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At the core of this clandestine effort are former staffers from agencies like USAID and the State Department, many of whom lost their jobs early in Trump’s first term when his administration made aggressive moves to drain the Washington bureaucracy. Fueled by resentment and convinced that Trump represents an existential threat, these operatives are reportedly training activists and even current federal employees in subversive methods of civil disobedience.
“The future of democracy” is at stake, claim those involved. Some are running workshops on “noncooperation,” aiming to cultivate small-scale acts of defiance that could eventually expand into massive national disruptions, including the possibility of a general strike.
“Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one,” a current federal official confessed to NOTUS. “They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime.”
It’s not merely ideological fervor driving these efforts—it’s strategic know-how drawn from decades of America’s own covert operations. Some participants pointed to an old CIA field guide on “Simple Sabotage,” which details how ordinary people can subtly cripple a government or institution from within.
“Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police,” the document states. “The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking … Where he formerly thought of keeping his tools sharp, he should now let them grow dull; surfaces that formerly were lubricated now should be sanded; normally diligent, he should now be lazy and careless; and so on.”
Since being forced out under Trump’s leadership, several ex-USAID officials have regrouped under a new organization called DemocracyAID. The group is dedicated to mobilizing grassroots resistance against Trump’s policies and preserving the entrenched influence of government institutions he sought to dismantle.
Their approach is incremental yet calculated. Seminars led by DemocracyAID train activists in everything from writing op-eds to staging coordinated disruptions. Danielle Reiff, a former USAID diplomat and DemocracyAID’s founder, explained to NOTUS that even small gestures can snowball into significant momentum.
“The whole point of it is to start off slow. People are just taking coffee breaks together. And that’s what we’re encouraging them to do,” Ro Tucci, another DemocracyAID leader, told NOTUS.
This stealthy revolution isn’t solely about comparing Trump to past tyrants—a narrative many Americans have grown weary of. One operative acknowledged that traditional “Trump as Hitler” comparisons have lost their shock value, pushing activists to invent new messaging strategies to keep public attention.
“There’s only so many ways to do it. That’s why it’s almost cliché to the point where we ask, ‘What are we, Darth Vader? The Empire? The Nazis?’ The comparisons draw ridicule because people who don’t know enough about it don’t realize there aren’t too many ways to do it. So, the tactics to counter them will still work, and there’s way more ways to be creative,” the participant said, as reported by the Daily Caller.
For conservative Americans who’ve long suspected elements of the so-called Deep State of plotting against Trump, this report may feel like chilling confirmation. Once-dismissed as conspiracy theory, the idea that U.S. intelligence veterans might be turning their skills against domestic political opponents is no longer just whispered speculation—it’s spelled out by the very people planning it.
These revelations raise grave questions about how far entrenched federal forces are willing to go to preserve their influence—and what this means for democratic institutions when government insiders decide they know better than the American voter.
As the country barrels toward another presidential election season, one thing seems certain: The fight between Trump and the Washington establishment is far from over—and now, it may be moving from the shadows into the streets.
