You’ve likely read about this year’s July 4th celebrations here in DC: a sad state fair, a crumbling stage, and a late-night rambling speech. But if you’d been here, you would have also seen some of the 5,000 National Guard troops — the equivalent of eight Army battalions — that Trump has stationed in the capital.

As an organization committed to peace, we refuse to see our communities militarized and troops weaponized against the people they’re sworn to protect. We haven’t forgotten about Trump’s domestic deployments, and we won’t stop speaking out or responding with our vision of a world where people live and thrive free from violence.

We aren’t powerless in the face of Trump’s authoritarian power grab. State governors still maintain control and command of these National Guard troops.

That means the same governors who have helped normalize soldiers on our streets also have the power to say “no more” by recalling their National Guard forces. But they aren’t likely to act without public pressure, which is why we’re sending a resounding message to ALL governors reminding them that troops don’t belong on our streets: