Calls for remaking American democracy from the bottom up in the face of a rising threat from reactionary White grievance, nativism, and Great Replacement rhetoric, leading toward fascist oligarchy; advocates the critical importance of introducing direct citizen participation in the exercise of public powers; posits the urban city as the locale for the establishment of directly democratic popular assemblies as the lower tier of two-tier urban government; addresses common questions and doubts about the efficacy of urban popular assemblies; explores the means of their acquiring public powers and power-leverage; and identifies the moral-spiritual essentials of a successful movement to revivify American democracy.