While I like many people have been doing this for years, it's not clear what this will actually solve. What will strategically benefit us is banding together in public, not talking in hushed tones in private.

Organizing publicly tends to require safe, advanced preparation in private.

Do not plan crimes over the internet. Your opsec is not good enough, and is only as good as the leakiest person in the group chat. Who may be an FBI agent.

As Sam Bankman-Fried learned, only certain people have political cover to commit crimes.

Who said anything about crimes?

Protests are legal; they still require organizing, and keeping bad-faith folks out of that planning process.

A democracy is already organized.

But I suppose that's the problem. People stopped believing in democracy.

What do you recommend?

Signal is the gold standard. Eschew the desktop app if you're particularly security-sensitive

What's wrong with the desktop app?