Your governor

Here’s how you fight back.

The federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators is closed. Nobody has been charged in over a year, the attorney general who buried it was replaced by the president’s former defense lawyer, and the people who shut it down are named in the files themselves. Congress can’t force it open and the courts have no one left to enforce their rulings. Every federal tool is broken.

But the states aren’t. Every governor can declare a state of emergency on their own authority, and every state has its own prosecutors, its own grand juries, and a criminal code no presidential pardon can reach. New Mexico has already reopened its investigation and taken the Justice Department to court over it. One governor with emergency powers behind them changes everything.

So contact your governor. Find the contact form at usa.gov/state-governor. Don’t copy anything word for word, because offices discard form letters. Write your own, covering the same points. Here’s the letter I sent Governor Ferguson as a model:

Governor Ferguson,

We are in a state of emergency. Please declare it as such. The threats to our national security, our elections, the economic stability of our state, and the safety of our residents are more than enough to justify the immediate, broad authority only an emergency declaration provides. Use it to aggressively investigate and criminally prosecute the crimes in the Epstein files, and to refer evidence out to other states when it intersects their criminal codes. This is the web connecting every crisis we’re facing, and pulling on it is how we restore democracy and protect the people of Washington state.

Please act on this today.