The Government Is Erasing Itself: Stop Them With Our Letter and Petition
- Kal Inois
- 19 hours ago
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On April 1, 2026, the †rump regime's Department of Justice issued a 52-page legal opinion declaring that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. The opinion concluded that †rump "need not further comply with its dictates."[1]
On April Fools' Day.
But, it was not a joke.
In a single memo, the regime's own lawyers declared that the President of the United States is not required to preserve his official records, not required to turn them over to the National Archives when he leaves office, and not accountable to the law that has governed presidential transparency for nearly half a century. No president before †rump, not one, has ever argued that this law is unconstitutional. Not Nixon. Not Reagan. Not either Bush. Not Clinton, Obama, or Biden. Not even †rump himself during his first term.
This is new. This is deliberate. And this is an attack on you.
What Is the Presidential Records Act
The Presidential Records Act was passed by Congress in 1978, four years after Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in disgrace following the Watergate scandal. Nixon had tried to keep his White House records, including the infamous tapes that revealed his criminal conduct, for himself. Congress said: never again.[2]
The law is straightforward. Every official record created by a president or the White House staff during their time in office belongs to the American people, not to the president. Emails. Phone records. Policy documents. Meeting notes. Everything created in the course of running the government is the property of the public. When a president leaves office, those records go to the National Archives and Records Administration. Starting five years after the administration ends, those records become available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.[3]
This is how we know what actually happened in prior administrations. This is how historians write history. This is how journalists investigate. This is how courts adjudicate. This is how future generations learn what their government did in their name.
The †rump regime just declared that none of that applies to them.
"Eliminating the Presidential Records Act would allow private individuals to hold the keys to American history, forever." — Freedom of the Press Foundation, April 9, 2026
The Regime's Argument
The regime's Office of Legal Counsel argues that the Presidential Records Act violates the separation of powers by placing congressional regulation on the executive branch. Their 52-page memo calls the law a "permanent and burdensome regime of congressional regulation of the presidency untethered from any valid and identifiable legislative purpose."[4]
Let us be clear about what that sentence means in plain language: the regime is arguing that Congress has no right to tell the president what to do with official government records. That the president's records are his private property. That the public has no claim on the documented history of how their government operated.
This argument has been made before. Richard Nixon made it. The Supreme Court rejected it unanimously in Nixon v. Administrator of General Services in 1977, upholding Congress's authority to regulate presidential records. The †rump regime's memo makes no serious effort to distinguish that Supreme Court precedent. It simply asserts the opposite conclusion and declares victory.[5]
Legal scholars have noted that OLC memos are typically treated as binding across the entire executive branch. That means the National Archives itself may feel compelled to stop enforcing the law. It means White House staff may feel free to use personal email, encrypted messaging apps, and other tools that leave no official record. It means decisions made in your name, with your tax dollars, about your life, could simply vanish.[3]
Timing Is No Coincidence
Consider what was happening around the same time this memo was released.
Just days before the April 1 opinion, Eric †rump unveiled renderings of a "†rump Presidential Library" skyscraper in Miami, a private building designed to solicit private investment for the president's personal brand.[6] Under the Presidential Records Act, a president's records belong to the National Archives. Under the regime's new interpretation, those same records could go to a private library controlled by the †rump family.
It is also worth remembering that when †rump left office after his first term in 2021, he took hundreds of boxes of official government records, including classified materials, to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The National Archives had to negotiate to retrieve them. The FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in 2022. A federal grand jury indicted †rump for mishandling classified documents and obstructing justice. That case was dropped after he won the 2024 election.[4]
Now his own Justice Department has issued a legal opinion saying he was right all along.
This is not an abstract legal dispute. This is the regime retroactively justifying what it already did, while clearing the path to do it again, permanently, with legal cover.
A Government That Does Not Want to Be Seen
The attack on the Presidential Records Act does not exist in isolation. It is part of a consistent and deliberate pattern by the †rump regime to operate without accountability, without transparency, and without a historical record. This pattern did not begin with the April 1 DØJ memo. It has been building since the first hour of this regime. The memo is not the beginning of the cover-up. It is the legal framework being constructed around a cover-up already underway.
Here is what that pattern looks like:
The inspectors general were fired in the night. On his first weekend in office, †rump fired more than 350 federal inspectors general without the 30-day congressional notice required by law. Inspectors general are the independent watchdogs whose entire job is to catch waste, fraud, and abuse inside the government. They were removed by email, without explanation, before anyone could react.
DØGE was given access to everything. An unelected private citizen was handed access to the Treasury Department's payment systems, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security databases. Over 260,000 federal workers were purged. Entire agencies were dismantled. Courts ruled the regime had acted outside its authority. The regime fired the workers again.
Court orders were openly defied. A federal judge ordered deportation flights to El Salvador turned around. The planes landed anyway. 137 Venezuelan men were sent to a brutal mega-prison known as CECOT. The judge found the deportations were carried out in willful contempt of his order. The regime mocked him publicly. A Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was admitted by the regime to have been wrongfully deported there despite a court order protecting him. The Supreme Court ordered his return. The regime refused.
Classified war plans were shared on a commercial app. Senior regime officials, including the Defense Secretary, shared classified military strike plans, targets, weapons systems, and attack sequencing in a Signal group chat that accidentally included a journalist. No one was fired. No one was charged.
A war was started without congressional authorization. On February 28, 2026, the regime launched strikes on Iran without a declaration of war from Congress, in violation of the War Powers Resolution and the Constitution. The former chief of international law at U.S. Central Command called it illegal. A girls’ primary school was struck. The regime threatened to destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran. †rump said he was "not at all" concerned about committing war crimes.
The press has been systematically targeted. The Associated Press was banned from the Oval Office for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico. NPR and PBS face existential legal pressure. Universities have been threatened with funding cuts for permitting free speech the regime opposes. Reporters who ask the wrong questions find themselves removed from press pools.
People are dying in federal custody and the record is going dark. Thirteen people died in IÇE detention in the first three months of 2026. The legally required death log has not been updated since February 27. Official IÇE death notifications return 403 access errors on the government's own website. A health investigation in Colorado was actively obstructed by a private facility operator. Detainees who spoke to reporters about a death ruled homicide were given deportation notices within days. Nearly 2,000 people in a Florida detention camp cannot be located in the government's own tracking system.
The accountability database was deleted. The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, created to ensure that federal officers with records of misconduct cannot be quietly rehired by other agencies, was deleted. It is gone.
This is not a series of unrelated mistakes. This is what a government looks like when it has decided it does not want to be seen.
And now, on top of all of it, the regime is arguing that it does not have to preserve any record of what it has done. That when it leaves office, it can take American history with it.
"The White House does not get to decide what is preserved, what is hidden, or what is destroyed." — Chioma Chukwu, Executive Director, American Oversight
Who Is Fighting Back
The good news is that people are fighting back immediately and aggressively. Within days of the DOJ opinion being released, two major organizations filed suit in federal court.
The American Historical Association, founded in 1884 and comprising more than 10,000 historians, and American Oversight, a nonprofit government watchdog organization, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They are asking a federal judge to declare the Presidential Records Act constitutional and block the regime from using the DOJ opinion to justify keeping official records out of the public domain.[5]
Their complaint states that the regime's actions "nullifying a law duly enacted by Congress, based on a legal determination that contravenes a decision of the Supreme Court, violate the separation of powers twice over."[5]
The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell. The regime's position directly contradicts binding Supreme Court precedent from Nixon v. Administrator of General Services. Legal scholars believe the regime's argument is weak on the merits. But weak arguments can still do enormous damage while courts are deciding, and the regime knows this.
Congressmembers have also responded. Senator Chris Van Hollen called the DOJ opinion a direct assault on public accountability. Government transparency advocates at the Freedom of the Press Foundation called it a "history-killer memo" that hands private individuals permanent control over the American story.[6]
What You Can Do Right Now
1. Sign the letter and send it to your representatives today.
We have written a ready-to-send citizen action letter addressed to your U.S. Senators and House Representative. It covers the Presidential Records Act, the legal arguments, and makes four specific demands. All you have to do is add your name, personalize one line, and send it.
Text SIGN 59AXbE to 50409, and Resistbot will deliver it directly to your Senators and House Representative in under two minutes. You may also click: our letter on Resistbot.
Send it online: Find your representatives at congress.gov/members/find-your-member and paste the letter into their contact forms.
2. Sign and circulate the petition.
We have also written a formal citizen petition to Congress covering the Presidential Records Act and the full pattern of regime transparency failures. It includes eight specific demands. You can sign and send it digitally through Resistbot, print and collect signatures from your community, and deliver it to your representatives' offices in person.
Sign digitally: Text RESIST to 50409. Then, text SIGN PRJUGF, or visit our written petition at resist.bot, or copy and paste the petition below for Resistbot.
3. Support the organizations fighting this in court.
The American Historical Association and American Oversight are bearing the legal costs of this fight on behalf of the American public. Consider donating to their efforts:
American Oversight: americanoversight.org/donate
American Historical Association Advocacy Fund: historians.org
Freedom of the Press Foundation: freedom.press
4. Share this. Loudly and widely.
Most Americans have no idea this is happening. The regime is counting on that. The DOJ issued this opinion quietly, on April 1, buried under the noise of a dozen other crises the regime is manufacturing simultaneously. That is not an accident. Overwhelming people with chaos is a tactic. The way to fight it is to slow down, pick up one thread, and pull. This is your thread. Pull it.
5. Show up.
50501 Joplin organizes peaceful protests and community action in Joplin, Missouri. Find us, join us, or find your local 50501 chapter at fiftyfifty.one, and find additional resources and community organizing tools at citizensagainstyrannynetwork.org.
The Moment We Are In
The Presidential Records Act is not a bureaucratic technicality. It is the line between a government that answers to its people and one that answers to no one. It is the reason we know what Watergate was. It is the reason we know what happened in the Nixon White House, the Reagan White House, every administration since. It is the mechanism by which a free people reach back through time and hold power accountable long after power has moved on.
That mechanism is now under direct assault.
Understand what the †rump regime is saying. They are not arguing about paperwork. They are arguing that the documented history of this government belongs to the man who ran it. That decisions made in your name, with your money, about your life, your family, your country, can be taken from you. Locked away. Destroyed. Hidden inside a private skyscraper in Miami with the †RUMP name on it.
Think about what that means. Think about what would disappear.
The records of a regime that tried to end birthright citizenship by executive order on its first day in office, in direct violation of the 14th Amendment and over a century of Supreme Court precedent. Four federal judges called it unconstitutional. The regime kept pushing.
The records of DOGE, an unelected body led by the world's wealthiest private citizen, given access to the Treasury Department's payment systems, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security databases. Over 260,000 federal workers were purged. Entire agencies were dismantled without congressional authorization. Federal judges ruled the regime had acted outside its authority. The regime fired the workers again.
The records of 137 Venezuelan men deported to a brutal El Salvador mega-prison known as CECOT, in direct defiance of a federal court order to turn the planes around. The judge concluded the deportations were illegal and carried out in willful contempt of his order. The regime mocked him on social media.
The records of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man the regime admitted it wrongfully deported to that same prison, despite a standing court order protecting him from removal. The Supreme Court ordered his return. The regime refused. He remains imprisoned.
The records of 350 federal inspectors general fired overnight without the 30-day congressional notice required by law. The inspectors general are the people whose job it is to catch government corruption. They were removed in the dark, by email, without explanation.
The records of senior regime officials sharing classified military strike plans, including targets, weapons, and attack sequencing, in a commercial Signal group chat that accidentally included a journalist. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared live war plans for strikes on Yemen while sitting at his kitchen table.
The records of a war started in Iran on February 28, 2026, without a declaration of war from Congress, in violation of the War Powers Resolution and the United States Constitution. Military and legal experts, including the former chief of international law at U.S. Central Command, called it illegal under both domestic and international law. A girls' primary school was struck. Nearly 100 civilian casualties were reported. The regime said it was not concerned about committing war crimes.
The records of threats to destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran, to bomb civilian infrastructure, and to let "a whole civilization die." The United Nations Secretary General warned such attacks are banned under international law. †rump said he was "not at all" concerned.
The records of threats to annex Greenland, a sovereign NATO ally's territory, by military force. Of threats against Canada. Of military strikes on Venezuela. Of the Associated Press being banned from the Oval Office for refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico by a different name. Of NPR and PBS being sued out of existence. Of universities threatened with funding cuts for allowing free speech the regime disagreed with. Of collective bargaining rights stripped from 950,000 federal workers by executive order. Of the federal law enforcement accountability database, which tracked officer misconduct, quietly deleted in the night.
The records of 13 people dead in ICE detention in the first three months of 2026 alone. Of deaths ruled homicide called suicide. Of witnesses deported for speaking. Of press releases with missing sentences. Of a legally required death log gone dark. Of health investigators blocked at the door. Of nearly 2,000 people in a Florida detention camp who simply cannot be located in the government's own tracking system.
All of it already difficult to document. All of it already being erased in real time.
Now the regime is arguing it does not have to preserve any of it. That when it leaves office, the record of everything above, and everything still to come, can go with it.
That is not incompetence. That is a plan.
Now imagine none of it ever had to be preserved at all.
That is the world the regime is building. Not just for today. For every administration that comes after. Because whatever precedent is set now will stand. A president who establishes the right to destroy their own record hands that same right to every president who follows. This is not a †rump problem. This is a permanent problem if we allow it to become one.
We are at a moment. Not a political moment. A historical one. The kind that people look back on and ask: what did ordinary citizens do when they saw this coming?
The answer has to start with the most fundamental act available to every American citizen. Call your representatives. Write to them. If you can, walk into their offices and stand in front of them and make them look you in the eye. Tell them you know what the Presidential Records Act is. Tell them you know what is being done to it. Tell them you are watching, and that you will remember what they do and do not do at this moment.
Find your U.S. Senators and House Representative here: congress.gov/members/find-your-member.
Phone calls carry more weight than emails. In-person visits carry more weight than phone calls. Showing up, repeatedly, with your neighbors, in numbers, is what moves people in power. Do not stop at one call. Do not stop at one letter. This is not a moment for a single gesture. This is a moment that requires sustained, visible, documented pressure from citizens who refuse to be erased along with the records.
See the letter and petition below and how to easily send them to your representatives using Resist.bot.
They work for you. Make them remember it.
LETTER
Defend the Presidential Records Act
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The Letter
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[DATE]
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[REPRESENTATIVE'S NAME]
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Dear [Senator / Representative] [LAST NAME],
I am writing to you as a constituent and as an American citizen who is deeply alarmed by a recent action taken by the Department of Justice that threatens one of the foundational transparency laws of our democracy.
On April 1, 2026, the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel issued a 52-page opinion declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional and stating that the President "need not further comply with its dictates." This is the first time in the nearly half century since the law was enacted that any presidential administration has challenged its constitutionality. No president before this one, not Nixon, not Reagan, not either Bush, not Clinton, Obama, or Biden, ever took this position.
The Presidential Records Act was passed by Congress in 1978 in direct response to the Watergate scandal. It establishes that official presidential records are the property of the American people, not the president, and that those records must be turned over to the National Archives when a president leaves office, where they eventually become available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. This law is the reason we know what happened in prior administrations. It is the mechanism by which citizens hold power accountable across time.
The DOJ's opinion, if allowed to stand, would allow the current administration and every future administration to treat official government records as private property. It would allow records documenting decisions made with taxpayer money, in the name of the American people, to be concealed, controlled, or destroyed. It would put at risk hundreds of millions of documents from the current and prior administrations. It would effectively end presidential transparency as it has existed in this country for nearly fifty years.
Legal scholars have noted that this opinion defies binding Supreme Court precedent from Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, in which the Court unanimously upheld Congress's authority to regulate presidential records. The American Historical Association and American Oversight have already filed suit in federal court to block this opinion from taking effect.
I am asking you to take the following specific actions:
1. Publicly and formally state your position on whether the Presidential Records Act is constitutional and whether you support its enforcement.
2. Co-sponsor or support legislation that reaffirms the constitutionality and enforceability of the Presidential Records Act and strengthens congressional oversight of presidential recordkeeping.
3. Use your oversight authority to demand that the Department of Justice provide a full accounting of how this opinion was developed, who authorized it, and what steps the administration is taking to comply with existing law in the meantime.
4. Publicly oppose any effort by the executive branch to retain, conceal, or destroy official presidential records at the end of this or any future administration.
The Presidential Records Act is not a partisan issue. It is a democracy issue. Every future administration, regardless of party, will be governed by the precedent set right now. A president who can destroy the record of their own conduct is a president without accountability. That is not the America that Congress was created to defend.
I am watching how you respond to this moment. I will remember what you do and do not do. And I am not alone.
[OPTIONAL: Add a personal sentence here about why this matters to you specifically. For example: "As a teacher, I believe our children deserve access to an honest history of their government." Or: "As a veteran, I believe accountability is not optional." Your own words matter.]
Respectfully,
[YOUR FULL NAME]
[YOUR CITY AND STATE]
[YOUR PHONE NUMBER OR EMAIL — optional but adds credibility]
After You Send
Sending a letter is the beginning, not the end. Here is what to do next:
Follow up. Call your representative's office directly. Congressional offices track the volume of calls on specific issues. A phone call takes two minutes and carries real weight. Ask for the staff member who handles constitutional or judiciary issues. State your name, your city, and that you are calling to urge the representative to defend the Presidential Records Act.
Visit in person if you can. Every congressional representative has local district offices in addition to their Washington D.C. office. Look up your representative's local office address and schedule a visit or attend a town hall. Showing up in person is the most powerful thing a constituent can do.
Share this letter. Send this document to every person you know. Post it. Print it. The more people who send this letter, the more weight it carries. Representatives pay attention to volume. Make the volume impossible to ignore.
Track their response. If your representative responds, share that response publicly. If they do not respond, share that too. Public accountability works. Keep the pressure on.
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PETITION
Stop †rump From Stealing American History:
Defend the Presidential Records Act and Demand Full Government Transparency
Preserve Presidential Records. They Belong to the People.
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Petition Statement
The following statement represents the position of every citizen who signs this petition. It may be copied and sent in full via Resistbot or included with a mailed or hand-delivered signature collection.
TO: The United States Senate and House of Representatives
FROM: The undersigned citizens of the United States of America
DATE: April 12, 2026
RE: Defense of the Presidential Records Act and Demand for Full Government Transparency
We, the undersigned citizens of the United States, hereby formally petition the United States Congress to take immediate and decisive action to defend the Presidential Records Act, restore government transparency, and hold the †rump regime accountable for a systematic pattern of illegal and unconstitutional conduct carried out in our name, with our money, without our consent.
I. The Attack on the Presidential Records Act
On April 1, 2026, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel issued a 52-page opinion declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional and stating that the President "need not further comply with its dictates." This is the first time in the nearly half century since the law was enacted that any presidential administration has challenged its constitutionality.
The Presidential Records Act was passed by Congress in 1978 in response to the Watergate scandal. It establishes that official presidential records are the property of the American people, not the president. It requires that those records be preserved and turned over to the National Archives when a president leaves office, where they become available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
This opinion defies binding Supreme Court precedent established in Nixon v. Administrator of General Services. It endangers hundreds of millions of records from the current and prior administrations. It would allow official government records, created with taxpayer funds, documenting decisions made in the name of the American people, to be concealed, controlled, or destroyed by the very officials whose conduct those records document.
If this opinion stands, it will apply to every future administration regardless of party. A president who can destroy the record of their own conduct answers to no one. That is not democracy. That is the architecture of tyranny.
II. The Pattern of Transparency Failures This Petition Would Illuminate
The attack on the Presidential Records Act is not an isolated incident. It is the legal framework being constructed around a cover-up already underway. The following actions by the †rump regime represent a documented, consistent, and deliberate pattern of operating without accountability or transparency:
Inspectors general fired illegally. More than 350 federal inspectors general were fired without the 30-day congressional notice required by law. These are the independent watchdogs whose job it is to catch government corruption and waste.
DOGE given access without authorization. An unelected private citizen was given access to Treasury payment systems, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security databases. Over 260,000 federal workers were purged. Entire agencies were dismantled without congressional authorization.
Federal court orders openly defied. 137 Venezuelan men were deported to a brutal El Salvador mega-prison in direct defiance of a federal court order. A federal judge found the deportations were carried out in willful contempt of his ruling. A Maryland man was wrongfully deported despite a court order protecting him. The Supreme Court ordered his return. The regime refused.
Classified war plans leaked on a commercial app. Senior regime officials shared classified military strike plans, including targets, weapons systems, and attack sequencing, in a Signal group chat that accidentally included a journalist.
A war started without congressional authorization. Strikes on Iran were launched on February 28, 2026 without a declaration of war from Congress, in violation of the War Powers Resolution and the Constitution. Military legal experts called it illegal. Threats to destroy civilian infrastructure prompted United Nations warnings about potential war crimes.
The press systematically targeted. The Associated Press was banned from the Oval Office. NPR and PBS face existential legal pressure. Universities were threatened with funding cuts over protected speech.
The law enforcement accountability database deleted. The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which tracked federal officer misconduct to prevent rehiring, was quietly deleted.
The ICE death log allowed to go dark. Thirteen people died in ICE detention in the first three months of 2026. The legally required public death log has not been updated since February 27, 2026. Official press releases are inaccessible. Health investigations have been obstructed. Witnesses who spoke to reporters were deported. Nearly 2,000 people at one Florida facility cannot be located in the government's own tracking system.
All of this has happened. All of it is documented. All of it is already difficult to access. Now the regime is arguing it does not have to preserve any record of what it has done.
III. What We Demand
We, the undersigned, demand that Congress take the following actions immediately:
1. Pass legislation formally reaffirming the constitutionality and enforceability of the Presidential Records Act, with strengthened penalties for non-compliance.
2. Pass legislation requiring the National Archives to independently verify compliance with the Presidential Records Act throughout a presidency, not only at its conclusion.
3. Launch a formal congressional investigation into the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel opinion of April 1, 2026, including who authorized it, when it was commissioned, and what steps the administration has taken to circumvent the Presidential Records Act.
4. Restore and strengthen the independence of federal inspectors general and pass legislation making their illegal removal a criminal offense.
5. Pass the DHS Use of Force Transparency Act of 2026, requiring full disclosure of all in-custody deaths and use of force incidents by federal immigration enforcement.
6. Conduct full congressional oversight hearings into conditions at ICE detention facilities, the obstruction of public health investigations, and the silencing of witnesses.
7. Formally censure any executive branch official who has defied a lawful federal court order.
8. Restore the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database and pass legislation preventing its deletion or alteration by any future executive order.
The American people are watching. We are counting the votes. We are remembering the silences. We will hold accountable every representative who fails to act at this moment, and we will remember every representative who had the courage to stand.
Presidential records belong to the people. American history belongs to the people. This government belongs to the people. Act accordingly.
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