1. United States
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Stop Project 2025's assault on public health before more Americans die. Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership explicitly states that "never again should CDC officials be allowed to say... school children 'should be'... vaccinated" — and this administration is executing that plan. Kennedy stripped COVID vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women. A presidential memorandum ordered the CDC to gut the childhood vaccine schedule. An unvaccinated child is now the first U.S. measles death in a decade, and as of June 11, 2026, there are 2,073 confirmed measles cases — because childhood vaccination rates have fallen below the 95% threshold needed to stop transmission. The consequences are accelerating. After Hegseth ended the military's flu vaccine requirement in April 2026, roughly 159 Air Force recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland fell ill with influenza within two months, with several hospitalized. Recruit vaccination rates collapsed to around 40%. This is not a policy disagreement — it is a deliberate strategy that is hospitalizing soldiers and killing children. The people bearing the cost are infants too young to be vaccinated, immunocompromised patients, and the poor. That is not a coincidence. Hold these officials accountable, reverse these vaccine rollbacks, and restore the CDC's authority to protect public health. The Republicans executing Project 2025 are betraying the American people, and you have an obligation to stop them.