Blocking the path to tyranny 20AUG25

THE ACLU is determined to defeat project 2025 if anyone tries to impose it on America.  We all have a role in preventing project 2025 from destroying our American Republic. First we need to mobilize the American electorate to turn out vote for Harris-Walz on Tuesday, 5 NOV 24. Defeating drumpf / trump-vance will defeat project 2025 for the next 4 years. Second we need to support and participate in the ACLU's battle plans to fight project 2025 because even when drumpf / trump-vance are defeated the authoritarian right-wing of the republican party will try to eliminate our civil rights, civil liberties and human rights at the local, state and federal level. I am proud to be a sustaining member of the ACLU, have been for years. Check out this from the ACLU and sign up to defend democracy in America. 

Project 2025 is a clear and direct path to tyranny. The proposals in this Project would gut our most fundamental rights – abusing a law from the 1800s to attack abortion access, targeting immigrant communities with mass deportations and raids, weaponizing the Department of Justice against protestors, journalists, and political opponents, and so much more. In over 900 pages, Project 2025 lays out a dangerous, invasive roadmap to replacing the rule of law with far-right ideals and authoritarianism. The ACLU has our own plan for the future. Read More Our plan for 2025 – and beyond – includes passing real federal protections and expansions of abortion access. We'll work in school boards and states to protect trans students from discrimination. We'll make voting easier and more inclusive – and fight to ensure everyone is represented by their district maps. We'll shut down the ICE detention machine and make meaningful wins for immigrant families in court. You can be a part of that future – check out our new blog about Project 2025 and learn how you can take action to protect our civil rights and liberties now. We refuse to let Project 2025's dangerous platform ever become law – and with you by our side, we know that we can win. Together, The ACLU Team PROJECT 2025 EXPLAINED Learn more about the Heritage Project initiative that threatens to erode our democracy — and how to fight it. The ACLU doesn’t endorse or oppose candidates for elected office, but we recognize that the 2024 presidential election has immense implications for the future of our democracy. In 2022, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative-leaning think tank, and 140 former Trump staffers put together Project 2025 — a roadmap for how to replace the rule of law with ring-wing ideals. Learn more about this initiative and its perilous implications for our civil rights and liberties below, as well as how the ACLU will use all of the tools at its disposal, from advocacy to litigation to community organizing, to defend our democracy. What is Project 2025? Project 2025 is a federal policy agenda and blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former Trump administration officials in partnership with The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank that opposes abortion and reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrants’ rights, and racial equity. Project 2025’s largest publication, “Mandate For Leadership,” is a 900-page manual for reorganizing the entire federal government agency by agency to serve a conservative agenda. Stop Project 2025 Fight back against bigotry, injustice and inequality. Make your donation to the ACLU today. Source: American Civil Liberties Union Project 2025 includes a long list of extreme policy recommendations touching on nearly every aspect of American life, from immigration and abortion rights, to free speech and racial justice. A number of its recommendations rely on support from the executive branch and from Congress. Many other initiatives are outright unconstitutional. What Are Some Plans/Proposals Included in Project 2025? Project 2025 calls for hundreds of individual policy changes that will impact our constitutional freedoms, and every aspect of our lives. Among them are: Gutting Abortion Access Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service. What you can do with us today: Restore Our Rights: Reproductive Freedom NOW As politicians continue to attack our bodily autonomy nationwide, tell Congress to act. Source: American Civil Liberties Union Mass Deportations Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system. What you can do with us today: Shut Down the ICE Detention Machine We can't allow Congress to trade away our morals - or the safety of countless families and children seeking protection - for political points. Take... Source: American Civil Liberties Union Abusing Warrantless Surveillance Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with warrantless surveillance of our data. Learn more: How Trump's Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms Congress can fight back against egregious violations of our privacy by the government. Tell them to take action now. Source: American Civil Liberties Union Unleashing Undue Force on Protestors Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors. Learn more: How Trump's Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms A second Trump administration threatens to use executive authority to further limit First Amendment freedoms, surveil Americans and undermine... Source: American Civil Liberties Union Severely Limiting Voting Access Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation. What you can do with us today: Congress: Protect Our Voting Rights If re-elected in November, he and his allies have promised to take actions that would disenfranchise millions, suppress the right to vote, and... Source: American Civil Liberties Union Censoring Critical Discussions in Classrooms Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects. What you can do with us today: Defend Your Right to Learn: Join In The Fight Against Classroom Censorship Source: American Civil Liberties Union Rolling Back Trans Rights Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents. What you can do with us today: Protect Trans Care Now As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act. Source: American Civil Liberties Union What Are Donald Trump’s Connections to Project 2025? Project 2025 was published by The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank with direct ties to former President Trump’s administration. Though Trump has falsely claimed he is not connected to Project 2025, a recent report from CNN found at least 140 people who worked on Project 2025 previously worked in the Trump administration. The Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts also previously worked on President Trump’s transition team in 2016, and has described his organization’s role as “institutionalizing Trumpism.” Roberts was also one of the principle advocates for overturning the 2020 election to keep Donald Trump in office after he lost the election. Heritage Foundation executive Mike Howell recently called the 2024 election illegitimate before voting even began, claiming without evidence that any result other than a Trump victory will have been the result of fraud. How is the ACLU Fighting Back? In a series of 13 memos, the ACLU details the civil liberties and civil rights challenges presented by a potential Donald Trump or Kamala Harris presidency, and provides a roadmap for how we will fight to preserve and expand the freedom of all people. This includes: Going to court to preserve and advance the rights of immigrants, LGBTQ rights, abortion access, nondiscrimination laws, voting rights, and the free speech of all people. Working with Congress members to enact policy solutions to many of the most extreme proposals in Project 2025 and using Congress’s constitutional powers to provide oversight, investigate wrongdoing, and defund executive branch policies which restrict our fundamental freedoms. Working with state lawmakers around the country to enact proactive laws that protect people from federal interference. Organizing in communities to educate the public about their rights, the harms of Project 2025, and what they can do to preserve and advance our freedoms. The Trump and Harris Memos Our democracy hangs in the balance because of initiatives like Project 2025. Read our memos outlining what each presidential candidate means for... Source: American Civil Liberties Union For more, visit aclu.org/memos to learn how the ACLU–and you–can fight back against any effort to deny us liberty.

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