""The immediate legal risk of NSPM-7 is the weaponization of existing federal agencies to achieve political goals, specifically targeting progressive, antiracist, and social justice organizations,""
""The greatest danger is that organizations, fearing audits and the revocation of tax-exempt status by the IRS or criminal investigations...will preemptively self-censor their activities around race, gender, and social justice,""
""By complying in advance, organizations surrender their mission before the fight even begins.""
""NSPM-7 functions less as policy than as a political instrument that uses uncertainty and fear to achieve compliance.""
NSPM-7 tasks federal agencies with countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence while raising fears that advocacy, protesting, and civic organizing could be labeled as threats. More than 3,000 nonprofits signed an open letter condemning the directive as a violation of free speech and civic engagement. Legal experts describe the memorandum as an expansion of existing powers that functions through fear and preemptive compliance rather than active enforcement. The memorandum risks weaponizing audits, revoking tax-exempt status, and criminal investigations to target progressive, antiracist, and social justice organizations and induce self-censorship.
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