📢 Resist Project 2025 News — December 16, 2025 | Updates and Actions You Can Take Today
🗽Project 2025 is a dangerous plan to move America from a democracy to a theocratic autocracy. Read the December 16, 2025 updates and join us to hold our leaders accountable.
🗽Every action counts in the fight against Project 2025 and the slide towards fascism. Today in Resist Project 2025 we’re featuring December 16, 2025 news and critical calls-to-action.
Project 2025 is a dangerous plan to move America from a democracy to a theocratic autocracy. Read the latest updates and join us to hold our leaders accountable.
Resist Project 2025 - News Briefs
🚺 Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights
Project 2026 proposes sweeping rollbacks of women’s rights, including abortion access, childcare support, and public education oversight. It details plans to weaken the Department of Education and restrict reproductive health care nationwide. Advocates warn the blueprint would deepen economic and gender inequality. The project is a coordinated effort to entrench ideological control over social policy. “Project 2026 lays out a government redesigned to control women’s bodies, erase LGBTQ+ lives, dismantle civil rights protections and roll back decades of hard-won progress. Wrapped in the language of “family,” “sovereignty” and “restoring America,” it is a direct attempt to impose a narrow, rigid ideology on an entire nation…Make no mistake: This is a plan for forced motherhood, government-policed gender and the end of women’s equality as we know it.” — Ms. Magazine
📰 How a News Desert in South Texas Allows Misinformation to Flourish
A collapse of local journalism in South Texas has created an information vacuum that allows false and misleading narratives to spread unchecked. Residents increasingly rely on social media and partisan sources in the absence of robust local reporting. “As Americans tuned into one of the most closely followed elections in history, limited options for local news, advancements in Artificial Intelligence, and a lack of oversight on platforms like X left many voters vulnerable to falsehoods and smear campaigns.”This lack of trusted news has contributed to political confusion, voter disengagement, and the amplification of disinformation. — Mother Jones
📊 Tariffs Have Cost U.S. Households $1,200 Each Since Trump Returned to the White House, Democrats Say
Democrats on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee argue that President Trump’s broad tariff measures have resulted in nearly $1,200 in additional costs for the average American household from February through November. Using Treasury data and estimates on who ultimately pays for tariff revenues, the report suggests the total burden on U.S. consumers is in the billions. The report contends that the added costs have been passed from importers to consumers, contributing to higher household expenses nationwide. Supporters of the tariff policies claim they protect U.S. industries and jobs, but critics see them as a burdensome consumer tax. — AP News WBAP News
🎙️ How bad is it? Three political scientists say America is no longer a democracy
In a new Foreign Affairs essay, “The Price of American Authoritarianism,” scholars of government argue that President Trump’s rapid consolidation of power during the first year of his second term has pushed the United States into authoritarianism—specifically competitive authoritarianism, where elections still occur but the system is increasingly rigged in favor of the ruling party. A recent podcast episode brings together three political scientists who contend that the U.S. has drifted away from its foundational democratic principles. They point to warning signs such as weakened institutional checks, voter suppression, partisan manipulation, and the erosion of civic norms. Together, their analysis offers a sobering assessment of how these structural changes are undermining democratic accountability and public trust.— The New Yorker
🛑 Not Above the Law Coalition Demands Accountability: Trump’s Illegal National Guard Deployments Threaten Democracy
A coalition of civil rights and democracy groups is demanding accountability for what they describe as unlawful National Guard deployments ordered by Donald Trump. The coalition statement argues the actions bypassed legal safeguards and set dangerous precedents for domestic military use. Advocates warn such deployments undermine civil liberties and democratic norms. The coalition calls for congressional investigations and legal consequences. — Common Dreams
Together, we can Resist and Stop Project 2025
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.
Urgent Calls to Action to Resist Project 2025:
Click here to Stop Trump from Deploying Troops in U.S. Cities
Click here to Tell the EPA: Restore Solar for All Funding Now
Click here to Stop Skyrocketing Costs and Chaos — Pass Medicare for All
Click here to Stop Trump from Undermining Social Security
Click here to Ban Members of Congress from Trading Stocks
Project 2025 is Harming Americans
Project 2025 is an extreme, authoritarian agenda that threatens American democracy, freedoms, and civil rights. Backed by conservative mega-donors like the Koch family and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 aligned groups, it lays out a 900+ page plan to centralize power under the presidency and permanently dismantle the federal government as we know it.
The plan would replace 50,000 nonpartisan civil servants with loyalists, grant the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve, and criminalize protest through militarized policing. It seeks to ban abortion and contraception, end LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, and defund labor, environmental, and disability protections. Promoting Christian nationalism, it would erase the separation of church and state, suppress voting rights, and silence dissent—paving the way for a permanent far-right dictatorship.
Summary of Harms:
Dismantles democracy and installs authoritarian rule
Criminalizes dissent and minority communities
Ends reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights
Defunds public healthcare and education
Destroys labor, environmental, and disability protections
Increases tax burdens on working people
Erases civil rights and church/state separation
Suppresses voting and opposition voices
We must organize, resist, and protect our communities from this dangerous assault.
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How do we fight Fascism?
Hope
Hope is a powerful weapon against fascism, serving as both a shield and a rallying cry in the face of fear and oppression. While fascism thrives on division, despair, and apathy, hope inspires unity, action, and resilience. Hope empowers us to envision a society built on equality, justice, and freedom, motivating us to take meaningful steps to protect these values.
Respect
Respect is a formidable weapon against fascism, countering its foundation of hatred and dehumanization with dignity and inclusivity. By leading with respect, we create a society where collaboration and compassion overpower fear and division, rendering fascism powerless in the face of unity.
Unity
Unity is one of the most powerful weapons against fascism, as it dismantles the divide-and-conquer tactics that authoritarian regimes rely on to maintain power.
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