Dear John,

When Trump won the election, I knew things would be bad.

But even I didn’t think it would be this bad.

As of yesterday, Donald Trump has signed more than 70 executive orders — many unlawful, unconstitutional, or both — covering nearly every aspect of American life and foreign policy, and the consequences have been devastating.

If you are dumbfounded into inaction, if you don’t even want to hear the news, if you feel as though you’re living through a nightmare over which you have no control, I get it. Every other day I feel the same.

But, John, the American people didn’t vote for dictatorship, and there will be a reckoning. In fact, it’s already begun.

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the Senate phone system has been receiving around 1,600 calls each minute, compared to the 40 calls per minute it usually gets. At Inequality Media, our views and engagements are up 300% over the same time last year, and our net audience growth is up 800%.

Now we need to ramp it up, and Inequality Media is using our massive following across social media to connect the dots around the larger significance of the daily barrage of news stories and plug people into grassroots actions they can take to fight back.

That’s why I’m asking you today: Will you make a monthly donation to help educate the public and fight back against Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda?

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In the age of monarchs, kings issued decrees. The tsars of imperial Russia proclaimed ukases. The dictators of the 20th century made diktats. Trump issues executive orders.

Average people in the age of monarchs, tsars, and dictators were largely powerless. Resistance meant almost certain death. Many people were resigned to vulnerability. They practiced passivity. They knew no life other than repression.

But their deference entrenched and ensured the power of the authoritarians.

Arbitrary power depends on the acquiescence of everyone subjected to it, and that’s the same playbook Trump is using right now. But Donald Trump does not have the power of an absolute dictator, and you and I have no choice but to stand up to him.

Inequality Media is working day and night to sound the alarm and mobilize people to speak out and fight back, and it’s working. Millions of Americans — including many who have been purged from their positions of responsibility — are standing up to Trump’s tyranny.

But as a grassroots-funded nonprofit organization, we rely on your support to power everything we do. So please, if you can afford it, make a monthly donation to help support Inequality Media, get the truth out, and fight back against Donald Trump’s assault on democracy.