📢 Resist Project 2025 News — December 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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.
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🎓 Trump’s Education Dept. Just Axed Biden’s Student Loan Plan
The Education Department under Donald Trump has terminated a Biden-era student loan repayment and forgiveness initiative. Millions of borrowers who expected relief now face renewed uncertainty and higher financial burdens. It should be noted that “One in six adults in the country has federal student loan debt.” Advocates say the move disproportionately harms working-class borrowers and people of color. The decision intensifies political battles over the future of student debt relief. — Mother Jones
📉 Trump’s Global Tariffs Curtailed Trade, Data Shows
Recent data shows that President Trump’s expansive tariff policies have materially reduced U.S. trade flows, with imports dropping significantly in key months after steep duties were implemented. ”President Trump’s sweeping tariffs took a toll on trade in August, as imports of goods and services dropped 5.1 percent.” Commerce Department figures indicate that tariffs imposed on goods from dozens of countries led to a marked decline in imports in August, as international partners adjusted to higher costs. Critics argue that the tariffs have disrupted supply chains and slowed the movement of goods, while supporters maintain they protect domestic industries. The evolving trade picture reflects broader economic shifts tied to protectionist measures and ongoing legal and political debates about tariff authority. — The New York Times
🇺🇸 US House backs massive defense policy bill, Senate next
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping defense authorization bill that would allocate roughly $901 billion toward military spending, including a pay raise for service members and overhaul of Pentagon weapons procurement. The measure, passed with bipartisan support, also includes provisions boosting support for allies and enhancing oversight of controversial military actions. “The $901 billion in defense spending is $8 billion more than President Donald Trump’s request earlier this year.” — Reuters
🏛️ Trump’s Gilded White House Makeover Is All About Power
The Trump administration has demolished the East Wing of the White House to pave the way for an expansive new ballroom and related monument projects, triggering criticism from preservationists and historians. The initiative reflects a broader shift toward reshaping federal historic spaces in ways that some see as politically symbolic rather than functionally or historically grounded. Critics argue that bypassing standard federal review processes undermines preservation laws and excludes public input on nationally significant architecture. “The aesthetic is a way to make the political physically present,” Thompson says. “It’s a way to make it seem like things are changing and like Trump is keeping his promises when he’s actually not.” The project has ignited legal challenges and debates over executive authority and stewardship of historic government property. — Mother Jones
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 Demand Congress Reject “Trump-Kennedy Center” Rename
Click here to Ban Members of Congress from Trading Stock While in Office
Click here to Tell Your Governor: Reject the Federal School Voucher Program
Click here to Tell Congress: An Oath to the Constitution Requires Saying No to Illegal Orders
Click here to Tell Apple & Google CEOs: End your contracts with ICE NOW.
Project 2025 is Harming Americans
Project 2025 is a sweeping authoritarian blueprint designed to hollow out American democracy and strip away fundamental rights. Bankrolled by conservative mega-donors and orchestrated by the Heritage Foundation alongside more than 100 allied groups, the 900-plus-page plan seeks to concentrate unprecedented power in the presidency and dismantle the federal government as we know it.
Under this plan, the president would gain near-total control over institutions meant to be independent—like the Department of Justice, FBI, and Federal Reserve—while protest is effectively criminalized through militarized policing. The plan calls for banning abortion and contraception, erasing LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantling public education, gutting Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obama care), and defunding labor, environmental, and disability safeguards. Rooted in Christian nationalism, it would tear down the separation of church and state, suppress voting rights, and silence dissent—clearing a path toward permanent far-right rule that empowers a white nationalist Christian nationalism and harms anyone not fitting that mold.
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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