Broad authorities granted in the last two decades of the "Global War on Terror" have long allowed overreach and abuse by agencies and programs that have systematically targeted Black and brown communities as threats.

Trump's decision to ramp up the deployment of unaccountable federal officers in an election year is an escalation of these practices — as well as his own authoritarian and unconstitutional acts, from the Muslim Ban to housing undocumented families in cages at the border.

It's time to use every tool in our toolbox to demand a stop to Trump's drift to authoritarianism. Please take the first step and sign on to our petition to Congress here: Defund and dismantle Trump's DHS secret police forces!