You've probably have never heard of the Civicus Monitor, but then you probably never needed to know about them.

The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms.

Civicus, an international non-profit organization dedicated to “strengthening citizen action and civil society around the world”, announced the inclusion of the US on the non-profit’s first watchlist of 2025 on Monday, alongside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia.
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The group also pointed to the administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters, and the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to control media access to presidential briefings, among others.

Civicus described Trump’s actions since taking office as an “unparalleled attack on the rule of law” not seen “since the days of McCarthyism in the twentieth century”, stating that these moves erode the checks and balances essential to democracy.

One thing I noticed early on with MAGA is that it projects. If it accuses you of something, chances are that MAGA is guilty of it. Off hand, I'm thinking of pedophilia and Trump's best friend Jeffrey Epstein.
But in this case I'd like to refer to accusations of politicizing and weaponizing the DOJ.

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said Congress will probe “domestic terrorism” attacks targeting the Tesla car brand after vehicles and storefronts were vandalized.

The examples are adding up fast.

In yet another attack on the Constitution, President Donald Trump is threatening to pull funding from schools, colleges, and universities that allow “illegal protests.”

“Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Tuesday morning. “NO MASKS,” he added, to boot.

Trump’s threat is a direct assault on the First Amendment, which protects the “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” a core pillar to the functioning of a peaceful democracy.

There is no such thing as an illegal protest as long as it is peaceful, but Trump doesn't care.

The Trump administration is scrambling to find a legal justification for what legal experts and advocates say is a clear cut violation of arrested pro-Palestine protester Mahmoud Khalil’s First Amendment rights.

On Saturday, Department of Homeland Security agents followed Khalil — a graduate of Columbia University who helped organize pro-Gaza protests in the spring of last year — and his wife, into their apartment building near Columbia’s campus. Khalil and his wife who is eight months pregnant, were told that his student visa had been revoked, and that he would be deported. When his wife, a citizen who has not yet been publicly identified, pointed out that her husband was a lawful permanent resident, DHS authorities threatened to arrest her, as well, before whisking Khalil out of New York over 1,300 miles away to a detention facility in Louisiana.

Trump doesn't care about antisemitism. This is about power.

To be clear, the Trump administration is not interested in combating antisemitism.

Elon Musk does Nazi salutes. The Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, is accused of spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories. The health and human services secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has claimed that Covid-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. The FBI has announced it will relax investigation of neo-Nazi terrorist cells, which have been regrouping since the president’s pardon of the January 6 insurrectionists, to focus on the surveillance of leftwing organizations including Black Lives Matter and the imaginary formation it calls Antifa.

Even Bondi has admitted that she wouldn't rule out using the DOJ on Trump's political enemies. Of course Trump threatened to do this dozens of times during the campaign.