President Donald Trump has declared war - literal war - on the American people, invading cities with shock troops in full combat camouflage with waves of secret police who swoop in to randomly snatch protest leaders and average nonviolent citizens to then take them away in unmarked vans. Trump is using the protesters' attempts to tear down Confederate statues and other monuments honoring racists, traitors, bigots, slave owners and genocidal maniacs as his excuse to invade numerous American cities. He promises to have his storm troopers arrest anyone who defaces federal property and he’s declared they’ll spend ten years in prison. He’s initiated a fake state of emergency, enhanced his authoritarian powers, caused mass confusion and chaos during a pandemic he helped spread, and he hopes to suppress, postpone or cancel November’s Presidential election as a means of extending his reign.

This legal defense fund, initiated by filmmaker Michael Moore, is intended to fight all of this by providing help to those arrested, injured, detained or imprisoned and to assist in efforts to defend our democracy and its citizens who are abused by Trump and his regime. 100% of all monies received will go to the people and groups arrested and abused while protesting during Trump’s reign of terror.