If they want to really scare the DBags in DC, what they should send are a series of small militias. Such cannot be taken over by Fed order. And, it would serve as a training exercise for those not in uniform — yet.
States are facing down an organized bully, basically a cartel based in DC. You don’t incrementally face down a bully. You show how far you are willing to go, and demonstrate that you mean it. If THEY don’t back off, then you know that their ultimate goal is to murder you and your family; the goal of all collectivist polities.
You have to bully a bully is what I always say.