John,

Donald Trump is a dangerous leader who wants to expand the power of the presidency to levels that are unprecedented. He wants to turn the U.S into an autocracy where he has absolute power – and too many in Congress are fueling this march towards a dictatorship.

Donald Trump pardoned those who were convicted for their participation in the January 6, 2021 insurrection — when dangerous mobs stormed the U.S. Capitol building in order to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. election and restore Trump to power.¹ Now he is weakening or dismantling agencies created by law to protect public health and consumers from corporate ripoffs.²

These are not the actions of someone who cares about democracy and wants to preserve it. These are the actions of someone who wants absolute power and doesn’t care how he achieves it.

In his first month in office, Donald Trump has:³

1. Fired members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

2. Allowed Elon Musk – the richest man in the world and a non-elected official – to decimate federal agencies and have access to sensitive data on every taxpayer

3. Fired thousands of federal workers

4. Started up a mass deportation machine that has tried to end birthright citizenship and has sent migrants to Guantánamo Bay

5. Fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees weeks after a major plane crash in Washington, D.C.⁴

And those are just some of the things he’s done before he hit the one-month mark into his second term.

American democracy is too precious and too important to be crushed by a would-be king – and politicians eager to reward their billionaire campaign donors. Chip in $5 today to help us fight back against these attacks on American democracy.

Thank you for all you do,

Meredith Dodson
Senior Director of Public Policy, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ Trump grants sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who violently attacked police
² What Trump Has Promised to Do to 5 Federal Agencies – in His Own Words
³ In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency
⁴ Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

-- DEBORAH'S EMAIL --

John,

We’re a little over a month into Donald Trump’s second term and it has been nothing but chaos and cruelty.

Unlike other presidents before him, Donald Trump believes that he doesn’t have to listen to or wait on Congress – instead he issues executive orders and has non-elected, non-confirmed, government “employees” like Elon Musk upend government agencies and departments. We know who wins and who loses if these decrees stand: billionaires win and the rest of us, especially those with the lowest incomes, lose.

This king-like behavior goes against what the framers of the Constitution had envisioned and it sets the stage for a dangerous authoritarianism where freedom of expression is curtailed and human rights abuses are allowed to flourish.¹

We cannot let that happen in the United States.

We’re working closely with our coalition partners and allies to do everything possible including lobbying lawmakers, publicizing the dangers of reckless actions, and garnering grassroots support to stop this unprecedented attack on American democracy. Donate $5 today to fund our work in protecting marginalized communities from these cruel policies.

Donald Trump isn’t doing all of this by himself. Right-wing extremists in Congress are more than happy to introduce legislation that carries out his radical wishlist and further entrenches his power.

Republicans are using the slimmest majority in the House of Representatives in over a century as a mandate to push through radical legislation that will cause harm and suffering to millions of people — like a budget proposal that would force $2 trillion in cuts in cuts to food assistance and health care in order to fund the extension of tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and corporations.

Politicians are turbocharging a path towards an oligarchy, with policies and tax breaks to serve billionaires. And the rest of us? We pay.This is anathema to democracy and we must fight against it.

Chip in $5 today to help fund the fight for democracy.

Thank you for all you do,

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ ‘Long live the king’: Trump adds monarch rhetoric to actions