John,
Our democracy is under attack.
According to the U.S. Constitution, Congress has the power of the purse - the authority to approve funding for programs it chooses to support. But the Trump administration has frozen funds appropriated by Congress, recklessly disregarding the law.
According to the U.S. Constitution, only Congress can set election laws, but Donald Trump and his politicized Department of Justice are doing everything in their power to undermine Congressional authority. Earlier this year, the DOJ dropped three lawsuits — begun in the Biden administration — that aimed to protect the rights of voters of color in Southern states.1
Federal law protects the confidentiality of data compiled by the IRS, voting information, and much more. Despite this, the Trump administration is seeking data intended to identify immigrants. And recently, the DOJ has asked state election officials for access to sensitive voter data.2
These actions are reckless and meant to intimidate, but we will not be intimidated. Rush a donation of $5 to fund our pro-democracy programs.
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After losing the 2020 election, Donald Trump refused to concede and promulgated a conspiracy theory that the election had been stolen due to “massive voter fraud.” None of this was based in reality, but that didn’t stop his supporters from storming the Capitol, after which he granted clemency, pardoned, or commuted sentences for all of those convicted or awaiting trial as one of his first acts of office in 2025.
Now, the Trump administration is freezing funds, dismantling programs, and firing workers, disregarding laws passed by Congress. Just one example: the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently ruled that the Trump administration had illegally refused to release funds for approved National Institutes of Health grants.3 It is abducting immigrants without regard to due process, deporting people despite court orders to protect them, and attempting to punish opponents, including public employee unions.
Our democracy is at its most fragile point since the Civil War. We cannot let authoritarianism and anti-democratic forces win. The Coalition on Human Needs is working to fight back - encouraging people across the nation to stand up for democracy, demanding that human needs programs get the funding Congress approves, fighting against violations of human rights, and holding Congress accountable to assert its authority against a scofflaw administration. Will you donate $HPC today to help us fuel our work to defend democracy and justice?
Thank you for all you do,
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 Under Trump, the Justice Department is stepping away from some voting rights cases
2 The Justice Department seeks voter and election information from at least 19 states, AP finds
3 Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds
