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Pamela A Noel's avatar

Everyday I look for postings from you! You are the real deal, Lev. After watching your documentary twice, with Rachel, I started looking for you. Took awhile, until I saw you on Substack. Been following ever since. Sending love💙🇺🇸

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Hanneke Wasserman's avatar

Yes Lev, I am seeing MAGAS on Substack commenting on good honest reports and stating it's the left causing all the problems. I block them and others appear.

We must act and I posted a report someone had written (Name unknown) but I have restacked it and posted it. I'm posting it again here.

* The Price of Freedom: A Nation's Stand

My fellow Americans,

We stand at a precipice. The very foundation of our democracy, the principles that define us as a nation – freedom, justice, and the power of the people – are under siege. A regime has taken root that seeks to dismantle these ideals, to centralize power, and to silence the voices of ordinary Americans.

This is not a drill. This is not a partisan debate. This is a battle for the soul of our nation, and we, the American people, are the last line of defense.

To reclaim our democracy, we must face an uncomfortable truth: we must halt the engine that fuels this regime. We must, together, choose to disrupt the very systems it relies upon. This means a collective act of non-cooperation. It means temporarily stopping the flow of productivity that empowers those who seek to undermine us. It means, for a time, accepting financial pain.

I understand the gravity of these words. I know the fear and uncertainty that such a prospect evokes. Families will struggle. Businesses will face hardship. But I ask you: what is the cost of losing our democracy? What is the price of living under a system where our rights are eroded, our voices are silenced, and our future is dictated by a few? That cost, my friends, is far greater and far more enduring than any temporary economic pain we might endure.

Think of those who came before us – who risked everything, who shed blood and treasure, to establish and preserve this nation. They endured famine, war, and unimaginable sacrifice for the promise of a free society. Are we, in this generation, less capable of defending that legacy?

This is not about surrender. This is about strategic withdrawal of our energy and resources from a system that has become weaponized against us. By stopping our collective productivity, we starve the regime of its power. We deny it the resources it needs to perpetuate its control. We create an undeniable crisis that forces a reckoning.

This will be painful. There is no sugarcoating it. But we are a resilient people. We are ingenious. We will organize. We will support each other through community, through shared resources, and through the unbreakable bonds of our common purpose. We must prepare for this pain, knowing that it is the necessary path to a greater good.

The choice before us is stark: a brief, intense period of shared hardship for the promise of a free future, or a slow, agonizing slide into authoritarianism with consequences that will echo for generations.

Let us rise to this challenge. Let us stand together, united in our resolve. Let us choose freedom, no matter the cost. Our democracy, our future, depends on it.

God bless America!

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Robot Bender's avatar

I read your posts and Aaron's as soon as I see them pop up, Levi. You two are doing a great job!

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mbc's avatar

I'm reading Lev's book, Shadow Diplomacy. Everyone, please get a copy and read it if you haven't already. It's beyond enlightening.

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Punkette's avatar

Thanks, Lev. IMHO, we do have Dem political leaders emerging: Gavin Newsom, Alex Padilla, Adam Schiff, Chris Murphy, Chris Van Hollen, Cory Booker, Jamie Raskin, JB Pritzger and Pete Buttigieg, to name a few. Of course they get no MSM coverage except on MSNBC, which only “the libs” watch.

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L B Bowen's avatar

I don’t see what you’re seeing. I see people becoming more worried and angrier. But the Supreme Court is caving to pressure from the right. If our army won’t stand up, and our Supreme Court won’t stand up, even if we win at the local level, those are empty victories. People are aware but we have no leaders to rally around. And the longer this goes on the less chance we have of actually getting a leader, because they will falsely accuse,sue, and arrest any leader who arises. The majority of Americans want to change our leadership, according to all the polls, but we don’t know how to do it without leadership. We need a Navalny,

a truly heroic person who can inspire us.

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Hanneke Wasserman's avatar

Totally agree 💯

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Kevin Paquette's avatar

Good afternoon Lev, I couldn't agree with you more about having to unite and come together. I appreciate you my friend. Thank you. 💯

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Agent#99's avatar

Lev, I subscribed because I believe in what you are doing! We need your knowledge, experience and recommendations. The good thing about Substack is that you can roll the trolls! Keep playing whack-a-mole and speaking your truth to power!

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Lee McVey's avatar

Newsom and Shapiro have the courage to lead. Stand behind them. Hakeem Jeffries will be No. 49 if we flip Congress and boot 47 and his sidekick 48 as the first order of Congress in 2027. No matter what it takes, Trump and Vance need to be charged and convicted!!!!

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Julie Smalley's avatar

Lev how do we get the people in leadership to

Unite? I feel like the people who are on Substack and who follow you are united. I’ve definitely noticed a few more trolls showing up over here trying to cause problems but I just ignore them. What’s your suggestion to make sure we’re united?

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Robin D's avatar
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Lev, I am posting this here, that I posted somewhere else. I just got an uodate from the NYT

"WH says Trump Will Decide on " Iran Attack "in the next TWO WEEKS" I have now named him:

Donnie-Two-Weeks

If I had.a.dollar for every time he gave the answer 'I'll let you know in two weeks" I would be as fucking rich as Elon. How do we get rid of them all! HE IS A DISASTER.

He is going to get everyone killed. I am besides myself. The world is laughing at him and us. We will have a terrorist attack from the outside like 9/11 again and that's on top of these insane domestic terrorists within. While they are spending money to "liberate my home...NYC..a " sanctuary city". We don't need or want livberation! They are insane. We need liberation FROM HIM! There will be a civil war while he is deporting fruit pickers. He cannot make up his mind. He cannot make a.decision. Yesterday he said about Tulsi Gabbard, the Russian Asset "I don't care what she thinks" He has a drunk as Sec'y of State who was EXCORIATED at the Senate yesterday while he mentions G-d and reading the BIBLE!

Also in the NYT :

CHINA UNLEASHES HACKERS AGAINST ITS "FRIEND RUSSIA, SEEKING WAR SECRETS. No doubt figuring out how to attack Taiwan.

But I said to somebody on your post yesterday, China shares a border with Russia. The largest landmass with 11 time zones and only 145 million people. They are wealthier than Russia, have the tech and makes eveeything the world needs, but I just read " they lack the military expertise in battle".And when they steal the info and figure it out, I have no doubt at some point they will invade

Russia. Russia has gas and oil and is mineral rich including gems like diamonds. I have been to St. Petersburg. Just that city alone was huge and filled with unbelievable treasures. China has over

1.5 billion billion people. Gee, I wonder who could use some of their space especially when climate change hits.

Vlad wants to restore the "Glorious Russian Empire". Glorious for Tsars and aristocrats. So glorious my 4 poor immigrant grandparents had to flee to the US for some freedom and peace over 100 years ago. When I went to the Hermitage and the palaces it was very clear why there was a revolution. And Vlad is going to get the same treatment as the Tsar someday! Either from within, or from his dear friend XI.

Lev, please try to answer us. I depend on you and Aaron, and Malcolm and Michael Cohen.

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