Annie Comes Home: Trump is dragging us down the path toward war

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Trump is dragging us down the path toward war

Pamela: Trump is racing down a path toward war with Venezuela terrifyingly quickly after blowing up a fourth vessel in the Caribbean as part of an unauthorized, unjustified lethal strike campaign.

21 people have been killed, yet the Trump administration still has NO answers about who these people were. In fact, the president of Colombia suggested one of the boats targeted was Colombian.[1]

As Trump escalates tensions through continued strikes and mobilizes warships to the coast of Venezuela, he's simultaneously calling off diplomatic efforts with Maduro's government. Combine all of this with deeply worrying comments from Trump aides advocating for regime change in Venezuela, plus reports of a dangerously broad Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in the works, and you get a recipe for all-out, endless war.

The best time to stop a war is before it begins, and we have an opportunity — an obligation — to do just that. Win Without War was built for moments like these, and whether by furiously lobbying Congress to reassert its constitutional war power authorities or by sprinting to block ANY attempt to hand Trump a blank check for more violence, we're using every lever of influence to pull us back from the brink.

We don't do this work alone, Pamela — and right now, we urgently need your help to scale up quickly to meet this moment. Can you chip in $12 or whatever you can to fuel our campaign to rein in Trump's escalating strikes before we're drawn into yet another endless war?

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We won't sugarcoat it, Pamela: Just days ago, Congress passed up a crucial opportunity to leverage its constitutional authority to stop Trump's march to war. When the Senate voted to advance a War Powers Resolution (WPR) introduced by Senators Schiff and Kaine, the vote failed by a narrow 48-51 margin.

But this won't be the last opportunity to put up a roadblock, and the vote revealed cracks emerging within Trump's Republican majority firewall in the Senate. Two Republican senators broke with Trump to join Democrats in voting for the WPR, and more voiced their concerns with the unauthorized strikes in the Caribbean. A few more flips from "no" to "yes" would mark the first major bipartisan rebuke of the administration's violent, destabilizing approach to our neighbors — and the dam would only break further from there.

Now, it's up to groups like ours to keep building political space for lawmakers to reject Trump's warmongering in the Caribbean. As the work to rein in Trump's unauthorized, illegal strikes shifts to the House of Representatives soon, we'll have an opportunity to do just that.

The truth is, building a movement powerful enough to stop a war takes incredible resources, and our team of 11 is stretched thin — we're already working every connection we have on Capitol Hill, mobilizing activists and partners to pressure Congress to reject ANY hawkish calls for more war, and sounding the alarm in the media.

A donation today can help provide resources and open up avenues that will allow us to pull back from the brink of an endless war in Latin America. We're ready to escalate our campaign for peace and diplomacy, but we'll need your support to take our work to the next level.

Will you make a donation today to power our work to stop Trump's warmongering in the Caribbean and prevent another endless war, before it's too late?

Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team

1. Reuters, "Colombia's Petro suggests last vessel bombed by US was Colombian"