DEAR RACHEL

PLEASE LOAD THIS INTO YOUR TELEPROMPTER

Rachel,

You covered No Kings. You even seemed relieved that America still had a pulse. Which makes your silence about Remove the Regime, the three-day constitutional protest landing in D.C. on November 20–22, just a teensy bit… Rachel, are you okay? Blink twice if the booking producer hid this story under your desk.

Anyway, since you’re busy being the nation’s bedtime storyteller for constitutional crises, we took the liberty of preparing a full segment you could read on air. It’s written in your voice. Your cadence. Your sly pauses. Your signature “I’m not mad, I’m disappointed in this country” gravitas.

Thank you for all you continue to do.

THE FULL MADDOW SEGMENT

(Clean and broadcast-ready)

Thank you at home for joining us this hour. We’ve got a lot to cover this evening.

So… there’s something happening this week in Washington, D.C., something rather large, something rather constitutional, something that the political class is pretending not to see the way a cat pretends it didn’t just knock your favorite mug off the counter.

It is called Remove the Regime. And if you’re thinking, “That sounds like a protest,” well, yes. Yes it does. But this is not your standard march-around-the-Mall and buy-a-pretzel kind of thing.

No.

This is… different.

(Cue tiny paper shuffle, absolutely unnecessary.)

From November 20 through 22, thousands of Americans — veterans, lawyers, faith leaders, musicians, people who can still recite Schoolhouse Rock from memory — will descend on Washington for three days of peaceful, legal, constitutionally grounded pressure aimed squarely at Congress.

Why Congress?

Because these organizers believe Congress has… how to put it delicately… stalled. And when I say stalled, I mean stalled like a 1983 Ford LTD with a dead alternator on the side of Route 1.

The purpose is impeachment.

Yes. The I-word.

Still in the Constitution, last I checked.

Day one: organized lobbying inside the Capitol. With actual schedules. Actual teams. Actual talking points.

Day two: training sessions, including one literally titled Citizens Impeachment, which sounds like a civics class, a legal clinic, and a support group for people who still trust Article II to do its job.

Day three: the big one.

11/22.

A mass rally at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a march that, frankly, is likely to create drone footage that every newsroom will pretend they didn’t see for at least six hours.

There will also be comedians. And musicians. Including Dropkick Murphys, which means this will be the loudest constitutional education event since, well, maybe ever.

(Hard lean-in.)

And here is the part that may explain why you haven’t heard this on cable news yet:

The organizers are not asking for messaging.

They are not asking for endorsements.

They are asking for action.

Specifically, for Congress to consider whether the President of the United States has crossed constitutional boundaries so severely that removal is necessary.

Which is… awkward.

For Washington.

And for people in Washington who book guests on news shows.

And for those guests.

(Tiny smile.)

But awkward does not mean unnewsworthy.

So we are telling you:

This is happening.

It is big.

It is peaceful.

It is constitutional to its bones.

And thousands of your fellow Americans will be there next week, whether cable news chooses to acknowledge it or not.

We will keep our eye on it.

You should too.

Watch this space.

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