1. United States
2. Md.
3. Letter

Civil liberties lawyers have already drafted protective measures to shield citizens, nonprofits, and election workers from NPSM-7, and you need to adopt them now. This presidential directive authorizes federal counterterrorism authorities to target Americans based on protected political speech, with no statutory basis whatsoever. The FBI Joint Mission Center, funded at $12.5 billion, has hundreds of personnel from ten agencies actively identifying and prosecuting targets under it. This isn't abstract. Former AG Pam Bondi testified that thousands of U.S. citizens and organizations are already on a secret watch list tied to that center. The DOJ is demanding voter roll data, deploying ICE near polling places, and a new National Counterterrorism Strategy names "violent left-wing extremists" and certain religious minorities as principal threats. The infrastructure to suppress political opposition is operational. Read more at https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/warning-trumps-rolling-coup-is-underway. You took an oath to defend the Constitution. The tools to act are ready and waiting. Adopt the protective measures, shield your constituents, and use every authority your office holds to block this apparatus from operating in our state.