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Friends,

A country should never look at its own currency and see the vanity of a sitting president stamped into the people’s daily life. This week, the Treasury Department announced that Donald Trump’s image will appear on new U.S. paper currency - a $250 bill if Congress grants approval, making him the first sitting president whose image appears on American legal tender. This is in addition to the other change of putting Trumps signature in place of the treasurers, ending a tradition that dates to 1861, with the first new $100 bills expected in June.

That is not a harmless design choice. Money is one of the most public symbols a democracy has. It passes through the hands of workers, parents, retirees, immigrants, and neighbors trying to survive in an economy that already asks too much of ordinary people. Our currency should reflect the shared trust of the nation, not the ego of one man.

• The Treasury should serve the people with neutrality, not serve a president with loyalty.

• Our currency should reflect democratic trust, not presidential vanity.

• The Treasury belongs to the public, not to one president’s ego.

• Public institutions should honor the nation, not flatter the president.

• The Treasury should protect democracy, not promote a president’s brand.

Trump administration officials have also proposed minting a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump’s image on it to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States next year, a plan that could violate the law.

Trump’s allies want Americans to accept this as patriotic pageantry tied to the 250th anniversary. Treasury officials have framed the change as a way to honor both the country and Trump. But that is exactly the problem. A democracy is not supposed to turn public institutions into personal trophies. The people’s money is not a branding exercise. It is not campaign merch. It is not a monument to a living president’s appetite for attention. If anyone deserves to be honored, it is the people of America, who built this country with their work, sacrifice, struggle, and dreams, not one man’s ego.

America has long understood the danger here. Federal law says “[o]nly the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities,” a rule tied to the country’s effort to distance itself from monarchy. Our money is not supposed to become a shrine to a living ruler.

That is why this moment matters. Members of a bipartisan advisory committee objected to putting a sitting president on currency because it would “break with democratic norms” and “reek of subservience to royalty.” That is the warning in front of us. No free people should be trained to confuse patriotism with personal devotion.

And let’s say the quiet part out loud: when a president starts placing his mark on the people’s symbols, he is not just asking for recognition. Trump and his allies are testing how much public submission the country will tolerate. Today it is a signature or image. Yesterday it was proposals for presidential coinage. Tomorrow it becomes another demand that the country honor the leader instead of the Constitution, the public, and the rule of law. That is not strength. That is democratic erosion dressed up as tribute.

But this is where people power still matters. We do not have to accept the slow rewriting of public life around one man’s image, name, and ego. We can speak up. We can organize. We can remind Congress and Treasury that they answer to the people, not the other way around. Our currency belongs to the people. Our democracy belongs to the people. And the will of the people still matters.

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Banned in War, Unleashed on the People

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Tear gas is not “crowd control.” It is chemical force. It is dangerous enough that several countries and the Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the use of riot-control agents, including tear gas, as a method of warfare, yet the same chemicals are being used by ICE and domestic law enforcement.1 That double standard should outrage every person who believes in freedom: too dangerous for war, but somehow acceptable against protesters, journalists, neighborhoods, and detained immigrants.

Tear gas does not “restore order.” It burns eyes, chokes lungs, irritates skin, and can cause coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, nausea, and vomiting. The CDC warns that prolonged exposure or large doses can cause severe harm, including blindness, glaucoma, respiratory failure, and even death, with greater danger in closed indoor spaces where people cannot escape.2

And now, new reporting shows this crisis reaches inside America’s immigration detention system. The Washington Post reported that internal ICE records revealed at least 780 incidents in which staff used physical force or chemical agents to control immigrant detainees during the first year of Trump’s second term, including guards firing chemical pepper balls into a communal room in Alaska and using pepper spray on detainees in Georgia who said they had not been seen by medical staff.3

This is not safety. This is state violence. In Portland, a federal judge restricted federal officers’ use of tear gas at protests outside an ICE facility after evidence showed peaceful protesters and journalists being sprayed, gassed, and hit with munitions. The court described DHS officers spraying peaceful protesters in the face and firing tear gas and pepper-ball munitions into crowds of peaceful and nonviolent protesters.4

A free people cannot be gassed into silence. Protest is not a crime. Demanding food, water, medical care, dignity, and justice is not violence. We need a nationwide ban on the use of tear gas and chemical crowd-control agents against civilians, protesters, journalists, and people in detention. A democracy cannot survive if dissent is treated like an enemy force. And a government that uses chemical agents against the people is not protecting order—it is exposing its fear of people power.

We must demand a nationwide ban on the use of tear gas against our civilians. Protecting public safety means ensuring the right to gather, speak out, and petition for change without fear of chemical attack. A free people cannot be gassed into silence. Proper security lies in justice, not in repression.

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Friends,

Pete Hegseth must be removed from power before he causes even more devastation at home and abroad. This is not a close call. This is not a partisan game. This is a moral, constitutional, and democratic emergency.

When Hegseth declared “No quarter, no mercy for our enemies” while giving an update on Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran, he was not speaking the language of lawful restraint or responsible leadership. He was speaking the language of brutality. He was signaling a worldview in which cruelty is strength, vengeance is policy, and the rules of war are disposable. If those words are followed as orders, they amount to war crimes. No defense secretary who talks like that should remain in office for one more day.

And that is only the beginning.

Hegseth has reportedly sought to purge the U.S. military of Black and female officers, turning one of the nation’s most powerful institutions into a playground for ideological cleansing and grievance politics. That is not leadership. That is an assault on equality, professionalism, and the basic principle that service and merit matter more than bigotry. Our military belongs to the people of this country, not to a culture war agenda built on resentment and exclusion.

He has also overseen operations tied to horrifying civilian deaths, including 168 students at an Iranian girls’ school. Let that sink in. Children. Girls in a school. Young lives that should have been protected, not incinerated in the name of reckless militarism. When leaders treat civilian casualties like background noise, democracy rots and human dignity is shredded. When they speak with open contempt for mercy, they tell the world exactly who they are.

And while innocent people die, U.S. servicemembers are put in danger too. Hegseth’s actions and rhetoric do not make anyone safer. They make catastrophe more likely. They inflame conflict, raise the risk of retaliation, and place troops in the path of consequences created by arrogance at the top. That is not patriotism. That is reckless endangerment dressed up as toughness.

Now Rep. Yassamin Ansari has introduced articles of impeachment against Hegseth, and Congress must meet this moment with courage. Pass the articles. Hold the hearings. Expose the truth. Remove him.

Because impeachment is not just about punishing one man. It is about defending the idea that public power has limits. It is about making clear that no Pentagon chief can wage unlawful war, glorify cruelty, target officers for who they are, endanger troops, and escape accountability. It is about telling every future authoritarian that the Constitution is not optional and that the people are still watching.

If Congress refuses to act, it sends a terrifying message: that war without restraint, discrimination without shame, and abuse without consequence are all acceptable so long as the right strongman is in charge.

We cannot accept that. We cannot normalize it. We cannot wait for more bodies, more grief, and more damage to our democracy.

This is the moment to raise our voices. This is the moment to demand accountability. This is the moment to advocate for Congress to choose between cowardice and the Constitution.

Pete Hegseth has shown this country who he is. Believe him. And then remove him.

• Take Action: Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

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Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United members believe change is possible because we have seen ordinary people rise, organize, and be a force for progress. Real change does not come from waiting politely, staying quiet, or hoping those in power suddenly grow a conscience. It comes when people speak out, show up, and demand action—because our communities and families cannot wait, and every moment we delay gives injustice more room to tighten its grip on our communities.

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The Constitution Says “We the People,” Not “I, the President”

Friends,

America was not founded to be ruled by one man. Our Constitution does not begin with “I, the President.” It begins with “We the People” because power in this country is supposed to belong to the people, not to one politician, one party, one billionaire class, or one authoritarian movement.

That is why Congress must stop treating Donald Trump’s presidential power grab like politics as usual.

At the center of this crisis is the dangerous idea known as unitary executive theory. Its most extreme supporters argue that the president should have sweeping control over the executive branch, including agencies Congress created to operate with independence. Trump’s own White House order declared “Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch,” including independent agencies.1

This is not a technical debate. This is a democracy alarm bell.

When a president claims the power to control agencies, fire independent officials, replace experts with loyalists, and bend law enforcement toward personal or political goals, the presidency stops looking like public service and starts looking like a throne. The Trump administration has also moved to strip civil service protections from federal workers under a revived Schedule F-style framework, a move critics warn could politicize the federal workforce and make it easier to replace experts with loyalists.2

And the danger is no longer theoretical.

This is exactly why unchecked presidential power is so dangerous. When one man can send the United States military to seize another country’s leader and his wife, as Trump did with Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores in Venezuela, without real congressional accountability, we are no longer talking about ordinary foreign policy.3 We are talking about a president acting like the Constitution is optional.

When one man can authorize or defend boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that have reportedly killed 193 people across at least 58 attacks, and only afterward face an inspector general inquiry into whether proper procedures were followed, that is not accountability.4 That is power moving first and oversight arriving too late.

And when one man can drag this country toward war, launch attacks tied to Iran without Congress first authorizing war, and force lawmakers to scramble afterward to reassert their constitutional authority, that is not strength. That is a presidential power grab.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war for a reason. No president should be allowed to bomb, kill, capture foreign leaders, or push America into war while Congress shrugs, hides, delays, or rubber-stamps after the fact.

The corruption concerns are just as alarming. Trump and his family are tied to World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture that has raised serious conflict-of-interest questions while Trump holds presidential power. Reuters has reported that the Trump family’s crypto venture overlaps with major crypto industry networks and that Trump’s presidency, crypto advocacy, business interests, and regulatory shifts have raised concerns about conflicts of interest.5

Now the danger has reached a new level. The Justice Department approved a settlement that, according to MS Now, permanently bars the IRS from auditing Trump, his family, and his companies for tax claims filed before the settlement date.6 The agreement is tied to Trump dropping his lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns and includes the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund for people claiming harm from political “weaponization.”

Let’s call this what it is: a five-alarm warning for democracy. No president should be allowed to seize foreign leaders, bomb boats, kill people, move toward war without Congress, profit through private crypto ventures, weaponize the Justice Department against political enemies, and then benefit from a settlement that blocks tax accountability for himself, his family, and his companies.

That is not public service. That is not law and order. That is what happens when presidential power is allowed to swallow checks and balances whole.

Congress cannot abdicate its power to the president. Congress cannot surrender oversight. Congress cannot allow any president to turn independent agencies into loyalty machines, the Justice Department into a political weapon, the military into a private tool of force, or public office into a family business.

We need Congress to publicly reject unitary executive theory, investigate extremist agendas like Project 2025, protect independent agencies and civil servants, defend inspectors general and whistleblowers, and reassert its constitutional authority over war, spending, oversight, and accountability.

The Constitution does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to MAGA Republicans. It does not belong to billionaires, loyalists, or political insiders.

It belongs to us.

Congress must do its job. Hold presidents accountable. Defend checks and balances. Protect our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy before this presidential power grab becomes the new normal.

• Take Action: Stop Trump from Stealing $10 Billion from Taxpayers

• Take Action Now: Defend the Constitution. Stop Presidential Power Grabs.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United members believe change is possible because we have seen ordinary people rise, organize, and be a force for progress. Real change does not come from waiting politely, staying quiet, or hoping those in power suddenly grow a conscience. It comes when people speak out, show up, and demand action—because our communities and families cannot wait, and every moment we delay gives injustice more room to tighten its grip on our communities.

• Heads up: Tomorrow, MAGA Republicans are holding a hit-job hearing targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center. I don’t know about you, but I prefer to stand with an organization that stood up to the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups — not the gaslighters trying to spin hate for political gain.Can you sign on to support them here? Can you also sign on to support for them here?

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People Power United exists because silence is not an option. We help people understand what is at stake, who is being harmed, who is responsible, and what we can do next. We turn fear into action, outrage into organizing, and truth into people power.

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Stop the $70 Billion ICE Power Grab

Friends,

There is no mystery about what this ICE funding bill currently in Congress is. It is not about public safety. It is not about affordability. It is not about solving a crisis. It is a slush fund for ICE and Border Patrol, wrapped in fear, rushed through Congress, and designed to hand Donald Trump’s deportation machine another blank check.

Congress is being asked to pour roughly $70 billion more into ICE and CBP through a partisan funding package, even after those agencies received massive funding last year. Senate Budget Committee Democrats say ICE and CBP were still sitting on more than $103 billion in unobligated funding as of March 2026.1

So let’s be clear: there is no funding emergency. There is only a cruelty agenda looking for more cash.

Families are struggling with groceries, gas, rent, healthcare, childcare, and prescription drugs. People are asking Washington to lower costs and protect communities. Instead, Republicans are trying to hand billions more to agencies already swollen with unspent money. Worse, this package was tied to a $1 billion White House security proposal connected to Trump’s ballroom project, which the Senate parliamentarian ruled could not be included in the fast-track bill. 2

That tells us everything we need to know. Working families are told to tighten their belts. Seniors are told programs cost too much. Disabled people are told there is no money. Families on Medicaid are told they must wait, prove, struggle, and suffer. But when Trump wants billions for ICE, Border Patrol, and a palace-like ballroom project, suddenly the money appears.

That is not governing. That is looting.

And every lawmaker who votes for this owns what comes next. Every raid. Every wrongful detention. Every child who comes home to an empty house. Every parent disappeared into a detention system. Every community terrorized by masked agents. Every taxpayer dollar sent into a system with too little transparency and too little accountability. This vote is not symbolic. It is the legislative rubber stamp for what follows.

The public is not confused. A UMass Amherst poll found only 33% of Americans approved of how ICE is doing its job, while 59% disapproved.3 Half of respondents also believed ICE officers are not adequately trained for immigration enforcement. That is not a mandate for more money. That is a warning siren.

This bill also makes life more expensive. FWD.us found Trump’s immigration policies could raise costs for the average American family by $2,150 per year, and projected grocery bills could rise from $165 to $195 per week within four years.4 Mass deportation is not just morally cruel. It destabilizes construction, agriculture, food service, caregiving, and local economies. It rips workers out of communities and then forces everyone else to pay more.

Republicans cannot claim they care about affordability while funding policies that raise prices. They cannot claim they care about families while financing family separation. They cannot claim they care about public safety while writing blank checks to agencies facing deep public distrust.

Congress must reject this bill.

Not one more dollar for raids while families cannot afford groceries. Not one more dollar for detention expansion while people lose healthcare. Not one more dollar for political theater while communities live under fear. Not one more dollar for a deportation machine that already has more than enough money to do harm.

Stop ICE’s slush fund. Stop the blank check. Stop funding cruelty in our name.

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• Take action: Send a letter to Congress: No Blank Checks for ICE

No Blank Checks to ICE

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United members believe change is possible because we have seen ordinary people rise, organize, and be a force for progress. Real change does not come from waiting politely, staying quiet, or hoping those in power suddenly grow a conscience. It comes when people speak out, show up, and demand action—because our communities and families cannot wait, and every moment we delay gives injustice more room to tighten its grip on our communities.

• Take action now: Tell Congress: No Slush Fund for ICE

• Take action: Tell Congress: No Blank Checks for ICE

• Take Action: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s War on Clean Energy

• Take Action: Tell Congress: Expose Trump’s Secret Donors

• Take Action: Stand with Jimmy Kimmel Against Trump’s Attacks

• Take Action: MAGA Justices Just Gutted Voting Rights. Tell Congress to Restore Them Now.

The movement for progress and power to the people starts here.

Good News and Progress from the Resistance

People Power United exists because silence is not an option. We help people understand what is at stake, who is being harmed, who is responsible, and what we can do next. We turn fear into action, outrage into organizing, and truth into people power.

And today, I am asking from the heart: please consider becoming a paid subscriber.

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Free subscribers are deeply valued in this community. Every reader, every share, every action matters. But paid subscribers make this work possible.

Your support helps us publish independent news and action alerts, keep this work accessible to people who cannot afford to pay, and build a movement that is not funded by billionaires, corporations, or special interests.

We are powered by people.

People Power United now reaches more than 340,000 digital subscribers, a level of reach comparable to some major news outlets. That means our reach is up there with major news outlets like the Los Angeles Times (243,000 digital subscribers), The Boston Globe (260,500 digital subscribers), USA Today (142,212 digital subscribers), and the Chicago Tribune (152,255 digital subscribers) when it comes to digital reach. But we do not have billionaire owners, corporate advertisers, or deep institutional pockets behind us. Those outlets often have hundreds of staffers, and sometimes more than 1,000 people, supporting their journalism, technology, business, marketing, and operations. We do not have that kind of legacy infrastructure behind us. We have people power. We have truth. We have action. And if even a small share of this community becomes paid subscribers, we can keep building independent, people-powered news and actions that are enough to meet this moment.

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We generally send only one email/post a day, so you can stay informed without being overwhelmed. And if you want more throughout the day, you can follow our Substack notes feed or our Social Media channels, which are updated multiple times a day with breaking news, urgent actions, movement updates, daily inspiration, and ways to stay engaged.Attacks on immigrants, reproductive freedom, the courts, the climate, voting rights, workers, public education, and basic human dignity are all part of the same authoritarian project.

And our answer must be just as connected.

Freedom over fascism. Progress over fear. Power to the people.

If People Power United helps you stay grounded, informed, hopeful, and ready to act, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription today. Your support helps us continue this work, expand our reach, and build the people-powered infrastructure this moment demands.

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This moment demands more than silence, cynicism, or doomscrolling.

It demands truth. It demands courage. It demands community. It demands action.

And it demands all of us.

Please become a paid subscriber today and help power this work forward.

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Leader, People Power United

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Ban Partisan Gerrymandering Now

When politicians cannot win on their policies, their leadership, or their record, they often reach for the oldest trick in the anti-democracy playbook: rig the system.

That is what partisan gerrymandering does. It allows politicians to draw maps that protect their own power, silence entire communities, and make elections less about the will of the people and more about the survival of the powerful. It turns democracy upside down. Instead of voters choosing their representatives, politicians choose which voters count.

And when voices are silenced, people get hurt.

When communities are carved apart for political gain, families lose power over the decisions that shape their lives. Schools get ignored. Hospitals close. Wages stay low. Housing becomes more unaffordable. Voting rights are weakened. Civil rights are attacked. Public dollars flow toward wealthy donors and political insiders while working people are told to wait, struggle, and accept less.

That is not an accident. That is the point.

Gerrymandering allows politicians to dodge accountability. It gives extremists a shield. It lets them push unpopular policies, attack our rights, and ignore the needs of the people because they know the map has been drawn to protect them. They do not have to earn trust. They do not have to listen. They do not have to lead. They only have to manipulate the rules.

That is not leadership. That is cheating.

A healthy democracy requires fair maps, fair elections, and fair representation. Every community deserves a voice. Every voter deserves equal power. No party should be allowed to slice and divide neighborhoods to silence voters they fear. No politician should be able to cling to office by weakening the people’s ability to remove them.

This is about more than district lines. This is about whether democracy belongs to the people or to politicians who are afraid of the people.

We need Congress to ban partisan gerrymandering now. We need enforceable national standards that protect fair representation, stop map manipulation, and make sure every vote has equal power.

Power to the people means our voices must not be erased.

Power to the people means politicians should win by serving the people, not by rigging the map.

Take Action: Tell Congress ban partisan gerrymandering, protect fair representation, and stop politicians from cheating voters out of real democracy.

Ban Partisan Gerrymandering

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United members believe change is possible because we have seen ordinary people rise, organize, and be a force for progress. Real change does not come from waiting politely, staying quiet, or hoping those in power suddenly grow a conscience. It comes when people speak out, show up, and demand action—because our communities and families cannot wait, and every moment we delay gives injustice more room to tighten its grip on our communities.

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🚨Take Action: MAGA Justices Just Gutted Voting Rights. Congress Must Act.

• 📢 Take Action: Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s War on Clean Energy

• 📢 Take Action: Stand with Jimmy Kimmel Against Trump’s Attacks

• 🚨 Take Action: Tell Congress ban partisan gerrymandering, protect fair representation, and stop politicians from cheating voters out of real democracy.

• 🚨 Take Action: Tell Treasury: Keep Trump Off Our Money

• 📢 Take Action: Tell Congress: No Troops on the Ground in Iran

• 🚨Take Action: Denounce the DOJ’s Attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center

• 💥Take Action: Make a donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center and say no to the racism and bigotry coming from the Trump administration.

• 📢 Show Up: 🗽All of US Nationwide Mobilization on June 27th, 2026

  • Trump and MAGA Republicans want to reserve the promise of America for wealthy white men like him. As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, our country stands at an unprecedented crossroads: Will we allow a white supremacist faction to whitewash our history, or will we commit to finishing the work and promise of liberty and justice for all?

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Friends,

The Supreme Court’s decision to gut a core protection of the Voting Rights Act is a direct assault on the promise of “liberty and justice for all,” making it harder for disenfranchised and voters of color to challenge discriminatory maps.

But this is not the end of the story, because the people still have the power to protect voting rights, stop racial gerrymandering, and defend fair representation.

I know there is a lot going on right now, so we are giving you some quick and impactful actions to take for our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy.

Let’s make some noise:

📢 Take Action: MAGA Justices Just Gutted Voting Rights. Congress Must Act.

Take Action

📢 Take Action: Join the United for Democracy Post-Callais: National Organizing Call on Monday at 8pm EDT.

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📢 Take Action: Sign the MoveOn Petition: Demand term limits for Supreme Court justices.

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📢 Take Action: Send a letter to Congress: Restore the Voting Rights Act and protect our votes.

Write to Congress

📢 Take Action: Get and share ballot and voting information, election reminders, and tools to register, vote by mail, and protect your voice.

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Thanks for taking action for our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy! Go be awesome! Because you are!

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Stop Trump from labeling millions of Americans as domestic terrorists

Friends,

The second indictment of James Comey should alarm every American who cares about free speech and the rule of law. Federal prosecutors charged the former FBI director over an Instagram post showing seashells arranged as “86 47,” which the government claims was a threat against Trump. Comey denies violent intent, says he opposes violence, and his defense has raised First Amendment concerns.1 He said he came across the shells while walking on a beach and wanted to share the image he found with his followers. Another question also arises: Does “86” mean “get rid of,” as in remove from office like impeachment or use of the 14th amendment, or is the government trying to frame it as something more nefarious?

This is bigger than Comey. Trump’s executive order NSPM-7 directs the Joint Terrorism Task Forces to investigate, prosecute, and disrupt people and groups accused of political violence, but its language reaches into ideology, protest, advocacy, and dissent. Civil liberties groups have warned that the memo points to vague “indicators” like anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, views on migration, race, and gender, and hostility to “traditional” views. Where does legitimate dissent end and political violence begin, and who gets to decide when free speech is being turned into a threat?

Let us be clear: real threats and political violence should be taken seriously. But a democracy cannot survive when a president blurs the line between actual violence and protected speech, protest, donations, organizing, or criticism. The ACLU warns that the executive order could target nonprofits, donors, and activists under the banner of domestic terrorism, and recent reporting on FBI domestic terrorism investigations tied to anti-ICE activity shows how quickly this machinery can spread.

If Congress funds NSPM-7, it risks funding an infrastructure of political repression. Today it may be a former FBI director. Tomorrow it could be an immigrant rights group, a racial justice organizer, a reproductive freedom advocate, a faith leader, a journalist, a student protester, or a neighbor holding a sign. The right to dissent is not terrorism.

Take action now: Demand Congress refuse to fund Trump’s executive order that could label millions of Americans as domestic terrorists

Take Action Now

People power means refusing to let fear become policy. Speaking of letting fear become policy, the Supreme Court’s decision earlier today to gut the Voting Rights Act was a direct assault on “liberty and justice for all.” We will have a statement and actions coming tomorrow, but in the meantime, please take action:

• 📢 Take Action: MAGA Justices Just Gutted Voting Rights. Congress Must Act.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United members believe change is possible because we have seen ordinary people rise, organize, and be a force for progress. Real change does not come from waiting politely, staying quiet, or hoping those in power suddenly grow a conscience. It comes when people speak out, show up, and demand action—because our communities and families cannot wait, and every moment we delay gives injustice more room to tighten its grip on our communities.

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 📢 Take Action: MAGA Justices Just Gutted Voting Rights. Congress Must Act.

• 🚨Take Action: Denounce the DOJ’s Attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center

• 💥Take Action: Make a donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center and say no to the racism and bigotry coming from the Trump administration.

• 📢 Take Action: Hold Pam Bondi in Contempt for Epstein Coverup

• 🚨 Take Action: Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

• 📜 Take Action: Impeach Trump for Threatening War Crimes in Iran

• 💸Take Action: Make the Ultra-Rich Pay Their Fair Share

• 📢Take Action: Join a Workers Over Billionaires event near you

  • On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping. Find an event near you.

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Friends,

Pam Bondi our former United States Attorney General is now a private citizen. But being a private citizen does not mean you get to treat a congressional subpoena like a polite suggestion. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Bondi by name, ordering her to appear for a deposition about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files. After Trump fired her, the Justice Department argued that she no longer had to appear because she no longer held the title of attorney general. That is not accountability. That is a power play dressed up as legal reasoning, and it strikes at the heart of whether the rule of law still means the same thing for the powerful as it does for everyone else.

Because let’s be honest about what is at stake here. If a former attorney general can ignore Congress after being subpoenaed, what message does that send to the rest of the country? That ordinary people are expected to comply with the law, but insiders get loopholes. That subpoenas are binding for workers, whistleblowers, and everyday Americans, but optional for the politically connected. That is how public trust collapses. Bondi was subpoenaed by name, not by title. That should matter. And that should be the standard in any democracy worth defending.

🚨 Take Action: Hold Pam Bondi in Contempt for Epstein Coverup

This is bigger than one deposition. Congress is investigating serious questions about whether the Justice Department under Bondi withheld answers the public was entitled to, failed to fully comply with the law requiring the release of Epstein-related files, and evaded meaningful oversight. That is exactly why congressional oversight exists: to test allegations, expose abuse, and make sure no public office becomes a shield for allies or a weapon against critics. Bondi turned the Department of Justice into Trump’s personal revenge machine, where loyalty to Trump appeared to determine who faced retaliation and who got a pass. Congressional oversight exists to stop exactly that kind of abuse. No office in this country should be a hiding place for corruption.

And Bondi is hardly the first former official expected to answer questions. Others have testified after leaving office. Leaving power does not erase responsibility. Leaving office does not wipe the slate clean. Leaving office does not place anyone above the reach of Congress. If anything, it makes accountability even more urgent, because the public deserves the truth after the damage has already been done.

🚨 Take Action: Hold Pam Bondi in Contempt for Epstein Coverup

Now Chairman James Comer faces a choice, and it is a simple one. He can keep hiding behind the Justice Department’s flimsy excuse, or he can do the job the Constitution gave him. He can reschedule Bondi’s deposition, compel her testimony, and if she still refuses, move contempt proceedings. That is not partisan revenge. That is Congress enforcing its own authority. That is Congress defending the basic principle that nobody gets to walk away from scrutiny just because they once held power.

And the rest of us should not be silent while Congress hesitates. Write your representative. Call Congress. Tell them no private citizen, no former attorney general, and no political insider is above answering lawful questions from the people’s branch of government. Do your job. Enforce the subpoena. Make Pam Bondi testify.

🚨 Take Action: Hold Pam Bondi in Contempt for Epstein Coverup

Hold Pam Bondi in Contempt

Because when Congress refuses to compel testimony from the powerful, it is not just abandoning one investigation. It is telling the country that accountability is for ordinary people, not the well-connected. That kind of double standard corrodes trust, rewards corruption, and weakens the very foundation democracy depends on to survive.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United members believe change is possible because we have seen ordinary people rise, organize, and be a force for progress. Real change does not come from waiting politely, staying quiet, or hoping those in power suddenly grow a conscience. It comes when people speak out, show up, and demand action—because our communities and families cannot wait, and every moment we delay gives injustice more room to tighten its grip on our communities.

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🚨 Take Action: Hold Pam Bondi in Contempt for Epstein Coverup

• 🚨 Take Action: Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

• 📜 Take Action: Impeach Trump for Threatening War Crimes in Iran

• 💸Take Action: Make the Ultra-Rich Pay Their Fair Share

• 💵 Take Action: Tell Congress now: keep politics and personal branding off our money.

• 💵 Take Action: Tell Treasury: Keep Trump Off Our Money

• 🏥Take Action: Tell Congress: choose healthcare, not warfare.

• Join an upcoming event:

  • Communities Not Cages: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention

    • On April 25, 2026 communities are showing up and speaking out to Stop ICE’s warehouse detention expansion. Find an event near you.

  • May Day Strong

    • On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping. Find an event near you.

The movement for freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people starts here.

Together, we can defend our rights, freedoms, the rule of law, and democracy, hold leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

People Power United is independent, people-powered news and grassroot movement actions dedicated to defending our rights, freedoms, the rule of law, and democracy. This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our democracy. Millions of Americans and people who call America home are already rising up in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress over fear, and power to the people. We believe change is possible, and we do the work to make it happen. Join us to build people power.

Laurie Woodward Garcia
(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)
Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we speak out, show up, and build power against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry.

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Communities Not Cages: Disappeared in America Through ICE Warehouse Detention

Friends,

ICE’s detention expansion is not immigration policy. It is a moral emergency. It is a calculated campaign of cruelty aimed directly at our communities. The Trump administration is already locking up more than 70,000 people and is openly pushing to cage more than 100,000 at a time. Now it is driving toward an even darker nightmare: warehouse camps that could hold as many as 92,600 people across the country. Let’s say clearly what this is. It is not safety. It is not order. It is not justice. It is mass dehumanization by design. It is a system built to make people easier to isolate, easier to exploit, and easier to become disappeared in America.

These warehouse detention schemes are especially vile because they reduce human beings to objects. Parents. Workers. Neighbors. Loved ones. People with names, families, dreams, and rights could be packed into industrial spaces built to store goods, not protect life. That is the point. When people are hidden away in remote, makeshift detention sites, cut off from family, legal support, and community oversight, they can be disappeared in America with less public scrutiny and less accountability. A bigger cage does not make cruelty humane. It only makes that cruelty easier to hide.

• Now is the time to rise. Join the Communities Not Cages: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention. Find an event near you here.

• Sign the petition: Stop ICE’s Warehouse Detention Now

And the danger does not stop at the warehouse doors. These facilities are not built with the water, sewage, sanitation, or healthcare systems needed to safely confine thousands of people. Disease can spread quickly. Public infrastructure can be strained. Entire nearby communities can be forced to carry the health and environmental fallout from a system rooted in fear, secrecy, and neglect. Once again, working-class communities and disenfranchised communities are being told to absorb the damage from a machine of punishment built for someone else’s profit and political theater.

Because yes, there is profit in this cruelty. Corporations stand to make money by selling or leasing warehouse space to ICE and helping turn human suffering into a business model. That is obscene. People are not cargo. They are not inventory. They are not products to be processed, stacked, and discarded for cash. When public money is used to cage human beings in warehouse camps while families struggle for housing, healthcare, schools, and clean water, that is not governance. That is state violence dressed up as policy.

• Now is the time to rise. Join the Communities Not Cages: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention. Find an event near you here.

• Sign the petition: Stop ICE’s Warehouse Detention Now

But the story does not end there. Across the country, communities are pushing back. From Utah to Minnesota, from Oklahoma to Virginia and Mississippi, people have organized, resisted, and stopped these detention projects. They are demanding investment in life, not cages. They are demanding schools, clinics, housing, clean water, dignity, and freedom. They are proving something authoritarians never want us to remember: organized people can beat organized cruelty.

And this moment demands memory. This country has already lived through the shame of using makeshift sites to imprison Japanese Americans in the 1940s. That horror was wrong then, and it is wrong now. We do not honor that history with silence. We honor it by refusing to let more people be disappeared in America under a different name, in a different building, through the same old machinery of cruelty and racism.

• Now is the time to rise. Join the Communities Not Cages: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention. Find an event near you here.

• Sign the petition: Stop ICE’s Warehouse Detention Now

• Send a letter to your member of Congress and tell them:

Our communities need care. They need investment. They need freedom. Not cages. Not camps. Not ever.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United members believe change is possible because we have seen ordinary people rise, organize, and be a force for progress. Real change does not come from waiting politely, staying quiet, or hoping those in power suddenly grow a conscience. It comes when people speak out, show up, and demand action—because our communities and families cannot wait, and every moment we delay gives injustice more room to tighten its grip on our communities.

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• ✅ Take Action: Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

• ✅ Take Action: Impeach Trump for Threatening War Crimes in Iran

• ✅Take Action: Make the Ultra-Rich Pay Their Fair Share

• ✅ Take Action: Tell Congress now: keep politics and personal branding off our money.

• ✅ Take Action: Tell Treasury: Keep Trump Off Our Money

• ✅Take Action: Tell Congress: choose healthcare, not warfare.

• ✅Take Action: Block Trump’s AI-powered warrantless surveillance of Americans!

• Join an upcoming event:

  • Communities Not Cages: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention

    • On April 25, 2026 communities are showing up and speaking out to Stop ICE’s warehouse detention expansion. Find an event near you.

  • May Day Strong

    • On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping. Find an event near you.

The movement for freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people starts here.

Together, we can defend our rights, freedoms, the rule of law, and democracy, hold leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

People Power United is independent, people-powered news and grassroot movement actions dedicated to defending our rights, freedoms, the rule of law, and democracy. This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our democracy. Millions of Americans and people who call America home are already rising up in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress over fear, and power to the people. We believe change is possible, and we do the work to make it happen. Join us to build people power.

Laurie Woodward Garcia

(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we speak out, show up, and build power against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry.

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Impeach Pete Hegseth for War Without Congress and Abuse of Power

Take Action: Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

Friends,

This is what accountability looks like when people refuse to stay quiet.

House Democrats have now introduced six articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, saying he has “demonstrated a willful disregard for the Constitution.” 1 Good. They are right to name it. They are right to act. And they are right to put this fight where it belongs: in public view, under pressure, with the people watching.

Because let’s be honest about what this is.

Pete Hegseth is not just another reckless appointee. He is what happens when authoritarian power puts loyalty above law, cruelty above conscience, and ego above democracy. From the beginning, here at People Power United we said the United States military deserves leadership grounded in integrity, competence, restraint, and fidelity to the Constitution.2 Not ideological fanaticism. Not macho performance. Not grievance politics dressed up as patriotism.

Trump put Hegseth at the top of the Pentagon for one reason: obedience. Not wisdom. Not experience. Not steadiness. Obedience.

And now the country is living with the consequences.

First, Hegseth should be impeached for helping wage war without Congress. The impeachment resolution accuses him of helping initiate and escalate hostilities against Iran without a declaration of war or specific authorization from Congress, and for failing to seek meaningful consultation with the very body the Constitution empowers to decide questions of war. That is not a minor procedural dispute. That is a constitutional line being crossed in broad daylight.

The power to declare war does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to Pete Hegseth. It does not belong to any swaggering strongman who thinks the Constitution is a speed bump on the road to more violence. That power belongs to Congress because the framers knew war is too grave, too deadly, and too dangerous to be left in the hands of men hungry for power and applause.

Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

When a defense secretary helps bypass Congress and ignores the Constitution, he is not protecting democracy. He is helping to dismantle it.

Second, Hegseth should be impeached for reckless disregard for civilian life and the laws of war. The impeachment articles accuse him of authorizing, condoning, or failing to prevent military force that caused large civilian casualties, including the strike on a girls’ school in Minab. Investigators reportedly believed American forces were likely responsible.3 Outdated targeting intelligence may have played a role. Senators later pointed to Hegseth’s own words, including “no stupid rules of engagement” and “death and destruction from the sky all day long,” as evidence of a mindset that treats restraint like weakness and civilian protection like an inconvenience.

Let’s be crystal clear.

Civilian safeguards are not weakness. The laws of war are not optional. Dead children are not collateral messaging problems. Shattered families are not footnotes. When the person running the Pentagon talks like mercy is foolish and destruction is strength, innocent people pay first and the truth gets buried second. Don’t even get me started on Hegseth quoting Pulp Fiction and acting like it was a Bible verse.4

That is not leadership. That is moral failure armed with state power.

Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

Third, Hegseth should be impeached for abusing power and betraying public trust. The impeachment articles accuse him of gross negligence in handling sensitive military information through unsecured communications, obstructing congressional oversight, and politicizing the armed forces. A Pentagon inspector general report found that Hegseth sent sensitive, nonpublic strike information over Signal in a way that risked harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives.5 He has used religious imagery to attack the press 6 and carried himself less like a public servant in a constitutional democracy and more like a man convinced he answers only to power, ego, and his own mythology.

The Pentagon is not a campaign prop. It is not a television stage. It is not a throne for culture war fantasies. It is a public trust, and Hegseth has no business holding it.

This is a pattern.

A pattern of recklessness.
A pattern of cruelty.
A pattern of constitutional contempt.
A pattern of power abused by someone who should never have been given it.

And that is why impeachment matters.

Not because it is politically convenient.
Not because it makes a good headline.
Not because Democrats need a talking point.

It matters because democracy dies when people in power can launch war without Congress, endanger civilians without consequence, abuse public trust without accountability, and still expect the country to shrug and move on.

We will not move on.

This is a moment for accountability. This is a moment for power to the people. Now is the time for us to speak out, show up, and hold Pete Hegseth accountable before more lives are put at risk, more trust is destroyed, and more of our democracy is handed over to lawless men who mistake power for permission. Impeach Pete Hegseth. Drag the truth into the light. Make accountability real.

Take Action: Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

Impeach Pete Hegseth Now

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• Tell Congress: Make the Ultra-Rich Pay Their Fair Share

• Impeach Trump for Threatening War Crimes in Iran

• Tell Congress: No Troops on the Ground in Iran

• Tell Treasury: Keep Trump Off Our Money

• Healthcare not Warfare!

• Join an upcoming event:

  • Eyes on ICE: Train-the-Trainer - Immigrants’ Rights

  (Monday April 20th, 8pm-9pm EDT)

  • May Day Strong

    • On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping. Find an event near you.

The movement for freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people starts here.

People Power United is independent, people-powered news and grassroot movement actions dedicated to defending our rights, freedoms, the rule of law, and democracy. This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our democracy. Millions of Americans and people who call America home are already rising up in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

People Power United champions freedom over fascism, progress over fear, and power to the people. We believe change is possible, and we do the work to make it happen. Join us to build people power.

Laurie Woodward Garcia
(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)
Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we speak out, show up, and build power against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry.

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No More ICE Warehouses in Our Communities

Friends,

ICE’s detention expansion is not policy. It is a moral emergency and a deliberate assault on our communities. The Trump administration is already locking up more than 70,000 people and is openly pushing to cage more than 100,000 at a time. Now comes the next horror: warehouse camps that could hold as many as 92,600 people across the country. That is not public safety. That is mass cruelty by design.

These warehouse schemes are especially vile because they treat human beings like cargo. Parents, siblings, workers, neighbors, and loved ones could be packed into makeshift industrial spaces built to store products, not protect life. Cutting people off from family, legal support, and community oversight will only fuel more abuse, more neglect, more illness, and more death. A bigger cage does not make cruelty humane. It only makes that cruelty easier to hide.

The danger does not stop at the warehouse doors. These facilities are not built with the water, sewage, and sanitation systems needed to hold thousands of people. Disease can spread fast. Local infrastructure can be overwhelmed. Nearby communities can be forced to carry the public health consequences. Once again, working-class communities and communities of color are being told to absorb the damage from a system built on fear and exploitation.

And let’s tell the truth about what is driving this. Corporations stand to profit by selling or leasing warehouse space to ICE and turning human suffering into a business model. ICE recently bought a Utah warehouse for about $145 million even though it was assessed at roughly $97 million.1 That is obscene. People are not inventory. They are not objects to be processed, stored, and discarded for cash.

But communities across the country are pushing back, and that matters. Communities from Utah to Minnesota, from Oklahoma to Virginia and Mississippi, have organized, resisted, and stopped these projects. They are demanding schools, healthcare, housing, clean water, and real investment instead of cages and secrecy. They are proving that organized people can beat organized cruelty.

This moment also calls on us to remember. Our country has already lived through the shame of using makeshift sites to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s. It was wrong then. It is wrong now. We do not honor that history with silence. We honor it by rising up and refusing to let it happen again.

• 📅 Join this event: Movement Call: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention (Tuesday, April 14, 8pm-9pm EDT)

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• 🏛️ Take action: Tell Congress to end the cash-for-deportation scheme

• ✍️ Take action: Stop ICE’s Warehouse Detention

• 🐊 Take action: Shut down Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp

• 📅 Join this event: Movement Call: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention (Tuesday, April 14, 8pm-9pm EDT)

  • On April 25, communities across the United States will take part in the Communities Not Cages National Day of Action. Join us on April 14 at 8 p.m. ET for a host recruitment call to get ready. We will talk about why ICE warehouse detention is a national emergency, how to organize a visibility action in your city, what support and materials will be available, and how to mobilize your community. RSVP here.

• 📞 Call your Member of Congress (202) 224-3121 and tell them:

  • Hello, my name is [Your Name], and I am a constituent from [City, Zip Code].

    I am calling to urge [Senator/Representative Name] to oppose ICE warehouse detention expansion. I want [Senator/Representative Name] to publicly oppose new ICE warehouse detention sites, reject funding or approvals for them, and support oversight and accountability. Please let me know the member’s position. Thank you.

• Join an upcoming event:

  • Movement Call: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention (Tuesday, April 14, 8pm-9pm EDT)

  • Eyes on ICE: Train-the-Trainer - Immigrants’ Rights

  (Monday April 20th, 8pm-9pm EDT)

  • May Day Strong

    • On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping. Find an event near you.

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Friends,

War should never be the whim of one man. Peace should never depend on how close Trump is willing to push the world toward catastrophe. Since February 28, when the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, the region has been driven deeper into bloodshed, fear, and instability. Even after Trump announced a two-week ceasefire on April 7, the danger has not passed. Reuters and AP both report that the ceasefire is fragile, its terms are disputed, and wider regional violence could still pull the United States into a deeper conflict. This is not peace. It is a pause, and ordinary people know how quickly a pause can become a permanent disaster.

The American people do not want another endless war. The Guardian reported that a clear majority of Americans oppose this war and want the United States to end its involvement quickly. That matters, because people power begins with telling the truth about what our communities need. We need healthcare, housing, schools, and relief from crushing costs. We do not need another war that burns through lives abroad while families here at home are told there is never enough money for basic dignity. Every bomb dropped in our name is a choice, and the people have every right to reject that choice.

Congress still has power, and that is where pressure matters most. Reuters reports that lawmakers are preparing another vote to require congressional approval for further military action against Iran. At the same time, Congress is being pressed to fund this war machine even further. That means this is a threshold moment. Members of Congress can still choose to block more war, cut off the money, and restore basic checks and balances. If enough constituents speak up, loudly and relentlessly, cracks can widen and political fear can shift. People power is not symbolic. It is leverage.

Silence is not neutrality when civilian devastation is being threatened. Trump’s threats to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges could amount to war crimes under international law because civilian infrastructure cannot be lawfully targeted unless strict legal standards are met. When leaders talk openly about wiping out the foundations of civilian life, the response cannot be indifference. The response must be moral clarity, public pressure, and collective refusal.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• Tell Congress to stop Trump’s illegal war in Iran

• Impeach Trump for Threatening War Crimes in Iran

• Tell Congress: No Troops on the Ground in Iran

• Tell Treasury: Keep Trump Off Our Money

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Trump’s Iran Threat Should Alarm the World

Friends,

Trump is unhinged, and he is endangering the world with threats to escalate genocide in Iran. Over the last week, he has dragged the United States and the wider world deeper into disaster by threatening to bomb Iran’s power plants, bridges, and other infrastructure, and on April 7 he warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight.”1 That is not leadership. That is recklessness backed by military force, delivered in language that treats mass civilian suffering as leverage. The danger is not abstract. Reporting has made clear that the war is already taking a horrifying toll, with civilians living in fear, families under siege, and children paying the price for the ambitions of powerful men.

That is why the simple truth matters: almost 80 percent of people who call America home did not vote for Donald Trump.2 People who call America home are not just registered voters. They are children, elders, immigrants, disabled people, permanent residents, undocumented neighbors, and everyone whose life is shaped by American power whether they ever cast a ballot or not. Using the total U.S. population and Trump’s vote total, the math is clear: only about 22 percent of the people who call America home voted for him. That means nearly 80 percent did not. No president gets to act as though the public handed him permission to terrorize another civilian population simply because he won an election. A president is supposed to represent every person who calls America home, not just voters, not just loyalists, and not just the rich and powerful.

And the legal stakes are real. “Over 100 International Law Experts Warn: U.S. Strikes on Iran Violate UN Charter and May Be War Crimes.”3 International humanitarian law is clear that parties to a conflict must distinguish between civilian objects and military objectives.4 Civilian infrastructure is not supposed to become a target for political tantrums, military theater, or retaliatory spectacle. When a president threatens sweeping attacks on power plants, bridges, and infrastructure that civilians depend on to live, the world should hear that for what it is: a threat that raises serious war-crime concerns.

Children are not leverage. Families are not bargaining chips. Civilization is not a hostage situation.

There is also a genocide-warning framework that people should understand right now. Gregory Stanton’s widely recognized Ten Stages of Genocide are classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, persecution, extermination, and denial.5 These stages are not always linear. They can overlap, accelerate, and feed off one another. That matters because Trump’s rhetoric about destroying a civilization, normalizing mass death, and treating an entire population as disposable is not something decent people should dismiss as bluster. It is a warning sign. We are supposed to recognize danger before the worst becomes normalized. We are supposed to speak while people can still be protected.

Trump’s war is also a massive and dangerous failure at every level. It is putting the whole world at risk, driving up energy prices, killing civilians, and turning even some of his own supporters against him. As Americans struggle with insane gas prices at home,6 Trump is escalating a war that is murdering Iranian children and families abroad.7 This is what failed leadership looks like: more death, more chaos, more instability, and more suffering for ordinary people. He is not making the world safer. He is making it more dangerous. He is not projecting strength. He is exposing how reckless, cruel, and unfit he truly is.

This is why we the people must speak out. We must document what is being threatened. We must preserve statements, reporting, and public records. We must demand oversight, accountability, and international scrutiny. The International Criminal Court only has jurisdiction over genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression. That does not mean every public threat automatically becomes a criminal conviction. It does mean people have every right to report threats of mass violence, preserve evidence, and demand that no one, including a U.S. president, be treated as above the law.

If people want to report information to the International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor, information can be sent to otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int. Letters can be mailed to: Evidence and Discovery Management Unit – EDMU, Office of the Prosecutor, Post Office Box 19519, 2500 CM The Hague, The Netherlands.8 One message alone may not stop a war. But silence helps cruelty grow. Documentation matters. Public pressure matters. Refusing complicity matters.

People Power United’s statement:
People Power United condemns Donald Trump’s threat to annihilate a country and terrorize civilians because he is a poor negotiator and a poor leader. Reckless men do not get to gamble with human life, and we will keep speaking out, documenting the danger, and demanding lawful international scrutiny until these threats end.

We the people still have voices, consciences, and responsibilities. We should use them now, before more blood is spilled, before more families are shattered, and before the language of annihilation becomes just another headline people scroll past. Take action now:

• Tell Congress: Don’t Fund Trump’s War in Iran

• Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• Tell Congress: Don’t Fund Trump’s War in Iran

• Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Iran

• Congress Must Stop Trump From Sending American Troops Into Iran – And Vote NO on the Draft!

• Stop the War: No War with Iran!

• Take action: Healthcare, not Warfare

• Not One Dime for Trump’s War

• Join an upcoming event:

  • Movement Call: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention (Tuesday, April 14, 8pm-9pm EDT)

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  • May Day Strong

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At the Supreme Court, I Saw the Worst of Our Politics and the Best of Our People

Friends, I meant to share this yesterday, but I have still been processing what a beautiful and ugly day it was at the Supreme Court.

The Court was hearing a case over Donald Trump’s attempt to strip birthright citizenship from some children born on U.S. soil, using executive power to challenge the 14th Amendment and a right that has been protected for generations.

I went to Washington, DC, to stand in support of our immigrant friends, family members, co-workers, and community members. I went because millions of people are living under the threat of deportation to countries where many do not speak the language, have no real ties, and in some cases have never even traveled. I went because what is happening is not just cruel. It is the result of political cowardice, manufactured chaos, and years of congressional failure.

That is the truth at the heart of this moment. The case before the Supreme Court is being used as a way to sidestep the work Congress should have done long ago: fix our broken immigration system. Instead of doing that hard work, too many politicians have chosen fear over solutions, slogans over policy, and cruelty over courage.

Let me say this as clearly as I can, because I have said it a million times and I will keep saying it for the people in the back: we all want safe and secure borders. Nobody is asking for chaos. Nobody is asking for violence. Nobody wants dangerous people crossing into our communities unchecked. That is not what immigrants, advocates, or ordinary Americans are demanding. What we are demanding is a system that is lawful, humane, functional, and fair.

For years, our government told people to apply. Apply for green cards. Apply for DACA. Apply for Temporary Protected Status. Apply for refugee protections. Apply, wait, check in, follow the rules, come back next year, and maybe next year Congress will finally fix the system. That message came under both Democratic and Republican control. Year after year, people built lives here while the government kept stringing them along, acknowledging their presence, taking their paperwork, collecting their fees, renewing their protections, and then refusing to deliver permanent answers.

So what does “fix the system” actually mean?

It means having enough judges and court staff so immigration cases are heard fairly and on time, instead of forcing people to wait years in legal limbo. It means securing the border with smart investments, modern technology, and competent management at ports of entry. It means reducing the number of detention beds and ending the profit-driven machinery that treats human beings like inventory. It means reforming legal immigration so it actually reflects the needs and values of the United States. It means increasing resources to process applications and work authorizations efficiently. It means funding case management programs so families understand their legal obligations and can navigate the system. It means hiring more asylum officers and immigration judges so cases move faster and more fairly. It means eliminating unnecessary barriers, like the six-month waiting period for asylum seekers to apply for work authorization. It means addressing the root causes of migration through diplomacy and humanitarian aid. And it means permanently protecting Dreamers, DACA recipients, TPS holders, and others who have spent years contributing to this country while waiting for Congress to act like Congress.

Those are real solutions. They require effort. They require seriousness. They require lawmakers to do their jobs.

But under Donald Trump and with the help of complicit Republicans in Congress, that route is apparently too difficult, because real reform requires work. It requires governing. It requires negotiation. It requires partnering with Democrats instead of demonizing immigrants for political gain. And perhaps most importantly, it threatens the business model of the deportation industry, the private contractors, detention profiteers, and political donors who make enormous sums of money from human suffering.

That is part of what makes me so angry. There is money in this cruelty. There is profit in detention. There is power in fear. And now the same forces that have targeted undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, Dreamers, TPS holders, and families seeking refuge are trying to stretch that cruelty even further, reaching toward people born and raised here in the United States.

I am angry that any of this is even up for consideration.

And yesterday, standing there, I felt old grief come rushing back.

I remembered the many times I went to Homestead Air Reserve Base and looked toward the children who had been separated from their families. More than 3,000 children were held there in terrible conditions. We stood outside those fences trying to send them air hugs and kisses, trying to send some tiny signal across steel and distance that they were seen, that they were loved, that we would not stop fighting for them. We wanted them to know that even if the people in power treated them as disposable, there were people outside those gates who believed their lives mattered.

Yesterday, all of that came back to me.

Here we are again, with Trump 2.0 trying to unleash another trauma on immigrant families and on this nation. Here we are again, watching cruelty dressed up as policy. Here we are again, hearing powerful people talk about human beings as if they are burdens, threats, or bargaining chips.

Years ago, my sign in front of Homestead read: “I do not know you, but you are my child now, and I will never stop fighting for you.”

Yesterday, at the Supreme Court, my sign read: “My torch welcomes all. If the kids go, I go.”

That is still how I feel.

Because this fight is not just about policy. It is about who we are. It is about whether we still believe children deserve safety, families deserve dignity, and human beings deserve more than cages, court backlogs, and political scapegoating. It is about whether America will be governed by fear, or guided by its highest values.

And even in the middle of such painful circumstances, I saw something yesterday that no ruling, no politician, and no hate-filled movement can erase.

I saw love.

I saw courage.

I saw ordinary people show up for one another.

I saw the same thing I always see when good people gather in defense of their communities: compassion stronger than propaganda, solidarity stronger than fear, and moral clarity stronger than political cruelty.

That is why I still have hope.

Hope is not pretending everything is fine. Hope is not looking away from danger. Hope is choosing to stand together anyway. Hope is showing up at the court, at the fence, in the streets, in our communities, and in the places where power would rather we stay silent. Hope is refusing to let children be abandoned, families be erased, or our humanity be negotiated away.

The forces of cruelty are loud, but they are not the whole story. The whole story is also us. The people who keep showing up. The people who keep loving bigger than fear. The people who keep telling the truth. The people who refuse to give up on one another.

And that is what I carried home with me from Washington.

Yes, it was an ugly day. But it was also a beautiful one, because even in the shadow of injustice, people came carrying light.

We are still here.

We are still standing.

And as long as love, courage, and people power keep rising, this country still has a chance to become more worthy of all the people who call it home.

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Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

💥Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today

• Take Action: Tell Congress: We need immigration reform now

• Take Action: Tell Lawmakers to support: MEDICARE FOR ALL

• Take Action: Tell Congress: Subpoena Hegseth About Iran School Attack

• Take Action: Tell Treasury: Keep Trump Off Our Money

• Take action: Tell Congress: No Troops on the Ground in Iran

• Take Action: Tell Republicans: End the Shutdown by Reforming ICE and CBP

• Take Action: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

The movement for freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people starts here.

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Friends,

The NO KINGS movement is rising nationwide. Join us. This country does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or politicians who rule through fear. It belongs to the people. As Donald Trump pushes for more unchecked power, people across this country are rising together to say what democracy demands: No illegal wars. No ICE terror. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.

• Take Action and find a NO KINGS event happening near you on Saturday, March 28, 2026.

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• Take Action and sign the petition to Tell Congress: In America, We Have No Kings

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And tomorrow, we are naming another dangerous line Trump should never be allowed to cross: turning the people’s money into a monument to his ego. In our next piece, we break down why putting a sitting president’s signature on U.S. currency is not normal, not democratic, and not something a free people should ever quietly accept. Our money belongs to the people, not to one man’s vanity. And in this moment, defending democracy means refusing every attempt to make public institutions bow to personal power.

Take action: Tell Treasury: Keep Trump Off Our Money

Keep Trump Off Our Money

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.

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Friends, how to fight fascism in America is not only a battle over elections, courts, and constitutional rights. It is also a battle over who the economy is built to serve. When working people are pushed to the brink, when families are told to accept endless sacrifice while wealth piles up at the top, and when economic pain is used to divide neighbor from neighbor, authoritarianism finds fertile ground. That is why economic justice is not separate from democracy. It is one of the ways we defend it.

This is the fourth piece in our Accountability Papers series. In How to Fight Fascism in America: Peace, War, and Public Accountability, we warned against unchecked war power. In How to Fight Fascism in America: Democracy, Constitutional Order, and Public Power, we defended democratic guardrails. In How to Fight Fascism in America: Justice for All, we insisted that no one is above the law. This piece carries that work forward by naming another truth: a country cannot stay free when millions are struggling to survive while concentrated wealth rules public life.

We have faced hard times before. Americans have lived through depression, exploitation, crushing inequality, and leaders who treated ordinary people as expendable. But every time the country moved closer to justice, it happened because people organized for something bigger and better. Workers built unions. Families demanded relief. Communities fought for dignity. People did not wait for the powerful to grow a conscience. They raised their voices and made change unavoidable.

Franklin Roosevelt warned that “People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” Martin Luther King Jr. called on America to “bring about a better distribution of wealth.” And Frances Perkins said she came to Washington to work for “the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.” Those are not relics from some distant era. They are instructions for this one.

If we are serious about defeating fascism, then we have to be serious about economic justice for all. An economy that works only for the rich is not efficient. It is unjust. An economy that leaves people working full time and still unable to afford housing, food, health care, and child care is not a sign of progress. It is proof that the rules have been bent toward concentrated wealth. When wages stay flat, profits soar, and budgets keep making room for corporate demands and war spending while families are told to scrape by, people lose trust not only in the economy but in democracy itself.

That is why the answer is not despair. It is organized, visible, collective resistance. We fight fascism by refusing to let billionaires define prosperity. We fight fascism by standing with workers, tenants, families, caregivers, and communities that are being squeezed for someone else’s gain. We fight fascism by demanding budgets that reflect human needs, wages that rise with productivity, and an economy where dignity is not a luxury item.

And that is why showing up on March 28 matters. People Power United is a proud member of the No Kings coalition and the next national day of nonviolent action is Saturday, March 28, 2026, with more than 3,000 local events planned and more being added daily. Public action breaks the spell of helplessness. When people show up together, they remind the country that democracy belongs to the many, not the powerful few. Authoritarianism wants obedience. People power answers with solidarity.

Showing up on March 28 is not the end of the work. It is the doorway into deeper organizing. We challenge lies that blame immigrants, poor people, or vulnerable communities for an economy rigged by concentrated wealth. We build local power because isolation is one of authoritarianism’s favorite tools. And we organize because power to the people is not symbolic language. It is the living practice of ordinary people refusing to be sacrificed for someone else’s fortune.

We hold these Economic Justice truths to be self-evident:

• The economy should serve people, not force people to serve concentrated wealth.

• Full-time work should be enough to afford housing, food, health care, and dignity.

• Workers deserve a larger share of the wealth they create.

• Wages should rise with productivity, not remain stagnant while profits soar.

• Budgets should reflect human needs, not just corporate demands and war spending.

• Extreme inequality is not success. It is proof the rules are rigged.

• Real prosperity means security for families, not record gains for billionaires alone.

• People should not have to choose between medicine, rent, groceries, and child care.

• Wealth should not buy immunity from taxes, regulation, or accountability.

• An economy that leaves millions struggling while a few hoard everything is failing.

So let this be our reminder: peace, accountability, democracy, justice, and economic dignity all depend on the participation and voice of the people. They survive when people show up. They survive when people reject the lie that greed is freedom. They survive when people choose solidarity over scapegoating and courage over silence. Power belongs to the people.

And when we rise together for economic justice, we do more than resist fascism — we help build a country where freedom is real because dignity is real, too.

• 🎯 Take action: Tell Congress: Subpoena Hegseth About Iran School Attack

• 💥 Take action: Tell Republicans: End the Shutdown by Reforming ICE and CBP

• Take action: Find a NO KINGS Event near you

• Take action: Sign up for How to have conversations about No Kings that move people

• Take action: Host a NO KINGS event

• Take action: Learn more about the NO KINGS Movement

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

The movement for freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people starts here.

• ✅ Take action: Denounce Trump’s Inhumane Response to Robert Mueller’s Death

• ➡️ Take action: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

• 📢 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.

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

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

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Trump and His Administration Are Circumventing the Constitution by Buying Data They Would Normally Need a Warrant to Access

Friends, something extraordinary happened in a Senate hearing room on March 18, 2026. Under direct questioning from Senator Ron Wyden, FBI Director Kash Patel admitted that the bureau is actively purchasing Americans’ location data from commercial data brokers — no warrant, no judge’s approval, no probable cause. When Wyden asked whether the FBI would commit to stopping the practice, Patel deflected: “The FBI uses all tools … to do our mission. We do purchase commercially available information that is consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — and it has led to some valuable intelligence.”1

This was not a slip. It was a confession. Wyden had been watching this threat build for years. “I’ve been warning for nearly a decade that data available for purchase from companies is just as sensitive as information the government collects directly. Creating AI profiles of Americans based on that data represents a chilling expansion of mass surveillance that should not be allowed, regardless of what the current, outdated laws on the books say.”2 Collecting this data without a warrant, he added, is “an outrageous end run around the Fourth Amendment.” 3

The mechanism being exploited is the “data broker loophole.” Rather than seek a warrant, federal agencies simply purchase what they need. Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government also engages in mass, warrantless surveillance of Americans’ phone calls, text messages, and emails — and information collected without a warrant can be used to prosecute and imprison people, even for crimes having nothing to do with national security.4 This tactic has already targeted vulnerable communities: 98 million people had their location data funneled through a third-party data broker to a U.S. military counterterrorism unit simply because they downloaded a mobile prayer app.5

Now layer artificial intelligence on top. The ACLU and Center for Democracy and Technology have put it plainly: “By exploiting the data broker loophole, the government has access to unprecedented data on our lives, our routines, and our relationships. Combining that data with the power of AI would expand the Pentagon’s surveillance powers exponentially.“6 When Anthropic refused to allow its AI to be used for mass domestic surveillance, the Pentagon blacklisted the company — a designation never before publicly applied to an American company — and President Trump directed federal agencies to stop using its technology.7 The alarm has grown so loud that even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman felt compelled to draw the same red lines in a memo to staff: no AI for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.8 That the leaders of the most powerful AI companies in the world are publicly pledging to resist domestic surveillance demands tells you everything about how serious — and how real — this threat has become.

People Power United joined more than 90 civil liberties organizations to urge members of Congress to act before it’s too late.9

As Congress weighs the future of Section 702, we urge Democratic Members to stand firm against any extension that does not include these critical reforms. Supporting Stephen Miller’s warrantless surveillance agenda would be a massive detriment to the privacy and civil rights and liberties of people in the United States. These surveillance authorities have long jeopardized privacy, and efforts by Miller to continue them without meaningful reforms and sufficient oversight are deeply troubling.

Section 702 is up for reauthorization and the White House is demanding a clean extension with zero reforms. If Congress complies, the combination of warrantless data purchases, AI-powered analysis, and backdoor search authority will create a surveillance apparatus that can be turned against anyone — protesters, journalists, immigrants, and political opponents alike.

The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act10 would close the data broker loophole and require warrants before agencies can buy your private data. It needs your voice now.

Your location. Your prayers. Your messages. Your movements. None of it should be available to federal agents without a warrant. Sign the letter and demand Congress block Trump’s AI-powered warrantless surveillance of Americans.

The Fourth Amendment is not for sale.

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Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

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Friends, the most dangerous abuses of power do not always arrive with tanks or sirens. Sometimes they arrive wrapped in words like peace, order, and reconstruction. That is what makes Trump’s so-called Board of Peace so alarming. At its first meeting on February 19, Trump announced that the United States would contribute $10 billion to the board after saying other nations had pledged another $7 billion. But Reuters reported that he did not explain where the U.S. money would come from or whether he would even seek approval from Congress. That is not responsible leadership. That is an attempted blank check. And no president should be allowed to treat public money like a personal slush fund for a vanity project branded as global peace.

What makes this even more disturbing is the structure of the board itself. The Board of Peace includes Israel but no Palestinian representatives, even though it is supposed to help govern Gaza’s future. Carnegie’s analysis says the charter gives Trump extraordinary personal power: he can set agendas, break tie votes, interpret disputes, create or dissolve subsidiary bodies, appoint the commander of the stabilization force, and even choose his successor while holding the chairmanship indefinitely. Carnegie also reports that Trump alone selects the Executive Board, which controls budgets, financial accounts, and disbursements, with those decisions remaining under his “direction and control.”1 That is not peacebuilding. That is centralized power wearing a humanitarian costume. If one man controls the money, the structure, the appointments, and the mission, this is not diplomacy. It is domination.

The funding rules make the whole thing look even more like a pay-to-play cartel than a legitimate international body. Member states are limited to three-year terms unless they contribute $1 billion in cash, which allows them to stay on longer. In other words, influence is not earned through legitimacy, representation, or accountability. It is bought. Reuters also reported that major allies and powers including Britain, France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, China, and Russia have not joined, with Brazil and Mexico citing the absence of Palestinians from the board. A body that claims to bring peace while excluding Palestinians and selling longer membership to billion-dollar buyers is not building justice. It is monetizing control. 2

And the financial safeguards appear dangerously weak. Carnegie reported that negotiations are underway for a private account for the board that would be accessible by the chairman and his designees on the Executive Board, while the charter lacks clear oversight, auditing mechanisms, and conflict-of-interest rules.3 Representative Jamie Raskin accused the arrangement of concealing legal and financial structures designed to funnel money to Trump for unilateral use and called it an “unsupervised international slush fund.”4

Congress must act now. Block the money. Demand hearings. Refuse every appropriation. Humanitarian aid and reconstruction should go through transparent, accountable institutions that center the people of Gaza, not through an Orwellian machine built to glorify Trump and concentrate power. Peace without accountability is propaganda. And this scam must be stopped before one more taxpayer dollar is handed over.

Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

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Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

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• 🛑 Take Action Now: Tell Congress: Block the $10 billion scam to fund Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace

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• 📩 Take action: Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act bills

• ⚡ Take action: Tell Congress to subpoena Hegseth about the Iran school attack

• 👉 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran — and vote no on the draft

• 📞 Take action: Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 today — and every day until the vote — and urge your senators and representative to vote no on Mullins for DHS and NO on the SAVE ACT

• 🗳️ 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.

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

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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The SAVE Act Is a Trojan Horse for Suppression

Friends, the SAVE America Act is not election security. It is a Trojan horse for voter suppression. The bill would force people registering for federal elections to present documentary proof of citizenship in person, such as a passport or birth certificate, and would tighten photo ID and mail-ballot rules even though repeated investigations and state audits have found non-citizen voting to be extremely rare. The burden does not land on fraud. It lands on eligible voters: married women whose names changed, rural voters, some tribal citizens, seniors, and working people who do not have easy access to records. The Brennan Center estimates that more than 21 million Americans lack ready access to the documents these bills demand. (reuters.com)

👉 Take Action Now: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

While they keep shouting about the SAVE Act, the Republicans in the Senate have still failed to fully end the Department of Homeland Security funding mess. 50,000 TSA officers have been working without pay, hundreds have quit, and Reuters reported on March 17 that some small airports may have to shut if the impasse continues. Reuters has also reported that FEMA, another DHS agency, faced restrictions on new disaster deployments during the shutdown. This is what governing by distraction looks like: endless political theater while real systems crack. (reuters.com) It should also be noted that Democrats in the House and Senate have offered to pass a budget bill that funds FEMA and TSA but Republicans continue to block it.

And the distractions are not random. They unfold while pressure grows over the administration’s handling of the Epstein files and while Trump’s war with Iran keeps shifting in purpose, price, and political justification. When leaders cannot defend results, they sell panic. When they cannot solve problems, they change the subject (i.e. the Save Act).

And on immigration, Republicans still refuse the one thing this country actually needs: reform that is secure, lawful, and humane. Friendly reminder, the bipartisan Senate border deal in 2024 failed after Trump pushed Republicans to reject it. Meanwhile, Dreamers remain trapped in legal limbo; current DACA recipients can keep protection for now, but the program still hangs on in court. We should be building a system that secures the border, modernizes legal pathways, and gives longtime undocumented neighbors and DACA kids without criminal convictions a fair shot at dignity, stability, and opportunity. That is what serious leadership looks like.

The SAVE Act is the same old playbook in a new box: make voting harder, keep people angry, and hope no one notices the broken agencies, the unanswered questions, the rising costs, and the moral failure of cruelty without reform. We should notice. We should organize. And we should say, with one voice, that power belongs to the people — and every eligible voter must be able to use it.

👉 Take Action Now: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

👉 Take Action Now: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

Protect Eligible Voters

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

The movement for freedom over fascism, progress, and power to the people starts here.

• 👉 Take Action Now: Stop the Republican Attack on Voting Rights

• 📩 Take action: Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act bills

• ⚡ Take action: Tell Congress to subpoena Hegseth about the Iran school attack

• 👉 Take action: Tell Congress to stop Trump from sending American troops into Iran — and vote no on the draft

• 📞 Take action: Call Congress at (202) 224-3121 today — and every day until the vote — and urge your senators and representative to vote no on Mullins for DHS and NO on the SAVE ACT

• 🗳️ 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 Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action is now available.

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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

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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