January 24, 2025

By now, you may have heard that Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tennessee) has introduced legislation to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow Donald Trump to run for a third term.

This bill will not pass. It was never intended to pass. That’s not the point.

Ogles didn’t draft this in a vacuum. This is the first step in a calculated, long-term strategy to dismantle constitutional barriers and ensure Trump—or someone in his mold—stays in power indefinitely.

You saw it yesterday as a ridiculous bill. They saw it as a data-gathering exercise. A test run. A way to gauge support, refine messaging, and lay the groundwork for a serious push when the numbers are right. And make no mistake: those numbers are the entire game.

To amend the Constitution, Republicans need:

• 290 seats in the House (currently 220, so +70 seats)

• 67 seats in the Senate (currently 51, so +14 seats)

• Ratification by 38 states

At first glance, flipping 70 House seats and 14 Senate seats sounds impossible. Except it isn’t. Because this is where Project 2025 comes in.

Project 2025 isn’t just a policy blueprint—it’s a playbook for seizing and holding power. And while Trump denies involvement, many of its proposals align precisely with what we’ve already seen. So what’s next?

The goal is simple: strip voting rights from people who don’t vote Republican. This includes:

• Dreamers and first-generation Americans with birthright citizenship (which they plan to challenge).

• Expanded voter ID requirements targeting younger, lower-income, and minority voters.

• Mass purging of voter rolls under the guise of "election integrity."

Republicans are already working to centralize control of state voter rolls and DMV records—the very data that determines who gets to vote. They’re introducing legislation to strip power from secretaries of state and independent election officials.

Remember when Republicans were the party of "states’ rights"? Yeah, neither do they.

Trump's own administration created the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to protect U.S. elections from hacking and foreign interference. Now, Republicans are gutting its funding, along with DHS oversight of election security.

The message is clear: the less oversight, the better.

You already know about the efforts to flood social media with misinformation. But Project 2025 goes further—bringing tech giants into the fold. When the biggest names in social media are sitting in front of Trump’s proposed cabinet members on Inauguration Day, you can bet there’s an agenda.

The 435 House seats are distributed based on Census data. So how do you get more red-state representation? You change how the Census works.

Project 2025 proposes merging the Census Bureau with the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, then purging career scientists and replacing them with Trump loyalists. The goal? Manipulate how population data is collected and reported, which could:

• Shift House seats from blue states to red states.

• Skew district maps in favor of Republicans.

• Reduce funding and representation for urban (Democratic) areas.

And if you don’t think they can do all this, you didn’t pay attention to what they did to Texas in the last two decades.

You’re probably thinking: "They can’t just pull this off in broad daylight, right?"

You’re right. That’s why they need a catalyst.

Enter: The Reichstag Fire Moment.

“On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising. They claimed that emergency legislation was needed to prevent this. The resulting act, commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship.” (Source: The Holocaust Encyclopedia)

Now, I’m speaking metaphorically here, of course. They won’t literally burn down Congress.

At least, I don’t think so.

But I do feel certain that at some point in this process, sooner than later (the Reichstag Fire happened a mere four weeks after Hitler seized the chancellorship), there will be a major national crisis—a well-timed emergency that "forces" lawmakers, the media, and even some Democrats to fall in line.

It could be a domestic terror attack. A violent coup attempt framed as ‘patriots fighting back.’ Or something else that "justifies" sweeping, authoritarian changes.

And when that happens? The fear will set in. The same way Americans rushed to give up privacy under the Patriot Actafter 9/11, there will be massive capitulations across the political spectrum—especially if public sentiment shifts hard to the right.

And that’s how Project 2025 wins.

You can turn off the news and pretend that we just need to "get through the next four years."

I have bad news. It doesn’t end in four years.

Curtis Yarvin is right1. American democracy is dead.

Unless we do something about it.

(TL;DR – Apathy got us here. It won’t get us out.)