(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - For 151 organizations from coast to coast, including the Nation’s two largest Unions, the repression of Washington, D.C., by the Trump Regime is the proverbial “canary in the coal mine” for the fate of the rest of the country under Right-Wing hegemony.

And they want Congressional Leaders to stop such a pending Trump dictatorship nationally in its tracks by pledging to vote down any and all laws - and Presidential edicts that eat away the capability of the Nation’s Capital to govern itself.

That resistance, the groups say, would signal to the rest of the country that people will not be bullied into submission.

Underlining the relevance of their warning to Congress was an edict just issued by the White House that claims groups describing themselves as Anti-Fascist are, in fact, fomenting violence and terrorism.

“This Anti-Fascist lie,” the White House memorandum says, in part, “has become the organizing cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against Democratic institutions, Constitutional rights and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include: anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; Support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race and gender; and Hostility towards those who hold traditional views on family, religion and morality.

Many lawmakers, including Democrats thus far, have not indicated that they will be quick to move on the warning letter stipulating that repression in D.C. is an indicator of more to come elsewhere.

Some are falsely hoping that what Trump is doing to D.C. will not happen elsewhere and that the Administration’s dictatorial actions are not as severe as they are.

But the memorandum issued by the White House points to the futility of those hopes.

President Donald Trump, a noted opponent of Civil Rights and Working-Class Unity, has not hesitated to punish D.C., which is 44% Black, 44% White and 12% other races.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a pro-corporate African-American Democrat, has tried to mollify Trump, but that approach has failed.

The threats the groups’ letter warns of include overriding local laws, sending U.S. troops into U.S. city streets against peaceful people and protesters, and turning loose masked, unidentified thugs, allegedly Federal Police and ICE agents.

They kidnap people - citizen or not, migrant or not - out of their cars, their churches, their schools, their stores, their restaurants and their courts, beating some into unconsciousness.

ICE also caused one death in California’s Central Valley.

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