One Year

Dear America, The following items are submitted for the record.

Dear America,

The following items are submitted for the record.

One Bible. One oath. Forty-three seconds. One hundred fifty-four pardons issued before sundown—men who beat police officers with flagpoles, who built gallows on the lawn, who smeared feces on walls erected in 1800. The President called them hostages. The President called them patriots. The officers who died were not mentioned. The officers who took their own lives were not mentioned.

You watched. You did not look away. And then you looked away.

One constitutional amendment. The Fourteenth. Ratified 1868. It survived the Klan and the Chinese Exclusion Act and the mass deportations of the 1930s. Suspended by executive order, Day One. Courts issued stays. The administration issued statements that it would not comply.

One order. 11246. Signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Required federal contractors to take affirmative action against discrimination. Upheld by Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden. Rescinded, Day One.

Tens of thousands of federal employees. Schedule F. Reclassified as at-will. Loyalty over competence. The civil service as we knew it, dismantled.

One legal doctrine. Disparate impact. The principle that policies appearing neutral but producing discriminatory results can be challenged. The mechanism used since 1965 to detect and remedy workplace discrimination. Rolled back to the maximum degree possible. The EEOC will no longer investigate. Seventy-five percent of the lawyers in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division resigned.

The administration calls this restoring equality. The President calls civil rights law reverse discrimination.

Think about that phrase. Reverse discrimination. You cannot reverse something that does not exist. The word is an admission.

Two trillion dollars. The promised savings from the Department of Government Efficiency. Revised: one trillion. Revised again: one hundred fifty billion. Actual deficit growth since January 20: two trillion dollars. National debt: thirty-eight trillion.

From the party of fiscal responsibility.

Two hundred seventy-one thousand federal employees. Gone. The largest peacetime purge in American history. The people who tracked disease outbreaks. The people who monitored food safety. The people who processed retirement claims and answered Social Security calls. Average length of service: sixteen years.

One memecoin. $TRUMP. Launched three days before the inauguration. Peak value: $8.7 billion. One jet. A gift from Qatar. Value: $400 million. Six real estate projects in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE—announced by his sons while he negotiated arms deals with the same governments. Crypto holdings worth as much as $11 billion. Income from crypto sales in the first six months: $800 million.

A House report called it corruption on a scale America has never seen inside the White House.

The President said: I would never turn down that kind of offer. I mean, I could be a stupid person.

One agency. USAID. Dismantled. Elon Musk called it a viper’s nest. He said it was time for it to die.

It died. So did 720,000 people. Mostly children. HIV treatment stopped. Malaria medication halted. Vaccines undelivered.

There is a counter. A professor at Boston University built it. It tracks the deaths. It ticks upward. One hundred three lives every hour. While you are reading this, someone died who would not have. A child in Mozambique who was going to receive a malaria net. A mother in Uganda who was taking antiretrovirals. They are not in the news. They are not on anyone’s front page. They are just gone. The counter does not stop for paragraphs. It does not stop for you to feel something. It just counts.

One scientific finding. The 2009 EPA endangerment finding. The determination that greenhouse gases harm human health. The legal basis for sixteen years of climate regulation. Proposed for revocation. The EPA administrator called it driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.

Religion. That is what they call science now.

Fifty states. Zero allowed to regulate artificial intelligence. The administration will sue any state that tries. The billionaires who funded the campaign now write the rules for the technology that will reshape everything. No guardrails. No accountability. No public input.

The future is being built. You are not invited to the design phase.

Seven countries. Iran. Iraq. Nigeria. Somalia. Syria. Venezuela. Yemen. Bombed. Six hundred twenty-six airstrikes. More in Somalia alone than Bush, Obama, and Biden combined.

Three nuclear facilities in Iran. B-2 bombers flying nonstop from Missouri. The first American president to bomb the country. Seventy targets in Syria. The Secretary of War called it a declaration of vengeance. Sixteen targets in Nigeria on Christmas Day. The President said he wanted to give Christians a present.

One hundred six people killed on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. One docking facility in Venezuela. Then the capture of a sitting head of state. No congressional authorization. Eighty dead. A missile struck an apartment building. An eighty-year-old woman died in her sleep.

Fifty-six percent of Americans say he has gone too far. Eighty-six percent oppose taking Greenland by force. The threats keep coming anyway. Colombia: He better watch his ass. Cuba: Ready to fall. Mexico: We’re going to have to do something. Iran: Locked and loaded.

He calls it the Donroe Doctrine. He is awake at 1:30 a.m. posting AI-generated images of himself planting flags on foreign soil.

Four hundred sixty-three Palestinians killed since the ceasefire began. Israel kept bombing. We kept arming.

One detention facility. The Florida Everglades. Nickname: Alligator Alcatraz. Named after a prison so brutal it was shuttered in 1963. Toilets overflow with sewage. Detainees get two minutes to eat. The food has worms. There are no showers. There is no prescription medication. Officials say the facility meets all required standards.

Merchandise available. T-shirts. Koozies. Hats.

One helicopter. Black Hawk. Over the South Side of Chicago. 1 a.m. The sound of rotors waking children before the doors came off the hinges. Agents rappelling. Flash-bang grenades. Thirty-seven arrested. Most had no criminal record. Children zip-tied. U.S. citizens pulled from apartments and dragged out without clothes. Into unmarked vans.

One father. Silverio Villegas González. Thirty-eight years old. Two children. He had just dropped one off at daycare. ICE agents boxed in his car. He tried to back away. An agent shot him in the neck. Homeland Security said the agent had been dragged a significant distance. Body camera footage shows him walking around afterward. I got dragged a little bit, he says. Nothing major.

One mother. Renee Nicole Good. Thirty-seven years old. Her last words, captured on tape: "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you."

Then she was shot. Three times. At close range.

The administration called her a domestic terrorist. Video shows she did not hit the agent. Video shows he was not in her path.

The pattern is the same every time. Shoot first. Lie immediately. Attack the dead.

Two million documents. The Epstein files. Congress passed the release 427 to 1. Deadline: December 19.

Less than one percent released. The rest remain under review. Hundreds of pages fully blacked out. Seventy-four percent of Republicans want them. Twenty-three percent approve of the President’s handling.

The survivors spent hours searching for their own files. One said: It’s another slap in the face. Another, abused at fourteen, said: The justice system is failing us again.

He called the files a hoax. He called Jeffrey Epstein somebody that nobody cares about.

Fifteen hundred dollars per household. Tariffs. You paid. He said China would. Grocery prices rose 0.7 percent in December—the largest monthly increase since 2022. Coffee up twenty percent. Beef up sixteen percent. The President said, the same day: We’ve got prices way down.

One hundred fourteen percent. Average premium increase after ACA subsidies expired. 4.8 million Americans projected to lose coverage.

Three votes. Regina Foley. Registered Republican. Voted for him three times. She wrote to Fox News: Wall Street numbers do not reflect my main street money. Please do something, President Trump.

The President responded: Beef we have to get down.

One farmer. North Dakota. Soybeans rotting in storage because China stopped buying. Prices down forty percent. He told a reporter: This is not what I voted for.

One Libertarian. Morgen Morgus. Parker, Pennsylvania. He wrote to USA Today: A year after the election, I feel completely swindled.

Thirty-six percent. Latino voters who supported him who now say they are disappointed or regret their decision.

The podcasters who got him elected. The ones who interviewed him, endorsed him, attended the inauguration. One now calls it the Gestapo. One says he feels duped. One told the administration to stop using his face in deportation videos.

The permission structure is cracking.

Thirty-eight percent overall approval. The lowest of his second term.

Thirty-seven percent on foreign policy. Fifty-six percent disapprove.

When asked if there are limits on his power, he told the New York Times: My own morality.

This is the President of the United States, the first convicted felon to hold the office, describing the only constraint on his authority. Congress did not stop him. The Supreme Court allowed the birthright citizenship order to proceed. Allowed deportations without due process. Allowed defiance of its own rulings. Courts issued orders. The administration issued statements that it would not comply.

And nothing happened.

And nothing happened.

And nothing happened.

One year ago, you were told to give him a chance.

One word. The word no one wants to say.

Fascism.

Not the fascism of jackboots and armbands. The fascism of legal memos and compliance. The kind that lets you keep your job if you keep your head down. The kind where the only limit on power is the man who holds it.

They are telling you this is normal. The tirades. The threats. The courts defied.

Do not adjust.

We are not saying the word because the word feels too big. We are letting exhaustion do the work of compliance.

Say it.

One year. Three hundred sixty-five days.

Days remaining: one thousand ninety-six.

These items are submitted for the record.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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Notes & Sources

January 6 pardons (1,500+): NPR, https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-36809/trump-pardons-january-6-riot

14th Amendment birthright citizenship order: Al Jazeera, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/23/the-january-6-pardons-who-has-trump-ordered-to-be-released

Executive Order 11246 rescinded: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11246

Schedule F executive order: CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/politics/federal-employee-protections-trump-executive-order

DOGE promised vs. actual savings: Washington Examiner, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4399869/trump-bombed-as-many-countries-2025-as-entire-first-term/

Federal workforce reductions: Military Times, https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/12/31/a-year-of-strikes-us-military-operations-surge-under-trump/

$TRUMP memecoin and crypto holdings: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$Trump

Trump crypto empire ($11.6 billion): House Judiciary Democrats, https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/new-report-exposes-the-trump-family-s-multi-billion-dollar-crypto-empire-fueled-by-self-dealing-and-corrupt-foreign-interests

Qatar jet gift ($400 million): TIME, https://time.com/7284972/trump-qatar-jet-saudi-arabia/

Saudi/UAE/Qatar real estate deals: CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/politics/trump-middle-east-business-invs

USAID dismantling: The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/farmers-long-trump-backers-bear-the-costs-of-new-tariffs-restricted-immigration-and-slashed-renewable-energy-subsidies-269221

720,000 deaths from aid cuts: Antiwar.com, https://news.antiwar.com/2025/12/31/us-bombed-seven-countries-in-2025-as-trump-dramatically-expanded-airstrikes/

EPA endangerment finding revocation: Fox News, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/heres-where-trump-launched-airstrikes-around-world-2025-protect-homeland

Seven countries bombed, 626 airstrikes: Al Jazeera, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/31/how-many-countries-has-trump-bombed-in-2025

Iran nuclear strikes: Council on Foreign Relations, https://www.cfr.org/articles/guide-trumps-second-term-military-strikes-and-actions

Nigeria Christmas Day bombing: Fox News, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/heres-where-trump-launched-airstrikes-around-world-2025-protect-homeland

Venezuela operation and Maduro capture: The Intercept, https://theintercept.com/2026/01/06/trump-wars-venezuela-colombia-cuba-iran/

Colombia/Cuba/Mexico/Greenland threats: Axios, https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/trump-mexico-greenland-colombia-venezuela-invade

56% say military has gone too far: Newsweek, https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-foreign-policy-low-11373200

Palestinians killed since ceasefire: Al Jazeera, https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/1/17/photos-gaza-ceasefire-brings-no-relief-as-israeli-bombings-continue

86% oppose Greenland by force: Quinnipiac Poll, https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us01142026_uphx88.pdf

Epstein files (<1% released): CNN, https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/jeffrey-epstein-files-released

Epstein survivors reaction: Al Jazeera, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/21/slap-in-the-face-epstein-victims-slam-release-of-heavily-redacted-files

Tariff impacts on farmers: PolitiFact, https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/dec/16/Trump-tariff-farmers-China-foreign-country-tax/

North Dakota farmer regret: High Plains Reader, https://hpr1.com/index.php/opinion/last-word/the-impact-of-tariffs-on-north-dakota-farmers-and-related-industries/

Morgen Morgus quote: The Daily Beast, https://www.thedailybeast.com/bitter-donald-trump-voter-says-hes-been-completely-swindled-by-presidents-betrayal/

Latino voter regret (36%): CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/politics/polling-trump-voter-regret-analysis

Trump voter regret polling: Newsweek, https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-poll-voters-regret-voting-disappointed-approval-rating-2066120

38% approval rating: TIME, https://time.com/7342632/trump-approval-ratings-2025-epstein-files-venezuela-economy-immigration/

37% foreign policy approval: Newsweek, https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-foreign-policy-low-11373200

“My own morality” quote: CNN,https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/world/greenland-cuba-iran-trump-warning-intl