A complete communication shutdown would give them a huge advantage over us.

Is there any backup plan to keep the channels open so Team Blue remains viable and functioning ?

Musk.

I would think that….Musk will not play nice somehow.

His hacker cabal could be instructed to take out progressive news.
His hacker cabal could pull Nixon’s RAT FUCKER crap 24/7 !!

See

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25090/donald-segretti-ratfking-100413/

(As any student of Watergate knows, "ratfucking" was the
word used by Segretti and a number of other officials in the Nixon White House
for the dirty tricks they ran in student elections when they all were at the
University of Southern California. Segretti -- as well as his pal, Dwight Chapin
-- simply transferred these techniques to our national elections.)

Star members have credit cards and therefore real IDs in the mix.

Musk, if he indeed teams up with VISA,

Musk will have the VISA database to find whoever he so desired already

will get rid of my visa card.

Not alarmist. We are at the "Chicken Little" moment.

Is there anything we members can do to be helpful?

Do EarlG and Elad have any guidance for us?

In my darkest moments.

.....for at least five weeks.

Don't believe their malarkey about "anti-kommanism." Republicans are the truest of Stalianists.