📢 Resist Project 2025 News — October 6, 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 latest 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 October 6, 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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ICE’s New Social Media Surveillance Team Raises Civil Liberties Concerns
A new federal surveillance initiative will deploy teams to monitor online activity across platforms, with ICE coordinating data collection. Privacy advocates fear the program will chill speech and criminalize dissent. Experts say this marks another step toward merging immigration enforcement with domestic intelligence operations. — The New Republic
🕵️ DHS Expands Surveillance Through PenLink Contract
Documents reveal that ICE and DHS have renewed a multimillion-dollar contract with surveillance firm PenLink, enabling expanded real-time tracking of U.S. residents. Civil rights groups say the deal further erodes privacy and blurs the line between policing and political spying. The move deepens concerns over unchecked executive power and data abuse. — The Independent
🎓 Trump’s “Higher Education Compact” Is a Deal to Control Academia — The Atlantic
Trump’s so-called “Higher Education Compact” promises freedom from “woke ideology” but in reality seeks to impose political loyalty tests on universities. Faculty hiring, research funding, and curricula would be reshaped to align with his administration’s worldview. The plan is part of a broader effort to turn higher education into a propaganda arm of the state. — The Atlantic
🚧 Government Shutdown Halts Chicago Infrastructure Projects — HuffPost
The government shutdown has frozen vital infrastructure projects across Chicago, including bridge repairs and public transit upgrades. Workers face layoffs while communities lose access to safe and reliable transportation. Local leaders say Washington’s manufactured crisis is punishing everyday people for political theater. — HuffPost
🏥 Republicans blame the government shutdown on health care for undocumented people. That’s false — NPR
The White House and congressional Republicans say that Democratic lawmakers caused the federal government shutdown as part of an effort to extend health care benefits to undocumented immigrants. However, as several independent experts interviewed by NPR note, that claim is false. Advocates call the crisis a deliberate act of cruelty targeting the most vulnerable communities. — NPR
Trump Offers Qatar a NATO-Style Security Guarantee
Trump offered a security guarantee. Critics warn this conflates private interests with diplomacy, risking foreign policy integrity. The episode highlights how transactional politics are reshaping U.S. alliances. - MSNBC
Top Navy Official Fired by Trump
Trump abruptly removed a senior Navy leader, sending shockwaves through the military ranks. The unexpected dismissal fuels rumors of politicization within the armed forces. Observers warn such actions risk undermining stability in national defense leadership. - Politico
Trump now openly backing Project 2025 during government shutdown | AP News
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.
📣 Today’s calls to action
Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now
Click here to Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics
Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation
Click here to Tell Media Outlets: Refuse to Comply with Pentagon Censorship
Click here to Stop the “Show-Your-Papers” Voter Suppression Rule
Click here to Tell Congress: Don’t silence dissent with tear gas
Click here to Stop Trump from Deploying Troops in U.S. Cities
Join the NO KINGS National Day of Action. Show the nation that we reject would-be kings and demand a government that serves all of us. ➡️ RSVP for NO KINGS »
On October 18th, we rise together. From coast to coast, millions will send one message loud and clear: No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. This is more than a slogan—it’s a declaration of defiance and a promise to defend democracy. When Trump sends troops to silence dissent, threatens to erase our votes, or bargains away our lives for his billionaire donors, we will not be silent. We will not surrender our future. Power belongs to the people.
A core principle of all No Kings events is nonviolent action. Participants are expected to de-escalate conflicts, act lawfully, and never bring weapons—legal or otherwise.
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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