These ordinary citizens are preparing to fight a coup in November
On a recent Tuesday evening, about 1,500 people gathered virtually to consider some previously unthinkable questions. They were students and retirees, veteran activists and rookies, residents of Anchorage and Manchester and Boston and Honolulu.

If President Trump carried through on his threats and refused to accept a loss in the Nov. 3 election, what were they prepared to do?

Would they be willing to occupy a government building? Block a bridge? Sit down calmly while being attacked? Now was the time to think it through, advised the organizers of “Choose Democracy," the group that had convened the free training about how to non-violently beat an undemocratic power grab — or, in layman’s terms, a coup.

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