October 22, 2026 – Data Republican: The Democracy Files Parts 5 & 6 – Illegitimacy Playbook & The 3.5% Rule

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THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 5: Washington state’s Secretary of State weighs in 🚨

The below clip shows Danielle Reiff of DRG pitching her vision to an audience including Washington state’s Secretary of State, Steve Hobbs.

She explains the red-line scenarios and ultimately a vision of creating a “cross-partisan” government in the wake of an illegitimate federal government.

Her three “democratic emergency” scenarios should be familiar by now:

· Election meltdown – which includes a widespread public loss of trust in election results
· Insurrection Act deployed against protesters
· An attempt to delay seating of legitimately elected officials post-election

If the federal government becomes illegitimate in her view because of the above, then she proposes a cross-partisan system of transitional governance. She names a cross-partisan board of governors, as well President Obama and President Bush as potential transitional leaders.

WA SoS Hobbs replies to Reiff that he has had the exact same conversation with German and Japanese officials regarding how to deal with AfD and right-wing nationalist parties. Now, to be fair, he does not want to commit because, in his words, “we’re winning.” But he doesn’t disagree either.

Note also that here and in other recordings, “election meltdown” does not mean some sort of flashy media crisis. It means, simply, a large segment of the population doesn’t believe the election results are legitimate.