Freedom Over Fascism: Resist Project 2025 for March 24, 2026
Trump invokes wartime emergency powers to push $23B in weapons sales past Congress — while Montana voters lose their Senate primary to a backroom deal. Resist Project 2025.
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.
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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