This section provides links to essential advocacy calls to action, including a tool to oppose the Nonprofit Killer Bill, coalition and advocacy letters addressed to Congress and the Administration, as well as key policy demands and agendas. MJF will continuously update this section with vital federal, state, and local advocacy initiatives aimed at protecting our communities and strengthening collective power.
Movement Win:
Defeating HB 1650 and other “anti-terrorism” legislation in Virginia
During the 2025 Virginia legislative session, multiple bills were introduced that expanded the use of terrorism language and provisions to criminalize student organizing, expand material support for terrorism statues, and create avenues for lawfare type civil suits against individuals and organizations.
MJF joined movement partners at the Virginia Coalition of Human Rights to lobby against H.B. 1650 and other bills that weaponized anti-terrorism tactics against students and public institutions of higher education.
Read our analysis of H.B. 1650, an expansion of Virginia’s Anti-Terrorism Act, which we brought to highlight the dangers of this bill to Delegates and Senators in Richmond. The bill, and others expanding repressive policies, did not make it out of committee and were defeated by the organizing and advocacy efforts of the Coalition.
Community Fact Sheet on Executive Orders: Impact on Palestine Dissent and Student Organizing
Muslims for Just Futures with support from Building Movement Project has developed a new community fact sheet that focuses on Trump’s new EOs that target Palestine dissent on campuses. It outlines how the EO directs agencies to potentially use immigration law and conspiracy statutes to monitor, prosecute, and remove non-citizen students, faculty, and staff involved in dissent. The fact sheet also details the EO’s impact on universities, furthering surveillance and reporting of campus activities. Additionally, it highlights two other EOs that promote “patriotic education,” restricting federal funding for schools that teach about racism and gender ideology, potentially shifting resources from public education to private and charter schools.
Decoding Trump’s Authoritarian Orders: Guide for Frontline Responders and Advocates
Muslims for Just Futures with support from Building Movement Project has developed a new guide that provides summaries of two Executive Orders related to national security, immigration enforcement, and counterterrorism policies. The Trump Administration's national security executive orders introduce the largest expansion of immigration enforcement and counter-terrorism policies since post 9/11.
These executive orders mandate the use of extreme vetting lists as the foundation for expanded bans targeting Muslim-majority, African, and other countries that fail to meet arbitrary vetting criteria. These executive orders explicitly codify ideological screenings that suppress dissent and activism. The executive orders also further call for funding denaturalization programs, expanding terrorism-related inadmissibility grounds for migrants and asylum seekers, reinstituting registries with an expanded focus on all undocumented migrants in the United States, and require coordination between federal, state, and local law enforcement, heightening surveillance and profiling of all immigrant communities. The first section of this document provides guidance for community organizers and frontline responders, with a focus on the potential impact for Black, Arab, Muslim, Middle Easter, and South Asian (BAMEMSA) and broader immigrant communities. The second section is designed for policy advocates, offering a detailed analysis of the provisions and mechanisms, such as extreme vetting lists and the expanded FTO list.
Defend Sanctuary Policies and Spaces
Muslims for Just Futures in collaboration with our MJF Legal Network and partners will be utilizing this page to provide updates on attacks on sanctuary cities and spaces.
Guidance for community Leaders and Groups
Understanding the National Strategy on Countering Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate:
A Guide for Groups and Leaders
Overall, the National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate fails to address the urgency of this moment and the long-standing, systemic targeting of BAMEMSA communities by our own government. This guide analyzes the inaugural U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate (Strategy) by examining how the Strategy reinforces harmful national security frameworks, lifting up components of the strategy that align with community recommendations, and offering guidance for groups to engage with the Strategy moving forward.
Call to Action:
Resist the Nonprofit Bill:
Over 8000 letters and calls were made by MJF community members to Congress to push back on HR9495. Section 4 of H.R. 9495, includes provisions that threaten the tax-exempt status of nonprofits for engaging in freedom of speech activities, jeopardizing their essential work and setting a concerning precedent. Despite strong opposition from over 300 civil society organizations, the bill passed the House on November 21. MJF is now urging the Senate to oppose any related legislation that undermines nonprofit tax-exempt status and endangers civil society organizations. Use this tool to reach out to your representatives.
Federal Advocacy Demands
Community Memorandum: Recommendations for A Foundational White House Islamophobia Strategy:
MJF spearheaded a community memorandum with endorsement from 95 organizations on key initial recommendations, as a starting point, for federal government agencies in implementing a comprehensive White House Islamophobia strategy. This memorandum also offers concerns with the existing process for developing the White House Islamophobia strategy, provides a community-rooted framework of structural and gendered Islamophobia and contains key agency recommendations.
Policy Tool:
Abolitionist v. Reforms
This tool was developed by Muslims for Just Futures and partners. We invite those interested in learning more about our collective agenda to read, "Abolishing the War on Terror, Building Communities of Care" grassroots policy platform as an additional resource to use with this tool. The goal of this tool is to support organizations, collectives, groups, and community members committed to moving with abolitionist values in their policy advocacy efforts. Our intention is to support groups and community members discern the type of policies that expand and further entrench the Global War on Terror, and the type of policies that can move us toward its abolition.
Our hope is to share a framework for policy objectives and oversight demands that move us toward our collaborative vision of abolition to the "Global War on Terror."