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Dear friend,
The Trump/Pence regime poses a shocking danger to lives here and around the world – and to the planet itself – and therefore history is calling you. Answer the call today by donating to support the fight to change the future for billions around the globe by driving out the fascist Trump/Pence regime.
Two years in, the Trump/Pence regime is rapidly consolidating its fascist program, and its howling mob of a social base has been dangerously unleashed. This year, Trump and the people around him campaigned in an even more overtly fascist way than they did in 2016, openly stoking white supremacy and anti-Semitism – even against the backdrop of the largest anti-Semitic massacre in U.S. history, pipe bombs sent to those he has demonized, and racist murders in Tennessee.
Trump does not just say things to rile up his base; he is setting up the infrastructure of fascism, a form of rule which essentially eliminates traditional legal and civil rights. Already Muslims have been banned, those seeking asylum are being met by U.S. troops with authorization to use lethal force, and 14,000 migrant children languish in concentration camps.
This will worsen, and it can be made permanent. Trump appointed an acting Attorney General to keep him above the law, has already packed the federal courts with dozens of fascist judges, and now has locked in a majority fascist Supreme Court. With his finger on the nuclear button and his rapid environmental deregulations, which are pouring gasoline on the fires of global climate change, the Trump/Pence regime threatens the very existence of human civilization – if it is not stopped.
Too many are telling you to “take heart” and breathe a sigh of relief because the Democrats recently won a majority in Congress. This is dangerous and wrong.
The Democratic Party did not draw a line and declare that a bigot – who deploys the dehumanizing language of genocide against immigrants and champions blatant white supremacy – cannot legitimately serve as president. Instead, the Democrats have normalized, accommodated, conciliated. Now they promise to seek “bi-partisanship” – i.e., collaboration – with a regime that is bringing an American fascism into being.
Everyone who wants to end this nightmare must confront this: Fascism can be voted in, but it cannot be voted out. It cannot be removed through politics-as-usual. As we make clear in our Call to Action: “The Democratic Party leadership will NOT lead us out of this. They are about maintaining order for their whole setup. For them, order is more important than justice – even if that means the order of fascism.”
Instead we must take responsibility ourselves, acting in fierce and sustained opposition outside the confines of politics as usual.
There IS another way: a different kind of protest. RefuseFascism.org is out on the front lines standing up against this regime’s many crimes while organizing now for the time when we can launch massive, sustained nonviolent protests in the streets of cities and towns across the country – protests that continue day after day and don’t stop, creating the kind of political situation in which the demand that the Trump/Pence regime be removed from power is met.
In our Call to Action, we explain how a truly sustained, mass non-violent political protest that grows from thousands to millions can create a political crisis in which sections of those now in power, who are themselves under attack by this regime while also conciliating with it, can be compelled to act to remove this regime from power.
This IS possible, but it can only happen with your involvement and support.
RefuseFascism.org is the vehicle, and provides voice in the public square and in public debate, for people who oppose a fascist USA. We have been described as “only group that has raised the single unifying demand that The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!”
We urge you to read the Refuse Fascism Call to Action, to talk to your friends, families and colleagues, to be one of thousands now, leading to tens and then hundreds of thousands, and finally millions, taking to the streets – and staying there – u ntil THE DEMAND THAT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME BE REMOVED IS MET.
When you donate today to RefuseFascism.org you help wake and mobilize the one force that can stop a fascist America: people in their millions unrelenting in their demand: In the Name of Humanity, The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
Your donations will be used to project THIS DEMAND across the country, on lawn signs in the suburbs, stickers plastered across the campuses, banners dropped on highways, in major newspapers, in social media feeds, and through creative non-violent civil disobedience.
Your donation will help RefuseFascism.org continue to mobilize even more powerful rapid response teams taking action against the latest outrages, building strength for sustained mass non-violent resistance around the single unifying demand that this regime must go.
Your donation helps sustain the national office and nerve center for this movement, to organize and lead our chapters, to reach out to broader forces from all walks of life, and to publish and promote the diverse and incisive voices on our website who penetratingly analyze the danger we face and point to openings, and to ways we can act together to end this nightmare.
History is full of examples of people who had right on their side, fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. But it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond anything they ever imagined.
What will you say to future generations when they ask you what you did when fascism came to America?
Sincerely,
Coco Das Samantha Goldman Perry Hoberman Debra Sweet Sunsara Taylor
Coco Das Samantha Goldman Perry Hoberman Debra Sweet Sunsara Taylor
On behalf of RefuseFascism.org National Team
P.S. There is time to stop this fascist juggernaut—but there is not much time. Donate generously to the one movement that has never pulled any punches in calling the Trump/Pence Regime fascist and has a plan and vision for moving millions to drive this regime from power before it is too late.
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