Authoritarians accrue power in the silence of good people.

President Trump smashed through the well-defined limits of the Constitution today when he recklessly declared a national emergency to appropriate funds for his greatest vanity project, the border wall between Mexico and the United States.

This comes after Congress has paced through the slow but legal democratic process of deciding on a national budget.

This comes after Trump shut down his own government for 39 days, starving federal workers and contractors of their livelihoods, just to advance his racist argument against migrants legally seeking asylum.

This comes after pages upon pages of numbers that show that undocumented crossings at the border have been dropping since 2000, and there simply is no crisis—just a president who has entirely disregarded the Constitution, Congress, and us, the American people.

We can’t let Trump continue to punch holes in the law with this anti-democratic, fake emergency, opening the door to abuses of power by future presidents. Will you send a message to your members of Congress asking them to reject Trump’s national emergency?