Vox Populi:

This article is adapted by Waging Nonviolence from a Choose Democracy newsletter email.

Over a million federal workers refused to comply with Musk’s email ultimatum last week, offering a glimpse of what mass noncooperation can look like. A federal judge sided with the workers.

The dynamics of this administrative coup are taking shape. Trump whisperer Steve Bannon has called the approach “muzzle velocity” and “flood the zone.” It has been relentless and already there are countless losses for the American people.

The aim of flood the zone is to move at such speed that it’s impossible to organize — and that resistance efforts are constantly distracted by the latest news and in constant disarray. For the first several weeks this strategy worked and was virtually unchecked and largely unchallenged. That’s been stage one: shock.

Keya Chatterjee of Free DC has trained over 2,000 people in the last week, in just D.C. alone. In one workshop she explained that we are moving into the next stages: gathering strength and cycles of interference. People are finding each other, brand new networks like 50501 are being born and many are engaged in a whole array of interference: boisterous town halls, protests, boycotts, digital sabotage, callers to right-wing talk shows and on and on. Some of these will work, some will not.

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