History teaches that fascists, once firmly in power, are extraordinarily difficult to remove. It is absolutely critical that we take up the responsibility to expel such a regime before consolidation becomes irreversible. Donald Trump’s fascist administration, through repeated injuries, usurpations, and acts of violence, has forfeited any claim to legitimacy. Therefore, We the People submit the following indictment asserting that the Trump administration constitutes an illegitimate fascist regime and must be removed from power.
Donald Trump: You are indicted for the crimes against the people of the United States and installing fascism in the U.S.
I. A Regime of Tyranny and Betrayal of the Constitution
The Trump administration has systematically violated the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution. The promises of liberty, justice, equality, consent of the governed, and the rule of law have ALL been eroded by the actions of a President who is sworn to preserve and defend them.
Trump has defied federal courts, ignored lawful orders, targeted judges and lawyers, and replaced constitutional governance with rule by decree. He has used executive power to obstruct justice, override Congress, and install loyalists who serve his will rather than the public good.
He has wielded federal agencies as weapons against immigrants, protesters, journalists, and political opponents, even threatening the execution of members of Congress. This administration has undermined basic democratic rights, targeted marginalized communities, and shredded civil liberties with open contempt.
II. Crimes of Fascism and the Consolidation of Dictatorship
Trump’s MAGA Fascism aims to install an open dictatorship, unrestrained and unchecked, reliant on white-supremacist Christian-nationalism, misogyny, xenophobia, and violent repression. The actions of this administration are not isolated — they form a coherent fascist program. Traditional democratic channels cannot halt a regime that destroys those very channels.
Count One: Violent Persecution and Terrorizing of Immigrants
Trump unleashed heavily armed federal strike forces and illegally mobilized National Guard units to target immigrants and anyone racially profiled as such. ICE became his private army — disappearing people, terrorizing children, defying courts, and deporting individuals to torture and abuse in concentration camps both here and overseas.
Count Two: Lawless International Aggression
Trump has openly disregarded international law and disparaged our allies, waged unauthorized military actions, threatened wider war, and supported acts of genocide and war crimes. He asserted a doctrine of U.S. domination over entire regions, dismissing international law and human rights.
Count Three: Attacks on Elections and Voting Rights
Trump pardoned January 6th insurrectionists, empowered election deniers, gerrymandered Black and Brown communities out of political power, and enabled voter suppression schemes designed to entrench minority rule.
Count Four: Subversion of the Courts
The Supreme Court — illegitimately packed with Trump loyalists — continues to overrule lower courts, often through unexplained “shadow docket” decisions. They have surrendered judicial independence, suppressed the voice of the people, and enabled the regime’s assault on the Constitution.
Count Five: Weaponizing Federal Power Against Political Opponents
The administration twisted law enforcement and prosecutorial powers into instruments of retribution. Political enemies, NGOs, journalists, and movement activists were all targeted.
III. A History of Repeated Injuries, Usurpations, and Abuses
The Trump regime has intensified white supremacy, misogyny, and the erasure of LGBTQ+ people; demonized immigrants; escalated militarism; and undermined science and public health.
To establish and enforce white supremacy, Trump exalted the Confederacy, purged diversity programs, attacked the teaching of Black and Native history, removed symbols of civil rights progress, and installed white supremacists in key positions.
To subjugate women and erase LGBTQ+ people, Trump dismantled reproductive rights, threatened nationwide abortion bans, outlawed gender-affirming care, purged transgender people from public institutions, and reinstated oppressive norms as state policy.
To target entire peoples and escalate global conflict, Trump carried out mass deportations, stripped legal protections from migrants, bombed foreign nations illegally, backed genocide, and invoked 19th century doctrines of imperial domination.
To consolidate dictatorship, he declared himself above the Constitution, weaponized the DOJ, attacked universities and the press, purged the military, and created a personalist authoritarian system.
IV. Violations of Human and Civil Rights at Home and Abroad
Trump’s administration has committed widespread violations of civil, constitutional, and human rights:
- Silencing journalists, suppressing protest, and retaliating against whistleblowers.
- Warrantless surveillance, unlawful detentions, and militarized policing.
- Cruel treatment of detainees; particularly women and children, immigrants, and transgender individuals.
- Rollback of LGBTQ+ protections, racial equity programs, disability rights, and reproductive freedoms.
- Family separations, denial of asylum, and deportations to known torture regimes.
- Abandonment of international human rights commitments and obstruction of war-crimes investigations.
These constitute moral, legal, and humanitarian crimes deserving the strongest condemnation.
V. A Government of, by, and for Tyrants
Trump, and the officials complicit in his regime, have enriched themselves while undermining public health, education, economic stability, environmental protections, and essential social programs. They have dismantled oversight mechanisms, sold influence to the wealthy, and reduced governance to a corrupt spectacle.
This is an authoritarian plutocracy government, run by and for a corrupt elite.
VI. The Mandate of the People: Trump Must Go NOW
No matter how they attain power, fascist regimes are never legitimate. Trump’s regime poses a direct threat to humanity in an era of climate catastrophe, nuclear proliferation, and global instability.
Therefore, we declare:
- President Donald Trump needs to be removed from power immediately.
- The entire Trump regime is illegitimate.
- Its continued rule violates the Constitution, human rights, and the principles of a free society.
- Any further executive or legislative action that oppresses or exploits the people constitutes a direct attack on the public.
VII. A Call to Action for a Free and Just Future
Fascism is not a looming threat. It is upon us now. It is a completely different, brutal, form of rule. It cannot be lived with; it must be defeated.
Fascist rule is never legitimate, no matter how it comes to power. This administration surrendered any claim to “legitimacy” the minute they began using their power to violate and dismantle the U.S. Constitution and our rule of law.
If we dare, we can defeat this horror unlike anything we’ve faced before. If we fail to even try, future generations will never forgive us.
There can be no business as usual under fascism; that’s why we call on people across this country to join us in sustained, nonviolent mass resistance. To walk out of work, to walk out of school, and to come from all across the country — millions together in the streets of the nation’s capital — returning again and again, day after day, until the Trump regime falls!
The future is unwritten. Which one we get is up to us.