The truth of that statement from Refuse Fascism—and the urgency of its call to pour into Washington, DC in our millions on November 5 to demand the Fall of the Trump Fascist Regime—rang out with increasing force all week long.

On Monday, September 15, Trump’s official henchmen—Vance, Stephen Miller, and the rest—took turns on what had been Charlie Kirk’s podcast issuing threats. Stephen Miller’s statement captures both the threatening tone and the broad scope of those who were the targets of MAGA’s fascist wrath. Miller called liberal foundations and Democratic Party-aligned groups a “vast domestic terror movement.” He went on to say, “With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout the government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people. It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”

Exposing Hypocrisy Will Cost You Your Job

That very night, Jimmy Kimmel dared to make an observation about how MAGA was using Kirk’s death. Kimmel went on to mock Trump’s hypocrisy in pretending to care about Kirk. Less than 48 hours later, Kimmel was suspended—in reality, fired. Others have been fired by “corporate media” for daring to voice some reservations on the all-out sanctification going on of Kirk, a fascist, racist, misogynist and gay-hating agitator. 

But what marks Kimmel’s firing is the blatant use of state power to make it happen. Wednesday afternoon, the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Brendan Carr went on a podcast to say, “I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct to take actions, frankly, on Kimmel, or you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead." The FCC has the power to pull the licenses of radio and tv broadcasting stations.

A number of comics immediately denounced this, and RefuseFascism called a demonstration that very day. They put the strong call to act against this madness center stage, getting coverage in major media around the country, “including by being the top photo on the next day’s on-line edition of the New York Times.” Then on Thursday, RefuseFascism in LA and New York joined comics and writers, as well as other people, in important protests. 

Trump Moves to Become Judge, Jury and Executioner

Trump, meanwhile, doubled down. Earlier in the week, he called for a RICO prosecution against a group of women nonviolently protesting him at a DC restaurant, with the radical peace group Code Pink for the “crime” of nonviolently demonstrating against him right inside the restaurant where he was eating. Later, after the controversy over Kimmel’s firing erupted, when Trump was asked by a reporter whether people should be prosecuted for so-called hate speech, Trump not only said, "yes," but went on to threaten prosecuting the reporter who asked him, for “treat[ing] me so unfairly”—and Trump repeated the threat when he saw the reporter the next day. Trump also threatened the licenses of other networks for reporting negative news about him. 

Then on Saturday, Trump went further still. He fired the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (whom he had appointed a month ago). The Attorney’s “offense” was finding that there were no grounds to prosecute three current and former government officials who had either investigated or prosecuted Trump for criminal acts. (The officials were New York Attorney General Letitia James, former FBI head James Comey, and California Senator Adam Schiff.) Trump demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi appoint someone new who would go after them. This is a major breach of the separation of powers—the president is basically saying, “Indict and jail these people who I think have wronged me, no matter the lack of evidence… or else.” 

The Stakes Could Not Be Higher

In a social media message that went up on September 12, Bob Avakian made this point:

If this fascist regime is allowed to remain in power, everything that decent people have felt they could rely on to seek justice will be brutally shut down...every uplifting moral value will be reviled and repressed...every sphere of society will be remade, in terrible ways, in line with the male supremacist, anti-LGBT, white supremacist and anti-immigrant cruelty and the anti-scientific, health and climate destroying madness of the Trump fascist regime and the bloodthirsty ravings and depraved violence of fanatics heading “the department of war,” with the deranged maniac Trump having his finger on the nuclear button.

Every vision, and every active striving, for a better, more just world, for a future worth living in, will be violently suppressed and effectively foreclosed, at least for the foreseeable future.

This is not hyperbole—it is the bitter reality that is being rapidly enforced. (from @BobAvakianOfficial REVOLUTION #133, “Yes, this Trump/MAGA fascism really is that bad. And, if it is not driven from power soon, it will get far worse.

The truth of this becomes starker every passing day.

Six Short Weeks to Stop the Beast

As we go to press, the week is ending in an orgy of religious fanaticism and teeth-bared threat at the memorial for Charlie Kirk in Arizona. Can anyone now deny how quickly these fascists are moving? People, there really is no time to spare. To again quote the Refuse Fascism call we started with: Fascism is not a looming threat. It is upon us now.

We have a little more than six weeks until November 5. Six short weeks. Make the most of them. Get with Refuse Fascism; if a Refuse Fascism chapter does not exist where you are, call their national office or go to their site and set one up yourself. To make sense of these developments and understand the deeper sources and directions behind them—listen to, discuss and spread the social media messages from Bob Avakian.

Finally: make being part of bringing the needed millions to DC your number one priority; and win others to it as well.