Freedom Over Fascism: Resist Project 2025 for March 10, 2026
Resist Project 2025 for March 10, 2026. The authoritarian playbook is already running. Here's what it looks like, who it harms, and how grassroots power stops it.
5 Reasons the Grassroots Resistance Movement Can’t Wait to Resist Project 2025
💥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.
The movement for resisting project 2025 starts here.
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
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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.
The blueprint for fascism is written. The resistance starts here.