TELL CONGRESS: The Insurrection Act is an authoritarian's dream. That's why Trump is
threatening to invoke the dangerously broad law to send military forces
into more cities across the country. Congress must end Trump's war on
cities. Sign the petition: Don't let Trump invoke the Insurrection Act!
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Trump has been battling the courts to deploy armed National Guard troops
to Chicago and Portland.^1,^2 Now he's threatening to defy the courts and
invade cities across the country with soldiers by invoking the
Insurrection Act.^3
The Insurrection Act gives the White House extraordinary discretion to
declare that a domestic “insurrection” is underway and to deploy U.S.
military forces against the American people.^4 J.B. Pritzker is warning
about this very eventuality: Trump's troops creating violent chaos in
cities as a pretext for invoking the outdated, insidious law.^5 And Trump
recently said, “If I had to enact it, I would do that.”^6
Congress must get rid of this outdated, dangerous law that Trump could use
for an unprecedented armed authoritarian takeover.
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The White House’s violent escalations in Chicago and Portland could lead
to a constitutional crisis — and Trump on the fast track to a full
authoritarian takeover.
Stephen Miller continues to ramp up the rhetoric against anyone opposing
Trump’s strongman rule, including an Oregon judge who ruled against
Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland. Miller said the judge’s
ruling was tantamount to a “legal insurrection” and that there “is an
organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers.”^7
Trump, Miller, and their MAGA allies won’t slow down in their rhetoric and
their violent invasion of America’s cities. Congress must take a stand and
stop Trump’s military takeover. Democracy and the rule of law are on the
line.
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Joey and the Demand Progress team
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Sources:
1. The Washington Post, "Judge deals Trump new setback in plans to deploy
troops to Portland,” [ [link removed]- ]October 5, 2025.
2. Common Dreams, "Judge Shuts Down Trump’s Chicago Troop Deployment And
Questions Administration’s Grasp on Reality,” [ [link removed]- ]October 11, 2025.
3. The Intercept, "The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the
Insurrection Act,” [ [link removed]- ]October 7, 2025.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. The Guardian, "Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke
Insurrection Act, Vance says,” [ [link removed]- ]October 12, 2025.
7. MSNBC, "Trump is 'closer than ever' to invoking the Insurrection Act,
say former officials,” [ [link removed]- ]October 14, 2025.
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