📢 News Overload? Here’s How We Fight Back with People Power

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Sep 06, 2025

🌟 Happy Saturday, friends!

Does it ever feel like there’s a firehose of news and urgent issues coming at us nonstop? I feel it too—it’s a lot. But here’s the truth: if we don’t feel empowered to act, we can’t steer this ship toward freedom and justice for all.

When I get overwhelmed, I lean on a couple of practices that remind me we do have power. First, I make sure my information comes from trusted sources. I also seek out sources from around the world. Some days that’s Sydney, the next day London—because seeing how the world views events keeps me grounded and informed. I also choose when I engage. I like reading my sources in the morning when it fuels me with inspiration to act as an activist, not when I feel pressured. Lastly, I follow up with actions that I know help champion progress and power to the people. These practices are how I stand up for my community—demanding dignity, respect, and real opportunities for every single person to thrive.

This week, I’ll be sharing samples of some of the newsletters we support. Our daily People Power United newsletter dives deep into one issue a day with clear calls to action. But did you know we also support newsletters like Protect Our Planet and Resist Project 2025 which cover other issues? Some come out weekly, others monthly—but all are designed to connect you with the causes you care about most.

Wherever your passion lies, we’re right there with you—sharing trusted news, building community, and creating ways to take action together. Because when we stay informed and act with courage, we truly are the power that bends the arc toward justice.

Resist Project 2025

🗽Every action counts in the fight against Project 2025 and the slide towards fascism. Today in Resist Project 2025 we’re featuring September 6, 2025 news and critical calls-to-action.

Project 2025 is a dangerous plan to move America from a democracy to a theocratic autocracy. Read the latest updates and join us to hold our leaders accountable.

Stop Project 2025 News Briefs

👁️ State Department Agents Now Assisting ICE

Diplomatic Security Service agents—traditionally trained for passport fraud and dignitary protection—are now enforcing immigration laws. This expansion of power is a direct threat to civil rights and must be stopped. [Wired]

🕵️‍♂️ FBI Attempts to Deport Imam for Refusing to Be an Informant

FBI pressured Imam Foad Farahi, a longtime Florida resident, to spy on his community. When he refused, his political status was weaponized against him. This is a chilling tactic—organizing for immigrant rights means resisting that coercion. [The Intercept]

⚖️ Trump Pushes Supreme Court to Let Him Fire FTC Commissioner

The administration is asking the Supreme Court to override legal precedent and allow Trump to fire FTC member Rebecca Slaughter without cause. It’s a power grab against Independent agencies—it must not stand. [NBC]

🛡️ Trump Proposes Rebranding Pentagon as “Department of War”

Reviving the term "Department of War" turns defense into aggression. This aggressive rebrand shifts our national identity and normalizes militarism. We say no to warmongering. [Denver Post]

🌍 Judge Orders Release of $4.9B in Blocked Foreign Aid

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration must release billions in foreign aid approved by Congress. Democracy demands that voters—not unilateral executive power—determine aid priorities. [Guardian]

Project 2025 is Harming Americans

Project 2025 is an extreme, authoritarian agenda that threatens American democracy, freedoms, and civil rights. Backed by conservative mega-donors like the Koch family and led by the Heritage Foundation and over 100 aligned groups, it lays out a 900+ page plan to centralize power under the presidency and permanently dismantle the federal government as we know it.

The plan would replace 50,000 nonpartisan civil servants with loyalists, grant the president near-total control over agencies like the DOJ, FBI, and Federal Reserve, and criminalize protest through militarized policing. It seeks to ban abortion and contraception, end LGBTQIA+ protections, dismantle public education, eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, and defund labor, environmental, and disability protections. Promoting Christian nationalism, it would erase the separation of church and state, suppress voting rights, and silence dissent—paving the way for a permanent far-right dictatorship.

Summary of Harms:

Dismantles democracy and installs authoritarian rule
Criminalizes dissent and minority communities
Ends reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights
Defunds public healthcare and education
Destroys labor, environmental, and disability protections
Increases tax burdens on working people
Erases civil rights and church/state separation
Suppresses voting and opposition voices

We must organize, resist, and protect our communities from this dangerous assault.

Democracy's frontlines: how ordinary Americans are resisting authoritarianism | MSNBC

Together, we can Resist and Stop Project 2025

When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed justices and elites aren't serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.

📣 Today’s calls to action

Click here to Tell Congress: Impeach HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
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