Refuse Fascism’s Mission in 2025
Refuse Fascism leads people to understand and resist Trump/MAGA fascism. We unite with people from diverse perspectives to stop the second Trump regime from consolidating power and carrying out great horrors. Through our podcast and other public programs we expose and analyze the threat we face, promote efforts to defend people targeted by the fascists, and most essentially challenge and inspire the non-fascist majority of people living in the United States, the tens of millions of people who care about humanity and hate what Trump represents, to break out of the deadly confines of politics-as-usual and engage in determined, defiant action to defeat this American Fascism.
After his first term and a failed coup to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Trump has amassed an even more vicious, organized, and determined force of fascist strategists. The Republi-fascist Party has purged all dissenting voices within its own ranks and vows retribution against anyone who has opposed it. It is moving quickly to remake all of society and government based on violent, revenge-fueled white supremacy, male supremacy and patriarchal oppression of LGBTQ people, and “America First” xenophobia. 77 million people voted for this.
Once in power, fascism’s defining feature is the essential elimination of the rule of law and democratic and civil rights. Mass deportations and terror against immigrants; even broader and more restrictive abortion bans; science-denying lunatics appointed to lead health and environmental agencies – this is only the beginning of what the Republi-fascists hope to accomplish. They are serious about carrying out their threats and pose a danger to all of humanity and the planet.
The Democratic Party will not stop this nightmare. Even after some of the Democratic Party leadership rightly called Trump a fascist before the election, now they tell you to accept his fascism in the name of “democracy.” No! There can be no reconciliation with fascism except on the terms of the fascists. Fascism must be resolutely opposed. Everyone with a heart must be serious about defeating Trump/MAGA fascism through a sustained mass movement of collective resistance, refusal and disruption, creating a political situation that prevents Trump from governing and implementing his fascist program.
This is not a time for demoralization and despair. It is a time for courage and conviction. Together, we can defeat this fascism.
We pledge…and challenge all decent people, to raise and act on the slogan:
In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America.