Please Pay Attention.
Updated 2/17/2025
The current administration is eliminating all of their internal opponents, removing any and all checks-and-balances to their power, and committing blatantly criminal acts with no consequences.
With this precedent, the leaders of the US government now essentially have free reign to do whatever they want while legally removing any opposition. A precedent like that can’t be easily taken back.
This means that if a different group were to gain control of the government, then they would in theory also gain these powers, and they might use them to prosecute the last government for what they’ve done or otherwise dismantle their plans. Once you get in a position of unlimited power you can’t let your enemies have it or else they might use it against you.
So, the current administration and its allies now have the most extreme incentive possible – their very survival – pushing them to remain in control. There is no coming back from law breaking of this magnitude. From their perspective, if they don’t maintain power now, they will lose everything. A choice like that is no choice at all.
In order to survive, absolute control over the government is now the only reasonable path forward they can take. They will pursue it. They will pursue fascism whether you think they have already begun to or not. They are pursuing fascism already whether you think they originally intended to or not. They’ve backed themselves into a corner and total control of the government and US law is their only way out.
In Simple Terms
This administration has taken power far beyond what an administration is supposed to have and they are criminally wielding it to destroy their opposition. Anyone else elected from this point is likely to use that power against them due to the unbelievable amount of laws they have broken. As a consequence, from now on they can not let anyone else be elected. They will attempt solidify their control permanently using any tactics available to them, because if they don’t then they’re done. It’s that simple.
This playbook has been seen time and time again in history. We already know where it goes from here.
There are dozens of lawsuits opened by federal groups against the Trump administration since he took office: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/trump-administration-lawsuits.html
Evidence & Sources
This is an incomplete list (in no particular order) of fascist activities that have already happened or are ongoing. It’s incomplete because so much has happened that it’s overwhelming to keep track of it all. These represent the “corner” that the current administration has backed itself into by taking too much power, and the progress they’ve already made in taking complete control of the US government.
You can also read the characteristics of fascism and see how they align to the actions of the administration so far.
A source is below each statement for you to make your own judgement
Update 2025-02-17: Trump administration set to fire hundreds of senior staff from the Department of Homeland Security, the agency charged with internally defending the USA; those to be fired are deemed “misaligned” with the goals of the Trump administration
It bears repeating: removal of politically “misaligned” government officials is a direct attack on democracy, and is one of the most severe indicators of fascism, especially in defense-related departments (such as the CIA, which is also experiencing this)
Trump is removing all government employees that do not support his authoritarian control of the country. There is no argument that can mitigate the meaning of these actions: it is fascism.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/department-homeland-security-preparing-fire-014639771.html
Update 2025-02-17: With the FAA receiving mass layoffs by Elon Musk, a team from SpaceX (owned by Elon Musk) is being brought in to overhaul the FAA air control system;
This is ridiculously illegal in two ways: first, the conflict of interest between Elon & his own company being funded by taxpayers, and second that the FAA control systems are protected & sensitive due to their importance for managing air travel
Update 2025-02-17: IRS reportedly giving Elon Musk & DOGE access to taxpayer data, which is very illegal; taxpayer data is considered classified & sensitive, and ordinarily the GOA/FOIA exist specifically to assist information requests with oversight
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/irs-musk-doge-taxpayer-data
Update 2025-02-17: Trump continues to extort Ukraine, stating that they must sign their mineral rights (see earlier dotpoint below) to the US or else be excluded from diplomatic discussions with the US; it’s worth noting that Trump’s first impeachement several years ago was for extorting Ukraine by withholding military aid in exchange for Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 election
(headline says “blackmailed” but it should say “extorted”) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/17/7498755/
Update 2025-02-16: Trump’s office has conveyed to Canada that he is “very serious” about annexing Canada to become the 51st US state. There is still no explanation as to why Trump wants this, and there is also no explanation as to why the US has abruptly become aggressive to one of its closest (literally and figuratively) allies.
Update 2025-02-16: Federal workers that have been fired in these first few weeks of the administration are saying that America is essentially “under attack” due to the wide-sweeping staff reductions that have hit abruptly and without thought of collateral damage (law cases in progress halted, aid to Americans in need halted, disaster relief to Americans & abroad halted, worker protection suits halted, financial crime protection halted, the list goes on – which is why there are now more than 50 credible lawsuits raised against the administration these past weeks)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-federal-employees-probationary-firings-layoffs-workers-impact/
Update 2025-02-16: A children’s book called “Freckleface Strawberry”, about a child learning to accept her red hair & freckles, is among many books banned by the Trump administration because it encourages inclusion of different people (the “I” in DEI); wide-scale banning of such books is historically among the biggest early warning signs of fascism
A few high ranking prosecutors in the department of justice are resigning in protest https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5297120/eric-adams-federal-prosecutors-resignations
UPDATE 2025-02-16: RFK Jr., who has been confirmed as the US Secretary of the Department of Health despite being the head of an anti-vaccine organization, has announced a plan to combat American use of SSRI medications (used by 13% of US adults to combat depression & anxiety) by instead sending citizens to “wellness” camps for re-education (i.e. remove them from society)
UPDATE 2025-02-15: Mass firing of federal employees on “probation” have begun, already set to remove up to 10% of all federal employees, as much as 30% for some departments (alongside the entire departments that have been removed earlier); schedule A promotions also receive probation, so this includes long-standing employees who have recently been promoted
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/12/politics/scores-of-firings-federal-agencies
Reddit comment by u/T0mmygr33n with many sources compiled https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ioaee5/mass_firings_have_begun_at_federal_agencies/mci0ye3/
Judge allows the buyout plan to proceed despite more than 40 open lawsuits against the administration https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/12/politics/buyout-trump-federal-employee-judge/index.html
UPDATE 2025-02-15: US administration bans the Associated Press (AP), the most reputable worldwide journalist institution, from all government briefings over their reference to the Gulf of Mexico. This is a ban over free speech & information, which is illegal and unconstitutional. Precedent has been set for more banning of journalism, straight out of the fascism playbook.
ICE planning to scan social media & online discussion for negative comments about ICE and monitor/track dissidents, comes with their increased powers and authority to target citizens with less oversight given by the current administration (source on that further down this list); this is essentially identical to Nazi Germany’s gradual militarization of law enforcement – eventually empowered to extra-judicially target minorities and dissidents
Jan 6 video evidence being removed from official sources, climate change & varied other data scrubbed from all government websites
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293447/jan-6-evidence-captiol-riot-donald-trump
Elon Musk has dismantled or is in the process of dismantling all government bodies with investigations against him as a private citizen including USAID, FDA and the department of education
https://www.aol.com/usaid-set-hacked-14-000-222204159.html
US congress members illegally denied entry to the department of education https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5132685-department-of-education-musk-doge-trump-frost/
Below are articles about investigations against Elon by different government departments, ALL OF WHICH have had their operations suspended, been shut down, or are being unilaterally overhauled by Elon Musk, which is so incredibly illegal that it should never have to be stated out loud
FDA https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/neuralink-animal-testing-elon-musk-investigation
USAID https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukraine-2027054
FAA https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-proposes-633009-civil-penalties-against-spacex
EPA https://www.npr.org/2024/10/10/nx-s1-5145776/spacex-texas-wetlands
Compelling evidence of illegal election interference and election fraud
Ballot box fires, polling location bomb threats 1, and 2, maga affiliated groups allowed to “monitor” ballot boxes alongside police, Trump basically admits verbally to election fraud, X/twitter employee explains illegal election interference X/twitter conducted as ordered by Elon Musk, Elon’s own son implies election fraud during interview (young children are bad at filtering their words)
Strong statistical evidence of election fraud https://electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county%2C-nv
Now that a judge has threatened Donald Trump with criminal charges, Elon Musk says the judicial branch shouldn’t exist (the Judicial, Legislative & Executive branches are the 3 controlling arms of the government which apply checks-and-balances to each other)
Long video of Elon Musk interview in oval office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emqEgNAiksU
Trump announces a faith office to exert religious control over the government
Trump extorts Ukraine by demanding $500bn in rare minerals in exchange for wartime assistance
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-demands-500b-in-rare-earths-from-ukraine-for-support/
2025-02-15 UPDATE: Zelensky refuses to sign document giving 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral output to the US in exchange for nothing; complete military extortion
Trump pauses enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html
Trump plans to take personal control of Gaza and remove all Palestinians
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-us-will-take-over-gaza-strip-2025-02-05/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-buy-gaza-plan
State-allied media replaces audio of booing from crowds with cheering instead
One example here, there are quite a few floating around https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/10/audio-tracks-reveal-different-takes-on-fan-response-to-president-at-super-bowl-as-fox-accused-of-covering-up-boos/
Administration forces removal of LGBTQ+ children from National Center of Missing & Exploited Children
Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) empowered with extrajudicial abilities, instructed to seize minority children from schools & perform door-to-door inspections
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-agents-door-door-colorado-residents-edge-reporters/story?id=118527489
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-authorizes-ice-target-schools-churches/story?id=117954409
CIA offers buyouts to all employees that do not align with Trump’s agenda
Trump illegally firing EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE in the FBI that was involved in his criminal investigations & investigations of Jan 6
US Attorney sends letter to Elon Musk stating that he will protect DOGE and protesters will be targeted in compliance with the Trump administration’s agenda
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered to suspend all activities indefinitely, leader replaced with Trump pick; this bureau is responsible for essentially all protections you, as a citizen, receive against financial crime
Administration removes all Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs, staff and references government-wide
https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-executive-order-diversity-834a241a60ee92722ef2443b62572540
Trump signs executive order to form an actual concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay, a location famously unethical due to being ostensibly outside US law
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-guantanamo-detention-center
Bill introduced to ELIMINATE OSHA entirely, which will mean you are no longer legally entitled to safety at work; if you die on the job, that’s no problem
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/86/text
Trump orders release of 2.2bn gallons of water from Californian dams despite high risk of low water levels for summer; no sane reasoning provided, so likely retaliation against strong anti-trump sentiment in the state
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-california-water-dams-reservoirs/index.html
Elon Musk granted unlimited, zero-transparency access to the US treasury; that’s every single dollar in the US government now illegally under Elon Musk’s control with no oversight
Trump announces intention for all public services to be privatized, sends email to ALL air traffic controllers telling them to resign immediately (the administration walked back on the air controller emails after realising (days later) how mind-bogglingly insane the suggestion was)
https://fortune.com/2025/02/03/air-traffic-controller-federal-buyout-exempt-donald-trump-opm/
Elon Musk granted access to federal employee HR systems – that is, the employment control center for government employees – then locks out senior government agents from the system & installs his own allies (he can now hire and fire government employees at will with no oversight)
A while back, Trump verbally states his intention to remove voting as a concept not once, but twice, so that he and his allies will be in power forever
Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0atVl9-Lr-U
and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE7xoHJkgvE
Department of Labor ordered to cease all investigations indefinitely, which means worker employment protections are no longer in place
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20250124
Elon Musk performing nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration, and then suggesting German citizens get over “guilt” in speech to far-right German AfD party, among many other pieces of confirming evidence that Elon Musk supports Nazism
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/25/musk-german-afd-rally-weidel-00200620
Thousands of data sets being deleted from data.gov ongoing, normally publicly available for use to benefit the US
Tariffs being applied to US allies and enemies alike, including Canada, all under the nebulous guise of national security from illegal aliens & drugs
Real, actual fact sheet from the US government https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-imposes-tariffs-on-imports-from-canada-mexico-and-china/
Elon Musk has been in “regular contact” with Vladimir Putin (who is well known specifically for his transparent efforts to destabilize western nations) which should have disqualified him from national security clearance, let alone full, zero-oversight control over all government systems and employees
Elon Musk is on record saying that he would have been thrown in prison if Donald Trump did not win this election; this establishes that he understands the stakes of the situation he’s in, and also shows that he’s fully aware of the huge conflict of interest between him and the government departments he’s shutting down that have open investigations against him
NATO in disarray as USA announces it will no longer assist in ANY European defense against Russia, even if Russia attacks NATO countries, which is the complete opposite of what they are supposed to do as a NATO member
Trump disbands anti-Russian task force specifically created to use sanctions and other soft powers to combat Russia’s invasion into Ukraine
Trump says that Russia should be re-admitted to G7 (Russia was expelled in 2014 after they annexed Crimea); “I think Putin would love to be back”
White House says it has the right to punish reporters for using the wrong wording over the Gulf of Mexico naming dispute, which sets precedent for punishing freedom of speech (both illegal and unconstitutional)
Corruption charges against Eric Adams (NYC mayor) dropped after Trump suspends enforcement of anti-corruption laws
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293089/adams-nyc-corruption-doj
Your Democracy is at risk 