On our second anniversary, we announced The Children’s Record—a powerful archival initiative launched with a stark public statement from our Executive Director: “Two years ago, we set out to provide children access to their legal rights; today, we recognize the greater need of recording how those rights are denied.” This digital archive collects, preserves, and publicly displays documentation of human rights violations—through the eyes of children—creating a permanent record for future accountability. As part of this initiative, exemplifying our founding belief that “legal literacy equals liberation,” we simultaneously launched Tracking Power: What Executive Orders Are Doing to Our Rights in 2025, a comprehensive, youth-focused database categorizing and clarifying the rapid and complex executive orders issued by the Trump Administration. This makes critical information affecting young people’s rights searchable, accessible, and transparent.

In October, The Trespass Project mobilized a series of actions for National Youth Justice Action Month, joining national advocates in amplifying youth-led resistance against systems that criminalize children.

• The month began with an official statement from Policy Director Molly Reed, underscoring how young people disproportionately experience the injustices of political and legal systems and affirming that “we are fighting back,” previewing The Children’s Record.
• The same week, The Trespass Project released a Nationwide Land Acknowledgment on First People’s Day, recognizing that every juvenile facility and detention site in the U.S. sits on stolen Indigenous land, citing The Sentencing Project’s data on Indigenous youth incarceration rates.
• Later in the month, we partnered with nineteen-year-old Jaydan Rivera to premiere “Weight of a Pallbearer,” a spoken-word performance confronting coercion and systemic injustice in youth criminalization—it reached more than 10,000 views in under 24 hours and was reshared by major voices in our space, including social justice icon, Little Miss Flint and Every Day Is Juneteenth! Together, these channels amplified the work to more than 650,000 potential viewers.
• Finally, we released “Before You March”—a nationwide #NoKingsDay campaign reintroducing the Protest Rights Guide to equip young people with constitutional literacy before participating in October 18th demonstrations.

In March, twenty-four global organizations, including Human Rights Watch, co-authored an open letter, urging Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance, Bishnu Paudel, to expand the Child Grant program—at a moment when only 10% of Nepali children benefited from it, yet nearly 40% of Nepal’s entire population is the under age of 18. The letter emphasized both the urgency and feasibility of this critical investment in youth, noting that expansion would cost less than 0.7% of Nepal’s GDP annually yet profoundly improve child labor rates, food security, and overall child welfare. Through our platforms, we directed thousands to the full open letter hosted on Human Rights Watch’s platform.

On the President’s first day in office, he signed Executive Order 14160, attempting to eliminate birthright citizenship—a constitutional right protected under the 14th Amendment since 1868. Within 24 hours, we launched an aggressive digital campaign and tool that auto-generated and sent multiple pre-filled emails demanding Congress to permanently codify birthright citizenship protections. Our digital platform spiked by over 6,000 users, leading to an estimated 30,000+ direct emails flooding the inboxes of key congressional leaders responsible for safeguarding this fundamental right.