SOUTH KOREA FACED A COUP.
The people filled the streets. The court removed the president. Now it’s our turn.
On December 3, 2024, the president of South Korea tried to end democracy with a single order.
Martial law.
Tanks rolled into the capital. Troops sealed off the National Assembly. President Yoon Suk Yeol accused lawmakers of treason, shut down dissenting media, and claimed “national security” to justify his power grab.
It looked like a textbook autocratic takeover — only this time, the textbook got rewritten.
Because millions of South Koreans said no.
THE PEOPLE FOUGHT BACK — AND WON
They came in waves. More than a million people who knew what was on the line filled the streets.
In Seoul, Busan, Incheon — with candles in their hands and rage in their throats.
Students. Workers. Veterans. Mothers. Buddhist monks. Christian pastors. No single ideology. Just one demand: get out.
The military hesitated. The courts listened. The resistance grew.
And on April 4, 2025, South Korea’s Constitutional Court unanimously removed President Yoon from office.
That doesn’t happen often in history. But when it does, the world should pay attention.
TRUMP IS PAYING ATTENTION — IN THE WORST WAY
Here in the United States, Donald Trump is testing the same boundaries.
In January, he declared a national emergency at the southern border — not because of facts, but because fear is easier to manufacture than solutions. He ordered the Pentagon and DHS to explore invoking the Insurrection Act, which would let him use active-duty troops on U.S. soil.
This is not theory.
This is not alarmism.
This is what authoritarianism looks like at the starting line.
And if we don’t respond like the South Korean people did, we may not get another chance.
APRIL 5TH — HANDS OFF EVERYTHING
Tomorrow, April 5th, the world rises.
The Hands Off protests — born in the United States and now spreading across the globe — are a mass movement against the erosion of rights, justice, and democracy itself.
Protests are scheduled in the U.S., Canada, the UK, France, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, Belgium, and more.
If you’re in America:
Go to your State Capitol. Go to Washington, D.C.
Bring your grief. Bring your anger. Bring your damn self.
This isn’t performative. This is protective.
South Korea stood up.
Now it’s our turn.
Get off your ass, America.
Tomorrow is the day.
The USA has three supposedly co-equal branches of government - but boiled down, the judicial branch is the ring that rules them all. This is why the Christo-fascists at the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society started corrupting the judiciary and packing it with anti-democratic judges and justices first and patiently, over many years - if you build and own the backstop, the ball can't slip out of your control. These TRAITORS and subversives are EVIL - but they aren't stupid. Now - by their design - we find ourselves in the position of not being able to depend on the courts to undo the depredations of the admitted Project 2025 COUP in progress ("bloodless - if the left will have it") - authored by the SAME people who've corrupted our Supreme court. We must instead defeat the coup AND the corrupted courts - a tall order to be sure. What we have on our side that they can't do anything about is that many generations of Americans have lived as free people in a free country - a long-established tradition - which is not the case in most authoritarian takeovers - and there are WAAAAAAAAY more of us who do NOT want to live in a post Project 2025 world than those who do. This gives me hope for our ultimate victory - I hope it does you as well...
I'm feeling hopeful we can take our country back!!
Saturday, April 5th - Tomorrow!! Show Up!!
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