rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/investigate-doj-for-criminalizing-dissent?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-investigate-doj-for-criminalizing-dissent' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> The Intercept Voices https://actionnetwork.org/groups/the-intercept https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg Under the Trump administration’s NSPM-7 directive, acts of political dissent are being criminalized as domestic terrorism. Donald Trump’s attorney general has ordered federal law enforcement agencies to create lists of Americans they consider “antifa,” which so far seems to mean opposition to Trump’s policies. And now, the first set of convictions have been handed down in Texas, where 16 defendants received a combined 560+ years in prison for association with a protest outside of ICE’s Prairieland Detention Center. The Department of Justice has also arrested and charged people in Spokane, Washington, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, over ICE protests — all under the label of fighting “domestic terrorism.” Now, the White House has announced plans to “launch an unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism” involving multiple Cabinet departments and even foreign governments. The Trump administration is trampling on the Constitution in an obvious effort to chill free speech. Instead of investigating actual crimes, they’re targeting critics of the administration and looking for crimes to charge them with. Five decades ago, the Senate convened the Church Committee to investigate illegal domestic spying and other intelligence abuses directed toward U.S. citizens in order to root out exactly this kind of abuse of power. It’s time to do it again. Demand Congress investigate, hold hearings, and subpoena officials responsible for the federal crackdown on our free speech rights. Click “START WRITING” to send a message to your senators and representative demanding the formation of a select committee to investigate the Trump administration’s targeting of political activists and free speech. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/investigate-doj-for-criminalizing-dissent