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🧵1/ 🇺🇸 True patriots choose #democracy over authoritarianism. Country over party. #Humanity over hate.
Months ago, I spoke out about Project 2025, because I love my country. As a 🇩🇴🇺🇸First-Generation Adult Child of #Immigrants, I consider it my civic duty to speak truth—even when it was dismissed.
🎯That dismissal reminded me of the power of propaganda and the tragedy of denial:
• We all witnessed January 6th.
• We heard, “All I need is 11,000 votes.”
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• We heard, “It’s poisoning the blood of our country,” a direct, fascist echo aimed at immigrants.
📺Despite the evidence of our eyes and ears, many chose denial. Even in my own circles, personal beliefs were weaponized to reject objective truth and normalize this authoritarianism.
🚨 Fast forward to today: Project 2025 is not a policy framework; it is an ideological insurrection.
🎯Now, the current White House isn't hiding it. They are accelerating Project 2025 during this government…
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…shutdown. They are boasting about dismantling agencies, freezing infrastructure funds, and overriding state authority.
📌It’s a calculated assault on our multiracial, diverse democracy. It threatens national security, undermines constitutional protections, and destabilizes international order.
🚨 We are witnessing the intentional “deconstruction of the administrative state”—the very language of Project 2025—not just through layoffs, but by targeting the programs that keep our families…
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…healthy. Project 2025 seeks to dismantle the ACA and gut Medicaid and Medicare, policies that will force millions of Americans—especially the elderly and the poor—to choose between groceries, utilities, and essential healthcare.
🗣️I don’t have the privilege to say these policies aren’t impacting me—and neither do millions of other Americans, especially those from marginalized communities.
🎯Our disagreement isn’t just political. It’s a moral fight rooted in the assault on our diverse…
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…democracy, the dehumanization of fellow human beings, and the right to exist.
📣However, I believe people can change. But if you’re defending this, you’re defending the indefensible and normalizing its authoritarian core.
➡️ Never forget: Silence is complicity. Silence emboldens injustice.
History has shown us the cost of indifference.
🇺🇸And today, those who speak out—who peacefully oppose Project 2025’s dismantling of democratic norms, its consolidation of power, and its erosion of the…
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…of the separation of powers—
You are the true patriots. You are the hope. You are the future.
📣 Speaking up takes courage. And courage is contagious.
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