What History Tells Us About Mass Uprisings
Resistance is not futile. Resistance is mandatory. Your Paid Subscription Fuels It.
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Dear Lincoln Square Media Subscriber,
The fight for democracy is not fought just once every four years at the ballot box. It is fought every single day in the information we consume, the silence we break, and the institutions we refuse to surrender.
We are living through a moment of accelerating authoritarian encroachment. Every week, we watch as fundamental American rights—from the freedom to dissent to reproductive autonomy, from the right to vote freely to the very notion of a free and independent press—are eroded by an administration bent on dismantling checks and balances. The playbook of the authoritarian is simple: seize power, spread disinformation, and convince the populace that resistance is futile.
Resistance is not futile. Resistance is mandatory.
History shows that civilian uprising—through nonviolent resistance, strategic noncooperation, and economic boycotts—is the single most effective defense against tyranny. It is how citizens take back power when institutional lines begin to fail.
Civilian uprising begins not with a march or protest, but with facts.
This is the core lesson we must internalize: Democracy survives only when citizens are fully informed about the violations currently underway. The more people who truly understand the facts—who can see past the noise, the propaganda, and the calculated chaos—the more powerful the resulting uprising will be.
That is why Lincoln Square Media exists. We are the critical intermediary that turns confusion into clarity, and clarity into coordinated action.
We need your help to inform the masses who will need to rise on October 18 and EVERYDAY.
To match the scale of this threat, we must drastically expand our reporting, analysis, and reach to disengaged Americans while delivering messaging to ICE agents and National Guard Troops.
We are taking a page out of the authoritarians’ digital playbook used to weaken our democracy on social media and turning it against them. They used it for evil and it worked. We are convinced that we can use the same approach to get our country back.
We cannot fight an information war against limitless resources with a limited, free platform. We need your help to fund this effort.
Your free subscription grants you a glimpse into our work. But a paid subscription is what truly empowers us to fight on your behalf and fund an uprising.
By upgrading to a paid subscription today, you are directly funding:
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Last month, we reached 20 million Americans with graphics like this explaining the real reasons behind the government shutdown, the injustice of the Comey charges while Tom Homan is $50k richer, Speaker Johnson’s refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva, and the downward economic spiral under Trump’s policies. Here’s a sample:
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…and a New Campaign Targeting ICE Agents and National Guard Troops in Portland and Chicago:
This initiative is designed to introduce second thoughts and sow division among the personnel—specifically ICE Agents, potential ICE recruits, and National Guard troops—who are executing the Trump administration’s policies.
Our Approach & Your Investment:
Geo-Targeted Messaging: Funds from paid subscriptions are being allocated to a highly focused digital campaign. This includes geo-fencing targeted troops in key deployment zones, such as Chicago and Portland, Oregon, and within 500 feet of ICE recruitment events.
Core Message: The campaign delivers clear, persuasive messages directly to these personnel, emphasizing that this mission is not worth the personal, professional, and legal cost, while highlighting the damage they’re doing to families and communities.
Key Themes: Messaging focuses on:
The illegitimacy of the “I was just following orders” defense.
The impact of the mission on their families, careers and the legal ramifications they could face.
Data illustrating the detention of U.S. citizens and non-criminals.
Goal: To demonstrate that Donald Trump is not worth fighting for by highlighting the ethical and legal liabilities of following orders in service of his political agenda.
Your paid subscription will help us fund this next phase of our information campaign to mobilize Americans and to launch a dissent campaign to encourage agents to tone down their violence, think twice before detaining, and instill doubts in the minds of national guard troops on whether or not all of this is worth it.
The planned protests and resistance on October 18 need millions of informed participants ready to stand firm. Your decision today determines how many people we can reach by then.
Do not be silenced by apathy. Do not be paralyzed by the magnitude of the threat. We can do something about this. Help us fight this digital war. You can strengthen the foundation of the resistance. Upgrade your subscription and invest in the essential tool for building an informed civilian uprising while helping instill doubts in the minds of Trump’s thugs as to whether Trump is worth fighting their fellow Americans fo.
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Can we count on you to help us reach our goal of 1000 new subscription upgrades this month? We’re halfway there. You can help us meet our October goal to reach 25 million Americans with our mobilizing messages and graphics if you upgrade today and become a member of the Lincoln Loyal paid subscriber community.
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Sincerely,
The Team at Lincoln Square Media
We inform. You rise.
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