Don’t come at me and say anything is unprecedented. We’re in a loop. We’re looping and I need you to understand that. I need you to understand that!
Our constitution is based in minority rule, our equilibrium is ripping rights away from people, and that’s what constitutional originalists want. I am so sick of this fucking document haunting us for last 200 + years.
One of my favorite content creators and someone I call a friend, Cerille Nassau, aka Dirty South History, a lawyer out of Atlanta, Georgia, explicitly said to me that in law we look to the Declaration of Independence to expand rights and the Constitution to contract them.
Six weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Louisiana vs Callais, that the second section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was unconstitutional. The second section of the Voting Rights Act was created in an effort to make sure that minorities, specifically Black Americans, had representation. Why? Because for 100 years after slavery ended, they had none. So in total, Black Americans had over 300 years of no representation. So the VRA was written explicitly to protect that. Now, it’s been sixty years since the VRA was passed and signed by Lyndon Baines Johnson after a bloody battle across the country led by a multigenerational effort to get Black Americans the right to vote.
My parents were eight when that passed. They were eight. Every single person alive today, knows someone who was alive during the 60s.
Now, you may be asking why did we need the Voting Rights Act in the first place? The Reconstruction amendments had that covered. The 13th Amendment outlawed the practice of slavery with the exception of being convicted of a crime. The 14th Amendment gave birthright citizenship. And the 15th Amendment enshrined the right to vote. So why, 100 years later, did we have to explicitly give Black Americans the right to vote, create equitable districts, and more in a series of Civil Rights Act passed?
Because another Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Melvin Fuller, passed Plessy v Ferguson in 1896. Another Supreme Court, 130 years ago, decided that the 14th and 15th Amendment weren’t shit. And they gutted them. They didn’t repeal them, just as the Roberts Court didn’t repeal the Voting Rights Act. They ripped it apart in multiple steps - three to be exact.
What happened in the 26 years between the 14th and 15th Amendments being passed and Plessy v Ferguson? Great question, glad you asked. Over 2,000 Black men were elected to local, state, and federal offices. Two Black Senators, Hiram Rhodes Revels and Blanche K Bruce, are sent to DC from Mississippi. After Bruce’s term ends in 1881, there won’t be another Black Senator until 1967. 86 years later. 86 fucking years.
In 1870 and 1871, the Enforcement Acts came down. The Ku Klux Klan members are tried in federal court. The KKK fell apart after that, but the people who were in it, said fuck it, let’s make something worse. The Red Shirts, The White League, The Knights of the White Camelia enter into the political sphere. Massacres like the Colfax Massacre in Louisiana start.
While the Black Codes were outlawed, new successors took their place. Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses and more were entered into states to create segregation. Extrajudicial murders in the form of lynchings were already on the rise, but the Supreme Court’s next move open the doors for racial violence to escalate. This is the beginning of the time period some historians call the Nadir of Racial Violence. It will extend into the 20th century.
Cruikshank hit the Supreme Court in 1876 as a direct reaction to the Colfax Massacre. The Court began its gutting of the 14th Amendment here, namely saying that the 14th Amendment only applies to STATE actions, not private citizens or organizations. Signifying to The Red Shirts, to The White League, to The Knights of the White Camelia that private violence was A-OKAY. Because the states would have to go after them, which they wouldn’t - the federal government could not. So the move from the 1870 Enforcement Acts, gone. In 1883, The Civil Rights Cases, all five of them, went directly after the Civil Rights Act of 1875. These cases removed FEDERAL protection from discrimination. Again, pushed it back to the states.
The Supreme Court stabbed the 14th Amendment twice before 1896 - not unlike the three times it took to gut the VRA entirely.
Boom 1896. Plessy v Ferguson.
Authoritarianism is the law of the land. Legal discrimination. Separate but equal. From the highest court in the land. Justice John Harlan would be the lone dissenter in 1883, 1896, but he wasn’t a part of the court in 1876 for Cruikshank.
Why am I outlining this for you? Because I need you to understand it’s the same fucking playbook. Chief Justice John Roberts has been open about his disdain for the Voting Rights Act for decades.
As early as 1981-1982, Chief Justice John Roberts has been talking about Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. It came up during his confirmation hearing in 2005. 25 memos written to oppose Congress’s attempts to strengthen section 2 of the VRA. He led Reagan’s opposition, and Congress won in 1982. But he’s patient. He won in 2026. 44 years later. Using the same arguments he and a bipartisan group of attorneys laid out in 1982.
Behind the scenes, for decades as well, the Heritage Foundation has been working towards this goal. Founded in 1973, in my opinion, as a direct reaction to the Civil Rights Movement, this has been their goal. As early as 1980, Paul Weyrich, one of the founders said this:
“I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
While The Heritage Foundation founder graciously admitted this, all of their documents until more recently focused on true conservative values, like small government, reducing the regulatory state, while keeping a massive military. They utilized the Powell Memo as an assault plan to go after the media, the kids on college campuses, and weaponize businesses.
I’ve written and videoed extensively on both The Heritage Foundation and the Powell Memo over on my YouTube channel so I won’t spend as much time on it here.
But what you MUST know, is that the goal has been to rip every protection away. Protection for voters, for consumers, for the American people, the environment, and more. Our regulations in the government, they save lives. They save us money too, but they cost businesses money. Our consumer protections allow consumers to build wealth, to win against the big guys, to reduce monopolies (which lead to oligarchies). Our voting rights give us a voice in who is elected, and protecting systemically disenfranchised groups could not be MORE important than right now.
If you’re looking for a comparison for the Klan morphing into the Red Shirts, The Knights of the White Camelia, and The White League - look to our police in the United States. They’ve been in an escalation period for over a decade. While they murder people on the street, in parking lots, in their own homes, we continue to give them more money. We fund them. We fund their “mistakes.” We allow this to go on.
So where do we go from here?
A new constitution is needed. Hands down, no questions asked. And it should be Project 2029 for the Progressives. Progressivism Populism is already beginning to wing out of the Democratic Party which is much needed to combat the beast that is MAGA - but it’s not enough to tell people to vote like their lives depend on it.
We need two things to survive and build a country that can stand the test of time:
A FUCKING PLAN
A reason for people to mobilize
The general consensus for the last three Presidential elections from the establishment Dems is that the house is on fire, and we had to vote like our lives depend on it. But there has been no plan. Nothing to explain why we need to vote. Here’s what we’ll do. We still do not have that today. Many Dems speak of impeachment, and that’s grand, but what’s next.
How do we rebalance the checks and balances?
How are we expanding the court?
How are we rebuilding SNAP?
Are Americans getting paid back for the tariffs?
What’re we doing with USAID and garnering our soft power back?
What about all of our fucking allies who don’t even want people to visit our country right now?
Are we dismantling ICE? There is no reform.
What’s our plan to end the practice of Gerrymandering?
Where the fuck are the state parties?
How are we reuniting families?
Where are we going and how do we rebuild. This is why I will continue to harp on the fact that RIGHT NOW, by 2029 we should retake 18 more state houses, take the presidency and call for a Constitutional Convention. And make meaningful lasting change that creates a country that can stand the test of time.
We should have done it in 1865, but we pussyfooted around. It’s time now.