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** Tell Congress: America is Not a Hunting Ground for Dictators
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In 2022, Iran tried to assassinate American citizen Masih Alinejad ([link removed]) in Brooklyn, New York for speaking out against the Ayatollah’s oppression of women. Now, those would-be assassins are on trial in New York ([link removed]) .

A quiet neighborhood in Brooklyn is not where you would expect an assassin to appear. But that is exactly what happened in July 2022, when a hitman hired by Iran’s regime ([link removed]) arrived on the doorstep of women’s rights advocate Masih Alinejad with a loaded AK-47 in hand.
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Masih is an American citizen living in New York. Her street could have been your street. Your neighborhood. What if your child had been playing outside when the assassin approached Masih’s home? What if they had been caught in the crossfire?

While most of us are not political dissidents, the reality is that we walk the same streets. This is much bigger than dictators trying to kill their opponents. Authoritarian regimes spend billions of dollars to secretly influence us and overtly interfere in our society by stealing secrets from American companies and co-opting the freedom of our academic institutions to spread intolerant and outwardly authoritarian ideas.

Borders don’t mean anything to regimes that violate them openly. Dictators never stop–they are stopped.

SIGN THE PETITION ([link removed])

If you think what happened to Masih should never happen to another person in this country, it’s time to speak up. Sign this petition to demand action against dictator hit squads in our backyards.

The US government has the power to protect people on American soil from foreign tyrants. By signing, you’re urging lawmakers to pass long-overdue legislation to address transnational repression—when dictators reach across their borders to silence dissidents, pressure governments, and intimidate organizations, undermining our rights and security.

This is your chance to tell Congress to take action by supporting the bipartisan bills the Combating Transnational Repression Act ([link removed]) and the Transnational Repression Reporting Act ([link removed]) .

These bills will:
* Create a Transnational Repression Office in the US Department of Homeland Security to track, investigate, and counter transnational repression in the US.
* Require official reporting on every case of transnational repression in the US and the government’s response.

America is not a hunting ground for dictators. Sign the petition now to demand action and protect yourself, your family, and your community.
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