Every democracy has a breaking point. Ours isn’t coming someday in the future — it’s happening in real time, in slow motion, in headlines that vanish by lunchtime and in “procedural” moves designed to look boring until it’s too late to stop them. Countdown to the Coup is a living, breathing record of that erosion. A running log of every attack on the vote, every manufactured crisis, every bureaucratic choke point, every lie repackaged as “election integrity,” and every attempt to turn the machinery of government into a weapon against the people it’s supposed to serve.
This series exists because the threat isn’t theoretical. It isn’t abstract. It isn’t something we can vote away with a single good election cycle. The assault on free and fair elections is multi‑directional, relentless, and accelerating — from voter roll purges disguised as “cleanups,” to raids on election offices, to attempts to turn peaceful protests into pretexts for invoking the Insurrection Act, to bills like the SAVE Act that solve a problem that doesn’t exist while creating new ones that absolutely do.
Every installment documents another turn of the screw. Another escalation. Another test balloon. Another attempt to see how much democratic infrastructure can be bent before it breaks. And as we move closer to Election Day, the pace will only quicken. The tactics will get bolder. The lies will get louder. The consequences will get sharper.
This is not a series with a tidy ending. It’s a chronicle of a country being pushed toward a cliff by people who believe they’re entitled to permanent power — and who are willing to rewrite the rules, the laws, and the truth itself to get it. Countdown to the Coup is here to track every step, expose every maneuver, and make sure none of it happens in the dark.
Read it. Share it. Come back often. Because the clock is ticking — and the people trying to break our democracy are counting on you not to notice.
You know what’s cleaner than a voter roll? A voter roll with no voters. Welcome to the latest twist to “How to Steal an Election Without Breaking a Sweat,” where the villains wear khakis, speak in spreadsheets, and call mass disenfranchisement “routine maintenance.”
The House just passed the SAVE Act, and if you’re still treating this like another day in American politics instead of a five‑alarm fire, I need you to sit down, put your phone on Do Not Disturb, and let this sink in: they are not trying to win elections. They are trying to control them. They are trying to pre‑decide them. They are trying to make sure the only votes that count are the ones cast for them. And they are doing it in broad daylight, with a straight face, while insisting that you are the crazy one for noticing.
