The primary source is an essay by Greg Twemlow outlining a "Third American Act" to reclaim the Republic through a 3Believer Movement, which is a civic blueprint for moral renewal and structural redesign. Twemlow incorporates the ideas of three other sources to define the problem: David Brooks provided the moral context, diagnosing a "miasma of passivity" and the need for a counter social movement; Rachel Maddow offered the evidential context by cataloguing systemic, banal corruption; and Twemlow's own earlier work, "The Making of Fake America," addressed the structural decay of stealth authoritarianism. A fourth element, Twemlow’s "Concrete and Code," detailed the economic threat posed by an over-leveraged AI investment bubble that functions as an engine of political decay. Collectively, these sources map the moral, evidential, economic, and structural vectors of decline, which the 3Believer Movement aims to counter through principles of Justice, Fairness, and Peace. Read the article.