Last fall, Donald Trump signed a terrifying presidential directive called NSPM-7, ordering the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies to investigate and disrupt progressive organizations and activists as potential “domestic terrorists.”
Now Trump is asking Congress to provide a huge increase in funding to ramp up the NSPM-7 crackdown.
This comes after the New York Times reported that the IRS and FBI have formed a joint task force under NSPM-7 to “attack the funding” of progressive groups, and leaked emails from inside the FBI indicate that state and local police are being enlisted to target progressive groups as well.
Friends, this is one of the biggest threats to democracy that almost no one is talking about.
The corporate media are so cowed by Trump’s bullying that they’ve barely even mentioned NSPM-7, so Inequality Media Civic Action is using our massive following across social media to sound the alarm and demand that Congress reject funding for these attacks on our First Amendment rights.
Under NSPM-7, the Justice Department is directed to create a secret list of organizations and individuals who hold any one of a long list of vaguely defined left-of-center views, including “anti-capitalism,” “anti-Americanism,” “extremism on migration, race, and gender,” or opposition to “traditional American views on family.”
Trump’s budget proposal further states that counterterrorism funding will be used to target progressives who “exploit a variety of popular social media platforms, smaller websites with targeted audiences, and encrypted chat applications.”
In other words, if you’re on the internet and oppose Trump’s agenda in any way, you could be on Trump’s secret domestic terrorist blacklist and get a knock on the door from the FBI.
These are the actions of an unhinged authoritarian dictator, and Trump must be stopped.
Unfortunately, the corporate media has been utterly silent about the threat of NSPM-7, so we’re ramping up our public education campaign and mobilizing opposition to Trump’s massive new funding request to implement this draconian assault on speech.
Robert Reich,
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