The editorial board of CPUSA.org wishes all of our comrades and friends a Happy New Year! The struggle continues, through all the ups and downs of 2025, bringing us together in united resistance against capitalism and with hope for a better world.

Last year was very challenging. A fascist MAGA attack filled with racist, anti-migrant and anti-LGBTQ violence was unleashed with Trump’s inauguration. Attacks on vital services like Medicaid, the Postal Service, and on federal government workers deepened. U.S. imperialism increased its support for the ongoing Palestinian genocide and stepped up Cold War 2.0, increasing anti-Cuban economic policies and its campaign against China. The gathering clouds of war became daily news — making it hard for many to keep hope alive. Yet, there are bright areas of fightback that give reason for hope.

The mass base supporting the Trump administration and Project 2025 is starting to fracture under the pressure of the White House’s demands for loyalty. His corruption and attacks are fueling the disintegration of GOP support. This opens the door to Republicans losing the House and being more vulnerable in the Senate.

Multiple Republican Senators and Representatives are retiring from office. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from the House effective January 5, 2026, after a public clash with the president. She predicted Republicans will likely lose the midterm elections, saying she’d “be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.” She continued: “Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for.”

The people’s movement is beginning to fight Trump successfully. The release of Kilmar Armando Ábrego Garcia was won through mass and legal struggle. Ábrego Garcia’s union, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART), fought for him consistently. The courts have prevented National Guard troops from being deployed in Chicago, Oakland, and Portland. The House passed a H.R. 2250, Protect America’s Workforce Act, to restore collective bargaining for federal employees. Courts blocked Trump’s transgender military ban and restored access to gender-affirming care in the military. All under mass pressure.

Under the cover of opposing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the Trump administration is dismantling civil rights, enacted in the 1950s and 1960s, that helped all people regardless of race or ethnicity. Civil rights offices have been closed throughout the federal government, gutting enforcement capabilities. In fact, the Trump administration has successfully carried out a civil rights counterrevolution. As the ongoing Target Boycott demonstrates, the people are fighting back.

Civil rights laws worked to ensure that all people received necessary services. Trump’s dismantling of the Department of Education, for example, gutted the enforcement that ensured   schools provided necessary services for disabled children. All people have a stake in protecting what was won.

However, in the face of MAGA’s relentless assault, the tide is turning.

In Indiana, a Trump-backed redistricting initiative was defeated despite Trump winning 59% of the vote in 2024.

Democrats took many Republican seats in 2024 elections, indicating changing mass views. Democrats swept all 13 statewide elections in November 2025 and flipped 21 percent of all GOP-held seats on the ballot throughout 2025. Republicans flipped no Democratic seats.

Importantly, acceptance of socialism is expanding. Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won the mayor’s seat in New York City. In Seattle, Democratic Socialist Katie Wilson defeated incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell.

There was never a mandate for Trump’s fascist agenda. Trump won by only 1.5% of the vote. He won on the margins. As we enter 2026, let’s recommit to working together, united in struggle against the violent, anti-people plundering Trump is conducting from the Oval Office. We can defeat the MAGA agenda in 2026 at the voting booth and end the inhumane ICE attacks.

Trump is feeling the pressure. His December 17th address from the White House was very defensive.

He exhorted Republicans to terminate the filibuster, and push through his agenda against the will of the people. He understands his support is diminishing, and that his presidency has entered lame-duck territory.

Through united struggle, the people, led by labor in coalition with oppressed peoples and women, can end the MAGA nightmare in 2026. We can stop the drive to war against Venezuela and the aggression against China. We can get Cuba off the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism and end the illegal and inhumane U.S. blockade.

Where despair gripped many in 2025, hope can blossom in 2026. All hands are needed on deck to defeat the Trump/MAGA fascist agenda in 2026.

Unite and fight against MAGA in 2026! Resist!

Images: Members of the Communist Party USA and Young Communist League march in Washington on Jan. 18 by CPUSA (all rights reserved).