Most coalitions in Washington want you to know their name. They buy ads, issue press releases and hold rallies. The one at the center of DataRepublican's Part 7 does the opposite. As she puts it, "You will not find any mentions of the United Democracy Alliance (UDA) on the web."
Late Friday afternoon, October 23, she published a 16-minute compilation of recordings under the title "The Secret Mega-Alliance Waiting for a Red Line to Be Crossed." In Installment 1 of this series, I noted how her Part 2 placed Renew to Thrive inside this larger umbrella. Now the organizers describe it on tape, so her summary can be checked against their own words.
What the recordings show
Her documents lay out an alliance that covers hundreds, if not thousands, of protest organizations and the lawfare groups alongside them. The structure she maps liaises with governors when a constitutional-crisis line is crossed, consults federal workers on blocking emergency efforts, and runs a situation room for the midterms and beyond. She notes it is credited to "regime change expert and professor Erica Chenoweth" and operationalized by National Security Leaders for America, an organization of about 1,600 "retired officers, spies, and diplomats." Above all of it sit the "red lines" that decide when everything mobilizes.
Three quotations from the recordings carry the weight.
On August 6, Paul Zeitz says: "if there's a moment where there's a constitutional crisis, like one of the UDA four red lines, if they get crossed… governors then become the kind of lead anchor for political power."
On August 5, Danielle Reiff describes "the big, big, big, big, big tent that's being organized in the blocking community so that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a constitutional crisis, like, everybody's already pre-organized."
And in a Zoom chat on August 6, Eric Manton writes: "We are also starting to consult federal workers on how to do some blocking inside the govt agencies during emergency situations."
Sit with that last line. Every career federal employee swears an oath to the Constitution and is paid to carry out the lawful directions of the people Americans elected. A private alliance discussing how to coach them to "block" from inside their own agencies during an emergency is not civic engagement. Former Justice Department official Jeff Clark has said, as she reports, that this kind of coordination may violate serious federal statutes. She says Drop 8 will cover the federal-worker piece in detail.
Her analysis connects UDA to the messaging Americans heard this week: Springfield's warning that states will resist, a "CODE RED" from Gov. Gavin Newsom's office, Norm Eisen's talk of election-week "war rooms" for lawyers, and Sen. Elissa Slotkin predicting a "national security incident." I wrote about Senator Slotkin's tactics on October 19. Seeing her talking point on that list does not surprise me.
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