I read the news today and felt something primal: fear. Not just worry or frustration, but that deep, gut-level sense that something has gone terribly wrong and no one is coming to fix it.

It’s not just the steady drumbeat of rights being stripped away—though that’s bad enough. It’s the creeping sense that the ground rules of American life are being rewritten before our eyes. The Supreme Court rolls back rights our grandparents fought for. The president and his allies fuel division and anger. Laws target immigrants, the LGBTQIA+ community, women, and anyone who doesn’t fit a narrow, frightened definition of “American.”

But this goes deeper than policy. It’s about the deliberate targeting of those seen as “undesirable.” The machinery of government is being harnessed to police, punish, and erase—just as it was in other dark chapters of world history.

It feels like 1939 all over again—the year Nazi Germany invaded Poland and truly became the Third Reich’s war machine—when authoritarianism stopped being a threat and became the official state of affairs.

Let’s call it what it is: This is Nazi America. The comparisons aren’t just rhetorical flourishes—they’re warnings from history.

The shameful truth is that the Supreme Court of the land has become complicit. It’s scripted, predictable—its decisions less about justice than about consolidating power for the few and punishing the vulnerable. Each ruling seems designed to move us further from the promise of equality and closer to the machinery of oppression.

Project 2025—the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a far-right takeover of the federal government—isn’t a secret plan. It’s public, organized, and funded by a coalition of groups determined to rewrite the rules of American democracy.

Project 2025 calls for purging the civil service, filling every federal post with loyalists, and stripping away decades of civil rights protections. It’s a roadmap for weaponizing the Department of Justice against political enemies and silencing dissent. It promises the rollback of protections for immigrants, the LGBTQIA+ community, women, and anyone outside the “acceptable” mold. It aims to criminalize protest, stifle the press, and consolidate power at the very top—an authoritarian wish list hiding in plain sight.

This is not theoretical. Book bans. Censorship. The criminalization of teachers, doctors, parents. Vigilante laws and bounty hunters. Immigration raids that split families and terrorize communities. Project 2025 is already underway—piece by piece, law by law, ruling by ruling.

We are being shown—clearly and openly—how a democracy is dismantled. It happens not in a single moment, but in a thousand coordinated steps: through legislation, court rulings, executive orders, and the normalization of cruelty. The blueprint is right in front of us. History isn’t repeating; it’s being reenacted with American accents and 21st-century technology.

Because this is how it starts. Not with gas chambers, but with laws. Not with jackboots, but with bureaucrats. The machinery gets built, piece by piece, until one day the unimaginable becomes the law of the land.

There’s no comfort in denial. There’s no safety in silence. The warnings are everywhere. The danger is real.

The line between past and present is thinner than most people think. What once seemed impossible is already happening. The rights and freedoms we took for granted are being taken away, step by step.

This is not a drill.

This is how a nation unravels: one law at a time, one freedom at a time, one group at a time.

If we ignore what’s happening now, we can’t pretend later that we didn’t know. We saw it coming. The responsibility is ours.

History will judge what we did with the truth we had.

I promised myself that I wouldn’t speak on these issues, that I’d hold my tongue and focus on other work. But the headlines demand that I do.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t afraid. History shows us what happens to those who speak out against rising authoritarianism. Sometimes, the people who dare to warn others become the targets—censored, silenced, or worse.

That fear is real. And if you’re feeling it too, you’re not alone. It’s a sign of how far things have gone, how thin the line is between safety and repression, between democracy and something darker.

But silence won’t protect us. If enough of us speak, it becomes much harder to silence everyone. The time to decide what side of history we’re on is now.