1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I am writing to express my deep concern about the erosion of democratic norms and accountability in the current administration. What we are witnessing represents a fundamental departure from the principles that have sustained American democracy for 250 years. The pattern of deception from this administration is unprecedented and corrosive. President Trump claimed a "massive mandate" despite winning by only 1.5 percent. His administration made false statements about Iran's nuclear capability being "obliterated" and mischaracterized immigration enforcement as targeting only "the worst of the worst." Most troubling was the misrepresentation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's response to Texas flooding. Her requirement to personally approve every FEMA contract over $100,000 delayed the federal response by three days during a critical emergency, yet the administration refused to acknowledge this failure. The corruption is equally alarming. Elon Musk, the world's richest man, spent hundreds of millions to elect Trump and was then given authority to dismantle government agencies according to Project 2025, the very plan Trump repeatedly denied supporting during his campaign. This represents a direct betrayal of voters and a dangerous consolidation of power in the hands of unelected billionaires. The recently passed Republican budget bill empowers Secretary Noem to conduct a nearly limitless hiring spree of ICE agents authorized to wear masks and badges, drive cars without license plates, and detain hundreds of thousands of people. This is not the America our founders envisioned when they rejected authoritarian rule. I urge you to demand transparency and accountability from this administration. Support investigations into conflicts of interest, oppose policies that concentrate power without oversight, and speak publicly against the normalization of deception in government. Public opinion opposes this authoritarian direction, and as my representative, you have both the power and the responsibility to act before irreparable damage is done to our democratic institutions.