The youth-led climate activist group Sunrise Movement is expanding its mission to battle “authoritarianism” as the Trump administration targets left-leaning organizations and puts one of the group’s major funders in the crosshairs.

“There is no serious way to think about stopping the climate crisis under a fascist government,” Sunrise executive director Aru Shiney-Ajay told The Intercept. “The path to climate lies through getting rid of the authoritarian government we’re in.”

The move comes as President Donald Trump furiously dismantles the green energy initiatives that Sunrise fought to see enshrined in President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Recovery Act . In a striking success for the climate group, the law contained parts of Sunrise’s top priority: the Green New Deal.

The group, now

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