📢 Freedom Over Fascism News — October 13, 2025 | Updates and Actions You Can Take Today
🗽 News & Actions: October 13, 2025. Freedom is a daily act of advocacy and holding our leaders accountable to the will of the people.
Today in Freedom Over Fascism we’re featuring: October 13, 2025 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.
Together we can advocate for Freedom Over Fascism:
When leaders escape accountability, it signals that power—not justice—rules, eroding trust, fueling corruption, and opening the door to authoritarianism. Billionaire-backed 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
💸 The cancellation of Obamacare Subsidies for Couples Could Push Premiums Up by Nearly $2,000
New analyses show that one couples’ health insurance premiums under the cancellation of the Obamacare subsidies (also known as the Affordable Care Act) could spike nearly $2,000 due to subsidy rule changes. The shift would hit middle-class families hard, especially in states with limited protections. Critics argue the policy destabilizes coverage just when healthcare is under threat. — NBC News
📉 ACA Premiums, Shutdown Fight, and Tax Credit Hike in the Balance
In the midst of the shutdown, discussions over increasing ACA tax credits have emerged as a lifeline to mitigate skyrocketing insurance prices. The convergence of political brinkmanship and healthcare demands shines a spotlight on whose health gets sacrificed for ideology. — Mother Jones
📨 Social Security Shuts Down Benefit Verification Letters
Due to federal shutdown operations, the agency has paused sending verification letters necessary for many to retain Social Security benefits. The interruption threatens to leave vulnerable seniors and disabled individuals without critical income. It’s a stark example of how shutdowns disproportionately harm those who depend on government safety nets. — NPR
📚 Anti-Fascism Author Mark Bray Faces Right-Wing Backlash After Rutgers Speech
Mark Bray, a Rutgers University historian and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, faced attacks from conservative media and officials following a campus lecture on resisting authoritarianism. Critics accused Bray of promoting extremism, while supporters defended his work as essential scholarship on democratic resistance. The controversy highlights the growing tension between academic freedom and political efforts to suppress anti-fascist discourse in U.S. institutions. — The Guardian
⚖️ Trump Calls For Chicago Mayor, Illinois Governor To Be Jailed Amid Resistance To Troop Deployment
Donald Trump called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to be jailed after they resisted his plan to deploy federal troops to the city. Both leaders condemned the move as an authoritarian overreach that would endanger civilians and escalate tensions. Trump’s remarks mark a new escalation in his confrontation with state officials who refuse to comply with his use of military force on U.S. soil. — HuffPost
Do Not Succumb to Trump’s Fascism | The Warning with Steve Schmidt
Urgent Calls to Action to Champion Freedom Over Fascism:
Click here to sign on to our petition to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to reject an illegal and unnecessary voter registration requirement that would effectively block millions of Americans from voting by imposing severe barriers to registration.
Click here to Stop the “Show-Your-Papers” Voter Suppression Rule
Click here to Tell Lindsey Graham: Stop Pushing Illegal Third Trump Term
Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now
Click here to End Trump Witch Hunt Against James Comey
Click here to Stop Trump from Deploying Troops in U.S. Cities
Tell Congress: Reject any funding bill that fails to protect our health and hold Trump accountable. Your voice can stop backroom deals and protect millions from losing care. ➡️ Send Your Letter »
Join the NO KINGS National Day of Action. Show the nation that we reject would-be kings and demand a government that serves all of us. ➡️ RSVP for NO KINGS »
Click here to Tell Congress to Pass the Billionaires Income Tax
Click here to demand the release of the Epstein files
How Project 2025 shifts the USA towards a fascist regime
Donald Trump’s Project 2025 is a blatant power grab that aims to give extreme MAGA Republicans unchecked authority. They plan to use this power to criminalize abortion and people seeking asylum, undermine the poor and middle class, and dismantle Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Affordable Care Act, SNAP, and Veterans benefits.
Under Trump’s Project 2025, Republicans intend to impose a nationwide abortion ban and create a national registry to monitor women’s pregnancies and miscarriages. They even threaten to imprison doctors and nurses who provide essential care.
If enacted, Project 2025 would also gut the Affordable Care Act, leading to higher healthcare costs for everyone and a loss of protections for pre-existing conditions. Workers would lose their right to overtime pay, and middle-class families would face tax hikes—all while wealthy corporations receive new handouts.
Republicans’ Project 2025 includes a detailed plan to dismantle Social Security and Medicare as we know them. This means slashing benefits for seniors and allowing Big Pharma to charge exorbitant prices for medication.
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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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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.
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