The Playbook They Don’t Want You to Have

Your State...Your Power...Your Role in Saving Democracy

Donald Trump in 2017 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the U.S., Sergei Kislyak during a meeting at the White House. Interestingly, this photo was made available by the Russian Foreign Ministry…not the White House. Some saw it as Russia sending a message to the world, “He belongs to us.”

The Playbook They Don’t Want You to Have

Your State…Your Power…Your Role in Saving Democracy

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The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #521: Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025.

If The Earlier Article Today Shook You…Good. It Was Meant To.

I’m not in the business of writing bedtime stories. You don’t pay me to stroke your hair and whisper “everything will be fine,” when your gut tells you it’s not quite that simple.

You’re here because you know the truth. And the truth is a bitter pill. But as I’ve said before…bitter medicine heals.

Trump is building an imperial presidency.

Steven Pinker called the Democrats clueless…fragmented…unprepared. He’s right. The institutions we thought would stop a tyrant? Compromised…hollow…captured.

So what now? Do we wring our hands and pray? Do we keep waiting for the DNC to suddenly sprout a spine?

Hell no.

If this piece rattled you…good. It was meant to. Because behind the paywall…we’re going further. We’re going tactical. I’m going to hand you the playbook.

• A state-by-state strategy for 2026.

• How to pressure universities…unions…and cultural institutions to resist instead of submit.

• A Democracy 2030 blueprint that doesn’t just fight Trump now…but outlasts him…and anyone like him.