Never Again is a sacred promise to study, name, and fight fascism.

It's what drives us to get arrested blocking ICE detention centers.

Now, for the safety & freedom of every person in those camps AND in this country, it means forcing Trump out when he loses.

A thread:
Approaching election day (vote!), all the data we’re looking at points in the same likely direction:

1. The majority of voters, including in the states that matter, will choose Joe Biden.

2. Donald Trump will declare victory anyway, and try to cheat to stay in power.

2/11
What happens next is… up to us, actually. We can sit back, watch MSNBC, and wait to “see what happens.” We can hold signs and call our reps.

But stopping a coup isn’t about regular people making our *voices heard*, it’s about regular people making our *power felt*.

3/11
And thankfully there's a proven playbook that's been used around the world to stop coups & dictators: take the streets, show our power, and grind everything to a halt until Trump concedes if we have to.

Which, great. But to almost all of us, that sounds new and scary...

4/11
So we need to get calm & connected now, so we can be ready to act with courage and clarity in November.

That's what the 🔥nonviolent action training for everyone by Jews Against Fascism🔥 is all about! Catch it almost any night until election day:

bit.ly/FightFascismTr…

5/11
The Jews Against Fascism training will cover skills anyone can use on the front lines at a protest, like de-escalation. Just as importantly, we’ll practice exercises and share tools for getting mentally and emotionally ready to take on November alongside the people we love.

6/11
Jews Against Fascism is a collaboration between us and @IfNotNowOrg. As Jews we've been preparing to fight fascist dictators our entire lives, and we want to share skills & lessons of our history with everyone.

Please come, and bring your people!

bit.ly/FightFascismTr…

7/11
As Never Again Action we plan to do in November what we’ve done from day 1:

1. Use the lessons and moral authority of Jewish history to name fascism for what it is.
2. Show what it looks like to fight back the way we wish people had fought for our ancestors.

8/11
We're not fucking around. As soon as it's clear how Trump is trying to pull off his coup, we're going to strike directly at the heart of it with everything we've got.

We know from our history that you don't always get a second chance.

9/11
We want to go as hard as the moment requires, and take risks that are proportional to what's at stake.

That has real costs though, and we need your help so we have the resources and flexibility to maximize our impact.

Please donate if you can! actblue.com/donate/fightfa…

10/11
🔥How to Fight Fascism This November: a nonviolent action training for everyone by Jews Against Fascism🔥

We hope to see you at the training, happening almost every night until election day at 7pm EST!

bit.ly/FightFascismTr…

11/11

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23 Jul
The scenes in Portland are incredibly dystopian. Faceless agents attacking protesters, grabbing people off the street & throwing them in vans.

The agency carrying all this out? Border Patrol. And that’s not a coincidence.

A brief history thread:

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Border Patrol was created in 1924 as part of the Asian Exclusion and National Origin Acts, which banned all Asian immigrants and set the quotas which kept European Jews from escaping Nazism to America.

It’s been a paramilitary serving white supremacy from day 1.
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Trump & ICE are moving closer and closer to their vision of white supremacy.

Here's some of what's going on JUST THIS WEEK:
1) ICE is planning on using a recent ruling to pull children away from their families. They can #FreeTheFamilies at any time, but instead, they choose this:

2) ICE is starting a "Citizen's Academy" in Chicago to train people on "firearms familiarization" and "targeted arrests".

They want to show civilians how to target, intimidate, and harm immigrants. This is, simply put, Nazi shit.

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Never Again means fighting for Black lives.

For everyone who follows us on Twitter but isn't on our mailing list, we want to share with you the email we sent out yesterday.

If you'd like to join the email list, you can do so here: neveragainaction.com/join-the-fight
This is an unprecedented multi-racial, inter-generational uprising for Black lives. We're all in.
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Black organizers are calling for us all to join the fight to end 400 years of their persecution, torture, & mass murder.

It is a call we must answer.
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Hey. I'm Ben, I write a lot of Never Again's tweets, and I never put my name on them.

Today is different. I'm crying, and as a human being I need everyone to know what ICE started doing yesterday, so we can stop them.

ICE calls it 'binary choice'. Really, it's Sophie's Choice.
There are still families in ICE camps. Mostly mothers locked up with their children.

It's crowded. It's dirty. It's dangerous.

These mothers are terrified they and their children are going to get sick and die.

ICE could just set them free. Here's what they're doing instead.
ICE is giving mothers this 'binary choice':

Option 1: You and your child stay locked in ICE detention indefinitely. Hope & pray that you both survive COVID.

Option 2: Save your child's life by giving them up. You stay locked up, but ICE send your kid to live with someone else.
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'1918 Pandemic Linked to Rise of Nazis, New York Fed Study Shows'

A thread, on how we prevent the men outside state capitols with masks & rifles from taking over the country:

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The study's key takeaways:

🔴 More pandemic deaths = Nazi vote📈
🔴 More unemployment = Nazi vote📈
🔴 More historic anti-Semitism = Nazi vote📈
🟢 More govt. spending to help people = Nazi vote📉

Basically, we need to make sure ALL of us are healthy & fed, or we're doomed.
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Today is May 1st, #MayDay2020.

And tomorrow, May 2nd, is also an important day in labor history. Not in a good way.

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We didn't learn this in school, but German unions & the their members were the main source of resistance to Hitler.

They didn't vote for Nazis, they fought them in the streets.

That's why abolishing unions was basically the first thing Hitler did.

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Hitler outlawed strikes and collective bargaining, and created a fake union called the German Labour Front.

When they showed up and tried to participate in the International Labor Conference, they were denied credentials & called out for anti-semitism.

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