Posted on 03/13/2025 6:49:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrat governors have a “resistance” playbook created for them that includes draft executive orders to defy the administration’s immigration policies as well as instructions on deploying the National Guard.
The Governors Action Alliance, a Democrat organization that founded the group Governors Safeguarding Democracy, provided such guidance to the staffs of Democrat governors across the country after the election of President Donald Trump.
The 126 pages of the playbook—including emails, talking points, and a “Firewalling for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order”—were obtained in a public records request from the office of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro by the private nonprofit watchdog group Government Accountability and Oversight and shared with The Daily Signal.
The documents offer a potential glimpse for what’s ahead as Democrat-run states prepare to clash with the federal government. The organization laying out the strategy is run by a host of former staffers for Democrat governors and liberal organizations, including NARAL Pro-Choice America, Demos, and Common Cause.
The “Firewall for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order” directs that “no state agency, employee, or agent may comply with a request for information or assistance if they have reason to believe the request is in furtherance of any investigation, arrest, prosecution, or other sanction of conduct initiated by federal authorities or out-of-state authorities.”
This includes no assistance to federal officials regarding “health care services … lawful under state law”; and no assistance to the federal government to “identify or apprehend a person in order to subject them to civil immigration detention, removal, or deportation proceedings,” or “to prosecute a person or persons for offenses related to immigration status.”
While the descriptions for “health care services” aren’t explicit, elsewhere in the documents, the group references abortion and “gender affirming care,” a phrase used to describe surgical sex operations.
“What leaps out is not just the sheer number of consultants being provided by donors for governors willing to serve the donors’ resistance agenda, but the functions they are serving: drafting executive orders, talking points, and white papers to assist in resistance advocacy … up to and including deploying the National Guard,” Chris Horner, a lawyer for Government Accountability and Oversight, told The Daily Signal.
In a Dec. 12 email to the staffs of governors’ offices, Emma Clough, special assistant to Governors Action Alliance CEO Julia Spiegel, wrote: “Please join for a briefing on executive actions governors can take to protect sensitive data and prepare for potential National Guard deployments.”
The model executive order on the National Guard says, “No assistance to deployments over objection of the office of the governor.” The draft order says state employees “shall provide no time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources for purposes of: assistance to any National Guard unit of another state that is deployed to this state, if the Office of the Governor of [this state] has objected to such deployment.”
A Dec. 3 email from Spiegel to governors’ offices offers staff assistance, including a former Democrat Senate aide who “has offered white glove service to support staffing efforts at the state level (gov offices and agencies).” The guidance further says that American Civil Liberties Union national support staff would be available to help.
“Resist we much”
Burning cities and killing people — mostly peaceful
Plotting to use the National Guard to resist federal law enforcement — Freedom of Speech
Citizens walking through government buildings — Insurrection.
They are going to start a war and insurrection... This is becoming a serious issue of National Security. These psychopathic criminals are insane...
Kinda looks like planning for an insurrection. This could be entertaining...
All the Democrat hand-wringing the past couple months — “Woe is us. How can we start winning again?”
And all the states can come up with is murdering more babies, spending us to oblivion, coddling illegals, tranny tranny tranny and tolerating inner city crime.
That’s a real winning ticket, Dems.
Good to see the Democrats agree with Mr. Calhoun on the subject of Nullification.
The Democrats spent many decades building up a Federal Leviathan with massive Presidential authority.
Now they get to find out exactly what they have done.
Lol.
Have these guvs decided on a uniform color and armband style?
Indict one of these governors for obstruction and that will be the end of it.
Looks like planning for a civil war.
This should be accompanied by a change in federal reimbursement policy that disallows physician recovery for services delivered to any person without a valid SS#. If these governors want to impede lawful federal policy, it should hurt.
Insurrection.
Two or three nukes on blue capitals (Swallowswell under biden threatened to nuke red states) should stop this. /sarc>
> … up to and including deploying the National Guard <
A possible scenario:
Step 1: Democrats call up National Guard units.
Step 2: Trump federalizes these units, and sends them to the border.
Step 3: 👍🏻
The Dems are setting up a possible military confrontation. They’ve just upped the ante.
The feds have their own national guard to counter that right?
sedition
With a stroke of a pen President Trump can nationalize any state’s National Guard.
The Democrats are just doing their usual grandstanding.
Two points:
One: Federal government can nationalize the National Guard at any point.
Two: ARE THESE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR MOTHERHUGGING MINDS???!? ARE THEY INTERESTED IN A HOT, SHOOTING CIVIL WAR????
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.