THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Why This Page Exists

Every other page in this section documents the infrastructure behind the current administration — the think tanks, the dark money networks, the judicial pipeline, the corporate enablers. This page documents the administration itself: what it has done, who is doing it, and what it means for ordinary Americans.

The actions documented here are sourced from public records, federal court filings, congressional testimony, and reporting by nonpartisan civil rights organizations. They are not allegations. They are the documented record of a government in the process of restructuring itself away from democratic accountability.

Understanding what has already happened is not optional for effective resistance. It is the foundation.

The Federal Workforce and Democratic Institutions

The administration's first and most consequential target was the professional civil service — the career employees who make government function regardless of which party holds power.

On day one, mass emails went to approximately two million federal employees encouraging resignation with thinly veiled threats of termination. Approximately 77,000 accepted buyout offers. Thousands more were terminated outright across agencies including the EPA, USDA, HHS, NIH, USAID, and the Department of Education.

DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency, an unofficial body with no statutory authority — was given access to Treasury payment systems, Social Security Administration databases, personnel records, and agency internal systems. It used that access to terminate employees, cancel contracts, and shut down programs without congressional authorization.

The administration attempted to seize control of independent agencies, assert control over elections reserved for states and Congress, dismantle ethics rules and fire watchdogs within the executive branch, threaten the sovereignty of states and cities by deploying federal agents and the National Guard, and amass private data about Americans beyond the scope of executive power. Human Rights Watch

Schedule F — the reclassification of career civil servants as political appointees — was reinstated by executive order, enabling the mass replacement of professional government employees with partisan loyalists. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Immigration Enforcement

The Trump administration initiated a broad campaign of immigration raids and mass arrests, including large federal deployments that reached schools, hospitals, courthouses, and places of worship — locations previously protected as sensitive sites. Human Rights Watch

The administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act — a 1798 wartime statute — to expel Venezuelan immigrants without due process hearings, sending 252 to a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador where they were subjected to torture and inhuman conditions. Federal courts issued emergency injunctions. The administration defied or delayed compliance with multiple court orders. Human Rights Watch

Palantir's ELITE tool — which assigns confidence scores to home addresses using Medicaid records, utility bills, and other government data — became the operational backbone of the targeting infrastructure. Immigrants who updated their address at a doctor's office fed data into the system that could then be used to locate them. 404 Media

Voting Rights and Elections

In March 2025, Trump issued an executive order requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote — a measure voting rights experts described as illegal at multiple levels and that federal courts have blocked. Brennan Center

The DOJ sued nearly half of the 50 states and Washington D.C. demanding highly sensitive voter information — including partial Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers — when states refused to comply. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

 The Resistance Is Working✅

This section exists not to produce despair but to produce clarity. And clarity requires acknowledging what is also true: the resistance is working.

64 percent of ACLU lawsuits have delayed, diluted, or defeated the Trump administration's agenda. ACLU State attorneys general have filed hundreds of additional challenges. Federal judges have issued emergency injunctions blocking multiple executive orders. The ACLU's Firewall for Freedom effort has passed more than 80 protective policies, including 51 state laws, using the power of state and local lawmakers to push back against the Trump agenda. ACLU

47 percent of Project 2025's agenda has not been enacted. Every delayed action, every blocked executive order, every court injunction is time — and time is the resource that democratic recovery depends on.

The tactics in this library exist for exactly this moment. They are not symbolic. They are the mechanism by which ordinary people become part of the legal, institutional, and political resistance that is already slowing this administration down.