Armored military vehicles running red lights and causing car accidents. 2,000 armed troops on patrol. Military checkpoints across the city. This is what DC looks like amidst Trump's National Guard deployments.

Under current law, Trump’s takeover automatically expires after 30 days — but Trump’s lackeys in Congress are rushing to extend his DC takeover. Two pieces of legislation are raising alarms: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) H.J.Res. 114 would declare a “crime emergency” in DC and allow Trump’s takeover to continue indefinitely; Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) has introduced H.R. 5105 to amend the DC Home Rule Act to automatically extend any emergency period in DC to six months — and to apply that new standard retroactively to the current sham “emergency.”

Trump’s armed troops aren’t making anyone safer. If Republicans successfully push these bills through the House, only united Senate opposition can stop Trump’s authoritarian power grab — and that’s why we’re putting every lawmaker on alert today. Congress must reject ANY efforts to strip away DC’s autonomy and normalize Trump’s militarized power grab — and it’ll take pressure from constituents like you to make that happen.