Dear Representative [Last Name],

My name is [Your name] and I am writing to you today as a concerned constituent, with deep urgency, to insist that you oppose and work to defeat a package of bills that represent a severe threat to fundamental American principles of constitutional democracy, due process, and civil liberties.

These bills, framed as security measures, are in fact vehicles for discrimination, censorship, and the consolidation of unilateral executive power. They directly undermine the rights of your constituents and the bedrock values of our nation.

1. HB 1471 & SB 1632 – The "Domestic Terrorist" Designation Bills
This legislation is a direct assault on the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process. It grants the Governor unprecedented power to formally label groups—without any judicial review or due process—as "domestic terrorists." The bill's text, with inflammatory and targeting language like "whereas Islamic terrorism," makes its discriminatory intent clear. It will criminalize dissent, defund nonprofits based on viewpoint, and censor academic discussion on our campuses. This power is tailor-made to target mainstream Muslim civil rights and advocacy organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been wrongfully smeared by officials like Governors Abbott and DeSantis. Such attacks, rooted in Islamophobia, weaponize state power to silence a minority community's legitimate civic engagement. As a pillar of American liberty, our system was designed to prevent the concentration of such unchecked power in a single office. This bill replaces justice with accusation and turns legitimate advocacy into potential criminal conspiracy.

2. HB 1473 & SB 1634 – The Secrecy Bills
Transparency is the lifeblood of public trust. These bills would hide the very government actions taken under the aforementioned "terrorist" designation from public view, exempting them from Florida's Sunshine Laws, requiring that any records made or received by a public agency in the course of its official business are available for inspection. This creates a system of closed-door enforcement where citizens cannot see the evidence used to target organizations under the guise of national security. Public affairs must continue to operate as such, in the public-eye. Defending democracy means defending the public's right to know.

3. HB 111 & SB 1072 – The Antisemitism Task Force Bill
This bill dangerously diverts the vital fight against antisemitism into an attack on legitimate political dissent. It mandates the flawed International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition that mainly focuses on Israel, not on prejudice against Jewish people. These examples are designed to conflate criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism, despite leading human rights organizations like B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch describing Israel as a racist apartheid state. This overbroad framework intentionally equates opposition to Israeli government policies with antisemitism. This false equivalence targets the diverse, multi-faith, and multi-ethnic coalitions that advocate for Palestinian human rights, silencing their legitimate voices. In other states, similar task forces have used this definition not to combat hate, but to investigate and intimidate pro-Palestine organizers and educational programs. In Florida, it will be used to silence educators, students, and advocates by branding protected criticism of Israel as bigotry. This paralyzes free speech, undermines academic freedom, and turns the state into a censor. It ignores the profound concern of many Jewish and non-Jewish Americans that this weaponization shields an ideology of ethnic supremacy from scrutiny while actively harming the fight against real anti-Jewish bigotry. Ultimately, this bill serves a narrow political agenda, not justice, and constitutes a severe violation of our First Amendment rights.

4. HB 31 & SB 1106 – The "Judea and Samaria" Bill
This bill constitutes a dangerous act of state-sponsored historical revisionism, mandating the erasure of the term "West Bank" from all Florida educational and official materials in favor of the Zionist expansionist term "Judea and Samaria." This is not a neutral act of terminology; it is a willful attempt to rewrite history and maps to conform to a single ideological narrative, an act of intellectual erasure against the Palestinian people. This practice is a hallmark of supremacist and fascist regimes throughout history, from the Nazi alteration of maps and texts to legitimize conquests, to the apartheid-era South African curriculum that denied Black history, to the ongoing efforts to whitewash the history of Indigenous genocide in our own country. Such tools, like this bill, are a precursor to dehumanization and a way to justify ongoing dispossession. By compelling our schools to adopt this contested term, Florida is not teaching history—it is enforcing propaganda that aligns with aiding Israel’s ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. It deliberately obscures the reality of military occupation and violates the academic integrity of our institutions. This bill has no place in a democracy; it is an authoritarian maneuver that insults the intelligence of Floridians and betrays the very principles of honest education.

Our Demand:

We demand you uphold your oath to the U.S. and Florida Constitutions. Use your position to serve as a critical check on executive overreach and discriminatory policy. Oppose these bills because:

• They violate due process
• They criminalize dissent
• They codify viewpoint discrimination and Islamophobia
• They operate in secrecy

Patriotism is not blind allegiance to authority; it is the courageous defense of our founding principles against all threats, foreign and domestic. These bills are a domestic threat to liberty.

We urge you to stand on the right side of history, defend all your constituents equally, and reject this repressive, discriminatory, and unconstitutional legislative package. Please inform me of your specific stance and intended actions regarding these bills.

Sincerely,
[Your Full Name]
[Your Address]
[City, State, ZIP]
[Your Phone Number]