They’re Counting on You to Look Away from Project 2025. Don’t.

The pattern is getting impossible to ignore. This week, ICE reportedly overpaid for a Utah warehouse tied to detention expansion, admitted it is using spyware that can intercept encrypted messages, and Republicans kept making room for more enforcement while families are told there is never enough for their needs.

This is Resist Project 2025 in real time: more control, less freedom, and public money fueling fear instead of dignity. The playbook depends on people missing the connection. We cannot afford to look away.

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What Happened: This Week's Project 2025 Stories

ICE Paid Millions Extra for Utah Warehouse

• ICE bought a Utah warehouse for about $145 million even though it was assessed at roughly $97 million, and the site was reportedly meant for major detention expansion. That matters because public money should not be a blank check for mass detention. When the price jumps and transparency drops, ordinary people are right to ask who benefits. The Atlantic

Heritage’s Plan for Women Raises Alarm

• The Heritage Foundation has rolled out a new blueprint for American women that critics say pushes women toward greater dependence on men by promoting marriage and motherhood as policy goals. That matters because plans about family can become plans about control. When ideology starts defining a woman’s role, freedom and autonomy are what’s really on the line. MS NOW

ICE Admits Using Spyware

• ICE has acknowledged using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages, according to a letter from the agency’s acting director. That should alarm everyone, because surveillance powers rarely stay limited to one target or one community. When the government brings invasive spyware inside the United States, privacy and civil liberties are on the line. NPR

Republicans Are Choosing ICE Over Families

• A new report says Republicans’ push to fund ICE is squeezing the rest of their agenda. That matters because every budget choice reveals a priority. When leaders make room for detention and enforcement but crowd out everything else, families are left asking why fear gets funded faster than real solutions. The Hill

💔 Why It Matters and Who Is Harmed by Project 2025

Think about the family watching public money get poured into an overpriced ICE warehouse while their community is told there is never enough for housing, healthcare, or help with rising costs. Think about the woman hearing powerful extremists promote marriage and motherhood not as personal choices, but as policy goals meant to define her role and limit her freedom. Think about the immigrant family, journalist, organizer, or everyday person forced to wonder whether government spyware is reaching deeper into private messages and private life. Think about the communities being told that more money for ICE matters more than their actual needs.

These are not isolated headlines. They are the human cost of a system Project 2025 is helping build — one where public money fuels detention, surveillance expands, and ideology is used to control people’s lives. The people most harmed are women, immigrants, working families, and everyone who loses freedom, privacy, dignity, and democratic accountability while those in power keep demanding more control.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United believes that an informed, organized community is the most powerful force for democracy. Every time you read, share, call your representatives, or show up — you are actively resisting Project 2025. You are not powerless. You are exactly who they are afraid of.

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• Tell Congress: Make the Ultra-Rich Pay Their Fair Share

• Healthcare not Warfare!

• No War on Cuba!

• Tell Congress: Permanent Ceasefire Now

• Tell your state representatives: Ban Assault Weapons In Every State

• Block Trump’s AI-powered warrantless surveillance of Americans!

• Join an upcoming event:

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    • On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping. Find an event near you.

The movement for resisting project 2025 starts here.

🔍 The Bigger Picture: This Is What Authoritarianism Looks Like

Overpay for detention space. Normalize spyware. Repackage control over women’s lives as “family policy.” Keep pouring money into ICE while families are told to do more with less. This is the Project 2025 playbook — not in theory, but in real time. Public money moves with too little transparency. Surveillance powers push deeper into private life. Extremists try to define women’s roles for them. And budget priorities keep rewarding fear, punishment, and control over care, freedom, and dignity.

Authoritarianism does not always arrive in one dramatic moment. It grows when detention becomes business, privacy becomes optional, and ideology is used to shrink people’s autonomy. That is the bigger picture connecting these stories. They are all about concentrating power, weakening accountability, and forcing ordinary people to live under rules written by extremists. People Power United exists because informed, organized communities are still the greatest force we have to expose this playbook, resist it, and stop it.

📢 What Comes Next: Keep Being Loud

🏢 DETENTION DEALS — Demand a full investigation into ICE’s Utah warehouse purchase and any plan to turn warehouses into mass detention sites. Public money should not be a blank check for secretive detention expansion, and communities deserve transparency before more dollars are poured into this machinery.

🔐 SPYWARE AND PRIVACY — Tell Congress to hold public hearings on ICE’s use of spyware that can target encrypted communications. No agency should be allowed to deploy invasive surveillance tools without strict oversight, clear legal limits, and real protections for civil liberties.

👩 WOMEN’S FREEDOM — Demand your elected officials reject policy agendas that try to push women into narrow, male-led roles by tying public policy to marriage and motherhood. Women deserve freedom, autonomy, and the power to shape their own lives without ideological control from the state.

💸 BUDGET PRIORITIES — Contact Congress and demand they stop treating more ICE and Border Patrol funding as the top priority while workers, families, and essential services are left to absorb the damage. Our tax dollars should go toward dignity, care, and real community needs, not more detention, surveillance, and cruelty.

Together, we can defend our rights, freedoms, the rule of law, and democracy, hold leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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The No Kings movement is rising nationwide.

Friends,

The NO KINGS movement is rising nationwide. Join us. This country does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or politicians who rule through fear. It belongs to the people. As Donald Trump pushes for more unchecked power, people across this country are rising together to say what democracy demands: no thrones, no crowns, no kings.

From communities living under fear to an illegal war pushed without the consent of the people, the warning signs are here. When power is abused and Congress refuses to provide real oversight, the danger grows for all of us. That is why people from every corner of this country are standing up together to say our leaders answer to the people, not to one man’s hunger for control.

Now is the time to show up and make that truth impossible to ignore. No illegal wars. No ICE terror. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.

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This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

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They’re Counting on You to Look Away from Project 2025. Don’t.

The pattern is getting impossible to ignore. This week, the Trump administration invoked wartime emergency powers to push $23 billion in weapons sales through — to three foreign governments, without a single congressional vote. In Montana, a sitting senator handed his seat to a hand-picked successor two minutes after the filing deadline closed, locking out other candidates before voters could object. And across the country, TSA agents worked without pay while members of Congress quietly skipped the very security lines those unpaid workers were managing.

This is Resist Project 2025 in real time. Emergency declarations replacing democratic votes. Party bosses replacing primary voters. The powerful insulated from the consequences of the chaos they create. The Project 2025 playbook depends on you being too overwhelmed to connect the dots. Don’t be. Your attention is still the most powerful tool we have.

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What Happened: This Week's Project 2025 Stories

⚔️ Trump Declares Wartime Emergency to Arm Foreign Nations — Bypassing Congress Again

• The Trump administration used a wartime emergency declaration to push through more than $23 billion in weapons sales to the UAE, Kuwait, and Jordan — all without a congressional vote. It is the second time since the Iran war began that the administration has invoked emergency authority to circumvent the legislature. Critics from both parties warn the move makes it impossible to answer even the most basic questions about the war: What is the endgame? What will it cost? And who, exactly, authorized it? New York Times

Why This Matters: When a president can arm foreign governments with taxpayer dollars by simply declaring an emergency, the Constitution’s war powers don’t disappear — they just get ignored. This is not a wartime exception. This is how authoritarian consolidation works: manufacture the emergency, then use it to unlock power that was never meant to be unilateral.

🗳️ Montana Republicans Engineered a Backroom Senate Coronation. Voters Had No Say.

• Just minutes after the candidate filing deadline closed, a sitting Montana senator withdrew from his reelection race, locking out other potential candidates and clearing the field for a Trump-endorsed successor who had never held elected office. The switch was immediately embraced by the president, the governor, and the state’s other senator — a seamless transfer of power that critics from both parties called a mockery of the democratic process. Seattle Times

Why This Matters: The party that campaigns on “election integrity” just staged a backroom coronation and called it democracy. This is Project 2025 at the state level: power flowing to hand-picked successors, voters sidelined, accountability dissolved before a single ballot is cast. When the rules of democratic competition are this easily bent, the ballot box stops being a guarantee of anything.

✈️ Congress Quietly Skipped TSA Lines While Agents Worked Weeks Without Pay

• As a DHS funding lapse stretched past 35 days, TSA officers worked without paychecks while airport security lines swelled to three and four hours at airports across the country. The entire time, members of Congress were bypassing those same lines through a long-standing expedited security perk that most Americans never knew existed. The Senate unanimously passed a bill to end the privilege — but it still needs to clear the House. The Hill

Why This Matters: When the people who make the rules are shielded from the consequences of those rules, nothing gets fixed. The shutdown will never end because the powerful people who caused it were never inconvenienced by it. That is not a bug in the system — that is the system Project 2025 is building: one set of rules for the powerful, another for everyone else.

💔 Why It Matters and Who Is Harmed by Project 2025

Think about the TSA worker who spent five weeks without a paycheck, showing up anyway, while senators flew through security unchallenged. The Montana voter who learned their party’s Senate primary had already been decided in a last-minute backroom swap. The family watching an unexplained war push gas prices higher while $23 billion in weapons got shipped overseas without a single vote in Congress.

These are not policy footnotes. They are the human cost of a system Project 2025 is deliberately building — one in which power flows upward, accountability dissolves, and the people who created the chaos are never required to stand in its mess. The communities hardest hit are working families, voters without party connections, and every worker whose labor keeps this country running while the rules are being rewritten above their heads.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United believes that an informed, organized community is the most powerful force for democracy. Every time you read, share, call your representatives, or show up — you are actively resisting Project 2025. You are not powerless. You are exactly who they are afraid of.

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 💥 Take action: Tell Republicans: End the Shutdown by Reforming ICE and CBP

• ✅ Take action: Denounce Trump’s Inhumane Response to Robert Mueller’s Death

• ➡️ Take action: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

• 🎯 Take action: Tell Congress: Subpoena Hegseth About Iran School Attack

• 📢 Take action: Submit an official comment rejecting the criminalization of dissent

• 💸 Take action: This Tax Day, tell Congress to tax the rich and make life more affordable for working people and families

• 🗳️ Take action: Tell Congress to stop the SAVE America Act and defend the right to vote

• 🪖 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran and vote no on the draft

• 📣 Take action: Tell Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution and stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for resisting project 2025 starts here.

🔍 The Bigger Picture: This Is What Authoritarianism Looks Like

Declare an emergency. Skip the vote. Engineer the succession. And make sure the people causing the damage never have to feel it. This is the Project 2025 playbook — not in theory, but live, this week, in three separate stories that are really one story. Emergency powers crowding out congressional votes. Party insiders replacing primary voters. A governing class shielded from the consequences of its own decisions.

Every authoritarian movement in history has relied on these same tools — and every one has eventually been stopped by organized people who refused to play along. The TSA worker who kept showing up unpaid. The Montana voter who called the coronation what it was. The family demanding Congress explain a war they never voted for. We are those people. People Power United exists because organized, informed communities are the only force that has ever beaten this playbook.

📢 What Comes Next: Keep Being Loud

⛽ GAS PRICES — Demand your Congressional representatives hold public hearings on the economic cost of the Iran war.

⚔️ WAR POWERS — Tell Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution and demand a vote before any more emergency weapons sales go through without congressional approval.

🗳️ DEMOCRACY — Contact your senators and representatives and demand they publicly oppose the backroom engineering of Senate successions. Voters choose senators — not party bosses.

✈️ DHS SHUTDOWN — Demand Congress fund TSA workers immediately. No one should work without pay. Urge your House representative to pass the Senate bill ending expedited screening privileges for lawmakers.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

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They’re Counting on You to Look Away from Project 2025. Don’t.

Authoritarianism doesn’t just seize power — it silences anyone who might tell the truth about it. This week, the Trump administration sent gas prices soaring with a war it still can’t fully explain, then threatened to strip television licenses from stations covering that war too honestly. The Pentagon moved to turn a 160-year-old military newspaper into a potential propaganda outlet. And in Texas, a jury convicted eight protesters as domestic terrorists — for wearing black. These are not separate stories. They are one blueprint.

The Project 2025 playbook depends on you being too angry about gas prices to notice the press crackdown, and too overwhelmed by the war to notice the courthouse. Your attention is still the most powerful tool we have.

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What Happened: This Week's Project 2025 Stories

⛽ Energy Secretary Admits: No Guarantees Gas Prices Will Drop After Trump’s War on Iran

• Gas prices have surged more than 76 cents per gallon since the U.S.-Israel war on Iran began, with the critical Strait of Hormuz closed to shipping and crude oil briefly hitting triple digits. The administration’s own energy secretary went on national television and admitted there are no guarantees prices will come down — while defending the pain as a short-term cost for long-term geopolitical gain. The administration’s own department projects prices won’t return to pre-war levels before the end of 2027. HuffPost

Why This Matters: When the government launches a war and working families feel it first at the pump, they deserve honest answers — not vague promises. This is not a market fluctuation. It is a policy choice, and ordinary people are paying the price.

📰 Hegseth Moves to Turn Military Newspaper Into a Pentagon Propaganda Arm

• The Pentagon issued an 8-page memo requiring the independent Stars & Stripes military newspaper to publish content “consistent with good order and discipline” — military justice language that could expose staff reporters who are active-duty service members to court-martial for writing stories the Defense Department dislikes. The memo also bars the paper from using wire services like the Associated Press, cutting troops deployed in war zones off from independent news. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: Stars & Stripes has served U.S. troops since the Civil War. When the government threatens reporters with court-martial for honest journalism, it isn’t protecting the military — it’s using the military to shield itself from accountability.

📡 FCC Chair Threatens to Strip TV Licenses Over Iran War Coverage

• The FCC chairman publicly threatened to revoke broadcast licenses from television stations he accused of running “hoaxes and news distortions” about the Iran war, directly echoing President Trump’s complaints. The move follows a pattern of regulatory intimidation — including CBS spiking a political interview out of fear of FCC retaliation, and the earlier suspension of a late-night host after administration pressure. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: The FCC’s own website states the First Amendment prohibits it from censoring broadcast content. Carr knows this. The threat is the point. When newsrooms self-censor out of fear, a free press dies — not through a ban, but through intimidation.

✊ Wearing Black to a Protest Is Now “Terrorism” Under Trump

• A federal jury in Texas convicted eight people of material support for terrorism because they wore all-black clothing to a July 4th protest outside an ICE detention facility — even though only one person fired a weapon. The charges were escalated from attempted murder to terrorism only after Trump designated “antifa” a domestic terror group, despite it being a political identity, not an organization. Legal experts warn the verdict sets a precedent for criminalizing constitutionally protected protest. Truthout

Why This Matters: “Antifa” is not a group — and a jury just convicted people as terrorists for how they dressed. The government itself announced this will not be the last such case. Every activist and organizer who has ever marched should be paying close attention to what just happened in Fort Worth.

💔 Why It Matters and Who Is Harmed by Project 2025

Think about the truck driver watching gas prices eat his paycheck while the Energy Secretary shrugs on television. The military journalist weighing whether a story might cost them their freedom. The local news anchor wondering if tonight’s Iran report will trigger a license threat from Washington. The young activist who wore black to protest a detention facility and is now a convicted terrorist.

These are not abstract policy failures. Project 2025 was designed to make people feel this — the economic squeeze, the silenced press, the chilling effect that keeps the next protester home. The harm is already here. And the communities in its path — working families, truth-tellers, journalists, and anyone who dares to say this is wrong — are the same communities that have always been in the crosshairs of authoritarian power.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United believes that an informed, organized community is the most powerful force for democracy. Every time you read, share, call your representatives, or show up — you are actively resisting Project 2025. You are not powerless. You are exactly who they are afraid of.

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• Take Action: Block Trump’s AI-Powered Warrantless Surveillance of Americans

• Take action: Tell Congress to pass the War Powers Resolution and stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• 📢 Take action: Submit an official comment rejecting the criminalization of dissent

• 💸 Take action: This Tax Day, tell Congress to tax the rich and make life more affordable for working people and families

• 🗳️ Take action: Tell Congress to stop the SAVE America Act and defend the right to vote

• 🪖 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran and vote no on the draft

• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for resisting project 2025 starts here.

🔍 The Bigger Picture: This Is What Authoritarianism Looks Like

Start a war. Spike the prices. When the press reports what’s actually happening, threaten to silence them. Designate your political opponents as terrorists. Use the courthouse to make the next protest feel too dangerous to attend. That is not governance. It is authoritarian consolidation — and it has a name: Project 2025. It is running on schedule.

Every authoritarian movement in history has used these same tools. And every one has eventually been stopped by people who refused to be silenced or scared. The Stars & Stripes editor who said no. The defense lawyer who told that Texas jury: you are the only ones who can stop this. The journalist who reports the story anyway. We are those people. People Power United exists because organized, informed communities are the only force that has ever beaten this playbook.

📢 What Comes Next: Keep Being Loud

⛽ GAS PRICES — Demand your Congressional representatives hold public hearings on the economic cost of the Iran war.

📰 PRESS FREEDOM — Contact your senators and representatives and demand they publicly oppose the Pentagon’s Stars & Stripes memo and FCC license threats. A free press is not negotiable.

📡 FCC ACCOUNTABILITY — File a public comment with the FCC opposing the use of licensing as a political weapon. Let Brendan Carr know the public is watching.

✊ PROTEST RIGHTS — Donate to the National Lawyers Guild and support those being prosecuted for lawful assembly.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

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They’re Counting on You to Look Away from Project 2025. Don’t.

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once — it captures the courts, seizes the ballot box, and points guns at allies, while the news cycle churns fast enough to make keeping up feel impossible. That’s the design. This week: Trump-appointed judges rubber-stamping the administration’s agenda at staggering rates, Republicans announcing a plan to nationalize our elections, a congresswoman standing up for the constitutional rights of every person born on U.S. soil, and a Catholic military archbishop telling service members they may refuse illegal orders. These are not separate stories. They are one blueprint.

The Project 2025 playbook depends on your exhaustion. Your attention is an act of resistance. Every one of this week’s stories is about you — your rights, your vote, your country. Keep reading. Keep showing up.

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What Happened: This Week's Project 2025 Stories

⚖️ Trump’s Hand-Picked Judges Are Voting For Him 97% of the Time

• A detailed analysis of federal appeals court rulings found that Trump-appointed judges sided with his administration on emergency stays 97% of the time. The three DC Circuit Trump appointees alone cast the majority of those pro-administration votes. Now three more conservative appeals court judges are stepping into semi-retirement, giving Trump new vacancies to fill with loyalists before the midterms. New York Times

Why This Matters: When judges are installed to serve power rather than law, the courts stop being a check on authoritarianism — they become its instrument. This is exactly what Project 2025 always intended: locking in control of institutions that will outlast any election.

🗽 Congress Fights Back: Resolution to Defend the Fourteenth Amendment

• Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and thirteen co-sponsors introduced a formal resolution calling on Congress to recommit to defending the Fourteenth Amendment — the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection for every person in this country. The resolution responds directly to Trump’s executive order targeting birthright citizenship as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in. Rep. Tlaib’s Office

Why This Matters: The Fourteenth Amendment exists to stop a government from deciding which human beings count under the law. This resolution may not pass — and its sponsors know that. But it names what is happening, forces lawmakers on record, and reminds us our constitutional rights are worth fighting for in every arena.

🗳️ Republicans Unveil the “MEGA Act” — A National Voter Suppression Blueprint

• After Trump declared that Republicans should “nationalize the voting” and take over elections in at least 15 states, House Republicans unveiled the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act — sweeping legislation that would codify the most extreme voting restrictions ever attempted at the federal level. Paired with the SAVE Act’s citizenship documentation requirement just to register, experts warn millions would be disenfranchised, especially married women, rural voters, and communities of color. Democracy News

Why This Matters: 69 million Americans lack a birth certificate in their current name — most are married women. Half of Americans don’t have a passport. This isn’t election security. It’s voter suppression with a new name. When you control who can vote, you control who wins.

✝️ Catholic Military Archbishop Tells Troops: You May Disobey Illegal Orders

• As the Trump administration threatened military force to seize Greenland from a founding NATO ally and deployed troops to Venezuela, the Catholic archbishop for the U.S. armed forces stated it “would be morally acceptable” for service members to disobey orders violating their conscience. Three of the nation’s top Catholic cardinals simultaneously issued a rare joint statement questioning the “moral foundation” of U.S. foreign policy. Washington Post

Why This Matters: When a military archbishop publicly tells troops they can say no, that is not a normal moment in American history. Threatening to invade a NATO ally is not a policy dispute — it is the behavior of an authoritarian state. The people given those orders are raising their hands and saying: this is wrong.

💔 Why It Matters and Who Is Harmed by Project 2025

Think about the child born here to an immigrant family — a constitutional citizen — now told that birthright might be revoked by executive order. The married woman in rural Montana with no current-name birth certificate, told she must produce one just to register. The Black voter in Atlanta. The naturalized citizen in Michigan. The service member wondering if the order they just received is even legal.

These are not abstractions. Project 2025 was always a blueprint to concentrate power by stripping rights from the many — women, immigrants, voters of color, working people, anyone who believes the Constitution means what it says. The harm is not coming. It is already here. The communities in its path are the same ones that have always been in the crosshairs: those with the least protection and the most to lose.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United believes that an informed, organized community is the most powerful force for democracy. Every time you read, share, call your representatives, or show up — you are actively resisting Project 2025. You are not powerless. You are exactly who they are afraid of.

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 👉 Take Action Now: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

• 📩 Take action: Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act bills

• ⚡ Take action: Tell Congress to subpoena Hegseth about the Iran school attack

• 👉 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran — and vote no on the draft

• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

• 📢 Take action: Tell state AGs to block the Warner-Paramount mega-merger

• 📋 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• 🎬 Take action: Tell your Secretary of State: No ICE at the polls

• 🚨 Take action: Speak out now to help stop the next Great Recession before it starts

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

The movement for resisting project 2025 starts here.

🔍 The Bigger Picture: This Is What Authoritarianism Looks Like

The pattern is intentional. Control the courts so no law can stop you. Restrict the ballot so no election can remove you. Weaponize the military so no border can constrain you. That is not a slippery slope. It is a plan. It has a name: Project 2025. And it is running on schedule.

Authoritarian projects have always recruited judges, legislatures, and armies — and they have always been stopped by organized people who refused to normalize what they were seeing. The archbishop who spoke up. The election official who said no. The congresswoman who introduced a resolution knowing it might fail. We are those people. People Power United exists because resistance isn’t one act — it’s a sustained commitment made again and again by ordinary people who choose not to look away.

📢 What Comes Next: Keep Being Loud

⚖️ COURTS — Contact your senators and demand opposition to any judicial nominee who has demonstrated loyalty to power over the Constitution.

🗳️ VOTING RIGHTS — Call your House representatives and tell them the SAVE Act and MEGA Act are voter suppression. Demand they vote no — and make them say it publicly.

📜 14TH AMENDMENT — Share Rep. Tlaib’s resolution. Ask your own representative to co-sponsor it. Make them go on record about whose rights they will defend.

🌍 MILITARY ACCOUNTABILITY — Demand your Congressional representatives formally oppose any unauthorized military action against NATO allies. Write, call, and show up.

🗳️ REGISTER TO VOTE — Check your registration status now. Every election. Every time. Your vote is the one thing they’re working hardest to take. Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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They’re Counting on You to Look Away from Project 2025. Don’t.

Project 2025 is no longer a blueprint — it is the active policy of the United States government. This week’s stories confirm what millions of Americans have been warning: big donors are collecting their return on investment in pardons and regulatory rollbacks, immigrants are being caged in industrial warehouses without trial, America’s democratic allies are being threatened for refusing to surrender sovereign territory, and the architects of Project 2025 are publicly tallying their wins. The machinery of authoritarianism is not warming up. It is already running.

They are counting on exhaustion. They are counting on the news cycle to bury each new outrage before the anger can build into action. They are counting on you to look away. Don’t.

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What Happened: This Week's Project 2025 Stories

💰 Trump’s $2 Billion Donor Payback Scheme Is Out in the Open

• A major investigation found that more than half of 346 large post-election donors — contributing to a fundraising haul now topping $2 billion — have directly benefited from White House actions: pardons, dropped enforcement cases, government contracts, and industry-friendly regulatory rollbacks. Corporations including ExxonMobil, Amazon, and Goldman Sachs gave and gained. One former administration official turned lobbyist summed up the dynamic plainly: the donors were simply making “business decisions.” New York Times

Why This Matters: This is the presidency as a subscription service for the wealthy. Project 2025 explicitly called for weakening campaign finance laws and amplifying donor influence over policy — and that vision is now government reality. When the president acts, the people who paid for access reap the rewards. The rest of us don’t have a million dollars. Our leverage is our voice, our vote, and our organized people power.

🏭 ICE Plans to Cage 80,000 Immigrants in Converted Warehouses

• Leaked internal ICE documents reveal plans to convert industrial warehouses across seven states into mass detention hubs, each capable of holding up to 10,000 people, as part of the largest expansion of immigration detention in U.S. history. The system is designed as a “feeder pipeline” to accelerate deportations — even though nearly half of those currently detained have no criminal conviction or pending charges. Local officials and human rights advocates have called the plan inhumane and potentially unconstitutional. Washington Post

Why This Matters: This is not immigration enforcement — it is a mass coercion apparatus. People are being held not to punish crime, but to pressure them into surrendering their legal rights and accepting deportation. Project 2025 called for exactly this kind of detention expansion. It is being built right now, in warehouses near you, with billions of your tax dollars.

🌍 Trump Threatened Eight Allied Democracies Over Greenland. Europe Woke Up.

• When the administration threatened military action and punishing tariffs against eight European democracies — including the United Kingdom, France, and Germany — for sending troops to Greenland in solidarity with Denmark, it sent shockwaves through the transatlantic alliance. Opinion writers urged world leaders to stop appeasing Washington, warning that the Greenland crisis may finally be forcing allies to reckon with the threat American aggression poses to the global order. Trump backed down temporarily at Davos — but the warning was unmistakable. New York Times

Why This Matters: When a U.S. president threatens allied democracies with military force for defending a neighbor’s sovereignty, that is not a negotiating tactic — it is a declaration of values. Project 2025 envisions an America operating outside international norms, unbound by alliances, answerable to no one. Greenland showed the world — and us — exactly what that looks like from the inside.

📋 Project 2025 Is Policy Now — And Its Authors Are Bragging

• One year after dismissing Project 2025 as “ridiculous” and claiming ignorance of its authors, the administration has implemented its policies page by page: ending DEI programs, dismantling the Department of Education, mass immigration enforcement, overhauling the federal workforce. California AG Rob Bonta, who used the document to prepare legal challenges, called it the defining blueprint of Trump’s first year back in power. One of Project 2025’s lead architects compared watching the executive orders to seeing his sketchbook come to life on screen. NPR

Why This Matters: The gaslighting is over. Project 2025 is not a conspiracy theory or a far-off threat — it is the operating system of the current federal government. The people who wrote it are proud of what they’ve done. That should make the rest of us furious — and ready to organize.

💔 Why It Matters and Who Is Harmed by Project 2025

These four stories are not separate news items. They are four edges of the same trap — and working people are caught inside it.

Immigrant families are detained without conviction and pressured to surrender their legal rights. Low-income workers are losing regulatory protections traded away for donor loyalty. Allied democracies are being threatened for defending their neighbors. And Project 2025’s architects are publicly tallying their wins. The communities paying the highest price are always the same — and they are targeted deliberately. This is not a policy disagreement. This is a coordinated assault on the principle that government belongs to the people — not to whoever can write the biggest check.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🐊 Take action: Shut down Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp

• 💰 Take action: Tell Congress to end the cash-for-deportation scheme

• 🛡️ Take action: Tell Social Security to stop sharing data with ICE

• ⚖️ Take action: Demand accountability for the fatal Minneapolis ICE shooting

• 📣 Take action: Tell Congress to investigate ICE retaliation against protests

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action

The movement for resisting project 2025 starts here.

🔍 The Bigger Picture: This Is What Authoritarianism Looks Like

Project 2025 assembled a governing playbook from history — and this week confirmed it is running on schedule.

Buy the government. Reward donors with pardons, contracts, and regulatory gifts. Make corruption feel like business as usual.

Cage the vulnerable. Build a detention system so vast that courts can’t keep up. Use imprisonment not to punish crime, but to coerce compliance.

Bully the world. Threaten allied democracies for defending their neighbors. Signal that international law is for lesser powers.

Own the narrative. Claim ignorance. Implement. Then brag. Move fast enough that outrage can never organize into accountability.

This playbook only works if we let it. Every authoritarian project in history has been stopped by organized people who refused to accept that powerlessness was permanent. We are those people. This is that moment.

📢 What Comes Next: Keep Being Loud

Project 2025 is not a distant threat. It is the operating manual of the current federal government — being implemented right now, in your state, in your community, on your streets. The people who wrote it are counting on you to feel too overwhelmed to act. Prove them wrong.

Exhaustion is part of their strategy. Persistence must be ours. When we speak out, show up, build people power, and demand accountability, we break their pattern. Freedom does not survive on hope alone — it survives when people act together.

That is why we need you. Organize. Show up. Bring your neighbors. Every new person in this movement is one more voice that no billionaire can buy and no corrupt leader can silence.

Power has always belonged to the people, and it always will — unless we surrender it to the greedy and the corrupt who are counting on our silence. We will not be silent. Power to the people.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🔊 Tell Congress: Block Trump’s Election Denier Pick to Lead DHS,

  👉 Power up: Reject Markwayne Mullins Confirmation, ☎️ Call your Senator at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to vote NO on Mullin for DHS

• 📢 Be the change Tell State AGs: Block the Warner-Paramount Mega-Merger

• Make your voice heard: 🚫 Not One Dime for Trump’s War, 📋 Sign the petition: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

• 🎬 Speak out now: Tell Your Secretary of State: No ICE at the Polls.

• 🚨Use your voice: Stop the next Great Recession before it starts

• BONUS: 🗳️ Make your voice heard Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

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They’re Counting on You to Look Away from Project 2025. Don’t.

Project 2025 was never just a policy document. It was a blueprint — a detailed, coordinated plan to restructure the federal government around unchecked executive power, eliminate accountability, and lock in minority rule for a generation. What we are watching now is that blueprint being executed, chapter by chapter, week by week. Voter suppression. Children detained for protesting. Documents confiscated as punishment. And a political class that has yet to treat any of it with the urgency it deserves.

They are counting on exhaustion. They are counting on overwhelm. They are counting on you looking away. Don’t.

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What Happened: This Week’s Project 2025 Stories

🗳️ Trump Wants to Take Over Elections

• The Trump administration is pushing legislation that would reshape how elections are administered across the country — including strict federal voter ID requirements and expanded state authority over election administration that critics warn would open the door to partisan interference. This is not a new playbook. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and administrative manipulation have long been tools used to shrink the electorate to a size that can be more easily controlled. What is new is the scale, the speed, and the institutional backing. This is Project 2025’s electoral strategy made law. Mother Jones

🧊 Pennsylvania Students Protested ICE. Juveniles Were Detained. The Community Is Demanding Answers.

• In Quakertown, Pennsylvania, a student protest against ICE escalated into police confrontations, arrests, and extended juvenile detention. Video of the physical confrontation spread quickly, sparking community outrage and calls for accountability over how police handled minors exercising their constitutional right to protest. Parents, residents, and advocates are asking hard questions about why children were held and for how long — and whether the response was designed to send a message. Seattle Times

🪪 ICE Took Their Papers — And Won’t Give Them Back

• Immigrants released from detention are reporting that ICE kept their critical documents — work permits, identification cards, and other paperwork — making it nearly impossible to work, access services, or rebuild their lives after release. Without these documents, people cannot prove their legal status, cannot be hired, and cannot access basic support systems. They are released from detention but remain trapped — legally in limbo, economically paralyzed, and vulnerable to re-detention at any moment. No judge ordered this. No law explicitly requires it. It is bureaucratic punishment carried out in the shadows. Mother Jones

🧑‍⚖️ Democrats Should Create a Formal Accountability Project — Now

• Writing in The Nation, commentators are calling on Democrats to establish what they’re calling a “Nuremberg Caucus” — a formal, public-facing effort to document alleged crimes and abuses by the Trump administration, build an evidentiary record, identify witnesses, and develop legal theories for future accountability. The argument is straightforward: impunity accelerates authoritarian behavior. When officials believe there will be no consequences, abuses escalate. A structured, visible accountability project raises the political cost of lawbreaking now — and lays the groundwork for prosecutions later. The Nation, Pluralistic

💔 Why It Matters and Who Is Harmed by Project 2025

These stories are not separate. They are the same story told four different ways — and the people paying the price are the ones this administration has always targeted first.

Young people who protest are learning that civic participation can result in arrest and detention. When minors are taken into custody for demonstrating against federal immigration policy, the message travels fast and far: silence is safer. That is not a side effect. That is the point.

Immigrants who have served their time in detention — or who were never convicted of anything — are being released into a trap. No papers means no job. No job means no stability. No stability means a faster path back to detention. This is not bureaucratic incompetence. It is a system designed to grind people down without leaving fingerprints.

Voters — particularly in communities of color, low-income communities, and communities with high rates of residential mobility — will be most harmed by voter ID laws and administrative changes to election oversight. These populations are not disenfranchised accidentally. They are targeted deliberately, because their participation threatens the minority rule that Project 2025 was designed to protect.

And all of us are harmed when accountability disappears. When officials who break the law face no consequences, the law stops functioning as a constraint on power. That is not a theoretical risk. It is already happening.

🔍 The Bigger Picture: This Is What Authoritarianism Looks Like

Project 2025 did not invent authoritarian tactics. It catalogued and systematized ones that have toppled democracies before. And it is unfolding exactly as designed.

Control the vote. If you cannot win with the electorate as it exists, shrink it. Complicate registration. Require documents that some voters don’t have. Put allies in charge of certifying results. Make the machinery of democracy answer to the party, not the people.

Silence dissent early. Arrest the protesters. Detain the students. Make the cost of speaking out visible and immediate. You don’t have to silence everyone — you just have to make enough people afraid that the protest doesn’t grow.

Punish without process. Keep the documents. Deny the work permit. Leave people in legal limbo where no court has sentenced them but the system has rendered its verdict anyway. This is how you destroy communities without a trial.

Make accountability feel impossible. Overwhelm critics with the volume and pace of abuses. Move faster than institutions can respond. Normalize each new transgression before the last one has been fully processed. By the time anyone organizes a response, the next outrage has already arrived.

This is the blueprint. And it only works if we let it.

Fascism thrives on the feeling that nothing can be done — that the machinery is too big, too fast, too entrenched to stop. That feeling is manufactured. Every authoritarian project in history has been stopped, reversed, or outlasted by people who refused to accept that powerlessness was permanent.

We are those people. This is that moment.

📢 What Comes Next: Keep Being Loud

Exhaustion is a strategy. So is persistence. Here is how we push back:

• 🗳️ DEFEND THE VOTE — Learn your state’s new election laws. Help your neighbors get the documents they need. Volunteer with voter registration and protection organizations. Every eligible voter who participates is a direct rebuke to suppression.

• 🧊 STAND WITH STUDENTS — Show up for the Quakertown families demanding answers. Support organizations that defend the rights of young protesters. Make clear that detaining children for dissent has a political cost.

• 🪪 DEMAND DOCUMENTS BACK — Contact your representatives and demand they investigate ICE’s document-confiscation practices. No agency should be able to punish people through bureaucratic obstruction without legal authority or oversight.

• 🧑‍⚖️ BUILD THE ACCOUNTABILITY RECORD — Support investigative journalism. Demand your representatives create formal, public mechanisms to document abuses. Impunity is not inevitable — it is a choice. Make it a costly one.

• 💚 BUILD PEOPLE POWER — Organize your neighbors. Show up to local meetings. Donate to frontline organizations. Every person who joins this movement makes it harder to ignore — and harder to stop.

Project 2025 is not a distant threat. It is the operating manual of the current federal government — and it is being implemented right now, in your state, in your community, on your streets. The people who wrote it are counting on you to feel too overwhelmed to act. Prove them wrong.

Power has always belonged to the people. It always will. Let’s use it.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

Join the Resistance

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

The blueprint for fascism is written. The resistance starts here.

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💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 📢 Be the change Tell State AGs: Block the Warner-Paramount Mega-Merger

• 📋 Sign the petition: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

• 🎬 Make your voice heard Stop Burning Fossil Fuels Now

• 👉 Drive the change Tell Congress: End the Cash-for-Deportation Scheme

• 🚨 Speak out for progress Stop Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan: 4,000 New Oil Spills

• BONUS: 🗳️ Make your voice heard Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• BONUS: 👑🚫 Drive the change Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

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They’re Counting on You to Look Away from Project 2025. Don’t.

Here’s what they want you to believe: that Project 2025 is something that might happen. Something to worry about later. A document gathering dust on a think-tank shelf while the real decisions get made somewhere else, by someone else, in a room you’ll never see.

Here’s what’s actually true: the blueprint is already running, and it has been for a while. Every week, the stories pile up — in classrooms where children are being told they don’t belong, in courtrooms where the right to vote is being quietly dismantled, in a Congress being asked to rubber-stamp a war it never approved, in a death row cell where a man who never killed anyone nearly ran out of time.

This is not abstract. This is Project 2025 in practice — written by the Heritage Foundation, funded by billionaire mega-donors, coordinated across more than 100 far-right organizations, and executing its 900-page plan to concentrate power in the hands of a few while stripping it from the rest of us. Week by week. Story by story. Policy by policy.

The good news? People are fighting back — and winning. This week proved it.

Here is what happened. Here is why it matters. And here is what you can do right now.

What Happened: This Week’s Project 2025 Stories

🏫 Tennessee Wants to Slam the Schoolhouse Door on Immigrant Children Source: The Intercept

• Tennessee Republicans are advancing a bill that would let public schools turn undocumented children away and force teachers to report students’ immigration status to the government — a direct attack on Plyler v. Doe, the 1982 ruling that guarantees every child the right to a free public education. The Heritage Foundation, the same organization behind Project 2025, has explicitly called on all 50 states to pass similar laws, and six have already introduced similar bills. Educators and legal advocates warn that when one group of children is pushed out, their siblings and friends stop coming too — and the entire system collapses from within.

🗳️ The Administration Won’t Say If Armed Officers Will Be at Your Polling Place. Democrats Are Suing to Find Out. Source: The New York Times

• The DNC filed a federal lawsuit this week after eleven Freedom of Information Act requests — sent in October to the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense — went unanswered for five months, asking whether the administration plans to deploy armed federal agents or troops to polling places in the 2026 midterms. The White House press secretary has refused to rule it out, and Trump has repeatedly called for “nationalizing” elections. Federal law already prohibits armed personnel at polling places — but a law only protects you if someone is willing to enforce it.

⚖️ Democrats Forced Congress on the Record About a War That Was Never Authorized Source: The Guardian

• The Trump administration launched military strikes against Iran without a single vote from Congress — no declaration of war, no authorization, no meaningful consultation — and six American service members have already died. Senate and House Democrats, joined by Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie, forced floor votes on bipartisan War Powers resolutions that failed largely along party lines. But the votes accomplished exactly what the administration did not want: every member of Congress is now on the record. Remember that in November.

⚡ Alabama Was About to Execute a Man Who Never Pulled the Trigger. The People Said No. NBC News & Death Penalty Information Center

• Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, spent more than thirty years on Alabama’s death row for a 1991 robbery in which another man fired the shot that killed a customer — a fact not disputed even by the state. The victim’s daughter wrote an op-ed urging mercy, six of the eight living jurors asked for commutation, 67,000 people signed a petition, and protesters gathered outside the governor’s mansion. Today, Governor Kay Ivey commuted Burton’s sentence to life without parole, calling the execution under these circumstances “unjust.” This is what people power actually looks like — not in theory, but today.

Why It Matters and Who Is Harmed by Project 2025

These stories are not accidents and they are not coincidence. They are the output of a system deliberately redesigned to concentrate power at the top and remove accountability at every level.

Project 2025’s harm is not distributed evenly — and that is not a flaw in the design. That is the point. Immigrant children are being told their presence in a classroom is a burden, while undocumented people contribute nearly $97 billion in taxes annually. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and policies designed to make it harder to register and vote target Black and Brown communities, low-income families, the elderly, the sick, and the disenfranchised — because silencing the most vulnerable is how the powerful stay powerful. LGBTQIA+ people, women seeking reproductive care, and religious minorities are not caught in the crossfire — they are named, specifically, in the Project 2025 document as targets.

Authoritarianism rarely announces itself with a parade. It arrives through paperwork. Through silence. Through FOIA requests that go unanswered and war powers votes that quietly fail and school enrollment forms that start asking questions they were never meant to ask. The exhaustion you feel scrolling through the headlines — the sense that there is too much, that it comes too fast — is not an accident. Overwhelming people into passivity is how this plan wins.

And yet — today — Sonny Burton is alive. Because people organized. Because 67,000 people signed their names to something that mattered. Resistance works. It is not guaranteed. But it is the only thing that ever has.

Freedom over fascism. Progress over fear. Power to the people — every single one of us.

The Bigger Picture: This Is What Authoritarianism Looks Like From the Inside

Authoritarianism rarely announces itself with a parade. It arrives through paperwork. Through silence. Through FOIA requests that never get answered and war powers votes that quietly fail and school enrollment forms that start asking questions they were never meant to ask.

The Project 2025 blueprint is explicit about its goals: purge tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replace them with loyalists. Hand the president direct control over the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Federal Reserve. Dismantle the free press, the independent judiciary, and the administrative structure that makes self-governance possible. Impose a specific religious and political worldview on public education, reproductive healthcare, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the ballot box.

This is not chaos. It is not incompetence. Every story this week is the blueprint working exactly as intended. The exhaustion you feel scrolling through the headlines — the sense that there is too much, that it comes too fast, that you can’t keep up — is not an accident. Overwhelming people into passivity is how this plan wins.

The framers did not write the War Powers Act, the Freedom of Information Act, or the constitutional right to public education because they trusted power. They wrote them because they didn’t.

Those protections only survive when people demand that they be honored.

That is the work. That is why we are here.

What Comes Next: Keep being loud.

Take the action in front of you. Then take the next one.

Sonny Burton is alive today because 67,000 people decided his life was worth their attention. They signed petitions. They made phone calls. They showed up to rallies and protests.1 The midterms are coming, and the DNC is in federal court right now trying to make sure your polling place isn’t guarded by armed federal agents. Democrats are forcing war powers votes that will keep piling up until Congress is forced to choose — the Constitution, or one man’s unchecked power. And in six states, educators and advocates and parents are organizing right now to keep immigrant children in their classrooms.

Project 2025 was designed by people who believe ordinary Americans will eventually give up. Make them wrong.

Freedom over fascism. Progress over fear. Power to the people — every single one of us.

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

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This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

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The Blueprint Is Already Running: How to Resist Project 2025 Before It’s Too Late

Most people hear “Project 2025” and picture a policy debate. A think-tank document. A political argument to be had somewhere down the road. But if you have been paying attention to the news this week — really paying attention — you already know the truth: the effort to resist Project 2025 is not a future fight. It is the fight happening right now, in courtrooms, detention centers, federal buildings, and union halls across the country.

Project 2025 is a 900-page authoritarian blueprint, written by the Heritage Foundation, bankrolled by billionaire mega-donors, and coordinated across more than 100 far-right organizations. Its goal is to concentrate unchecked power in the executive branch, dismantle the nonpartisan civil service, and systematically strip rights from immigrants, working people, LGBTQIA+ communities, women, and anyone who dares to dissent. This is not a fringe conspiracy. This is a funded, staffed, and actively executing political project — and this week’s headlines are proof.

This post breaks down four stories that illustrate how the blueprint is moving, who it is designed to harm, why the pattern matters more than any single story, and what people power looks like when ordinary people refuse to back down.

💥 Take Action Now — Before You Read Another Word

The stories below are urgent. So is this.

📋 Sign the petition: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

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What Happened: This Week’s Project 2025 Stories

🧳 ICE Moves to Deport an Iranian Adoptee Raised by a U.S. Veteran Source: NPR

A woman adopted from Iran as a child by a U.S. veteran — someone who grew up American in every meaningful sense — is now facing deportation proceedings. Her case exposes a documented gap in citizenship law that leaves internationally adopted children vulnerable when parents fail to complete naturalization paperwork on their behalf. Under aggressive enforcement conditions, that paperwork gap has become a weapon. The family is fighting the case in court. The outcome could affect thousands of adoptees in similar situations nationwide.

🛠️ Union Membership Hits a 16-Year High — While the Administration Tries to Break It Source: The Guardian

Even as the Trump administration escalated pressure on organized labor — weakening collective bargaining protections, targeting union leadership, and stacking federal labor boards with corporate-aligned appointees — union membership in 2025 rose to its highest level in sixteen years. Workers are not waiting for permission to organize. In sectors from logistics to healthcare to education, people are signing cards, walking picket lines, and winning contracts. The surge is one of the clearest signals that grassroots advocacy is working, even against a headwind designed to stop it.

🎖️ An Army Veteran Sues the Federal Government After Three Days of Wrongful ICE Detention Source: The Guardian

An Army veteran was detained by ICE for three days before the agency acknowledged it had the wrong person. He is now suing the federal government for the identification failure — and for a system that had no meaningful mechanism to correct its own error in real time. The case is not an outlier. It is a documented consequence of enforcement policies that prioritize speed and volume over accuracy and due process. When the government can detain a veteran by mistake and face no immediate accountability, the message to everyone else is unmistakable.

🧱 A Trump Campaign Banner Hung on the Justice Department Building Source: HuffPost

A massive banner bearing the president's name was displayed on the exterior of the Department of Justice — an institution whose independence from political loyalty is foundational to the rule of law. The display drew immediate backlash from legal scholars, former DOJ officials, and civil liberties organizations, who called it a deliberate act of institutional branding designed to signal that the department serves the president, not the public. It is the kind of moment that feels symbolic until you remember that symbols, under authoritarianism, are never just symbols.

Why It Matters: Consequences, Not Abstractions

It is tempting to process each of these stories as a standalone outrage — to be angry, to move on, and to wait for the next one. That is exactly what Project 2025 is counting on.

Each of these stories represents a documented, structural consequence of policy choices made by people in power who are not being held accountable for them. The adoptee facing deportation is not the result of one bad decision — she is the result of enforcement machinery deliberately designed to move faster than the courts can stop it. The veteran wrongly detained is not a glitch — he is the product of a system that has removed the friction that used to slow wrongful action down. The union surge is not luck — it is the direct result of workers understanding that their rights are under organized attack and responding with organized resistance.

Government accountability does not enforce itself. It requires people who are paying attention, who are connected to each other, and who are willing to make noise.

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Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Resisting

Project 2025’s harm is not distributed evenly. The blueprint is specifically designed to concentrate pain on communities that have historically had the least access to political power.

Immigrant families and adoptees face an enforcement apparatus that treats paperwork failures as permanent disqualifiers — regardless of how long someone has lived here, who raised them, or what ties they have built.

Veterans and working-class families find that the institutions designed to protect them — the VA, labor law, due process — are being quietly hollowed out through regulatory rollback, budget manipulation, and the replacement of nonpartisan civil servants with political loyalists.

LGBTQIA+ people, women seeking reproductive care, and religious minorities are named explicitly in the Project 2025 document as targets for policy elimination — not as an abstract ideological position, but as a written, funded, actionable agenda.

Low-income and rural communities bear the compounding weight of Medicaid cuts, environmental rollbacks, and the elimination of federal programs that have no private-sector equivalent.

And yet: resistance is working. Union membership is at a sixteen-year high. Ballot initiatives protecting reproductive freedom have won in state after state. Legal challenges are slowing enforcement actions in federal courts. Turnout in off-cycle elections is climbing. People who were not politically active two years ago are knocking doors, showing up to town halls, and signing onto petitions in numbers that the architects of Project 2025 did not anticipate.

People power is not a slogan. It is a documented, measurable force — and it is the only thing that has ever successfully stopped an authoritarian consolidation of power.

The Broader Pattern: This Is the Anti-Democracy Playbook

What connects a deported adoptee, a wrongly detained veteran, a union membership surge, and a presidential banner on the Justice Department building? The same thing connects all of it: a deliberate strategy to make accountability optional for those in power, and consequences unavoidable for everyone else.

The Project 2025 blueprint calls this out in plain language. It advocates purging tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replacing them with ideological loyalists. It calls for presidential control over the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Federal Reserve. It targets the free press, independent courts, and the administrative infrastructure that makes democratic governance possible. It seeks to impose a specific religious and political worldview on public education, reproductive healthcare, LGBTQIA+ rights, and voting access.

This is not chaos. It is not incompetence. It is a system being redesigned from the inside — and the redesign is well underway. When GEO Group keeps its detention contract after falsifying records tied to a death in custody, that is the system working as designed. When senior officials face no consequences for spreading fabricated immigration narratives from official podiums, that is the system working as designed. When tariff relief flows to corporations while consumers absorb the losses, that is the system working as designed.

Fascism does not announce itself. It brands itself as order, efficiency, and strength — and it counts on exhausted, overwhelmed people to stop paying attention long enough for the architecture to lock into place. That is precisely why sustained, organized, grassroots advocacy is the most dangerous thing to it.

What Comes Next: Keep Going

The path forward is not complicated, even when the situation is. Understand what is happening. Connect with people who are paying attention. Take the action in front of you. Then take the next one.

Project 2025 was written by people who believe that concentrated power is inevitable — that ordinary people will eventually tire, disengage, and let the machinery run. Every petition signed, every union card filed, every voter registered, every town hall attended is proof that they are wrong.

You already took action at the top of this page. Good. Now share this post with someone who needs to read it. Show up to the next action. Stay in the movement.

Freedom over fascism. Progress over fear. Power to the people — every single one of us.

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Together, We Can Resist and Stop Project 2025

Project 2025 is not a theory. It is not a warning from the future. It is a clear and present danger to our rights, our freedoms, our democracy, and our rule of law — and it is unfolding right now. Backed by billionaire mega-donors and led by the Heritage Foundation alongside over 100 far-right organizations, Project 2025 lays out a 900-page blueprint to concentrate power in the executive branch and dismantle democratic institutions from the inside out. Every week, new developments remind us that this plan is not abstract — it is being executed piece by piece, policy by policy, story by story. From veterans facing cuts to their disability benefits, to private prisons falsifying records tied to deaths in custody, to top officials spreading outright fabrications to justify cruelty — the pattern is clear. When we understand what is happening, we can push back. Together, we can stop Project 2025, defend our communities, and protect the principles that make America truly free.

What’s Happening with Project 2025?

The past several weeks have delivered a wave of stories that, taken individually, might seem like isolated controversies. Together, they form a damning picture of a government willing to suppress accountability, weaponize disinformation, and sacrifice vulnerable people in service of an authoritarian agenda.

Veterans’ Benefits Under Threat. Democrats have sounded a sharp alarm after learning the Department of Veterans Affairs was considering a policy that would recalibrate disability ratings based on how effectively a veteran’s condition responds to medication. In plain terms: if your treatment works, your benefits get cut. Lawmakers pressed VA Secretary Doug Collins to permanently abandon the rule, which they say bypassed standard rulemaking procedures and could reduce benefits and health care access for hundreds of thousands of veterans. The VA announced a pause in enforcement, but Congress is demanding full withdrawal and a clear explanation for how this policy was advanced without transparency.

Death in ICE Custody — and a Cover-Up. Records obtained by The Intercept revealed that staff at a GEO Group-operated immigration detention facility — Moshannon Valley — falsified required safety checks around the time of a detainee’s death in custody. Despite documented compliance failures, ICE continued its contract with the private prison operator. No accountability. No consequences. Just business as usual for a profit-driven contractor entrusted with human lives.

The Cannibal That Never Existed. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem repeatedly used a sensational story about an ICE deportee described as a cannibal to justify escalating immigration enforcement. Law enforcement sources told The Intercept the story was, in their words, “completely made up.” Senior officials fabricating horror stories to dehumanize immigrant communities is not a gaffe — it is a strategy.

Tariffs, the Courts, and Working Families Left Behind. After the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Democrats are calling for refunds to the American families and small businesses that bore the financial burden through higher prices at the grocery store, the pharmacy, and the rent check. The concern: without specific consumer-focused refund mechanisms, any recoupment would flow primarily to corporations rather than the people who actually paid the price.

Why these Project 2025 stories matter

Each of these stories matters on its own. But what makes them dangerous is what they have in common.

Veterans shouldn’t have to fear losing earned support because treatment helps them function. Disability benefits exist because this nation made a promise — and quietly recalibrating ratings to save money is a betrayal of that promise. Policy shifts that destabilize military families don’t just harm individuals; they erode trust in a system designed to honor service.

When private detention operators can falsify records tied to a death and still keep their government contracts, accountability collapses. The lesson becomes brutally clear: preventable harm is acceptable if the contractor is profitable. Strong oversight and real penalties aren’t optional — they are essential when human lives are managed by profit-driven corporations.

Disinformation from people in power is not harmless. When senior officials push fabricated horror stories, they make cruelty easier to sell as “public safety.” False narratives strip away the humanity of immigrant communities and grease the wheels for policies that violate rights, separate families, and endanger lives. Lies told at the podium become laws written into the books.

And when tariff relief bypasses the consumers who paid the price, it deepens inequality and rewards corporate players who were already positioned to profit from the disruption. Economic policy that punishes the many while protecting the few is not an accident — it is a design choice.

Who Benefits from Project 2025?

The consistent thread running through each of these stories is this: power without accountability benefits those who already have power.

GEO Group keeps its contract. Corporate players recoup tariff revenue. Senior officials face no consequences for spreading fabrications. Veterans quietly lose benefits while the policy change happens outside normal rulemaking channels.

Billionaire-backed justices and political elites aren’t serving the people — they are constructing a system where accountability applies only to those without power. That system has a name. It is Project 2025.

The Broader Pattern: Project 2025 is an Attack on Democracy Itself

Authoritarianism doesn’t happen by accident. It is planned. Project 2025 is that plan.

The 900-page blueprint calls for purging tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replacing them with ideological loyalists — giving the president near-total control over the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Federal Reserve. It criminalizes dissent, expands militarized policing, and specifically targets immigrants, journalists, LGBTQIA+ people, and political opponents to divide and silence the public.

The plan goes further still. Project 2025 seeks to ban abortion and contraception nationwide, erase LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, destroy labor and environmental safeguards, suppress voting rights, and impose Christian nationalism by dismantling the constitutional separation of church and state.

What we are seeing in the headlines each week — falsified prison records, fabricated immigration narratives, veterans quietly losing benefits, workers footing the bill for corporate tariff games — is not chaos. It is the blueprint in motion.

Fascism thrives when people feel powerless. That is precisely why people power threatens it. When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power — not justice — rules. It erodes trust, fuels corruption, and opens the door wider to authoritarianism. That is what Project 2025 is counting on.

The path forward is clear — and it requires all of us.

Progress is more than an idea — it is a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

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Join us to build People Power! Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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Leader, People Power United

Representing America’s largest grassroots organization with over 300,000+ members, driven entirely by the energy and commitment of everyday people. We are proudly 100% independent, powered by people — not special interests.

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🕵️ ‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company

• A report by CNBC says an Abu Dhabi royal known as the “Spy Sheikh” secretly backed an investment tied to a Trump-linked crypto venture, raising scrutiny about foreign influence and transparency. The details spotlight how high-stakes political power and private financial deals can intersect behind closed doors. CNBC

Why This Matters: Secretive foreign-linked stakes in politically connected ventures raise alarm bells about corruption risks and national security vulnerabilities. Sunlight and oversight are essential when money and power move in the dark.

🤖 New Letter Warns Next Grok ‘Mistake’ Could Be Leaked National Security Files

• A new letter warns that failures or “mistakes” involving Grok could lead to sensitive national security materials being exposed. “… a coalition of 30+ organizations and AI experts released a new letter warning of the potential national security implications of the Pentagon’s use of Elon Musk’s Grok. The letter, signed by organizations including Public Citizen, Indivisible, the Consumer Federation of America, the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), UltraViolet and others, calls on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to decommission the unsafe and untested technology.” Common Dreams

Why This Matters: When sensitive systems leak, the consequences can be irreversible—endangering people, operations, and democratic oversight. Guardrails aren’t optional when the stakes include national security and public trust.

🧾 Hillary Clinton accuses Trump’s justice department of Epstein files ‘cover-up’

• Hillary Clinton accused Trump’s Justice Department of covering up information related to the Epstein files, escalating public scrutiny of how DOJ handles politically sensitive records. There are growing demands for transparency and accountability amid allegations of suppression by Trump’s Department of Justice. The Guardian

Why This Matters: When the public believes justice is selectively applied, faith in institutions breaks—and corruption thrives in the cracks. Transparency around high-profile abuse networks is essential for accountability and preventing future harm.

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Project 2025: The Authoritarian Plan We Must Stop

Authoritarianism doesn’t happen by accident—it is planned. Project 2025 is that plan.

Backed by billionaire mega-donors and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 far-right groups, Project 2025 lays out a 900+ page blueprint to centralize power under the presidency and dismantle democracy from the inside.

It would purge tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replace them with loyalists, giving the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve. It criminalizes dissent, expands militarized policing, and targets immigrants, journalists, LGBTQIA+ people, and political opponents to divide and silence the public.

Project 2025 seeks to ban abortion and contraception, erase LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, destroy labor and environmental safeguards, suppress voting rights, and impose Christian nationalism—ending the separation of church and state.

This is not a coincidence.
It’s the blueprint.

Fascism thrives when people feel powerless. That’s why people power threatens it.

When we organize, vote, and resist together, we can stop Project 2025—and defend our freedoms, our communities, and our democracy.

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✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Power to the People

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect freedom.
You’re defending justice.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

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People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

People Power United is a group of community members that champions freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people.

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When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren’t serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

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🚨 Resist Project 2025 - News

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Flag Reinstated at Stonewall

• In a triumph for LGBTQIA+ rights, the Pride flag has been officially reinstated at the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City, symbolizing a powerful affirmation of inclusivity and community resilience. This act comes amidst ongoing challenges to LGBTQ+ rights across the nation, reminding us that the fight for equality is far from over. The Guardian

Why This Matters: Reinstating the Pride flag at Stonewall stands as a beacon of hope against rising authoritarianism, reinforcing the importance of visibility and representation in the ongoing struggle for rights and freedoms. It galvanizes communities to continue advocating for justice and equality for all.

🚨 Trump Posts Video That Depicts Obamas as Apes

• President Donald Trump shared a deeply offensive video that depicts former President Barack Obama and his family as apes, sparking outrage and condemnation across social media. This incident highlights the dangerous rhetoric that fosters hate and undermines the dignity of all individuals, reminding us of the work that remains in the fight for social justice and equality. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: This alarming act by a sitting US President is a stark reminder of the urgent need to combat racism and xenophobia within our society, as it threatens the fundamental principles of democracy and respect for human rights that we must uphold as a community.

🛡️ Russell Vought Raided USAID Budgets He Helped Gut to Pay for His Own Security

• Documents show the White House budget office is directing roughly $15 million from the dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development to pay for Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought’s U.S. Marshals security detail through 2026, even as most aid programs and thousands of staff have been eliminated. Vought—an author of Project 2025 and a central figure in reshaping federal agencies—has cited threats linked to his political role while critics question diverting foreign-aid resources for domestic protection. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: Using funds intended for global humanitarian aid to finance personal security highlights concerns about government priorities, accountability, and the real-world consequences of dismantling foreign-assistance programs. The controversy underscores how Project 2025-era policy shifts can reshape both domestic governance and international humanitarian impact.

🌍 How Project 2025 Is Reshaping Our Country

• Plans associated with Project 2025 outline sweeping efforts to strip federal protections tied to diversity, gender identity, and reproductive health while embedding a conservative Christian framework into government policy. Analysts warn the agenda reflects a broader movement linking political power with religious nationalism and hostility to pluralistic democracy. As grassroots movements rally against these regressive policies, the stakes for the future of democracy and civil rights have never been higher. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: This reveals a concerted effort to erode democratic principles and marginalize communities, reminding us that vigilance and civic engagement are crucial in the fight for equality and justice in the face of rising authoritarianism.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Tell the DOJ: Remove Trump’s Banner From Headquarters

• Click here to Tell Congress: Block Funding For Trump’s Fake Peace Group

• Click here to Release the Names of All of Epstein’s Clients

• Click here to Tell Congress: Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 10%

• Click here to Investigate DOJ Attacks on Don Lemon & Other Journalists

Bonus:

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

You’re invited: NO KINGS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

Details: 📅 Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026, check out the complete guide to the NO KINGS day of action

Project 2025: The Authoritarian Plan We Must Stop

Authoritarianism doesn’t happen by accident—it is planned. Project 2025 is that plan.

Backed by billionaire mega-donors and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 far-right groups, Project 2025 lays out a 900+ page blueprint to centralize power under the presidency and dismantle democracy from the inside.

It would purge tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replace them with loyalists, giving the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve. It criminalizes dissent, expands militarized policing, and targets immigrants, journalists, LGBTQIA+ people, and political opponents to divide and silence the public.

Project 2025 seeks to ban abortion and contraception, erase LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, destroy labor and environmental safeguards, suppress voting rights, and impose Christian nationalism—ending the separation of church and state.

This is not a coincidence.
It’s the blueprint.

Fascism thrives when people feel powerless. That’s why people power threatens it.

When we organize, vote, and resist together, we can stop Project 2025—and defend our freedoms, our communities, and our democracy.

✊ The Tools That Project 2025 Can’t Defeat

🌱 Hope

Hope is not naïve—it is strategic. Fascism feeds on despair and fear. Hope fuels imagination, courage, and sustained resistance. It reminds us that a just future is possible—and worth fighting for.

🤝 Respect

Respect dismantles fascism’s core weapon: dehumanization. By choosing dignity and inclusion, we build communities strong enough to resist hate, scapegoating, and division.

🧩 Unity

Authoritarians rule by dividing us. Unity breaks their strategy. When we stand together across differences, we deny fascism the fractures it needs to survive.

🗽The strength of a nation is not its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. - Gene Roddenberry

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect freedom.
You’re defending justice.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now

When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren’t serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

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🚨 Resist Project 2025 - News

💰 Trump Pocketed At Least $1.4 Billion in First Year Back in Office in Unprecedented ‘Exploitation of the Presidency’

• A watchdog analysis found that Donald Trump and his family accumulated at least $1.4 billion during his first year back in office, linking policy decisions, business ventures, and financial gains to what critics describe as an extraordinary use of presidential power for private enrichment. The report argues this pattern reflects a broader system of conflicts of interest between governing and personal profit. Common Dreams

Why This Matters:
Allegations of large-scale personal profit tied to presidential authority raise serious ethical and constitutional questions about corruption, conflicts of interest, and democratic accountability. The controversy underscores ongoing debates about safeguards needed to protect public office from private gain.

🌍 Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says

• A new Human Rights Watch report warns that nearly three-quarters of the world’s population now lives under autocratic rule, describing a global “democratic recession” driven in part by actions from the United States under President Trump alongside sustained pressure from China and Russia. The report details attacks on democratic norms, media, courts, and civil society, while urging democratic nations and social movements to unite to defend the rules-based international order. — The Guardian

Why This Matters: The erosion of democratic governance and human rights across major global powers signals a systemic threat to international law, accountability, and civil liberties worldwide. Without coordinated resistance from democratic institutions and civil society, the weakening of the rules-based order could accelerate authoritarian influence and endanger fundamental freedoms for billions.

🧑‍⚖️ ICE places ankle monitor on Md. woman who provided U.S. birth certificate

• A Maryland woman, Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, was detained by ICE for 25 days despite presenting a U.S. birth certificate, immunization records, and other evidence supporting her citizenship, and is now required to wear an ankle monitor while the government continues its case. Her lawyers assert that the federal agency shifted the burden of proof unfairly onto her, raising due-process concerns over federal immigration enforcement. The Washington Post

Why This Matters: This case highlights serious civil-rights and procedural issues in immigration enforcement, potentially setting a precedent that could affect other U.S. citizens wrongly targeted in the immigration system.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Tell the DOJ: Remove Trump’s Banner From Headquarters

• Click here to Tell Congress: Block Funding For Trump’s Fake Peace Group

• Click here to Release the Names of All of Epstein’s Clients

• Click here to Tell Congress: Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 10%

• Click here to Investigate DOJ Attacks on Don Lemon & Other Journalists

Bonus:

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

You’re invited: NO KINGS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

Details: 📅 Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026, check out the complete guide to the NO KINGS day of action

Project 2025: The Authoritarian Plan We Must Stop

Authoritarianism doesn’t happen by accident—it is planned. Project 2025 is that plan.

Backed by billionaire mega-donors and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 far-right groups, Project 2025 lays out a 900+ page blueprint to centralize power under the presidency and dismantle democracy from the inside.

It would purge tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replace them with loyalists, giving the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve. It criminalizes dissent, expands militarized policing, and targets immigrants, journalists, LGBTQIA+ people, and political opponents to divide and silence the public.

Project 2025 seeks to ban abortion and contraception, erase LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, destroy labor and environmental safeguards, suppress voting rights, and impose Christian nationalism—ending the separation of church and state.

This is not a coincidence.
It’s the blueprint.

Fascism thrives when people feel powerless. That’s why people power threatens it.

When we organize, vote, and resist together, we can stop Project 2025—and defend our freedoms, our communities, and our democracy.

✊ The Tools That Project 2025 Can’t Defeat

🌱 Hope

Hope is not naïve—it is strategic. Fascism feeds on despair and fear. Hope fuels imagination, courage, and sustained resistance. It reminds us that a just future is possible—and worth fighting for.

🤝 Respect

Respect dismantles fascism’s core weapon: dehumanization. By choosing dignity and inclusion, we build communities strong enough to resist hate, scapegoating, and division.

🧩 Unity

Authoritarians rule by dividing us. Unity breaks their strategy. When we stand together across differences, we deny fascism the fractures it needs to survive.

🗽The strength of a nation is not its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. - Gene Roddenberry

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect freedom.
You’re defending justice.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren’t serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

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🚨 Resist Project 2025 - News

🌍 The United States Sacrificed $35 Billion in Clean Energy Projects Last Year

• The cancellation of clean energy projects by the Trump administration threatens to undermine progress in renewable energy and job creation, showcasing the grave consequences of prioritizing fossil fuels over sustainable practices. This decision reflects a broader trend towards authoritarianism that prioritizes wealthy interests over the collective well-being of the people and our planet. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: The fight for clean energy is a crucial aspect of protecting our democratic rights and ensuring a sustainable future for all communities, highlighting the need for grassroots movements that uphold the value of environmental justice in the face of political adversity.

📰 “The Tide Is Turning”: Democratic Military Vets Respond to Trump’s Failure to Indict Them

• A federal grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers targeted after urging military and intelligence personnel to refuse unlawful orders, rebuffing a Justice Department push backed by Trump allies. The investigation followed political accusations of sedition, but critics framed the case as retaliation against constitutionally protected speech. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: The failed indictment attempt highlights concerns about using federal law enforcement against political opponents and underscores ongoing tensions over free speech, military authority, and democratic accountability.

🚨 Federal judge dismisses attempt to obtain Michigan voter data in latest rejection of DOJ

• A federal judge has ruled against the Department of Justice’s effort to access Michigan’s voter data, a decision that underscores the ongoing tension between federal authorities and state sovereignty regarding election integrity. This ruling adds to the challenges facing federal investigations into electoral processes and raises questions about the balance of power in safeguarding democracy. Seattle Times

Why This Matters: In a time when the quest for transparency in elections is vital, this ruling highlights the importance of state autonomy in protecting electoral rights and affirms the necessity for local governance in ensuring that the voice of the people prevails over unwarranted federal intrusion.

💉 Warren, Hawley introducing legislation to break up ‘Big Medicine’

• The Break Up Big Medicine Act aims to dismantle monopolistic practices in healthcare to foster competition and improve access to essential services for all individuals. “Warren and Hawley’s “Break Up Big Medicine Act” proposes prohibiting parent companies from owning a medical provider or management services organization and a PBM or insurer. It also proposes prohibiting parent companies of prescription drug or medical device wholesalers from owning a medical provider or management services organization.” This critical legislation seeks to empower patients by ensuring that no one is denied their right to quality healthcare due to corporate greed. The Hill

Why This Matters: By challenging the power of monopolies in healthcare, this act represents a significant step toward protecting the rights of citizens and promoting a just, equitable system where healthcare is accessible for everyone, not just the privileged few.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Release the Names of All of Epstein’s Clients

• Click here to Tell Congress: Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 10%

• Click here to Investigate DOJ Attacks on Don Lemon & Other Journalists

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Mega Detention Warehouses

Bonus:

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

You’re invited: NO KINGS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

Details: 📅 Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026, check out the complete guide to the NO KINGS day of action

Project 2025: The Authoritarian Plan We Must Stop

Authoritarianism doesn’t happen by accident—it is planned. Project 2025 is that plan.

Backed by billionaire mega-donors and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 far-right groups, Project 2025 lays out a 900+ page blueprint to centralize power under the presidency and dismantle democracy from the inside.

It would purge tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replace them with loyalists, giving the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve. It criminalizes dissent, expands militarized policing, and targets immigrants, journalists, LGBTQIA+ people, and political opponents to divide and silence the public.

Project 2025 seeks to ban abortion and contraception, erase LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, destroy labor and environmental safeguards, suppress voting rights, and impose Christian nationalism—ending the separation of church and state.

This is not a coincidence.
It’s the blueprint.

Fascism thrives when people feel powerless. That’s why people power threatens it.

When we organize, vote, and resist together, we can stop Project 2025—and defend our freedoms, our communities, and our democracy.

✊ The Tools That Project 2025 Can’t Defeat

🌱 Hope

Hope is not naïve—it is strategic. Fascism feeds on despair and fear. Hope fuels imagination, courage, and sustained resistance. It reminds us that a just future is possible—and worth fighting for.

🤝 Respect

Respect dismantles fascism’s core weapon: dehumanization. By choosing dignity and inclusion, we build communities strong enough to resist hate, scapegoating, and division.

🧩 Unity

Authoritarians rule by dividing us. Unity breaks their strategy. When we stand together across differences, we deny fascism the fractures it needs to survive.

🗽The strength of a nation is not its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. - Gene Roddenberry

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect freedom.
You’re defending justice.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now

When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren’t serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

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🚨 Resist Project 2025 - News

🛠️A resignation and call to conscience at company owned by Maga billionaires

• A Uline employee resigned in a widely shared email, citing moral objections to the political influence and actions of the company’s billionaire owners and criticizing internal culture that discouraged dissent. Uline owners are one of the largest donors and supporters to Trump and the MAGA movement. The Guardian

Why This Matters: The resignation highlights growing workplace resistance tied to political power, corporate influence, and social accountability in a polarized era. It reflects how national political conflicts are reshaping private institutions and employee activism. It exemplifies the power of individuals standing against authoritarian practices in the workforce, reinforcing the vision of a just and equitable society.

⚖️ Judge Blocks Pentagon From Punishing Mark Kelly Over Military Comments

• A federal judge has intervened to block the Pentagon's attempt to punish Senator Mark Kelly for remarks he made regarding following illegal orders, highlighting the tension between government actions and free speech rights. This ruling underscores the importance of safeguarding open dialogue among public figures, particularly on issues of national security and governance. HuffPost

Why This Matters: Protecting the right to speak freely about military matters is essential for a healthy democracy and empowers citizens to hold their leaders accountable. As we navigate a time of increasing authoritarian trends, every effort to uphold our rights reinforces the struggle for justice and equity in governance.

🚨Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List

• Attorney General Pam Bondi acknowledged the existence of a secret database of domestic terrorist organizations compiled under Trump’s NSPM-7 directive, which targets groups associated with ideologies such as anti-fascism or anti-capitalism. Civil-liberties concerns center on conflating protected political speech with terrorism and the lack of transparency around the list. The Intercept

Why This Matters: Secret government designations tied to political beliefs raise profound First Amendment and civil-liberties questions. Such tools could expand state surveillance and chill lawful dissent.

🚩 Raskin Says Nationwide General Strike May Be Needed to Stop Trump

• Representative Jamie Raskin has suggested that a nationwide general strike may become necessary to curb the influence of Donald Trump and protect democracy in the face of rising authoritarianism. Raskin’s call emphasizes the urgency of mobilizing citizens to reclaim their power and ensure the preservation of democratic values. Truthout

Why This Matters: As the threat of authoritarianism looms, collective action through grassroots movements can be pivotal in safeguarding our rights and freedoms, highlighting the power of unity and the determination of the people to demand justice.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Release the Names of All of Epstein’s Clients

• Click here to Tell Congress: Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 10%

• Click here to Investigate DOJ Attacks on Don Lemon & Other Journalists

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Mega Detention Warehouses

Bonus:

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

You’re invited: NO KINGS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

Details: 📅 Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026, check out the complete guide to the NO KINGS day of action

Project 2025: The Authoritarian Plan We Must Stop

Authoritarianism doesn’t happen by accident—it is planned. Project 2025 is that plan.

Backed by billionaire mega-donors and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 far-right groups, Project 2025 lays out a 900+ page blueprint to centralize power under the presidency and dismantle democracy from the inside.

It would purge tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replace them with loyalists, giving the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve. It criminalizes dissent, expands militarized policing, and targets immigrants, journalists, LGBTQIA+ people, and political opponents to divide and silence the public.

Project 2025 seeks to ban abortion and contraception, erase LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, destroy labor and environmental safeguards, suppress voting rights, and impose Christian nationalism—ending the separation of church and state.

This is not a coincidence.
It’s the blueprint.

Fascism thrives when people feel powerless. That’s why people power threatens it.

When we organize, vote, and resist together, we can stop Project 2025—and defend our freedoms, our communities, and our democracy.

✊ The Tools That Project 2025 Can’t Defeat

🌱 Hope

Hope is not naïve—it is strategic. Fascism feeds on despair and fear. Hope fuels imagination, courage, and sustained resistance. It reminds us that a just future is possible—and worth fighting for.

🤝 Respect

Respect dismantles fascism’s core weapon: dehumanization. By choosing dignity and inclusion, we build communities strong enough to resist hate, scapegoating, and division.

🧩 Unity

Authoritarians rule by dividing us. Unity breaks their strategy. When we stand together across differences, we deny fascism the fractures it needs to survive.

🗽The strength of a nation is not its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. - Gene Roddenberry

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect freedom.
You’re defending justice.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now

When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren’t serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

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🚨 Resist Project 2025 - News

Power to the People Means ICE Out

Power to the people is more than a slogan. It is a promise that government must serve communities, protect human dignity, and remain accountable to the law. Today, that promise is under threat as President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security and ICE operate in ways that many Americans believe are dangerous, unlawful, and deeply out of step with our values.

Across the country, reports of ICE and Customs and Border Protection actions have sparked outrage and fear. Communities describe aggressive raids, the use of tear gas near schools, and deadly encounters that have shaken public trust. The killing of Alex Pretti, Renee Nicole Good, and others alongside the arrests by masked bandits have intensified national concern and helped drive public opinion to a breaking point. Support for the administration’s immigration policies has fallen to historic lows, while a strong majority of Americans say ICE has gone too far and want Congress to impose meaningful reforms and accountability before providing further funding.

As a grassroots movement committed to progress, we at People Power United believe immigration enforcement must respect human dignity, uphold justice, and guarantee real accountability. This moment demands moral clarity and courageous leadership. If power truly belongs to the people, then elected officials must listen when communities say enough is enough. That means Congress must remove ICE and DHS from places where their presence spreads fear rather than safety. It means drawing a clear line: no more funding for agencies that ignore the law, lack accountability, and spread fear in our communities. And it means insisting that accountability is not optional. It is the bare minimum in a democracy governed by law.

Here is what is being offered by Democratic Leaders Schumer and Jeffries for accountability:

Dramatic changes are needed at the Department of Homeland Security before there is a full-year funding bill. That’s why Democrats have proposed comprehensive reform¹, including:

• Mandatory body cameras

• Judicial warrants requirement

• No masks

• Independent criminal and civil investigations

• End roving and lawless patrols

• No deportation and detention of U.S. citizens

• Explicit prohibition on the excessive use of force

• No targeting at sensitive locations like houses of worship, hospitals, polling places, and schools

• End racial profiling

• Kristi Noem must go

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires on Friday and Republicans would rather risk shutting down critical agencies like FEMA, TSA, and the Coast Guard than work with Democrats to rein in ICE’s out-of-control brutality.

Power to the people means choosing dignity over cruelty, care over chaos, and democracy over unchecked force. It means saying clearly and without apology: ICE out of our communities, constitutional rights protected, funding redirected to health and well-being, and accountability restored under the rule of law.

Tell Congress: It’s Time to Defund ICE

Defund ICE

What You Can Do Today:

ICE Accountability

• Tell Congress: It’s Time to Defund ICE

• Tell Democratic Leaders: Don’t Cave on ICE Accountability

• Hold Corporations Accountable for ICE Violence

• Kristi Noem must go

Power to All Eligible Voters: Reject the Save Act

• 🚨 Click here to Stop Republicans’ New Attack on Voting Rights

• 📩 Click here to Tell Congress to Reject the SAVE Act Bills

• Click here to Tell your member of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

• Click here to send a StandUp America message to lawmakers

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

Project 2025: The Authoritarian Plan We Must Stop

Authoritarianism doesn’t happen by accident—it is planned. Project 2025 is that plan.

Backed by billionaire mega-donors and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 far-right groups, Project 2025 lays out a 900+ page blueprint to centralize power under the presidency and dismantle democracy from the inside.

It would purge tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replace them with loyalists, giving the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve. It criminalizes dissent, expands militarized policing, and targets immigrants, journalists, LGBTQIA+ people, and political opponents to divide and silence the public.

Project 2025 seeks to ban abortion and contraception, erase LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, destroy labor and environmental safeguards, suppress voting rights, and impose Christian nationalism—ending the separation of church and state.

This is not a coincidence.
It’s the blueprint.

Fascism thrives when people feel powerless. That’s why people power threatens it.

When we organize, vote, and resist together, we can stop Project 2025—and defend our freedoms, our communities, and our democracy.

✊ The Tools That Project 2025 Can’t Defeat

🌱 Hope

Hope is not naïve—it is strategic. Fascism feeds on despair and fear. Hope fuels imagination, courage, and sustained resistance. It reminds us that a just future is possible—and worth fighting for.

🤝 Respect

Respect dismantles fascism’s core weapon: dehumanization. By choosing dignity and inclusion, we build communities strong enough to resist hate, scapegoating, and division.

🧩 Unity

Authoritarians rule by dividing us. Unity breaks their strategy. When we stand together across differences, we deny fascism the fractures it needs to survive.

🗽The strength of a nation is not its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. - Gene Roddenberry

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect freedom.
You’re defending justice.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now

When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren’t serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

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🚨 Resist Project 2025 - What You Need to Know

America Has No Kings. And We Are Rising Again.

This is a defining moment for our democracy. Across the country, extremist forces are trying to seize power, gut health care and reproductive freedom, starve essential programs, tear families apart, and funnel public money to billionaires while everyday people pay the price. They want silence. They want fear. They want obedience.

We are giving them none of it.

America was never meant to be ruled by strongmen, oligarchs, or would-be kings. Power does not flow from crowns or bank accounts — it comes from the people. And the people are standing up.

The No Kings movement is growing because millions of us refuse to bankroll cruelty, normalize authoritarianism, or look away as our freedoms are stripped piece by piece — while citizens are killed, our neighbors are illegally detained, and brutality is inflicted in our name. We are workers and seniors, parents and students, nurses, teachers, veterans, and neighbors — united by a belief in dignity, democracy, and the rule of law.

That’s why we are mobilizing again for the largest No Kings national day of action yet.

📅 Saturday, March 28, 2026
📍 Thousands of peaceful actions nationwide

History is on our side. On June 14, 2025, five million people rose up to say “No Kings.” On October 18, 2025, seven million more made it unmistakable: America does not do dictators. On March 28, we rise again — stronger, broader, and more united than ever.

Every No Kings event is rooted in nonviolent action. We de-escalate conflict, act lawfully, and never bring weapons. When People Power United says “fight,” we mean fierce advocacy — never violence. Our work is grounded in peaceful protest, free speech, voting, and collective action to defend our rights, freedoms, and democracy.

If there’s an event near you, sign up and show up. If there isn’t, step forward and organize. One corner, a few signs, a handful of neighbors can spark real change.

Fascism thrives on silence. Democracy survives through participation.

No thrones. No crowns.
Only people — and we are rising.

📢 The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action - March 28, 2026 just launched

Guide to NO KINGS Mobilization

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Stop Trump’s DOJ from Punishing Dissent

• Click here to Put the Minneapolis Killers on Trial

• Click here to Tell the FBI: Stop Blocking Investigation Into ICE Shootings

• Click here to Tell Congress: Investigate ICE Retaliation Against Protests

• Click here Kristi Noem Must Go

• Click here to Tell Your Attorney General: Keep ICE Out of Public Schools

• Click here to Tell Google and YouTube: Stop taking money from ICE. Take down vile ICE recruitment ads now.

This is our why

For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation that allows people and planet to thrive together. It was not granted by kings or secured by billionaires. It was built by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand.

Power has always belonged to the people because only people can protect what we love. Protecting democracy is not optional—it is essential to protecting our communities and each other. When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a liberty and justice for all for generations yet to come.

Level Up

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

You’re invited: Eyes on ICE: Document and Record

Details: 📅 Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026 📍 Location: Zoom. RSVP today and bring your voice to the movement!

On January 24, 2026, federal immigration agents fatally shot 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, igniting nationwide outrage and deepening fear in communities already targeted by aggressive enforcement tactics. Pretti, who cared for veterans and peacefully stood up to oppressive federal action, was killed in broad daylight — the latest in a string of violent encounters that include the earlier killing of Renée Good.

Enough is enough. Exercising our Constitutional rights to document, record, and witness the actions of ICE, CBP, and other federal agents is no longer optional — it’s necessary. Every phone camera pointed at abuses, every legal observer trained, every neighbor supported keeps power in check and protects our communities from terror and unchecked force.

Join an important training via Zoom on Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 8:00 pm ET for Eyes on Ice: Document and Record, a training call that will equip you with the tools to confidently and safely assert your rights when documenting law enforcement — and take action beyond it. We’ll walk through what you need to know, how to protect yourself and others, and concrete ways to stay engaged in the fight for justice.

👉 RSVP for Link. Because courage isn’t passive — it’s prepared.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for democracy!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate and hold our leaders accountable to the will of the people. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

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When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren’t serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

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🚨 Resist Project 2025 - News Briefs

🛃 Trump’s Trade Negotiator Says Response to Court Loss Would Be Immediate

• The Trump administration has signaled that if the Supreme Court strikes down its sweeping global tariffs — imposed under an emergency law now being legally challenged — it would almost immediately enact new levies to maintain its aggressive trade agenda, according to Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. The pending Supreme Court decision represents a major test of presidential authority over trade powers and could reshape U.S. economic policy depending on the outcome. The New York Times

Why This Matters: This situation puts judicial checks and balances on a collision course with expansive executive power, threatening to erode legal limits if the administration can simply rebrand and reimpose controversial tariffs regardless of court rulings. The stakes are huge for global markets, U.S. consumers, and constitutional authority over trade policy, affecting everything from prices to international relations.

⚖️ Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’

• In a New York Times interview, President Trump claimed that civil-rights advances have resulted in “reverse discrimination” against white Americans, arguing that they were “very badly treated” when affirmative action and related policies limited access to universities and jobs. His remarks reflect and amplify a core theme in his political messaging that frames racial progress as harm to white people, stirring fresh controversy and backlash. The New York Times

Why This Matters: Such rhetoric from a sitting president reshapes public discourse around civil-rights history and policy, undermining hard-won protections against discrimination — with broad implications for social cohesion, equity, and democratic norms.

📉 Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump’s Political Fight

• The Justice Department’s decision to open up a criminal investigation of Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, is a major escalation in the pressure campaign against the central bank to cut interest rates. The Federal Reserve, long cautious in its response to President Trump’s sustained pressure over monetary policy, has shifted its approach and begun publicly resisting political interference after the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell over his testimony to Congress about a Fed building renovation — a move Powell and many economists see as a pretext to force policy changes. The New York Times

Why This Matters: The independence of the Federal Reserve is a cornerstone of U.S. economic stability; when political influence threatens monetary policy decisions — especially around interest rates and inflation — it risks destabilizing markets, eroding investor confidence, and undermining long-term economic health for short-term political gain.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Stop Trump’s DOJ from Punishing Dissent

• Click here to Put the Minneapolis Killers on Trial

• Click here to Tell the FBI: Stop Blocking Investigation Into ICE Shootings

• Click here to Tell Congress: Investigate ICE Retaliation Against Protests

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This is our why

For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the foundation that allows people and planet to thrive together. It was not granted by kings or secured by billionaires. It was built by everyday people who understood that caring for one another and protecting our future go hand in hand.

Power has always belonged to the people because only people can protect what we love. Protecting democracy is not optional—it is essential to protecting our communities and each other. When we stand up for people power, we stand up for a liberty and justice for all for generations yet to come.

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• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

You’re invited: Eyes on ICE: Document and Record

Details: 📅 Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026 📍 Location: Zoom. RSVP today and bring your voice to the movement!

On January 24, 2026, federal immigration agents fatally shot 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, igniting nationwide outrage and deepening fear in communities already targeted by aggressive enforcement tactics. Pretti, who cared for veterans and peacefully stood up to oppressive federal action, was killed in broad daylight — the latest in a string of violent encounters that include the earlier killing of Renée Good.

Enough is enough. Exercising our Constitutional rights to document, record, and witness the actions of ICE, CBP, and other federal agents is no longer optional — it’s necessary. Every phone camera pointed at abuses, every legal observer trained, every neighbor supported keeps power in check and protects our communities from terror and unchecked force.

Join an important training via Zoom on Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 8:00 pm ET for Eyes on Ice: Document and Record, a training call that will equip you with the tools to confidently and safely assert your rights when documenting law enforcement — and take action beyond it. We’ll walk through what you need to know, how to protect yourself and others, and concrete ways to stay engaged in the fight for justice.

👉 RSVP for Link. Because courage isn’t passive — it’s prepared.

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When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for democracy!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate and hold our leaders accountable to the will of the people. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe to Resist Project 2025 for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren’t serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

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🚨 Resist Project 2025 - News Briefs

🌍 ‘Morally acceptable’ for U.S. troops to disobey orders, archbishop says

• Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the Catholic Archdiocese for the U.S. Military Services, publicly declared that American service members could morally refuse orders that conflict with conscience or moral law — specifically citing concerns about potential orders related to Greenland amid rising geopolitical tensions. His remarks come as the Trump administration escalates aggressive foreign policy rhetoric, including threats of military action, prompting debate among religious and military leaders about ethics and obedience. Washington Post

Why This Matters: This unprecedented intervention by a senior religious leader reframes military obedience as a moral choice rather than blind compliance, highlighting deep concerns about U.S. foreign policy and risking a rift between military ethics, civilian leadership, and global stability — especially around Trump’s contentious Greenland ambitions.

🌀 One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

• M. Gessen in a New York Times opinion piece reflects on President Trump’s first year in his second term, arguing that his governing style has deepened national divisions, tested democratic norms, and reshaped institutions across the executive branch. The essay assesses both policy outcomes and broader implications for politics, civil liberties, and public trust in government. The New York Times

Why This Matters: Evaluating political leadership and its impact on democratic institutions provides crucial context for voters and policymakers as the nation navigates polarization and prepares for the 2026 midterm elections.

📜 Trump Has Rolled Out Many of the Project 2025 Policies He Once Claimed Ignorance About

• NPR reports that President Trump has implemented many of the policy recommendations from Project 2025 — a conservative blueprint for restructuring federal government functions — despite earlier distancing himself from the plan. These moves include executive actions that align with the Project’s goals to reshape agencies, governance, and regulatory frameworks. NPR

Why This Matters: The adoption of Project 2025 policies signals a significant ideological shift in federal governance with long-term effects on administrative structures, civil rights enforcement, and the balance of executive authority.

What You Can Do Today:

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Attempts to Intimidate the Federal Reserve

• Click here to Pass the War Powers Resolution to Stop Trump’s Warmongering

• Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Venezuela

• Click here to Ban Members of Congress from Trading Stock While in Office

• Click here to Demand that Google and Apple remove Grok AI from their app stores—IMMEDIATELY. SIGN NOW.

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

Project 2025: The Authoritarian Plan We Must Stop

Authoritarianism doesn’t happen by accident—it is planned. Project 2025 is that plan.

Backed by billionaire mega-donors and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 far-right groups, Project 2025 lays out a 900+ page blueprint to centralize power under the presidency and dismantle democracy from the inside.

It would purge tens of thousands of nonpartisan civil servants and replace them with loyalists, giving the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve. It criminalizes dissent, expands militarized policing, and targets immigrants, journalists, LGBTQIA+ people, and political opponents to divide and silence the public.

Project 2025 seeks to ban abortion and contraception, erase LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, destroy labor and environmental safeguards, suppress voting rights, and impose Christian nationalism—ending the separation of church and state.

This is not a coincidence.
It’s the blueprint.

Fascism thrives when people feel powerless. That’s why people power threatens it.

When we organize, vote, and resist together, we can stop Project 2025—and defend our freedoms, our communities, and our democracy.

✊ The Tools That Project 2025 Can’t Defeat

🌱 Hope

Hope is not naïve—it is strategic. Fascism feeds on despair and fear. Hope fuels imagination, courage, and sustained resistance. It reminds us that a just future is possible—and worth fighting for.

🤝 Respect

Respect dismantles fascism’s core weapon: dehumanization. By choosing dignity and inclusion, we build communities strong enough to resist hate, scapegoating, and division.

🧩 Unity

Authoritarians rule by dividing us. Unity breaks their strategy. When we stand together across differences, we deny fascism the fractures it needs to survive.

🗽The strength of a nation is not its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. - Gene Roddenberry

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect freedom.
You’re defending justice.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

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