How to Fight Fascism in America Now
Protect democracy in the USA by resisting Project 2025 and joining the No Kings protests on March 28, 2026.
Friends, how to fight fascism in America is no longer a theory question. It is the urgent test of whether we the people who call America home will recognize authoritarianism while there is still time to stop it. Across the country, book bans, attacks on public education, and restrictive voting laws are shrinking freedom, while Project 2025 offers a roadmap to concentrate more power in the presidency and weaken democratic guardrails. People Power United knows that freedom over fascism is not just a slogan. It is a responsibility we carry together. To meet this moment, we have to name the threat, understand who is being targeted, and turn that truth into organized public action on March 28, 2026 and beyond.
Protect Democracy in the USA Before Authoritarianism Hardens
Fascism rarely begins with a single dramatic event. It grows when cruelty is normalized, when truth is censored, and when people are trained to accept smaller injustices as the price of order. PEN America found 6,870 instances of book bans across 23 states and 87 public school districts in the 2024-2025 school year, with books by LGBTQIA+ authors, authors of color, and women disproportionately targeted.1 That is not a culture war sideshow. It is a warning sign that control over ideas, history, and identity is already being enforced in public life.
The same pattern is unfolding at the ballot box. The Brennan Center reported that states enacted at least 31 restrictive voting laws in 2025, the second-highest annual total since it began tracking this trend in 2011.2 These laws do not make us freer or safer. They make participation harder, especially for Black voters, young voters, disabled voters, working people, and communities already facing voter suppression. When political leaders make voting more difficult, they are not defending democracy. They are narrowing it.
The people driving this agenda are not hiding their intentions. The ACLU says Project 2025 was authored by the Heritage Foundation and 140 former Trump staffers, and describes it as a blueprint to replace rule-of-law constraints with far-right ideological control.3 Other analyses warn that the plan would weaken checks and balances and create an imperial presidency, where loyalty to a strongman matters more than public accountability. This is not ordinary partisan conflict. It is an organized attempt to reshape government so fewer people have more power over everyone else.
We are already seeing parts of that vision move from paper into policy. Reuters reports that the Trump administration’s Schedule Policy/Career rule could strip long-standing protections from up to 50,000 federal workers, making it easier to turn public service into political obedience.4 Students, immigrants, workers, LGBTQIA+ people, communities of color, and anyone who depends on an accountable government are harmed first when democratic guardrails are dismantled.
The status quo is unacceptable because silence does not hold the line.
It gives authoritarianism more room to spread.
Resist Project 2025 by Showing Up Together
The answer to rising authoritarianism is not despair. It is organized, visible, collective resistance.
We fight fascism by refusing to normalize lies, by defending public schools and libraries, by protecting election workers and voting rights, and by standing with every community being singled out for attack.
We challenge disinformation in our families, neighborhoods, and online spaces because truth is one of democracy’s first lines of defense. We build power locally because authoritarian movements count on people feeling isolated and overwhelmed.
That is why mass nonviolent rallies and protests matter right now. People Power United is a proud member of the No Kings coalition which is mobilizing people nationwide again on March 28, 2026, and has over 2000 events already planned, with more being added by the hour. Public action breaks the spell of fear. When people fill streets, sidewalks, parks, and town squares 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 can prepare, protect one another, and turn one day of action into long-term community organizing that outlasts any single news cycle.
This is where you as a member of People Power United comes in. We speak out because hatred grows when it goes unanswered. We show up because democracy weakens when good people retreat from public life and we refuse to let that happen. And we organize because power to the people is not symbolic language.
It is the living practice of ordinary people defending one another, blocking authoritarian overreach, and building a country that belongs to all of us, not just the wealthy, the connected, or the cruel.
Key Takeaways
How to fight fascism in America starts with recognizing early warning signs while there is still time to act. PEN America documented 6,870 book bans in one school year, showing that censorship is already reshaping public education.
Protecting democracy in the USA means rejecting voter suppression in every form. The Brennan Center found 31 restrictive voting laws were enacted in 2025, and those barriers hit marginalized communities hardest.
Resist Project 2025 because it is a real governing blueprint, not a rumor. The ACLU says it was authored by Heritage and 140 former Trump staffers and is designed to concentrate presidential power. We’ve named it, now lets push back against this overreach of power.
The good news is that authoritarianism is not unbeatable. It is beaten when people tell the truth, link arms, and refuse to back down. That is why this moment must lead directly into action, community, and the streets on March 28, 2026.
Now Is the Time
The stakes could not be higher. If we normalize censorship, voter suppression, political purges, and attacks on human rights, we hand the future to people who see democracy as an obstacle instead of a promise. People Power grows stronger when we act together in public. No Kings on March 28, 2026 actions is one concrete way to turn hope into pressure. People Power United was built for moments like this, when ordinary people must become visible, vocal, and impossible to ignore. Our mission is freedom over fascism, and that mission demands courage in public, not just concern in private.
March 28 is our next moment. Sign up. Show up. Organize. History has always belonged to the people who refused to stay quiet. That is us. That is now.
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. Only People. And We Are Rising.
Your Power in Action
🔥 Use your voice: Tell Congress: Don’t Fund Trump’s War in Iran
📧 Speak out: Email lawmakers to Stop Trump’s Mega Detention Warehouses
🗳️ Protect our elections: Email your Secretary of State — No ICE at the Polls
📋 Find a local No Kings protest and make your plan to show up on March 28, 2026. 👥 Bring at least two people with you and remind them that protecting democracy cannot wait.📍 Get prepared: Check out the Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action
💳 Sustain the movement: Become a paid subscriber and help keep this grassroots advocacy free and accessible to all.
🗳️ Register and vote: Confirm your registration, make a plan to vote, and bring your community with you.
People Power United: Who We Are & What We Stand For
Hatred has no home here. Not now. Not ever.
People Power United stands unwaveringly against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and every form of bigotry. That is not a disclaimer — it is our foundation. It is who we are, every single day.
We are 300,000+ strong — everyday people from every corner of this country who refuse to sit down, stay quiet, or give up on democracy. We are not funded by corporations. We are not beholden to PACs or billionaires or special interests. We are powered entirely by you — by the people who show up, speak out, and refuse to let freedom die on our watch.
People Power United is organized by Laurie Woodward Garcia — an activist who has marched, organized, and fought on the front lines, from the Free the Children March at Homestead Air Force Base to the steps of Congress. Paid with hugs and kisses.
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This will be my 5th protest. I am 81. My husband is a Republican so I have to sneak out of the house and make my sign elsewhere.