Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution. Here, they describe exactly how it works. They aren’t working alone. The videos all come from Renew to Thrive (R2T) group and associates.
Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz play key roles within R2T. R2T sits inside a much, much larger umbrella called United Democracy Alliance (UDA), which is an extremely hush-hush control plane of leaders from major “blocking” NGOs such as 50501 and Indivisible fulfilling various functions. UDA decides when protests get deployed, timelines, how to respond, all that.
R2T’s role within UDA is concerned with “the day after tomorrow” — in other words, their function is to conceive what a rewritten American government will look like after the rest of UDA fulfills its purpose. As will be shown, Erica Chenoworth is credited with conceiving UDA in the first place under the Horizons “Big Tent” initiative. Note here that National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is credited for operationalizing UDA. NSL4A is a group of 1,600 ex-military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials.
They are led by Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret). NSL4A also played a key role in the “illegal orders” messaging which targeted Pete Hegseth. Zeitz is also a member of NSL4A. It must be emphasized that the choice of a military-oriented organization to coordinate NGOs across domestic protests is an interesting one all in itself – especially in an umbrella conceived by a regime change expert like Chenoworth. You will have a hard time finding any mentions of UDA in the public. They are extremely hush-hush and selective who they talk to.
Mike Smith himself makes a personal appearance in other calls, coordinating Insurrection Act exercises and roleplaying with R2G as one of the participants. As the audio transcript shows, they have outlined a sequence of “redlines” in which case the federal government should be declared illegitimate. Invoking the Insurrection Act against “peaceful” protesters is one of the most discussed redlines.
I will post the illegitimate criteria below, but basically, almost any effective pushback against NGOs is a measure of illegitimacy according to them. Important to understand: The audio shows they shopped this idea around governors, but the reality is that governors do not have to explicitly sign on to the pact to play their role in the coup. All they have to do is refuse troops in their state and let UDA / R2G do the work of dissolving the federal government.
It started with a recording. A Zoom call on March 25, 2026. A forum called the Democratic Constitution Forum. A host named John Mulkins. And a voice saying, “So I think this is a plan.”DataRepublican published it in The Democracy Files, Part 1. The leads came from SKDoubleDub33 and iamlisalogan, who dug through thousands of documents, transcripts and recordings.
What they found appears to be nothing less than Antifa-style plans for a revolution in the United States.
The call was hosted by John Mulkins on the Democratic Constitution Forum, recorded on Fathom and released by DataRepublican. On it, Danielle Reiff of the Democracy Renewal Group, a former USAID hand, talks about a coming “crisis of legitimacy” and says, “So I think this is a plan.” Luke Pickrell, a DSA member in the Marxist Unity Group caucus, is on the line too. DataRepublican’s key point comes from the book Unelected: “shared epistemology.” Nobody has to sign anything. The marcher thinks it’s real. The governor thinks he’s just being a governor. Everybody holds a single puzzle piece, and the people on calls like this one know the full picture.
According to internal documents posted by SKDoubleDub33, the Signal groups formed within days of Trump’s 2024 win.
Ex-USAID staff moved off government systems before 1/20, then linked with NGOs and foreign partners. Reiff and Ro Tucci, ex-director of a USAID arm, built DemocracyAID. That group ran workshops on “noncooperation,” passed around the old CIA Simple Sabotage manual and studied the Danish underground. The manual’s advice: dull the tools and slow the work. In a federal agency, that’s called Tuesday. Their friendsofUSAID Instagram grew to nearly 100,000 followers.
SKDoubleDub33’s March 2, 2026 thread has the video. Marcia Mundt, formerly of USAID and the U.S. Institute of Peace, explains that the Democracy Assessment Tool decided where to invest against “backsliding” abroad. She says it was never allowed on the U.S. because of “this big dividing line between foreign assistance work and domestic work.” Then she lost her job. Now she uses it “for whatever I want,” including to measure “No Kings”.
Reiff describes the 22nd Century Initiative and the American Democracy Summit as places where overseas democracy pros met U.S. “blocking” groups like People’s Action and the Horizons Project. The Horizons Project is linked to former USIP figure Maria Stephan. They talk about building “central coordination” with links to Johns Hopkins. The number on the whiteboard is Erica Chenoweth’s 3.5% rule, from Why Civil Resistance Works, which she co-wrote with Stephan. They spent careers grading other countries. Now they’re focused on the U.S.
THE BRANDS
In the 11/9/25 thread, DataRepublican points to the “we” who organized the February 5 protests. Groups like 50501 and Indivisible linked to George Soros – she says it’s “the first solid link I’ve found connecting the No Kings movement, State Department, and Soros together.” Protesters don’t see the ordered police stand-downs, the pre-arranged legal help or the foundation-funded bail bonds. Then there’s the lawfare. On October 18, DataRepublican wrote, “They’re working with Marc Elias too,” and SKDoubleDub33 confirmed it. Norm Eisen co-wrote Brookings’ Democracy Playbook. Sen. Elissa Slotkin organized the infamous Seditious Six video. The pieces are starting to fit together.
THE BLUEPRINT:
Democrats are planning the overthrow of the U.S. Government. DSA pushes structural reform. If Democrats sweep 2026, DSA activists become “foot soldiers” in sustained clashes designed to cross a “red line.” That’s the “doomsday scenario”: Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, projected around 2027. Coordinated responses then cast Democratic governors as the new source of legitimacy, and 2028 becomes a referendum on whether the system survives or gets “burned down.”
Luke Pickrell’s Democratic Constitution Blog fills in the endgame: a constituent assembly, proportional representation, one legislature, and no Senate. The Senate’s too slow for them. So is the amendment process. They plan to disembowel the Constitution.
THE RECEIPTS
Thousands of documents from public, verifiable sources, archived for posterity. And collection isn’t finished. The investigative team has promised names, including the United Democracy Alliance panel behind “No Kings” and related inorganic protests.
The best question comes from DataRepublican, in the first thread on 11/9/25: “At what point does this become treason?”
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