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The narrative contrasts elite influence and intimidation with grassroots organizing that can still win when the news feels bleak. Provides a practical roadmap for building a year-round campaigning and political participation system, emphasizing persistence through electoral “battlefields,” community, meaning, and even joy as lasting outcomes.","This Is the Plan  \nHow to End America’s Meltdown and  \nSave Democracy  \nBEN WIKLER  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Beth, Mac, Suzy, and Jack And to a lesser extent, Pumpkin (She’s a dog; she can’t read) In memory of Ada and Cookie  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nIntroduction  \n1 Unleash Your Superpower  \n2 The Anti-Zombie Candidate  \n3 The Poets of Politics  \n4 It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To  \n5 A Good Enough Key  \n6 How to Save Republicanism  \n7 House of Pain  \n8 Is Integrity Worth a Sandwich?  \n9 How Trump and I Both Got Flagged for  \nSpreading Election Misinformation on Twitter  \n10 This Is the Plan  \nAcknowledgments  \nNotes  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTHIS IS THE PLAN  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIntroduction  \n“I feel like this is one of those things that may not seem that it’s going  \nto affect the entire destiny of humanity,” Elon Musk told the crowd in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on March 30, 2025, shortly after taking off a cheesehead.“But I think it will.”1  \nMusk was visiting the Badger State in an all-out push to help a rightwing candidate win a state supreme court election. Polls would close two days later. Thanks to Musk’s $56 million investment, the race had become—by far—the most expensive judicial election in American history.2  \nMusk thought that the race was vital to his plan to keep the US House in Republican control by locking in gerrymandered maps.  \nMeanwhile, it was a little bonus for him that he had a Tesla lawsuit working its way through the state’s courts. A guaranteed state supreme court vote in his favor would pad his bottom line and perhaps pay back his investment in the race.  \nBut the election was also important for a very different reason: It was the first major election of the second Trump term.  \nIt came at a moment when Democrats nationally were shell-shocked, terrified, and consumed by infighting. It was the first test of whether Trump, Musk, and their gang of MAGA billionaire buddies had figured out a way to permanently short-circuit American politics—or whether regular people could still fight back.  \nMusk, who had become the nation’s biggest Republican donor in 2024 and bought himself a grand vizier role for the first few months of Trump’s presidency, was, at that moment, systematically dismantling the government of the United States while threatening to fund primary opponents against  \nanyone who got in his or Trump’s way. American politicians and civil society were falling all over themselves to placate the Trump-Musk juggernaut. If Musk could make this win in Wisconsin happen, their domination of the country, it seemed, would be a proven fact—not just a looming worry.  \nOn top of all that, as Musk knew, the race had enormous direct stakes: If his candidate, Brad Schimel, were to beat Judge Susan Crawford, who had been endorsed by Democrats, Schimel would tip the majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He’d be set to cast the court’s decisive vote in cases that could rerig the political system in the most evenly divided state in the country, the state that could tip presidential elections, US Senate majorities, and the fate of American democracy.  \nThe race mattered.  \nTwo days after Musk’s visit, Schimel lost to Crawford in a ten-point landslide.  \nMusk and Trump had ignited a backlash. Crawford ran a spectacular campaign. 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