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** Tell your governor: Don’t deploy. Don’t comply. Speak out now and stand strong against Trump’s occupation of American cities. ([link removed])
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Donald Trump is using the National Guard against the American people, and almost every Republican governor has already helped him do it.

In at least 19 states, Guard members are assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Troops from two additional red states have deployed to the nation’s capital, and another two Republican-led states have sent troops to aid Trump’s further militarization of the southern border. In total, out of 27 states with Republican governors, at least 23 of them have assisted Trump’s war on Americans.
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In Los Angeles, Department of Homeland Security agents and National Guard members used tear gas and hit peaceful demonstrators with riot shields while firing “less than lethal” bullets and pepper spray. ICE agents in Chicago shot a pastor with pepper balls while he was praying.

In Washington, D.C., a National Guard armored vehicle ran a red light and crashed into a civilian car, trapping the driver and sending them to the hospital.

In his September speech to military leaders, Trump outlined an authoritarian playbook for the armed occupations of major American cities. He described a “war from within” and told the country’s top commanders they “should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”

The Trump administration is now deploying National Guard units into states that never requested them and don’t want them. Governors hold power and must resist.

The law requires a state’s National Guard to remain under state control with very few exceptions. That means governors can refuse to cooperate, sue to block illegal deployments, and defend their citizens from Trump’s escalating attempts to use state forces as instruments of fear and control.

Every governor in America now faces the same choice: Stand against Trump’s military deployments, or allow the administration to turn American cities into a police state.
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