📢 Protect Democracy News — December 26, 2025

🗽 News & Actions — December 26, 2025 . Our democracy is on the line. Stay informed and take action to hold leaders accountable.

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Every action counts in the fight to protect our rights and freedoms. Today in Protect Democracy we’re featuring December 26, 2025 news and critical calls-to-action. Freedom is a daily act of advocacy and holding our leaders accountable to the will of the people.

Together, we can realize a democracy that represents, reflects, and responds to all of us.

🗳️ For years, the voices of everyday Americans—especially in Black and Brown communities—have been sidelined by billionaire influence, special interests, and coordinated voter suppression.

Now the threat is unmistakable. An extremist agenda is working to hollow out our democratic institutions, weaken the rule of law, and erase the rights that ensure every voice matters and every vote is counted.

This is not a moment for silence or delay. It’s time to stand up—defend our freedoms, protect the right to vote, and reclaim democracy for the people. Join us to hold leaders accountable, push back against authoritarianism, and mobilize voters to safeguard our shared future.

Protect Democracy - News Briefs

🤖 Tech moguls close to Trump see the midterms as a path to long-term power

• Who’s really shaping tech policy in Washington? Tech-backed super PACs are flooding midterm elections with cash to push AI expansion and deregulation. “The strategy aims to replicate the success of the cryptocurrency industry, which used a super PAC to clear a path for Congress this summer to boost the sector’s fortunes with the passage of the Genius Act.” Watchdogs warn the spending by the Tech-backed super PACs could sideline public-interest concerns. The surge highlights growing corporate influence over democracy. — The Washington Post

🪖 The “Warrior Dividend” Is Trump’s Latest PR Stunt to Act Like He Cares About the Troops

• Is this support for troops—or political theater? Trump’s proposed “warrior dividend” would send payments to service members with a questionable funding source (the money is reportedly coming from funds allocated to Troop housing assistance). “A measly $1,776 check for members of the military can’t undo years of insults and cuts….His administration is gutting the Department of Veterans Affairs, planning to eliminate more than 70,000 jobs and roll staffing back to pre-2019 levels. Hundreds of VA clinicians warned Congress that the cuts threaten veterans’ health care nationwide.” — The Intercept

✈️ Labor Leaders Blast DHS Chief Noem’s Union-Busting Attack on TSA Workers

• What happens to airport security when worker rights disappear? TSA union leaders warn of renewed threats to collective bargaining and workforce protections. ““Noem’s decision to rip up the union contract for 47,000 TSA officers is an illegal act of retaliatory union busting that should cause concern for every person who steps foot in an airport,” said the AFGE president.” The dispute reflects broader attacks on federal labor rights. — Common Dreams

🧱 A Petty, Vicious Wall of Shame

• When cruelty becomes policy, what’s at stake? In a piece for Common Dreams, Abby Zimet writes about the wall of shame at the White House-installed by Trump to insult former presidents and elevate himself. “The most broken, powerful human being on the planet has added to his crappy, gaudy, reality-show “Presidential Walk of Fame” bronze plaques below the photos denoting a boorish, revisionist “history” of each president. Inevitably, he lobs the crudest insults at his direct predecessors - “divisive” Obama, “crooked” Biden - while praising his own supreme reign.” — Common Dreams

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💥 Urgent Calls to Action to Protect Democracy:

• Click here to Ban Members of Congress from Trading Stock While in Office

• Click here to Demand Congress Reject “Trump-Kennedy Center” Rename

• Click here to Tell Your Governor: Reject the Federal School Voucher Program

• Click here to Tell Congress: An Oath to the Constitution Requires Saying No to Illegal Orders

• Click here to Tell Apple & Google CEOs: End your contracts with ICE NOW.

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BONUS

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure safe, secure elections and are committed to protecting democracy. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Champions that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests, fight economic and social inequality, and advance civil liberties.

  • People Power United Against Fascism

  • Worker Power is People Power

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

  • Immigrant Justice Advocacy Groups

  • End Fossil Fuels

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This is our why

For nearly 250 years, democracy has been the lifeblood of this nation—not handed down by kings or bought by billionaires, but built and sustained by everyday people. It lives in our families and neighborhoods, in classrooms and clinics, on job sites and in voting lines. It’s the teacher guiding the next generation, the nurse caring for their community, the worker keeping society moving, and the voter who refuses to be silenced.

Power has always belonged to the people. That’s why protecting democracy is not optional—it’s our shared responsibility. When we defend it, we defend one another, our freedoms, and the future we are shaping for generations yet to come.

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How do we fight Fascism?

Hope

Hope is a powerful weapon against fascism, serving as both a shield and a rallying cry in the face of fear and oppression. While fascism thrives on division, despair, and apathy, hope inspires unity, action, and resilience. Hope empowers us to envision a society built on equality, justice, and freedom, motivating us to take meaningful steps to protect these values.

Respect

Respect is a formidable weapon against fascism, countering its foundation of hatred and dehumanization with dignity and inclusivity. By leading with respect, we create a society where collaboration and compassion overpower fear and division, rendering fascism powerless in the face of unity.

Unity

Unity is one of the most powerful weapons against fascism, as it dismantles the divide-and-conquer tactics that authoritarian regimes rely on to maintain power.

🗽The strength of a nation is not its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. - Gene Roddenberry

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Together, we can protect and empower those we love, champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests), People Power United

Laurie joining others to drop thousands of petitions off to Congress for reforms to the Supreme Court

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