Help retired military leaders & Democratic operatives launch 'resist project 2025'

Frankly, I’m terrified.

I was planning on sending my first email by introducing myself next week and talking about joining Resist Project 2025, but it’s clear the GOP is gunning for us - there’s no time to waste, so I’ll get right to the point.

Trump takes the stage tonight, but no matter what he says in his speech, he’s already shown us that he’s willing to take the unprecedented attacks against trans folks like myself to the national level.

A Trump/Vance victory will guarantee that their hate will be on full display, and I genuinely believe the consequences will cause the deaths of countless members of my community.

Trump has repeatedly pledged to wage war on “radical gender ideology”. His running mate is a prime sponsor on a bill in the Senate that would end trans healthcare nationally. That means hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans like me who rely on daily medication will lose it completely.

For those of us who survive the loss of our most critical healthcare, we’ll be reduced to second class citizens overnight when Trump follows through on his threat to implement a federal definition of gender that is restricted to only male and female as assigned at birth. 

To understand what this means, look at Florida, where it just became a felony to have the “wrong” gender on your license. They’re turning people like me into criminals just for driving our cars. 

Right wing governors in Florida, Texas, and dozens of other states across the nation are testing out laws that Project 2025 will bring to the national stage.

Under the last Trump administration, I lost friends to violence from radical alt-right attacks, and to suicide because they couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Every year at Trans Day of Remembrance memorials, the list grew longer.

Those of us that could, fought back. I threw myself into politics, becoming the first openly trans federal campaign manager back in 2017, working with Brand New Congress on U.S. Congressional & Senate races across the country. Now, I’m proud to join Capt. (Ret.) Ike McCorkle and Major (Ret.) Richard Ojeda in building a resistance against Project 2025.

But if we don’t stop Trump and Vance here and now, I’m not so sure that I won’t end up having a candle lit in my name before they are done with us.

That’s why I’m throwing all my energy into Resist Project 2025. I’m fighting like my life depends on this victory - because it does.

Can I count on you to stand with our community and help us turn the tide in November?

In solidarity,

- Samantha Boucher

For Resist Project 2025