The U.S. Federal Government, through the executive branch and agencies it overseas, has been taking fascist action in 2025, consolidating power into the executive branch, ignoring laws passed by congress, and using its power to take away freedoms of American Citizens.

We each may draw a different line of what constitutes a Fascist act. You'll probably agree with some of my picks below, and disagree with others. You don't need to know every single story, but you should learn at least a few of them so you can start to talk to others about these fascist acts.

Top Concerns

These are my top Fascist Concerns that I have reviewed and written about. This article is a work-in-progress and many fascist acts have not been meaningfully documented.

Defying Court Orders (Migrants)

Trump was deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act (a law for use in wartime), in order to remove constitutionoally protected due-process rights from migrants. The deportations were challenged in court, and the judge ordered Trump not to deport the migrants while the legal battle proceeded, but Trump did so anyway. In addition, Trump sent these Venezuelans to a slave labor prison in El Salvador, a country run by a self-proclaimed Dictator.

Deporting migrants is not a fascist act. Defying court orders is a fascist act. Using wartime laws during peacetime is a fascist act. (Congress has not declared war, and only Congress can declare war) Sending Venezuelans to El Salvador (a country they're not from) to perform hard slave labor is a fascist act.

The issue here is not the political disagreement about how America should handle immigrants. The issue here is that the president of the United States is defying American law, and not allowing our legal system and democratic systems to work.

See Trump Defies Judge to Deport Venezuelans to Salvadoran Slave Jail

Unscientific and Culturally Dictatorial Executive Order

Trump's 22nd Executive Order, Section 2 states "It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female."

Intersex people are born with mixed sexual characteristics, like a vagina and testes, or mixed chromosomes like XXY. An estimated 5.6 Million Americans are intersex. This Executive Order denies the existence of these people.

Transgender individuals are born with sex characteristics that do not match their gender identity, such as someone with a vagina and ovaries who lives as a man. Around 2.3 Million Americans are trans. This EO denies the existence of these people.

Being anti-trans is wrong, but it's not fascist. It is fascist for Trump to use the American Government to force his anti-trans perspective onto free-thinking Americans. It is fascist to use the force of law to erase the existence of trans and intersex people from the public sphere. Regardless what you believe about trans or intersex people (or how you might describe them), they do exist, and it is Fascist for the government to use the force of law to pretend otherwise.

Also see Emily Quinn, an intersex woman born with a vagina and testes.

Top Concerns (To Review)

This page is a work in progress, but here are some of my top concerns that I'm already aware of. I have much more research + fact checking to do. I plan to collect links for more reading, but have not done so yet.

• Deporting the protester (or attempting to) for exercising free speech
• USAID funding cut, plus failing to follow court orders, plus Supreme Court's narrow ruling
• Two sexes executive order is not scientifically or socially accurate
• Pardoning insurrectionists who literally tried to violently overthrow the federal government
• Arguing for complete presidential immunity
• Kicking journalists out of the pentagon and replacing them with right wing outlets (Didn't journalists get kicked out of the whitehouse too?)
• ending birthright citizenship
• Failing to follow laws already passed by congress and previously signed into law. (USAID, cutting funding for depts, or attempting to abolish congressionally established departments)
• Installing a billionaire nazi (musk) into the federal government

Priority 2 concerns (to review)

Concerns that are quite alarming, but maybe not quite as much as my top concerns. It's hard to sort these, because they're all pretty horrible, but some are definitely worse than others.

• Banning (or attempting to ban) gender-affirming medical care
• Filing lawsuits against universities for racism because they implemented DEI policies
• doj dropped the case against trump's co-defendents in the documents case
• locking up up to 30,000 migrants in guantanamo bay
• Giving musk access to the private data of citizens & keeping it on a private server (and not doing a PIA, as required by law)
• Suing illinois for sanctuary city laws
• Eliminating department of education (a department established and funded by congress?)
• Punishing media for oppositional messaging (suing abc news for "rape" comment, all his rhetoric attacking the media)
• Threatening to punish political opponents

Articles/issues to review

I'm working to review articles and categorize issues based on the severity. These also all need to be fact checked. Some are based on articles i read, some are info I got from friends, some are just news snippets/headlines that I've seen. Most of this is stuff I wrote down during the first week or two of February, and I have not kept up much on the news since then, so I'm probably missing a lot.

• invading schools and local communities with ICE
• disrupting federal operations (funding/hiring freeze)
• Blaming every problem on DEI and immigrants
• Creating racial fear with lies (hatians eating pets) & exagerations (migrant crime)
• blatant lies (Trump's great immigration chart, the one from when he got shot.)
• Using funding to pressure schools into concealing the truth (dei, critical race theory, lbtqia+/gender stuff)
• Installing a hyper partisan supreme courtj
• Supporting abortion bans
• private companies changing policies to align with the president (Facebook ending fact checking, tons of corpos ending dei programs)
• Trump saying it would be cheaper to imprison American criminals elsewhere (el salvador, rubio)
• pulling out of international coalitions (paris climate accords, UN human rights council)
• Isolationist/nationalistic tariffs and trade policie
• the whole DOGE "tell me five things you did last week" email debacle
• Attempting to get federal workers to quit by spamming them with resignation emails

Lines I draw

These are specific acts that, if crossed, I would firmly believe that Fascism is here.

• President denying/not following court orders
• Policing arresting teachers for using trans pronouns, or arresting librarians for failing to ban books
• Using military courts to try citizens
  • Uganda did this, and then the Ugandan Supreme Court ruled it was illegal, and the president said that the Supreme Court got it wrong and was planning to continue doing it.
• Putting people in concentration camps (or prisons) without due process
• President directly violating the constitution (deporting citizens protected by the 14th amendment, or even trying to)
• "Nicaragua legislature ratifies constitutional reforms granting president control over all state branches"