What if SHTF during an ICE protest? Maya Chen designed FEMA's community leader tracking system as a disaster relief tool — a way to identify the people who could help if everything fell apart. But when all Hell broke loose, the feds activated the Lincoln Protocol. And Maya watched her helpful tool become a government detention list. Within weeks, thousands of Black community leaders — pastors, teachers, organizers, coaches — were detained at military sites across the Midwest. No charges. No trial. No end date. Classified by threat level based on a single criterion: how effectively they could mobilize their communities. Sociology doctoral student Darius Cole is detained. His teenage mentee Jamal is separated from everyone he knows. And Maya, haunted by what she helped create, faces an impossible choice: protect her career or expose the system she built. The Lincoln Protocol is a political thriller grounded in six real scholarly frameworks about American decline. What happens when the infrastructure meant to save us is turned against us? And what do communities build when the government that promised to protect them becomes the threat? TEOTWAWKI? Elite Overproduction + Deglobalization + Fourth Turning = Next World Order