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.
Send in the Marines, seize control of that state.gov, arrest all state.gov officials to GITMO, revert that state to a territory and install a territorial governor. Let the audits begin and file all appropriate charges, try and convict the abundant thieves and seditionist before a military tribunal.
When you are federally deployed you play by federal rules. And this administration ain’t playing around.
Umm, since when is violating Fed law (and, ExecOrders = law) not an insurrection? When the South decided to have a war, didn’t Democrat Guv’nas do paperwork that got them hanged?
How about waiting for a Guv’na to sign such and then arresting her — it will be a her. Admit it.
Looks like Trump will be appointing a lot more military governors. The House and Senate will also be a lot smaller with very few Dems.
Think how many bureaucrats could be fired and how many good new laws and amendments could be passed.
Sounds a lot like treason to me.
Yes it’ll be real entertaining when Trump has to call martial Law and they all go Rut Rho, wait a minute!
Oy!
Looks like a serious DemoNrat insurrection to me.
They’re only ensuring longer prison sentences for themselves. If not worse. Insurrection Act time coming up. Some of the below will apply. We remember what Abraham Lincoln did when there was insurrection in the US....
https://policy.defense.gov/portals/11/documents/hdasa/references/insurrection_act.pdf
Insurrection Act
Well... Yes. Notice the similarity now - we demand the right to operate our states by our own laws, not Constitutional constraints . . . just as in 1860 when they were defending slavery. They insisted that all slaves, while not legally citizens, be counted (at least 2/3 per head) for representation in the House of Representatives as well as the Electoral College - just like now with invading illegal aliens. They refused any compromise and demanded they had the right to run their states without any federal interference.
The majority of the country disagreed with their demands and they subsequently fired on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, starting a 'civil war.'
They are fast approaching the point that they fired on Fort Sumter a century and a half ago! They are making it clear that they will not compromise! They MUST have their way without any obstruction. The 'rightness' of their positions is beyond dispute.
Tomorrow will be a true test: will members of their party in the Senate vote 'yes' on a budget bill that the House Dems refused to participate in when being drafted? If enough Dem senators break ranks with the billionaires that control their party - then maybe things will calm down. If they follow Chuck Schumer's insistence and the lead of the Dems in the House - then yes, we are moving closer to war.
Mark Levin has pointed out that the Dems have hated the Constitution and the country's founding from the beginning. I agree. That party should have been disbanded in 1865! Instead we got war, a presidential assassination, destructive reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, Woodrow Wilson and the income tax plus the supremacy of the federal government, the riots and murders fighting black civil rights in the 50's - 70's... etc.
Nothing has changed. 🤷
100% game over
The civil war will be between the executive branch and the judiciary.
Sooner we get to it the better.
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