Marching Forward
We have been frustrated watching our civil rights be violated, our money be stolen, our economy be destroyed, and our desire for democracy be mocked. This framework is how we strike back against a regime and a fascistic movement that seeks to literally choke the life out of us. With this approach, we can land blows that hurt all who conspire against us, without risking physical confrontation with corrupt agents who pervert their authority for nefarious means. Now, we retaliate in a way that strangles the very system that they dare use against us.
Many of us have little-to-no experience with this level of resistance. We can study history to understand how these movements should work. However, life experience shows us that the study of a subject is different to the technical execution of those concepts. We can take heart in the fact that the same is true of the historical figures that we turn to for inspiration. They had to figure out how to build their movements based on the historical record available to them and their own estimation of the specifics of their struggle, in their time. And many of those movements were successful. This isn’t the type of action that is so repeatable as to lend itself to becoming a durable skillset, over a single, human lifetime. We have to trust and believe that we can figure this out, as our ancestors did.
What we are attempting with the United States People’s Parliament is an endeavor of the human spirit to overcome historical and systemic oppression, prevent civilization collapse, and finally institute a just democratic system that serves all people. And we are confronting this in real time, building toward a true political and cultural revolution.
A Roadmap to Democracy
Here is an outline for a plan that we can use to move forward from here and toward the 2028 elections.
- NOW – JULY 2026
- Build parliamentary chambers.
- Initiate progressive, targeted boycotts.
- Stage protests to accompany boycotts.
- Individual members should start cutting back on spending, paying off any debt, and stockpiling resources to support civil disobedience actions.
- Begin identifying parliament members who will be good candidates to run in the 2026 Midterm Elections.
- JULY 4, 2026
- Initiate nationwide boycott on the country’s 250th anniversary.
- Continue expanding parliament by recruiting new members and creating new chambers.
- Continue stockpiling resources.
- Continue identifying parliament members who will be good candidates to run in the 2026 Midterm Elections.
- JULY 4, 2026 – 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS
- Continue expanding parliament by recruiting new members and creating new chambers.
- Begin stockpiling resources in our community and city parliaments.
- Develop a collective list of demands, beginning at the community level and reconciling at the national level.
- Develop a Parliamentary Communications & PR team to handle negotiations with public officials and media outlets. Present demands to Congress.
- Start running parliamentary candidates at the local, state and federal levels.
- 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS
- Maintain the nationwide boycott. Assess which companies are hurting enough to join our cause. We need to have demands ready. These requests will be dependent upon what effect we think the companies can have, with regard to our demands to the federal government.
- Continue stockpiling resources, paying off debt, etc.
- Assess any elected seats we are able to acquire.
- 2026 MIDTERMS – 2028 PRIMARIES/GENERAL ELECTION
- Maintain the nationwide boycott.
- Continue to grow parliamentary participation and stockpile resources.
- Create as much systemic gridlock as possible at the federal level with any elected parliamentary members.
- Use any local and state elected parliamentary members to build stronger local and state communities; leverage elected positions to garner resources for sustained civil disobedience.
- Proactively push our demands to representatives elected to the 120th Congress. They need to be ready to address these as soon as they are sworn in.
- JANUARY 2027
- The 120th Congress should take office around Jan. 3, 2027. We should meet with them ASAP to discuss our demands.
- If demands are not met immediately, then we initiate a three-month, nationwide, general strike. We accept no excuses for our demands not being top priority.
- APRIL 2027; POST-GENERAL-STRIKE
- End general strike after three months, as stated.
- Reinstitute nationwide boycott.
- Renegotiate demands with the federal government.
- Resume stockpiling resources.
- Note: some presidential candidates will declare, by this time. We should be able to use this to our advantage. Indeed, some candidates have already begun to signal their intentions. We need to pressure the Democratic Party to lean into progressive candidates.
- JULY 2027; DEMAND NEGOTIATION DEADLINE
- If we are displeased with the federal government’s response to our demands, then we maintain the nationwide boycott and continue stockpiling resources to prepare for an indefinite general strike.
- Cut off communications with regard to negotiations of demands. Let the corporations and the government sweat it out as we continue the nationwide boycott for calendar-based third quarter.
- OCTOBER 2027; REPOPEN DEMAND NEGOTIATIONS
- Assess the health of the economy and the companies therein. Use these as leverage when we…
- Reopen demand negotiations with the federal government. Again, we can bargain for about three months (calendar-based fourth quarter). If this is not fruitful, then we go on an all out attack, as follows. We give only one month for Congress to acquiesce to our demands.
- NOVEMBER 2027; GENERAL STRIKE UNTIL 2028 GENERAL ELECTIONS
- PR campaign that exposes Congress’ unwillingness to act based on the will of the people.
- Shut the country down.
- We only break the strike when all demands are met, or we reach 2028 General Elections.
- Note: The Trump regime shouldn’t be able to last, if we hold a general strike for more than six months. After all of these months of boycotting, a general strike should break the back of the economy.
- 2028 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES – GENERAL ELECTION
- Seek power. Prepare parliamentary candidates for as many federal Congressional seats as possible. We need seventy-five percent of seats in both the House and the Senate. Run someone for President of the United States (POTUS), as well. If we can’t get POTUS, then we’ll need the vast majority in both chambers of Congress, in order to force legislation down the throat of the party in the White House.
- Continue running parliamentary candidates both at the state and local levels.
- Apply maximum pressure on the Democratic party to put support behind their progressive candidates and elected officials.
- We need to completely freeze out the Republican Party, once we get to this campaign and election cycle.
- 2028 GENERAL ELECTION
- If Trump is elected, then this could get ugly. If the Trump regime and/or MAGA interferes with elections in order to get either Trump or another Republican/MAGA in, then we’ll have to find a way to maintain the general strike, indefinitely.
- If we don’t capture Congress, then we’ll have a hard fight on our hands. If we do capture Congress, then we’ll have a good chance.
- If a Democratic candidate wins the presidential election, then we’ll just have to bully them into implementing progressive governance. Otherwise, we can boycott them to death.
- BEYOND 2028 GENERAL ELECTION
- Continue to push Democrats to lean into progressive politics.
- Continue to identify, support and run parliamentary candidates in order to prepare for a United States People’s Parliamentary takeover of the federal government. This is in preparation to reshape the United States to the will of the people. Examples: overturn Citizens United, disallow insider trading by government officials, removal of PAC donors and their ability to donate anonymously, return to the Fairness Doctrine, removal of POTUS ability to appoint Article III justices, institution of direct election of justices to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) by the people, set terms and term limits for SCOTUS, adjust terms and term limits for the all of Congress – U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, removal of any law that restricts an individual’s ability to strike – every individual should be fully free to negotiate their labor, etc.
Intent Behind the Outline
Admittedly, this profiled timeline is quite rough. Let me give an overview of what we’re hoping to accomplish with these directives.
First of all, it’s important that we have a generalized roadmap that shows how to get from where we are to where we want to be. Secondly, we are able to get a view of the progression of the movement we are generating. Thirdly, we have an idea of the work that we need to do in order to progress through the map.
We need to be honest. Our reactions thus far have been insufficient. We are underreacting to the authoritarian tactics that are being used against us. The American people are not primed for this level of resistance. This roadmap gives us time to both build out parliamentary chambers through recruitment and approach civil disobedience by engaging in boycotts. The hope is that we will build momentum toward a general strike by this time next year. Between now and then, we can build toward a nationwide boycott, while we work at building both community and solidarity. Meanwhile, we can also start to flex our political power by attempting to run parliamentary candidates for elected positions in the 2026 Midterm Elections.
Using the 2028 General Elections as a divider, we can see that we essentially have two separate initiatives. Our initial focus is on a short-term endeavor: halting and reversing the Trump regime’s authoritarian push. This spans from now through the 2028 General Election, essentially Trump’s current term. Then we follow up with a long-term strategy that is focused on building out a more robust democratic implementation for the republic. This effort begins after the 2028 General Election. Across the entire stretch of the overall mission, which entails both the short-term and long-term plans, we are both attacking the current system with civil disobedience and incrementally inserting parliamentary control throughout all levels of government: local, state and federal. This allows us to pull the official reins of power back into the hands of the people, where the entire system can be rebuilt, per our specifications. Further, running concurrently with all of this, we will be putting immense pressure on the Democratic Party in an attempt to force them into progressive governance, which suits our long-term strategy.
Take note that once we reach July 4th, 2026, we are executing with high intensity. We will be engaging in sustained civil disobedience described by a nationwide boycott, at the very least, until the 2028 General Election, provided that the federal government does not acquiesce to our demands before that time. Given pushback from the federal government, we will also be implementing two general strikes. The first strike is a time-bound initiative that is meant to signal that we mean business. We will hold this for one quarter, before opening up to negotiations again. If we are unable to come to terms with the federal government over a six-to-seven month period, then we will enter a general strike that should be held at least until the 2028 General Election, provided that the federal government does not surrender before that time.
We should be able to use this outline to build a strong resistance to creeping authoritarianism. I will endeavor to build upon these outlined items in an actionable plan that serves the short term objectives. Ultimately, we need to also progress to a long-term, durable plan that is aimed at building our new, true democracy, one that serves the people in primacy. The reality is that we may be losing the American empire – and perhaps it should die, given the numerous injustices that it has unleashed on both its citizens and the world. However, we can still preserve the country, a nation reborn with lessons learned from the failures of what came before. But to do so, we must act with purpose. This won’t be easy. We’re going to have to wade in some uncomfortable and unfamiliar waters in order to pull this off. But it is well within our capabilities to win this fight. Building community and holding solidarity with one another are our most potent tools to overcoming the current, domestic threat.
I’ll see you at parliament.
Regards,
Colston Rutledge, Jr.
Solidarietas Populi