So now Trump is attacking our right to organize and protest.

One of the most dangerous threats is new legislation introduced by Senator Ted Cruz that would allow FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate progressive nonprofits as mafia organizations under the federal RICO statute.²

This bill, if passed, would expose organizations to potential felony charges for simply organizing peaceful protests like No Kings Day. In fact, Ted Cruz specifically said on Fox News that the organizers of No Kings Day are among the bill’s targets.³

This is an existential assault on democracy, but the corporate media is almost entirely ignoring it. So we’re asking for your help to sound the alarm and mobilize tens of thousands of people to demand Congress vote NO on this awful bill.

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Under Ted Cruz’s bill, the leaders of progressive nonprofit organizations would be legally treated as mafia bosses, and Trump’s Justice Department and FBI would be able to use the sweeping investigative authorities of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to go after them.⁴

This would be flagrantly unconstitutional, but Trump couldn’t care less about that.

We’ve already seen Trump weaponize the Justice Department against perceived enemies and critics, and this legislation would supercharge his efforts to crush dissent and imprison political opponents.

It’s up to us to sound the alarm now, because by the time this bill becomes law, it will be too late.

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Joey and the team at Demand Progress Action