Declaration of Grievances

October 20, 2025

What the People Protest

When the power of the presidency becomes the property of one man, the Republic is no longer self-governed.
When loyalty is demanded, not earned, and dissent is punished, freedom becomes a rumor.

We therefore list these grievances, not as partisans, but as citizens defending the common trust —
the Constitution, the law, and the promise that no person shall be king in this land.

He has…

  • Concentrated power in his own hands, and in the hands of allied oligarchs.
  • Declared peaceful assemblies “insurrections,” and threatened the arrest of mayors and governors who refused obedience.
  • Sent masked federal agents to seize people without warrants or due process.
  • Sued and intimidated a free press, weaponizing courts against reporters and critics.
  • Threatened to imprison political opponents for opposing his will.
  • Undermined freedom of thought at universities and targeted students for speech.
  • Menaced law firms that argued against him in court.
  • Threatened impeachment of judges who dared to rule against him.
  • Ignored Congress, defied appropriations, and diverted public funds for personal ends.
  • Punished states that voted against him by withholding their rightful aid.
  • Ordered the redrawing of congressional maps to guarantee victory for his chosen candidates.
  • Fired thousands of civil servants unlawfully, replacing service with servitude.
  • Violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause by accepting gifts and favors from foreign rulers.
  • Sought to erase birthright citizenship, a right written plainly into the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • Deployed troops into cities without consent of their governors.
  • Usurped the powers of Congress by imposing tariffs alone.
  • Fired inspectors general investigating corruption among his allies.
  • Diverted funds appropriated by Congress to build his own enforcement forces.
  • Violated the First Amendment by detaining citizens for words and opinions.
  • Defied the lawful orders of federal judges, rejecting the authority of the courts themselves.
  • Enabled his family to pursue foreign business deals while in public office.

Therefore, we affirm:

That government belongs to the governed — not to the governors.
That no man may crown himself with immunity.
That law without accountability is tyranny by another name.

We protest not as radicals, but as neighbors.
We gather not to overthrow, but to remind:

There are no kings in the United States of America.

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Trump Flexes

President Trump and the federal government are policing speech, morality, and punishment of individual citizens at a level of micromanagement rarely, if ever, witnessed in America.

These actions, all public, fall into three categories: punishing individual critics … freeing allies convicted of crimes … and policing speech.

The founders never envisioned a federal government this big and this powerful, or a president this unchecked.

— Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, AXIOS