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Friend,

Welcome to our weekly “Trumptastrophe” email series that serves to remind
us of the destructive policies, decisions, and actions we encountered
during the Trump presidency and the threats that he and others in the MAGA
movement still pose – and to keep those moments clear in our memory as we
fight to defeat Republican extremists during the upcoming elections.

This week’s Trumptastrophe brings into focus former Senior Adviser to
President Trump, Stephen Miller – a far-right, white nationalist,
anti-immigrant hardliner who is working alongside fellow right-wing
extremists in developing Project 2025, the aggressive battle plan of the
far right to completely reshape and weaponize the federal government in
order to advance their extreme agenda:

In early April 2019, Trump put White House aide Stephen Miller [ [link removed] ]fully in
charge of border and immigration issues. Miller had already been an
[ [link removed] ]advocate for the hardest-line policies on immigration, including
[ [link removed] ]separating migrant children from their parents.

Empowered by Trump, Miller pushed through personnel changes to give
himself what CNN [ [link removed] ]called “an expansive foothold to shape the
administration’s immigration policies and attempt end-runs around current
laws.”

A former Senate staffer, Miller [ [link removed] ]has a [ [link removed] ]record of [ [link removed] ]citing white
nationalist publications. He was upset about online sites that stopped
selling Confederate flags after white nationalist Dylann Roof murdered
nine Black people in Charleston, South Carolina’s Mother Emanuel church in
2015. In late 2019, Rolling Stone [ [link removed] ]reported on Miller’s role as leader
of “a broad operation spread across the federal government.” American
Oversight’s Austin Evers told the magazine, “Stephen Miller didn’t cut
ties with the extremists when he joined the government—he brought them
with him.”

Trump’s reliance on Miller is a sign that a second Trump term would be
filled by the worst of the worst.

Miller aggressively backed Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing
the 2020 election, [ [link removed] ]promoting the scheme to create bogus “alternative”
slates of electors from battleground states, and blaming “corrupt” media
for pressuring judges and elected officials to “cave” rather than rule in
Trump’s favor. Miller reportedly prepared the remarks Trump delivered at
the Jan. 6, 2021, rally before his supporters attacked the Congress to
halt its confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory.

Like other former Trump administration officials, Miller started an
advocacy group to maintain his MAGA movement activism. Miller’s America
First Legal is seemingly obsessed with the idea that every diversity,
equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative designed to expand opportunity or
redress discrimination is unconstitutional anti-white-male discrimination.
It calls the existence of systemic racism a “[ [link removed] ]lie.” The group files
lots of lawsuits against the Biden administration as well as [ [link removed] ]private
companies like Disney.

In 2022, Miller’s America First Legal group ran inflammatory radio ads in
Georgia claiming that the Biden administration was pushing policies
designed to hurt white people and attacking “the left’s anti-white
bigotry.” [ [link removed] ]POLITICO described it as “one of the most openly race-based
spots of the cycle, amplifying tropes that have historically been used to
generate backlash to minority groups.”

America First Legal is a participant in [ [link removed] ]Project 2025, a far-right road
map to “take the reins of government,” purge the civil service, install
MAGA loyalists in government jobs, and give Trump virtually dictatorial
control over federal departments and independent agencies. America First
Legal’s general counsel Gene Hamilton wrote the Project 2025 chapter on
the Justice Department, which calls for upending civil rights enforcement
to focus on rooting out DEI and affirmative action programs as anti-white
discrimination. It says the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
should “spend its first year under the next Administration using the full
force of federal prosecutorial resources to investigate and prosecute all
state and local governments, institutions of higher education,
corporations, and any other private employers who are engaged in
discrimination in violation of constitutional and legal requirements.”

Miller helped tank the bipartisan border bill that failed in February
after Republicans [ [link removed] ]abandoned it when Trump made clear that he would
rather use chaos at the border as a campaign issue than have Congress take
action that could address the problem. Miller has recently defended
Trump’s use of [ [link removed] ]dehumanizing rhetoric about unauthorized immigrants.

At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Right
Wing Watch [ [link removed] ]reported, Miller told CPAC participants that conservatives
must be willing to use government power more aggressively against their
opponents. He railed against law enforcement officials for not arresting
teachers who violate state laws that restrict teaching on race, gender,
and sexuality.

You elect a state supreme court justice, you elect an attorney general,
and so on and so forth, to have an office with specific powers, duties,
and responsibilities, with the expectation that they will use that
authority to defeat evil, to protect the good, and to accomplish
positive change in society. And you have to use that power fearlessly. …

A number of states, for example, have passed laws, saying that you can’t
have this in the curriculum, or you can’t have that in the curriculum,
and you can’t teach DEI and so on and so forth. Without exception, I can
promise you, all the commies in the classroom changed the name of their
lecture, changed one word, changed one little paragraph in the syllabus
and did the exact same damn thing every single day because they’re
communists and that’s what they do. Were they sued? No! Were they
arrested if they broke a law and it’s applicable? No! Did any D.A.
anywhere, if you’re talking about trans issues, think of arresting
somebody for abusing children with trans ideology? No, we write blog
posts about it. That’s what we do. …

So until we get serious, all the way down to the local DA, all the way
up to the state AG and every office in between, including judges,
electing people who have power and will use that power and measure their
success by change in the real world, then we aren’t going to be able to
beat the left.

Miller said in February it’s a problem that conservatives continue putting
their faith in a system “that has long ago been turned against us.” He
[ [link removed] ]told viewers of Sean Spicer’s show, “The radical left has changed the
rules of the game,” claiming that Democrats had installed “wide-eyed
communists” as federal judges.

Not surprisingly, Miller’s America First Legal has filed an amicus brief
in the case before the U.S. Supreme Court dealing with Trump’s claims of
absolute immunity for actions he took while president. On behalf of more
than two dozen Republican members of Congress, the brief argues that
neither federal nor state courts can have any jurisdiction over any action
a president takes unless Congress first impeaches and convicts the
president. After that argument was soundly rejected by the D.C. Circuit
Court of Appeals, [ [link removed] ]Miller mused about finding prosecutors and judges
willing to go after Biden and other administration officials, saying,
“Everyone in your administration goes to jail.”

These are just some of the reasons we need YOU in this
fight. So, find your
favorite way to unwind after reading through this week’s recap, and then
make a plan for how you will fight back this week, this month, this
election cycle.

For members who are interested in sharing the weekly Trumptastrophe
series, [ [link removed] ]you can find all previous editions on our website! This post
will be published by Thursday so you can share with your friends and
family and remind them of the importance of ensuring that Trump is
defeated again this November.

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Thanks for all that you do to defeat Republican extremism.

– People For the American Way

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