unstoppable.
Many liberals, progressives, Never-Trump Republicans, and independents now see the MAGA movement as a threat to the stability and way of life America has enjoyed for centuries. Because they are changing laws and upending our way of life, you may feel despondent and want to surrender. Well, don’t. This is not what we are made of. MAGA wants your fear to make you accept their outrages. They want your compliance. They need you to just fold like a cheap suit.
As a scholar on authoritarianism, Professor Timothy Snyder instructs, DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.
So now that thousands of criminal MAGA convicts from the January 6 Insurrection have been released, you may feel unsafe. Recently released MAGA leaders of the Proud Boys, Three Percent Militia, and Oathkeepers are now legally allowed to arm themselves with firearms now that they are pardoned. These same convicted criminals are discussing organizing revenge and retribution as the new Bron Shirts of MAGA. What to do? How can you restore the sense of safety and security you had before the elections? That is what we are going to face right here. Restoring your feeling of Safety. You need direction and tools to help you resist and do it with security in a time of MAGA.
A Guide to Resistance Security
This mini guide is an experiment in rallying yourself and others to transform from being depressed to defiant. To maintain the values that we have struggled so hard for, we cannot roll over and allow a wannabe dictatorship to blossom without a fight. And by fight, I mean standing up and speaking your mind. It is incumbent upon us to hold our ground and preserve the freedoms we love. Trump and MAGA won the election of just 31% of the voting electorate. The other 2/3 of the country voted for Kamala Harris, or worse, didn't vote. The intention of the MAGA extremists is not to govern the United States but to rule over 2/3 of the nation in an authoritarian manner. This is where you come in. To stand up to a petty dictator requires bravery, risk, and intestinal fortitude.