Donald Trump isn’t hiding it anymore.

His Justice Department just filed charges against New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver—for protesting the abuse of migrants at a detention center.

And in El Salvador? A lawyer deported by Trump was just arrested and held without access to lawyers for observing U.S. mass deportations of Venezuelans. Trump is happy to let others disappear his critics.

Trump wants to make an example out of anyone who pushes back. He wants fear to quiet dissent.

But we’re not staying quiet.

Daily Kos is naming what this is: a government using prosecution as punishment.

We’ve seen this before in history. We won’t pretend it’s normal now.

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P.S. Trump is jailing lawmakers, disappearing witnesses, and daring us to stay silent. We won’t.