Over its first month, the new administration has launched an unprecedented assault on Americans and civil society, using federal power to silence critics, punish opposition, and refashion “law and order” to serve its political interests.

Today, the White House released a new memorandum directing the heads of executive departments and agencies to stop funding non-profits and federal grantees that do not align with partisan interests, while dangerously conflating that standard with what is in “the national interest.”