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Trump is off the rails. Here’s what we can do.

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   I’m re-sending this urgent email to make sure you didn’t miss it. -- Robert Reich Donald Trump’s ICE and Border Patrol goons have been let loose in Minneapolis to create havoc, terrorize communities, and brutalize anyone with an accent or dark skin. And in the week since the murder of Renee Good, they only escalated their campaign of violence and intimidation. Trump doesn’t want peace. He wants to provoke a backlash to justify an even more draconian crackdown — and today, Trump reiterated his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against the American people. This is a national emergency, and we must take action — peacefully — to stop it. We’re launching an urgent effort across all our platforms to demand Congress cease new funding for Trump’s mass deportation regime unless major systemic reforms are put in place. With federal funding scheduled to expire at the end of January, this is the time for Democrats to...

BREAKING: Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis

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  Donald Trump’s ICE and Border Patrol goons have been let loose on Minneapolis to create havoc, terrorize communities, and brutalize anyone with an accent or dark skin. And in the week since the murder of Renee Good, they’ve only escalated their campaign of violence and intimidation. Trump doesn’t want peace. He wants to provoke a backlash to justify an even more draconian crackdown — and today, Trump reiterated his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against the American people. This is a national emergency, and we must take action — peacefully — to stop it. We’re launching an urgent effort across all our platforms to demand Congress cease new funding for Trump’s mass deportation regime unless major systemic reforms are put in place. With federal funding scheduled to expire at the end of January, this is the time for Democrats to stand and fight. Will you make a monthly donation to help us educate the public and ...

Re: My rising sense of dread

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   I'm re-sending this urgent email from last week to make sure you didn't miss it. — Robert Reich For months, I have been sounding the alarm about America’s rapid descent from democracy to MAGA authoritarianism. But as Trump’s approval ratings have fallen to an all-time second-term low, he’s significantly escalated his assault on democracy  a nd the rule of law. In recent weeks, the Trump regime has: Launched a ferociously racist new immigration crackdown targeting green card holders from 19 mostly African and Middle Eastern countries, paused all asylum applications, and openly called for “reverse migration,” a term used by white supremacists to describe the mass ethnic cleansing of all non-white immigrants. Murdered 83 people in 21 separate air strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, including a ghastly “double-tap” strike — and flagrant war crime — in which a second attack was ordered to kill two defenseless, shipwrecked survivors. Pardoned right-wing former Honduran Pre...