📢 Resist Project 2025 News — October 12, 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 12, 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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🕵️ Senators Warn Trump Administration Is Developing Secret Watchlist of Americans
Senators have raised alarms about a covert plan to compile a national watchlist of U.S. citizens without due process protections. They argue such surveillance tools could be abused to target dissent and silence activism. The proposal reflects a disturbing shift toward surveillance-based control over civil liberties. — Truthout
⚖️ Trump Calls For Chicago Mayor, Illinois Governor To Be Jailed Amid Resistance To Troop Deployment
Donald Trump called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to be jailed after they resisted his plan to deploy federal troops to the city. Both leaders condemned the move as an authoritarian overreach that would endanger civilians and escalate tensions. Trump’s remarks mark a new escalation in his confrontation with state officials who refuse to comply with his use of military force on U.S. soil. — HuffPost
📜 U.S. Supreme Court Revives Voting Rights Debate
The Court is taking up a pivotal case on the Voting Rights Act, potentially rolling back protections designed to combat racial discrimination in voting. Activists warn that a weakened VRA would open doors to new suppression tactics hidden behind neutral rules. The decision could redefine who has access to the ballot. — The Guardian
🧬 MAGA Mobs Spin Conspiracies About Lab-Grown Meat
Right-wing extremists are spreading wild claims that lab-grown meat is part of a globalist control scheme, framing scientific progress as an assault on freedom. The misinformation has fueled online outrage and disinformation campaigns against sustainable food innovation. It’s another example of how conspiracy culture undermines environmental solutions. — Mother Jones
🌍 ICE’s “Third Country Deportation” to Eswatini Creates Legal Black Hole
ICE is pushing to deport immigrants to Eswatini, a country many have never visited—bypassing traditional asylum protections. The method puts people in a legal limbo where neither U.S. oversight nor host-country safeguards apply. This tactic reveals how Trump’s enforcement agenda is inventing new zones of impunity. — Mother Jones
💸 The cancellation of Obamacare (also known as the Affordable Care Act) Subsidies for Couples Could Push Premiums Up by Nearly $2,000
New analyses show that one couples’ health insurance premiums under the cancellation of the Obamacare subsidies (also known as the Affordable Care Act) could spike nearly $2,000 due to subsidy rule changes. The shift would hit middle-class families hard, especially in states with limited protections. Critics argue the policy destabilizes coverage just when healthcare is under threat. — NBC News
Trump now openly backing Project 2025 during government shutdown | Associated Press
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 tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Politically-Motivated Indictments
Click here to sign on to our petition to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to reject an illegal and unnecessary voter registration requirement that would effectively block millions of Americans from voting by imposing severe barriers to registration.
Click here to Stop the “Show-Your-Papers” Voter Suppression Rule
Click here to Tell Lindsey Graham: Stop Pushing Illegal Third Trump Term
Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now
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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