The destruction of our environment continues unchecked, while climate change threatens ecosystems and communities. Corporations and private interests profit while we lose access to clean drinking water and uncontaminated air.

Systemic economic inequality keeps people from achieving goals that were once attainable— home ownership, access to quality health care, child care, and retirement. Meanwhile, political corruption and policies siphon wealth to the top, insulating the wealthy, while the rest struggle to survive.

Our democratic system and the very fabric of our Constitution are being tested like never before. Rights we once took for granted are being ignored or stripped away, election integrity is being undermined while voter suppression is literally undermining elections, and freedom of speech and press are under constant attack. The executive branch is operating with unprecedented power and minimal oversight. Historically, these are the warning signs of systems shifting to authoritarian rule.

Christian nationalism conflates American identity with a specific religious vision, asserting that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and should be governed by Christian principles alone. While faith plays an important role in many Americans' lives, this ideology often demands blind devotion to political or religious leaders, effectively replacing the teachings of the Gospel of Christ with loyalty to a political agenda. By erasing the vital line that separates church and state, it puts both institutions at risk: the church loses its spiritual integrity by becoming a tool of power, and the state loses its neutrality by enforcing a single religious worldview. Protecting freedom of religion means protecting the right to believe—or not believe—without fear of exclusion or persecution.

Digital surveillance and data collection practices increasingly compromise personal privacy and security. A perfect recent example: Meta and Google Users Targeted Over Anti-ICE Posts  

Both Human Rights Watch and Freedom House report measurable decline in U.S. human rights standings. ICE "detention" facilities are expanding into warehouses around the nation, run by private for-profit corporations such as CoreCivic. People who have been inside these places report deplorable conditions: lack of access to food, time outside, limited or no medical care, and overcrowding that makes it difficult for people to even be able to lie down. Many people being detained have never committed crimes, including thousands of children. The definition of concentration camp according to dictionary.com is a guarded compound for the mass detention without hearings or the imprisonment without trial of civilians, refugees, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc.

Dehumanizing rhetoric about immigrants and communities of color, the denial of bodily autonomy/ personal freedom, and policies explicitly designed to target people based on their faith, country of origin, and/or the color of their skin, all have existed throughout American history. Racism and xenophobia aren't new and aren't incidental. They are long-standing and structural (learn more). However, under the current administration, these degrading and harmful ideologies are being poured down our throats with renewed vigor, resulting in backsliding and undeniable harm to people and communities. Fear is being weaponized to convince us that some people are more American— more worthy, deserving, smarter, better, stronger, safer—than others. Obviously, none of this is based on fact or reality. This is a lie that keeps us divided and allows those in power to continue to steal our freedoms, all under the guise of “security.”

Women have long been treated as second-class citizens in America. For centuries, the law explicitly protected men who abused women, treating domestic violence as a private family matter and exempting husbands from rape charges within marriage. Under the doctrine of coverture, a married woman was not able to own property, sign contracts, or keep her own wages. Under the Expatriation Act of 1907, a woman who married a foreign man lost her citizenship entirely, because her identity belonged to her husband. Laws were deliberately designed to keep women dependent and powerless—unable to vote, have agency over their own bodies, or determine their futures. Today, the fight is far from over, and rights hard-won are being intentionally degraded to put women back in their "place." Access to reproductive healthcare is one part of a much larger push to silence women and limit our role in American society. That same push targets Trans Americans, whose right to exist, to receive healthcare, and to live authentically is under constant legislative assault. The logic is identical: your body is not your own, your identity is not yours to define, and your freedom is subject to someone else's approval.

 The rule of law means that all people, institutions, and government entities are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced, independently adjudicated, and consistent with international human rights principles.

Crucially, this means no one is above the law—not even elected officials, government agencies, or the President. Yet, as we have seen the current administration has continually acted in a way that sets the president and his benefactors above the law. For example: In Trump v. United States (2024), Trump's legal team argued that a former president is immune from criminal prosecution for any actions taken while in office—including attempts to overturn the 2020 election. His lawyers explicitly claimed that a president could not be prosecuted even for ordering the military to assassinate a political rival, so long as it was done through official channels.

The Outcome: 

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in July 2024 that presidents have at least presumptive immunity for official acts and absolute immunity for certain "core" constitutional powers. The Court rejected total immunity but accepted significant protections that had never before been recognized in U.S. law.  Trump v. United States, 601 U.S. ___ (2024),  https://supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

As Justice Sotomayor wrote in dissent: "In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law." Justice Sotomayor, dissenting, at p. 30 (Trump v. United States, 2024)

 NO KINGS IN AMERICA. NOT NOW, NOT EVER!