Two of the country's largest financial institutions, Fidelity and Vanguard, are now helping carry out Trump's political attacks on the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Last month Trump's Justice Department went after SPLC for its work tracking the white supremacist networks his movement depends on. Thousands of supporters rushed to donate and defend the organization. Then Fidelity Charitable and Vanguard Charitable stepped in to block those donations from their donor advised funds.

SPLC is one target. But Trump allies are already signaling that Color Of Change and other racial justice and pro-democracy groups are on their hit list. If Fidelity and Vanguard get away with cutting off SPLC, the next group goes down easier, and the one after that easier still.

Color Of Change has spent years exposing the corporations and charitable funds bankrolling attacks on civil rights, voting rights, and fair treatment at work. Now we need enough public pressure to stop them in their tracks.

Here is the Petition:

Trump's Department Of Justice is targeting Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the nation's most prominent civil rights organizations, in a blatantly politically-motivated attack. For decades, SPLC has done the critical work that the FBI should be doing—tracking violent extremists before they act. White supremacist violence has been the deadliest domestic terror threat in this country for years. Instead of stopping that violence, Trump tears down the systems meant to hold them accountable. Trump dismantled the units built to investigate it. He doesn't prosecute white supremacists. He pardons them. And now his Justice Department is going after the people who kept watch when the federal government wouldn't.

Trump is testing whether corporations, banks, tech platforms, and wealthy institutions will go along with him and help cut off resources to groups challenging racism and authoritarianism. Fidelity and Vanguard are failing that test—their actions to block donations to SPLC are aiding Trump's efforts to take away our power to create positive change for all. This is just the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on groups that support abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, sex education access, gun control, justice system reform, voting rights, climate justice, and more.

The question this raises is bigger than one organization. It's whether Black people will be allowed to organize, advocate, and build power without being punished for it.

We stand with SPLC to call out Fidelity and Vanguard and demand they change course. Color Of Change and its members will continue to stand with partners like SPLC against the right-wing authoritarian efforts to suppress our movement. We are not backing down from the fight to defend our communities from harm. We are standing together, more committed than ever.

Fidelity and Vanguard must decide which side of history they will be on. Restore charitable giving access to SPLC NOW!