First and foremost, I simply wrote this letter to add my own bit of pressure, however small it might be, on a mainstream politician to go beyond business as usual within a liberal-democratic state. I did consider posting this to my webpages, but I was also aware that doing so could come off as performative—or legitimize right-wing sneers at “virtue-signaling”. Ultimately, I decided to go ahead and do so for two reasons. First, I wanted to publicly stand with indigenous peoples. Second, I wanted to offer a template for other people to write similar letters to President Biden. The letter that I mailed as a hard-copy is as follows. Mister President, I congratulate you on your election as President of the United States of America. In light of an attempted coup, I also congratulate you on a successful inauguration. I for one voted for you in hopes of preventing a potential neo-Confederate fascist dictatorship from taking hold and endangering even more lives. I for one also have openly