By now you’ve likely heard about “Project 2025” and its 922-page manifesto — which in essence is the Republican Party platform — for turning the United States into a right-wing dystopia.

The threat of “Project 2025” has been one of the central messages of the Democratic National Convention this week.

And remember — with the Supreme Court’s profoundly misguided ruling in his immunity case — if Donald Trump gets back in the White House, he would, for all intents and purposes, have nearly unlimited power to bring about the authoritarian nightmare envisioned by “Project 2025” and rule over all our lives not as a president but as a dictator.

So the American people have a choice to make — a choice that could not be more critical.

Do we consent to be subjects of a de facto king?

Or do we fight to overturn the Supreme Court’s absurd immunity ruling and restore the foundational principle that no one — not Donald Trump, not any president — is above the law?

It’s obvious: We have to overturn this ruling.

And the most surefire way to do that is with a constitutional amendment.

Now, winning a constitutional amendment will not be easy.

It is not supposed to be easy.

But does that mean we should just roll over and let our country devolve into a dictatorship?

Hell.

No.

Here are the initial steps in our just-launched campaign for a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme’s Court’s disastrous ruling in Donald Trump’s immunity case:

• Through our unparalleled lobbying expertise and by mobilizing Public Citizen’s 500,000 supporters, we will keep the pressure on members of Congress — in the House and Senate alike — to push the amendment through the legislative process.

• We will work with our allies in the Not Above the Law coalition to support an amendment and to activate their supporters. (Public Citizen helped found the Not Above the Law coalition — a diverse, nationwide group of over 100 partner organizations — back in 2017 in recognition that holding Trump accountable would require a coordinated, sustained movement.)

• Calling on our 50-plus years of success engaging the media in vital causes, we will generate ongoing press focus — across traditional print and broadcast journalism as well as leading social media platforms — on how extreme the ruling is and how an amendment is key to counteracting it.

We said above that winning a constitutional amendment will not be, and is not supposed to be, easy.

One way that plays out comes down to this: democracy can’t be saved with good ideas, hard work, and a never-give-up attitude alone.

There are unavoidable, real-world financial costs to a campaign this big and this important.

And that’s where we need help right now, at the beginning of such a major undertaking.

So, if you can, please donate today. Anything you can chip in — $5 or $25, $50 or $100, $500 or even more — will make a difference.

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