*Part 1: The Warning Signs — What Is an Autocratic Breakthrough?* *As told in the voice of a man who watched Dresden burn and still found it funny somehow.* **Dear reader,** So it goes. That’s what we say when something horrible happens, and nobody does a damn thing about it. Your neighbor gets taken away for "questioning." So it goes. The courts say corporations have the rights of gods and the conscience of cash registers. So it goes. The President gives himself new powers with the stroke of a pen while Congress eats chicken tenders in the Capitol cafeteria. So it goes. This is how democracy dies—not with a bang, but with a shrug. ### 🧠Let’s Define Some Things Before We Forget What They Meant In case you've been busy surviving capitalism or bingeing World War III on your pocket screen, let’s get back to basics. An **autocratic breakthrough** is when a country finally stops pretending it’s a democracy. It doesn’t mean the tanks are rolling in (yet), or the flags are cha...
We are The Rising Tide, a coalition of everyday people committed to exposing and resisting the creeping authoritarianism, corporate rule, and deep class divides threatening the American republic. Rooted in Philadelphia—the birthplace of revolution—we rise with the conviction that democracy is not a birthright, but a fight. We reject kings—of government, of capital, or media—and stand in defense of the working class, the Constitution, and the promise of liberty and justice for all.