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elonging or does it require othering these aren t abstract principles they re tests we can apply to every behavior every policy and every system this is a major strategic shift for us as a movement we have embraced pluralism contextualism and diversity while we have deep moral commitments that drive our work toward justice we rarely state them explicitly those few who do tend to do so in religious terms and here i deeply appreciate the contributions of people like rev dr william barber and texas state representative james talarico it s also a tactical shift many of our current campaigns and ways of signaling our belonging on the right side of history explicitly create an other we demonize billionaires maga supporters police acab and ice agents for good reason we re furious we are being violated by the very government who is sworn to protect us but here s the thing a moral movement in the kingian tradition of nonviolence recognizes that people are never the enemy we can and must resist and combat harmful behavior and harmful systems and remain welcoming to people i love this topos report on how to target villainy not villains here s how friend and kingian nonviolence practitioner kazu haga describes our task and yes it s radical we are in need of a truly nonviolent revolution not just of systems and policies but also of worldviews and relationships we need to understand that people are never the enemy that violence and injustice itself is what we need to defeat and that the goal of every conflict must be reconciliation i want to acknowledge that this is really hard work and acknowledge that it can feel emotionally satisfying to unleash our righteous anger on those who are hurting us unfortunately it s not strategically effective let me be clear healthy anger that clearly names harmful behavior while honoring the humanity of the perpetrator declining to other is essential it mobilizes us toward action and invites the perpetrator to take accountability repair and return to belonging unhealthy anger by contrast is the kind of anger that includes othering flattens their humanity into a unitary identity of perpetrator and risks losing agency inside of victimhood we know this from our intimate relationships people respond to blame and attack with defensiveness and by fighting back we are in the business of transformation we must refuse to use the master s tools the invitation to defect strategic off ramps and moral courage i think it s helpful to name the three different audiences that i see as the primary forces propping up the trump regime for a research based deep dive into the trump coalition check this new report from more in common each audience responds to a different message my goal here is to build on the coherent moral through line i offered above and cater it to the specific needs values of the core constituencies we need to invite to take action we have to remember we are asking people to do something difficult to walk away from communities or beliefs that give them a sense of belonging and significance it s a big ask and requires moral courage we need to support them in doing the right thing i will name here the three main audiences whose actions are currently enabling fascism and the core values aligned messaging i think each needs to hear then i ll double click on the third group which i recognize may feel counter intuitive to readers here are the three main groups i see whose actions enable the regime hardcore maga base active support for trump see world as binary good evil and zero sum many in the evangelical community christian nationalists see trump as appointed by god core values orientation around winning power and not being subjugated core message belonging built on dominating others is weak it falls apart the moment you face real pressure because it s held together by fear not loyalty it will always be under attack real strength the kind that lasts the kind your kids will be proud of comes from protecting life not destroying it warriors protect bullies dominate there s nothing strong about shooting unarmed women in the street or caging five year old children the only sustainable path to security and belonging is to be someone worth fighting for this is your moment of choice build belonging through what you defend your family your community your honor not through who you destroy belong to a movement that requires enemies to feel strong that has to keep finding new people to other and eliminate or belong to something that actually protects life anti woke conservatives and more traditional law and order republicans value stability economic security and sameness nervous about the pace of change and feel attacked for privileges and identities they had taken for granted core values of duty loyalty hierarchy as order and sacrifice core message we are called to protect life not dominate domination is always wrong our loyalty must be to life and to each other not to subjugating those with less power a nation that others its own people that cages children and shoots unarmed mothers isn t creating order it s creating chaos this regime is asking you to choose othering over belonging and domination over stewardship that s not christian or conservative that s a betrayal of everything you re trying to protect this is your moment of choice choose morality protect life the golden rule is commonsense wisdom act with integrity to protect life and to oppose those who would divide us through domination wealthy elites to include many democrats who self identify as liberal or progressive those sitting in the halls of power particularly in the upper echelons of companies corporate boards cultural institutions and financial institutions core values around achievement pragmatism focus on reality autonomy and status core message we were wrong not about our values but about what reality requires right now we believed institutions norms and incremental reform could contain authoritarianism we operated as if we all belonged to the same democratic project we need to recognize that we do not this regime is committed to domination and othering not liberal democracy every time we treat this as normal politics we enable the continued destruction of the system we want to protect this isn t about abandoning reason or institutions it s about recognizing that we need a new strategy life requires protection this is our moment of choice we have power what are we using that power to protect will we use our power to protect life and oppose fascism will we take action inside our institutions to withdraw consent from a domination system that we know will ultimately destroy us how do we want to remember our actions when we look back on this moment fascism feeds on liberalism here s the uncomfortable truth fascism depends on liberal complicity not because liberals want fascism they don t but because liberalism s commitments to neutrality incrementalism and institutional preservation create the conditions fascism exploits the playbook we ve been following the one that feels reasonable measured responsible is part of the architecture holding the regime up liberal elites were the last pillar who enabled hitler s complete takeover of germany not because they agreed with him they despised him but because they refused to break with institutional norms even when those norms were being weaponized against democracy itself this is the deeper truth at the heart of riane eisler s work on how partnership systems can prevail over better funded and heavily armed domination systems domination systems depend on partnership they are parasitic even the most rigidly authoritarian systems depend on relationships on trust on care on parenting in order to produce functional humans this is the source of our power we cannot defeat a domination system by playing its game we can and must withdraw consent fascism depends on us playing by the rules we must recognize that the rules have now been hijacked to enable the takeover of the federal government when the trump regime declares that ice agents can enter our homes without a warrant we need to recognize that we are living in a new world yes we can and must use existing tools to push back filing suit requesting injunctions etc and we must recognize that isn t enough the system cannot save us only we can do that the only way to stop ice from entering our homes is to aggressively organize to prevent them access following the playbook that minneapolis is developing in real time i know this is hard to hear especially if you re someone in an institutional role trying to do good from the inside you re thinking if i quit someone worse takes my place if i refuse to cooperate i lose my ability to mitigate harm the best i can do is stay and resist where i can i understand that logic i ve used it myself and there are contexts where it s valid but we have to be ruthlessly honest about when that logic becomes a rationalization for complicity when does i m doing what i can from the inside actually mean i m providing legitimacy to a system that s committing atrocities this is a moment of reckoning for all of us the maduro kidnapping the murders of renee good and alex pretti the threats to greenland the invasion of our homes without warrants each of us need to decide and then uphold our red lines what s the line where we say i can no longer participate in this even in the name of harm reduction all of us are implicated in buying from amazon while we know their aws infrastructure provides the digital backbone for ice operations owning mutual funds at vanguard or blackrock that hold plurality stakes in target hilton and home depot the more structural power we have the more responsibility we bear those of us at senior levels in banks or law firms or cultural institutions who are fearing pressure from the trump regime you are right to be afraid and that cannot stop you from acting a global call protect life refuse domination this moment demands solidarity across borders i ve been struck in conversations with practitioners in other countries that minneapolis hasn t yet jumped borders people are watching with a combination of shock fear the killings and inspiration solidarity the courageous resistance but we haven t yet translated our specific struggle to something that can carry abolish ice has no meaning in other countries i want to offer here a simple lens to invite people to apply in their contexts whether you re in minneapolis tehran warsaw or seoul the principle is the same protect life refuse domination this works both as strategic principle and personal practice choose belonging over othering protect life refuse domination the tactics will differ based on your context your resources and the threats you face the specifics matter but so does the coherence the through line holds we choose belonging over othering we defend life over profit and power we refuse to choose or accept domination honor alex pretti refuse to become jonathan ross this is the call to moral courage this is not a time for despair minneapolis is showing us the way when we stand together when we refuse to retreat when we protect life and build belonging we are more powerful than the threat the window is open let s act together my nervous system has been in a heightened state all month i ve been grounding in community with my children taking inspiration from minneapolis and working in solidarity here in seattle and in my global networks i feel sad scared angry and resolute we didn t ask for this moment but here it is and here we are choosing life in community and solidarity brian i m opening our next monthly community gathering to all subscribers it will be wednesday feb 25 8am pt 11am et 4pm uk 5pm cet cat please register here for the zoom link subscribe 21 7 6 share previous next 2026 intentions learning to play with darkness as part of my commitment to embodying power without domination brian stout jan 06 2026 14 4 2 share goat lake and cadet peak washington from an october backpacking trip there is also beauty in the shadow 2025 was a rough year for the world here on the west coast of the u s it began with fires ravaging los angeles and ended with massive flooding across western washington this climatic upheaval mirrored what was happening in our collective body the destruction unleashed by the second trump administration both within the federal government the dismantling of usaid e g and targeting the most vulnerable among us immigrants and trans people in particular and an increasingly militarized foreign policy closing the year with escalating violence against venezuela this against a global backdrop of continued fraying of the world order still no end to the russian incursion in ukraine israel s ongoing genocide against palestinians in gaza and increasingly in the west bank as well and renewed mass violence in sudan sigh but for all the darkness there was also light i have drawn inspiration from the large scale mobilizations here in the u s to resist fascism both protests like no kings day but even more importantly the deep solidarity in refusing to allow our neighbors to be kidnapped and the proliferation of mutual aid efforts across the country chicago s efforts to resist ice provided a great template for the rest of us a broad movement led coalition successfully elected zohran mamdani as the mayor of new york city over the furious efforts of the plutocratic democratic establishment globally a wave of what have been dubbed gen z protests led to regime change in nepal madagascar and bulgaria and continue today in iran and beyond i hear echoes of the 2019 wave of movements this time with more sophistication and greater recognition of the need for transformation not just revolution i ve become more drawn to the chinese zodiac in recent years i like the idea of cycles and listening to the different energies of the elements in 2025 i resonated deeply with the year of the wood snake a time for shedding what no longer serves for outgrowing what now constrains us and for listening deeply to what wants to emerge the snake is yin fire quiet intensity inward directed 2026 brings us the fire horse a rare once every 60 years co incidence of double fire the horse already represents yang fire the fire element amplifies that impulse a year of creative destruction of energy of passion of new beginnings ready or not here it comes we ve already seen trump s brand of fire horse i m writing this in the days after his regime kidnapped a sitting head of state in venezuela it would be stunning if it weren t so archetypally him i see trump as our shadow manifest our exiled and unhealed parts returning to haunt us this isn t the first time the u s has launched unilateral illegal regime change in latin america ahem panama but it is the first time it s been so brazen and in the globalized digital media age our fire horse must be more 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