How to Fight Fascism in America: Economic Justice
How to Fight Fascism in America: Economic Justice is a people-powered call for fairness, dignity, and democracy for working families. No. 4.
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.
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Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United
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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.
Signed a d attending No Kings!!
When corporations started focusing on increasing profits instead of providing for and serving their customers (which includes their employees) that's when income inequality really took off.