📢 Freedom Over Fascism News — January 9, 2026
🗽 Freedom Over Fascism News & Actions for January 9, 2026. Freedom is a daily act of advocacy and holding our leaders accountable to the will of the people.
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Today in Freedom Over Fascism we’re featuring: January 9, 2026 news briefs, video briefs, and calls-to-action. Freedom is a daily act of advocacy and holding our leaders accountable to the will of the people.
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When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed members of Congress, justices, and elites aren't serving the people—they’re scheming to suppress our voices, strip away our rights, and rule over us. But progress and power to the people is more than an idea; it’s a movement. By standing up, speaking out, and demanding dignity, opportunity, and justice for all, we can build an America that truly lives up to its promise.
Freedom Over Fascism - News Briefs
Today, instead of our usual headlines, we want to draw your attention to an important nationwide action happening this weekend: ICE Out for Good.
At People Power United, we support safe and orderly borders that respect the dignity and humanity of those who live here and those seeking asylum. What’s broken is not the immigrant who has lived and worked in this country for 5, 10, or even 30 years—raising families, contributing to their communities, following the rules, filing paperwork, attending check-ins, and waiting year after year for a system that never delivers. What’s broken is a government that has failed to fix an immigration system riddled with delays, shifting rules, a shortage of judges, no legal help, and rampant abuse.
While Congress stalls, immigrants wait decades. Lawyers exploit desperate clients. Private detention companies profit from human suffering. And ICE raids homes in the middle of the night—stripping people of dignity, using force and fear, and deporting them to countries they may not know. Blaming immigrants for this chaos is wrong. The responsibility lies with a government that has ignored Dreamers, asylum seekers, and immigrants, underfunded the courts, allowed profiteering, and weaponized surveillance against the very people who call America home.
That’s why actions like ICE Out for Good matter—and why we must keep showing up for justice, accountability, and humanity.
People Power United is a proud member of the Not Above the Law coalition which is calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action on Saturday, January 10th, and Sunday, January 11th, to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.
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▶️ We are outraged by the killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE. She was a 37 year old wife and mother of three children who loved to sing and studied creative writing and she was shot in the face by an ICE agent. We grieve her death and the deaths of all those killed in ICE detention.
▶️ ICE has been escalating its cruel deployments into our communities. This recent killing is not an isolated incident, but the devastating and predictable result of ICE’s lawless operations and President Trump’s abuse of power.
▶️ ICE and CBP have endangered our communities. Our neighbors fear for their livelihoods and their lives, and our communities are less safe. We won’t stand for it.
▶️ We demand accountability for the killing and an end to ICE and CBP raids. We will not sit by while violence goes unanswered and our communities are terrorized.
We will meet ICE’s violence with steadfast nonviolence and lawful protest.
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💥 Urgent Calls to Action to Protect Democracy:
Click here to sign the petition: Tell Congress: It’s Time to Defund ICE
Click here to Tell Apple & Google CEOs: End your contracts with ICE NOW.
Click here to read the coalition letter to refuse increased funding to ICE
Click here to read How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Click here for Protest Resources by Democracy Security Project
How Project 2025 shifts the USA towards a fascist regime
Project 2025 is a blatant power grab designed to give extreme MAGA Republicans unchecked control. Donald Trump and his Republican allies plan to use it to criminalize abortion and those seeking asylum, attack the poor and middle class, and dismantle essential programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, SNAP, and veterans’ benefits.
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Freedom Over Fascism - Statement
People Power United declares Fascism a clear and present danger to our rights, freedoms, democracy, and the rule of law.
In response to recent MAGA shenanigans to promote Fascism, People Power United - a progressive grassroots group - issued the following statement:
“MAGA Republicans have no interest in representing us. They want to rule over us. Freedom is a daily act of advocacy and holding our leaders accountable to the will of the people. There is no power like that of the people, and People Power United stands ready to protect our communities against any and all injustices,” said Laurie Woodward García of People Power United.
People Power United will continue to oppose such harm to our community and champion civil and human rights for all.
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How do we fight Fascism?
Hope
Hope is a powerful weapon against fascism, serving as both a shield and a rallying cry in the face of fear and oppression. While fascism thrives on division, despair, and apathy, hope inspires unity, action, and resilience. Hope empowers us to envision a society built on equality, justice, and freedom, motivating us to take meaningful steps to protect these values.
Respect
Respect is a formidable weapon against fascism, countering its foundation of hatred and dehumanization with dignity and inclusivity. By leading with respect, we create a society where collaboration and compassion overpower fear and division, rendering fascism powerless in the face of unity.
Unity
Unity is one of the most powerful weapons against fascism, as it dismantles the divide-and-conquer tactics that authoritarian regimes rely on to maintain power.
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Together, we can protect and empower those we love, champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people's will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.
Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests), People Power United
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