Your rage is the one weapon they know how to turn against you.

Keep your head.

Gather your proof.

And take them apart, calmly, in the daylight, where their power means nothing.

I want to be precise about why the daylight matters so much, because it is the heart of what defeated the Prescotts, and it is a thing worth understanding for anyone who has ever felt powerless against a corrupt local machine.

The Prescotts’ entire power depended on darkness — on keeping everything inside the county, inside a system they controlled, where they were the ones who decided what was recorded and what was buried, who was believed and who was discredited, which reports existed and which vanished.