Trump’s Mass Firings Blocked, Corrupt Land Grab Denied, and The People Say No Kings To His Abuse Of Power and Self-Dealing Another bad week for the corrupt wannabe king Scott Dworkin Oct 16 Resistance isn’t just defiance—it’s the foundation of a new era for the American people and the world. One rooted in justice, fueled by truth, and driven by unstoppable progress. I hope these stories give you some relief from the madness. Before we jump in, I want to say thank you for being here. We can’t operate the longest-running opposition effort against Trump without your help. So if you haven’t yet, please join us as a paid subscriber today: NO KINGS UPDATE On Saturday, turnout for the No Kings protests could make for the largest mass demonstration in US history. There are now over 2,500 events planned in all 50 states, DC, US territories, and more than a dozen other countries. For those who attend, let’s all remain vigilant, yet peaceful. If you can’t make it, be sure to help amplify the demonstrations on social media. Let’s go! SWEAR GRIJALVA IN On Tuesday, a group of Democratic lawmakers marched to Speaker Mike Johnson’s office, chanting: “Swear her in!” Johnson is still stalling the swearing-in of Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva—who will trigger a vote on releasing the Epstein files once seated. Grijalva noted that 3 other Reps. were sworn in promptly after their special election wins—all white males. “700,000 people in Arizona deserve to have their voice heard,” Grijalva said. “If I were a Republican, I would’ve already been sworn in.” CORRUPT LAND DEAL BLOCKED A judge in Florida temporarily blocked Trump’s attempt to secure land for his presidential library—for now. The land in downtown Miami, valued at $67 million, was quietly transferred for free from a local college to a state fund run by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Then, with no transparency, that fund handed it off to a foundation led by the Trump family. These transactions reek of corruption, so I’m glad the court is stepping in. How much space does Trump really need for his ketchup, coloring books, and maga conspiracy theories anyway? MASS FIRINGS HALTED Trump was also blocked from firing thousands of federal workers during his ongoing government shutdown, overruling all reductions in force the regime has ordered since October 10. Calling the firings illegal and politically motivated, the judge said the Trump regime seems to think “the laws don’t apply to them anymore.” The judge stated: “It’s very much ready, fire, aim on most of these programs, and it has a human cost ... that cannot be tolerated.” KAMALA BASHES MAGA LIES Former Vice President Kamala Harris continued her book tour this week in a conversation with journalist Kara Swisher. Harris delivered a scathing rebuke of the Trump regime, stating: “To deny science and fire scientists … What they are doing to push misinformation and lies at the highest level of government—it’s criminal … it’s f**ked up.” AOC AND BERNIE’S TOWN HALL Last night, Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders joined forces for a town hall hosted by CNN. Bernie didn’t mince words, saying that “we are increasingly becoming an oligarchic form of society … If there was ever a time to stand up for working families and prevent authoritarianism, this is it.” AOC dismantled Trump’s partisan cruelty, stating: “I don’t care if someone likes me or not ... I’m going to fight for them to have health care … [Trump] doesn’t want people based on their political affiliation to benefit.” AOC is absolutely right. This wannabe dictator’s dangerous political games do nothing but hurt people—and that’s why I’ve stood up to him for nearly a decade now. Our campaign against Trump is one of the longest-running ever, our enormous Contact Congress campaign is the most effective effort of its kind, and our social media organizing is unmatched. Just yesterday, we trended the hashtag “TrumpsShutdownDragsOn,” generating hundreds of millions of impressions. We do all of this on top of our daily news brief without billionaires or ads—which means 100% of our work is funded by our Substack community. So if you haven’t already, please join us as a paid subscriber today: Onward! Scott Help this news cut through the chaos—tap the like button and hit the ♻️ to re-stack it far and wide! I have two questions for you today. Should the land transfer for Trump’s library be permanently blocked and investigated? Do you think this round of No Kings protests will be the largest mass demonstration in US history? For all contact Congress links, or to volunteer, you can go here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-for-the-watchdog-coalition Find a No Kings protest near you: https://www.nokings.org/#map NEW: Pay our troops during the Trump shutdown and ensure federal workers get back pay https://tinyurl.com/y728zzuu NEW: Cancel GOP healthcare cuts and end Trump’s shutdown: https://tinyurl.com/2z8s7hdh Demand Brendan Carr Resign: https://tinyurl.com/35xjx8dj Demand Tom Homan Resign: https://tinyurl.com/3e5ku3um Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act: https://tinyurl.com/3yfw2m7a Demand answers about Trump’s visibly deteriorating health: https://tinyurl.com/sk9xm38v Protect our use of voting by mail: https://tinyurl.com/bde676xm Push back on Trump’s DC takeover: https://tinyurl.com/2jpp94yk Support law to unmask ICE: https://tinyurl.com/bp8cau82 Investigate the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case: https://tinyurl.com/4pfh2p4f Links to everything we are doing: https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/how-were-fighting-trump Here is my interview with James Talarico: https://tinyurl.com/mmu4eydj JUST A FEW COMMENTS:  Support law requiring ICE to obtain an actual judicial warrant for each and every person by name that they intend to arrest. Support law make criminal each violent attack on a victim and for use of any type of gun or gas on crowds. We should also demand that ICE wear body cams/mics when on duty just like all other law enforcement officers. Heck, I would like the current administration to be wearing them, too! :-) But seriously Ice needs to remove the masks and wear body cams.mics! I'd like to see a descalation in hiring of more ICE agents. The waste of money, building up more armed people to enforce what isn't a problem is astonishing. All part of the lie of the current regime, that they are about cutting wasteful spending. I would like to see an investigation of the hiring practice of ICE officers. How many have records of law breaking, or were pardoned by DJT? And what kind of training are they given? That needs to be looked into immediately. Even if it requires a law suit to do it. You mean like the fraud/abuse lie gifting $40 billion to Argentina clearly proves? Or building a Marie Antoinette ballroom? Or a Hitler Victory Arc? Like those clearly blatant lies? (What’s the definition of Cognitive Dissonance again?) It’ll be interesting to see if future scientists will study maga brains for physical brain damage. 🤔 Here is a no kings anthem we can sing together. No kings, no fear, democracy is here! https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-kings-anthem-no-crown-no-throne I left a comment on this song, Public Servant! AWESOME! I'm taking it with me on Saturday! What a gift! Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!! Regarding the Tom Homan letter: Shouldn’t he be fired/resign and THEN PROSECUTED? How about we put his “presidential” “library” in Puerto Rico? How about in SECOT in El Salavador? How about in a prison yard somewhere? he could build one of those little lending libraries you see in neighborhoods. He could learn how to do it in the woodshop in prison! They could put it out in the yard for when inmates get to exercise! I kind of think that is where all of these punks are going someday, if they survive Trumps flailing as he is going down. The firings are coming... its his game of choice when he's desperate. Scott Dworkin 3d Fun Fact: that's where his "Art" is -- a Christopher Columbus statue that's taller than the statue of liberty--that he wanted in Manhattan That would hurt the Puerto Ricans. Trump's liberry should be built on a currently vacant island. Or a superfund clean up site maybe one in Texas. I think Mt. Trashmore in Broward County is appropriate. The landfill is the highest point in the county and trmp deserves to have his "library" in a dump. Mike Johnson calling peaceful protesters terrorists. Saying if you are against Fascism, you're a terrorist? These guys are the terrorists. I will be out Saturday with my fellow patriots to fight against this fascist regime. Mike Johnson can stick it where the sun don't shine. So if you oppose a masked militia disappearing people off the streets, shooting ministers in the face for praying you're a patriot? Sorry we don't buy your bullshit. Thanks again Scott! http://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-kings-anthem-no-crown-no-throne Mike johnson is a despicable person. Add his disdain of women to his bio-on display in his efforts to avoid the swearing in glaringly obvious I don't understand why anyone would think Antifa was bad. Hitler was Fascist and those that fought him were Antifa. Being against fascism makes you a terrorist? It's like they think we are so stupid. I guess maybe MAGA followers are not too swift, but this is ridiculous. I was a poll greeter 2 years ago for our municipal election. The guy on the shift before me told me that he had just had a little old lady tell him that she could never vote for a Democrat because they are all pedophiles. I kid you not! So I have a very low bar for what ridiculous thing Fox News watchers will believe. I've heard similar comments from others. I will never forget a friend saying to me once that Trump hires all the best people! I will take that comment to my grave. Scary how people can be so easily fooled. That's what Trump claimed after his first election. We can see the quality of his judgement! (Just scrape the bottom!) Now the Park Police or Secret Service are installing "anti-scalable" fences around theWhite House in case violence erupts on Oct. 18 during the No Kings demonstrations. (BTW, organizers are calling for peaceful demonstrations.) I think the fences are partly to show that these angry Americans would invade the White House. "How much space does Trump really need for his ketchup, coloring books, and maga conspiracy theories anyway?" 🤣🤣🤣 Well said! It's like wack a mole with these people...the corruption never ends! Yes! Permanently block the corrupt land deal. Gratitude to the courts who uphold their oaths to The Constitution and rule of law, while the weak, feckless Republicans in Congress kiss the ring. Yes, the Courts should permanently block Desantis and Trump’s corrupt land grab. That is ridiculous! Both of them are crooks and should receive NOTHING FREE. Trump has already fired too many federal workers with no thought as to how this will impact services. Firing during a shutdown is illegal and should be blocked immediately! He is destroying our country for the benefit of himself and his friends! The idea of a trump library is simply laughable. I don't think he can read anything longer than a social media post - a very brief post, at that. His collection of "books" could not fill a phone booth, so what would he need all that land for? The trump library and resort golf course? My guess is he would make the gift shop the library and then build a hotel or something gross Why should a presidential library house books like Mein Kamph? My first thought, too! Well, that and, will he still be cutting up his suits to sell little squares of the cloth? LOLOLOL Maybe somebody can sneak in some Trump and Epstein memorablia like they did at the gift shop in Windsor Castle. https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trump-epstein-merch-windsor-castle-uk-state-visit-b2827015.html His grave? Probably not. He’ll want to have that at Mar-a-Lago so security can monitor visitor bathroom breaks to stop the leaks. Bet you’re right about the golf course. Phone booth? You give him too much credit, unless he piles phone books 3/4 high. As long as we’re going retro, Paula—How about his stuff wouldn’t fill a bread box? Let’s think. He’ll have the hurricane weather map with his alterations, an auto pen, an unopened box of Sharpies, a pile of crumpled-up McDonald’s wrappers and Diet Coke cans and a photo of young Ivanka sitting on his lap. Ya know, the way he saves EVERYTHING, he probably does have all of his old McDonald wrappers!! After all they do have his name on them!!! :-) His old comic book collection! Naw, he sold that during bankruptcy no. 4. Besides, they weren’t his. They were Eric’s. Well here we are living in the most HOSTILE America I’ve ever experienced and I was born in 1946 just like the Orange one. SHAME on ALL Republicans for failing their own constituents! Scott, don't forget the plane! He's going to have to put it somewhere! I guess in Miami, in his library without books. Also: Go Grijalva! A bit reminiscent of Obama not being able to appoint any new judges to the Supreme Court. How do the Republicans get away with this? We must fight for her!!! drump, the most illiterate president, never reads his daily briefs and bans books from school libraries, and denies the realities of US history. He would only fill his sham library with neofascist drivel, so no land for it. Good for Harris to call him out for the criminal enterprise he operates, and for AOC and Bernie to rail on his abandonment of workers. His "cruelty is the point". Go for a 12-million-person march! Go resistance, Scott! See this post from messaging expert Antonia Scatton: https://reframingamerica.substack.com/p/big-list-of-protest-signs She recommends what we are for not just bad stuff about Trump.