With the United States increasingly and rapidly delving into fascism with the unfortunately fully expected cooperation of the, "Democratic," party, we have seen a drastic increase in the planning of concentration camps, and it is painfully obvious that this will inevitably - and unfortunately likely quickly - transition into full-fledged genocide with the backing of unaffected Americans.
There are already mass ICE raids[1] against non-white people in the United States; not just Latino immigrants, but immigrants in general, and even challenging the birthright citizenship of Indigenous Americans[2] [3], and threatening to deport them to Mexico.
Our fascist president demanded Denmark give him the entire continent of Greenland[4] as a military strategic point. When Denmark reminded him once anew that the continent isn't for sale and Greenland's future will be determined by its citizens - who don't want to become Americans - he threatened to take Greenland by force or via sanctions. This prompted the Nordic countries to unite against the United States[5] and bolster Denmark's military defense by billions of dollars.
He has also threatened to take over the Panama Canal[6], has threatened to invade Mexico[7], and has threatened to invade Canada and convert it into a 51st state by force.[8] [9] He has also commanded the construction of a 30,000 capacity prison[10] [11] - more accurately concentration camp - in Guantanamo Bay, and is currently planning on using an existing facility as a temporary concentration camp. Given his past behaviour, it wouldn't be surprising to expect he threatens Cuba with invasion.
This fascist president has also demanded Gaza be, "cleaned out,"[12] - read: ethnic cleansing - which has prompted a mass unification of Arab and North African countries against the genocidal demands of our dictator[13] [14] - an accurate term given he has been largely unchallenged by so-called, "Democrats," and the fascists' stranglehold over the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency.
Neoliberal news agencies have been removed from access to the Pentagon and have been entirely replaced by known fascist news agencies to restrict and control the flow and phrasing of information about government activities.[15] [16]
Many government organizations have been cut down significantly to the point of barely being functional[17] [18], including the Department of Labor[19] [20] - who keep unions legal - and the Department of Education is slated to be obliterated entirely.[21] Incarcerated trans women have been rapidly transferred to solitary confinement without prior notice or time to inform their bunk-mates, and have been threatened with forced detransitioning.[22] [23]
There are plans in place to make transgender surgeries and medication illegal, and bills have already been in place to criminalize the treatment of transgender children - of which some hospitals have already been exercising precompliance despite them not being laws yet.[24] [25] Trans people who have been trying to change or update their passports for any reason have been having their passports and all supporting documents seized and not returned to them.[26]
The United States' Department of State has removed the TQIA+ portion of the queer-trans acronym on their travel.state.gov page for International Travel in their Before You Go sub-page and altered the phrasing multiple times.[27] The CDC is actively being censored and all information on transgender healthcare has been wiped from the page[28] [29] [30] - directly mimicking the first book burning of Nazi Germany wherein Jewish literature on transgender history and medicine were obliterated[31] [32] - and members of the CDC have been instructed to remove pronouns from their information.[33]
Given the sheer weight of power that The Heritage Foundation has over the United States government, and their plans to define anything transgender as pornographic, and also to ban pornography, and the fascist president emulating Adolf Hitler in defining his policies against immigration and, "Marxism and transgenderism,"[34] [35] this is clearly going to dovetail into the genocide of transgender Americans, especially transgender women.
It is the pinnacle of importance that transgender biochemistry technology is archived so that its information isn't lost, and equally as extremely important that boots-on-the-ground organization take place in-person and not just online. We are bound to see the criminalization of Communists, of transgender people, and inevitably Muslims, directly invoking the warnings of First They Came[36] by Pastor Martin Niemoller.
It is here that I must divulge some paraphrased Resistance advice transferred secondhand by the son of a Holocaust survivor, shared by Tor Ekeland in a thread on his BlueSky page[37] regarding his father, who had been tortured by the gestapo and transferred to a concentration camp for being part of the Norwegian Resistance:
In direct relevance to this, comrade Ian Danskin recently released another video to his page, a harrowing addition to The Alt-Right Playbook, titled The South Side of the Rubicon[38]. While I recommend watching it in its entirety, and without distractions, I will summarize that the video emphasizes that fascism is not an abrupt process, and something that occurs through attrition.
Much alike how when Caesar was instructed to stay away from the opposing army, and crossing from the North to the South side of the Rubicon was considered the point of no return, before he conquered Rome and converted it into an empire, you must decide where the bank of your Rubicon is. What is the point of no return, wherein if something drastic does not immediately happen, your rights are forfeit and your life is at risk?
I find my Rubicon at a rather obvious crossroads: when either Communism or transgender people are officially criminalized in the fascist American empire. When either the sheer concept of a stateless, classless, moneyless society in which all people are treated with equity is considered a banned sociopolitical philosophy, or when my very existence with an active pulse is deemed illegal, my life will be at active risk, and both myself and others like me will no longer be able to quietly try to live our lives and build communities: the time will come when it is necessary to preserve oneself and refuse to die under the boot of fascism and slice the Achilles with the sickle while the steel-toe is smashed down and crushed with the hammer.
The path to create the first portion of this threat is unfortunately already at hand: a bill has been put in place to define anti-Zionism as antisemitism, and then criminalize antisemitism.[39] This ironically antisemitic proposal is designed to target anyone who opposes the Israeli genocide of Palestine.
Additionally, a bill has been proposed to define Antifascist Action[40] (wherein they cower to state who their enemy truly is, exclusively referring to it as Antifa) as a terrorist organization, despite neither seeking to create terror nor being an organization. This fascist proposal directly seeks to criminalize anyone who is willing to perform praxis against fascism.
Herein I must provide my own independent advice for how to proceed, vaguely helpful though it may be. When describing anything of critical importance, it is paramount to remember that we live in a surveillance state and a police state.
Do not write anything down in the Google Suite or Microsoft Suite, due to the presence of their text scraping programs and precompliance with the fascist government (an example of the former being Google complying with relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in Google Maps).[41]
Do not share plans via text or email: these are not as secure as you may believe they are, whether they're encrypted or not. Do not trust a VPN to fully secure the transfer of your information when using other people's servers.
Do what you can to not discuss actual praxis in the presence of cameras or microphones, and this most definitely includes, "smart devices," (which are surveillance technology; for instance, "smart fridges," have a small internal camera near the top of the screen which analyzes your facial expressions to tell if you like the way packaging looks, sending that data back to advertising companies) and especially cell phones.
Remember that praxis does not need to be violent, and much of the work of praxis will be providing safe shelter, food, and water to those most affected by oppression: queer, trans, and racial minorities, and the poor and homeless.
Couriers will be both the most integral to the safe flow of information and will simultaneously be the at-highest-risk of your groups, being tasked with the spread of information and supplies between different groups and shelters.
Try to use codes in discussion, but make sure there are never more than five steps to encoding or decoding discussions, and furthermore never write the instructions down. These must be committed to memory to prolong how long it is taken to code-break. It is recommended to regularly change these methods and manually inform your comrades how these codes may change. These can range from as simple as word and phrase substitutions to as complex as multi-layered salted ciphers.
Do what you can to maintain backups of information, and collect as much useful information as possible. However, you must remember to prune what information you actually collect: when large populations all simultaneously produce data that may be considered concerning, it drastically slows down the process of data gathering and drastically hinders the ability to perform meta-analyses of the data to assess real risks: something even major nations struggle with.
Any information about the people you are trying to protect is sure to be destroyed by the powers trying to eradicate them. We can already see this with the mass deletion of any discussions of queer and trans people across government websites.
I would be horribly amiss to fail to mention that intersex people have been crying out to be acknowledged and protected as much as their trans siblings. The fascist powers will do everything in their power to eradicate them - something we have unfortunately already seen for centuries with forced medical treatments from genital mutilation to forced medication in intersex children (and yet they deny these medicines to transgender children) - both in person and in history. Intersex people have always and will always exist and we must stand with them and never let them be erased.
Indigenous people will be at extremely high risk and you will need to listen to them. Just as you must acknowledge internal prejudices - for instance grappling with internalized racism and Islamophobia - and actively fight back against them. It is not enough to not be racist: you must actively be anti-racist. To this effect, you must acknowledge that it is ethical and right for land to be returned to the Indigenous people all across the globe, and especially in the Americas.
The fascists will try to complete their genocide: do not let them. They deserve an equal part in government in equal power to whatever government is established here, not relegated to simply being the presidents of tribes splintered into small portions, but given equal weight in the decisions of the governments that drastically affect their lives.
Attempting to flee to Europe, Mexico, or Canada will not save you. Europe is having a rightist wave just as bad as the United States - and even in Germany, wherein Nazism is explicitly criminalized, the Alternative fur Deutschland party (a modern Nazi party) seems primed to take over the government[42] [43] - Canada has equally participated in both the genocide and cover-ups of indigenous people, especially missing and murdered indigenous women, and has been increasingly moving to the right as well, and our fascist president has threatened to invade both Mexico and Canada.
Cuba, despite its phenomenal trans rights, will also likely not be a safe place to attempt to flee to, as the United States' Guantanamo Bay is located in Cuba. If you are to attempt to flee anywhere, I would recommend Brazil, Ireland, or Vietnam - the latter of which being a Socialist country - but it must be emphasized that if you are transgender or a non-white immigrant this may not be possible for you.
Just as a white man's words can go a long way to secure safety, one of the most dangerous weapons are a white woman's tears. Use your privilege to help the oppressed around you, but be equally aware that your privileges can actively cause harm. You must use your privilege to uplift and protect, and actively call out when the people around you are making peoples' lives worse.
As long as you have income, continue to donate to Palestine. Don't you fucking dare leave them behind. They have been surviving in far worse conditions for over a year, and if you have the income to spare, you need to help them find shelter, acquire food and water, and care for their children.