Pamela, you’ve likely read about this year’s July 4th celebrations here in DC: a sad state fair, a crumbling stage, and a late-night rambling speech. But if you’d been here, you would have also seen some of the 5,000 National Guard troops — the equivalent of eight Army battalions — that Trump has stationed in the capital.[1]
As an organization committed to peace, we refuse to see our communities militarized and troops weaponized against the people they’re sworn to protect. We haven’t forgotten about Trump’s domestic deployments, and we won’t stop speaking out or responding with our vision of a world where people live and thrive free from violence.
We aren’t powerless in the face of Trump’s authoritarian power grab. State governors still maintain control and command of these National Guard troops.
That means the same governors who have helped normalize soldiers on our streets also have the power to say “no more” by recalling their National Guard forces. But they aren’t likely to act without public pressure, which is why we’re sending a resounding message to ALL governors reminding them that troops don’t belong on our streets:
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We’re not just seeing this in DC, Pamela. Trump continues to deploy the National Guard to multiple Democrat-led U.S. cities — at a cost of more than a billion dollars to taxpayers and over the opposition of local leaders. The benefits remain unclear, but the consequences can be deadly, as we just saw when National Guard soldiers stationed in Memphis, TN, shot and killed a man.[2] An investigation is ongoing, but one thing remains clear: we can’t accept armed soldiers on our streets.
National Guard troops from 24 states and territories currently make up Trump’s DC Joint Task Force. It even includes states like Michigan and Minnesota, whose governments have joined lawsuits against these very deployments.
That’s why Win Without War recently joined more than two dozen organizations in a letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and others demanding they withdraw their state’s National Guard troops from Trump’s task force. Less than a week later, Gov. Walz announced he’s bringing Minnesota’s troops home.
Now that we know this kind of pressure works, it’s time to make sure every governor understands the stakes, pulls their National Guard back, and stops Trump from deploying soldiers to our communities.
The moment is urgent: Right now, Trump continues to float invoking emergency powers to nationalize the midterm elections — and deployments like these set the stage for him to send troops to the polls in November.
Our voices can make a difference, Pamela. Governors don’t often hear a unified message thousands of activists strong. That’s why we need your help to make our demands known to EVERY governor with the ability to fuel Trump’s attempted takeover.
Tell governors across the country: NO troops on our streets!
Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team
- The New York Times, "Trump’s National Guard Deployment in Washington Expands Ahead of Holiday"
- PBS, "National Guard members on patrol in Memphis fatally shoot man during pursuit, police say"
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