The Existential Republic

09/26/2025

Even if Democrats somehow win the House in 2026 midterms, despite Republican states and the federal government having a blank check to gerrymander districts, suppress votes, and intimidate voters, impeachment means nothing without conviction. Conviction requires two-thirds of the Senate. That’s 67 senators. Democrats would need such an overwhelming, unprecedented victory that it’s essentially impossible. The facts alone make removal through impeachment an oligarch backed fantasy.

Here’s the bureaucratic reality. A U.S. Marshal with a lawful arrest warrant for the President walks to the White House gates. The Secret Service denies entry. Their job is protecting the President from all threats, including legal ones. Two federal agents, both following lawful orders, facing each other. The one inside wins.

Given this reality, we need to forget waiting for federal salvation and recognize that states have actual power. State attorneys general can prosecute state crimes including tax fraud, money laundering, and state RICO violations. State convictions survive federal pardons. Georgia, New York, Michigan, any state with jurisdiction can act.

States control banking licenses, insurance regulations, and business charters. New York regulates Wall Street. Delaware controls 67% of Fortune 500 companies. California regulates Silicon Valley. States can investigate, suspend, and revoke. No federal override exists for state banking regulations. Enforce the laws that exist and penalize corruption; things will get better. Even more ambitiously, ban corporate backed candidates from having their names printed on ballots and make them run as write ins. Corruption is the problem and we can doggedly pursue it to reclaim our nation.

States can form binding interstate compacts without federal approval. Twenty states could coordinate simultaneous prosecutions, share intelligence, and freeze assets together. We have multiple models for legal interstate compacts, now we just apply them to prosecutorial coordination.

Governors command their National Guard until federalized. The President needs specific legal justification to federalize. Multiple governors refusing simultaneously creates a legitimacy crisis no signature solves. The Guard has weapons, training, and state constitutional authority. For this to work, Governors must be proactive in their actions. Make it impossible to activate your states national guard for illegal and unconstitutional purposes.

States retain their own constitutions, courts, and enforcement power. When federal systems are captured, coordinated state resistance becomes crucial. Twenty-three states acting simultaneously creates an enforcement crisis no federal government can easily resolve.

Republican states have ignored federal authority for years without consequence. Democratic states must be equally willing to act first and litigate later, daring the federal government to try enforcing its will against half the country at once.

If you’re waiting for “the system” to stop this, you’re waiting for something that doesn’t exist. Your state can act. Make it.