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What is TAAG?
Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (TAAG) is an organization of U.S. taxpayers committed to promoting accountability for U.S. officials responsible for grave violations of international law. As part of that mission, TAAG conducts research and gathers evidence for submission to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
TAAG is also defending the First Amendment rights of U.S. taxpayers to engage in lawful advocacy and share information with international institutions such as the ICC so that TAAG and others can do so when ready without fear of unconstitutional retaliation by the Trump administration.
Background
TAAG was formed in the spring of 2026 by a small group of U.S. taxpayers who are determined to hold U.S. officials criminally accountable for their participation in and enabling of the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
TAAG's founding members were inspired by the work of Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG) to halt the use of U.S. tax dollars to fund genocide. TAAG builds upon TAG's many efforts to achieve this goal, including:
A major class action lawsuit filed by TAG in December 2024, against California members of Congress for unlawfully using their constituents' tax dollars to fund genocide;
A major report submitted on April 7, 2025, to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review of the United States, prepared by a team of National Lawyers Guild attorneys working with TAG;
The preparation and submission of a historic legal complaint against the U.S. government to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on May 15, 2025 and later amended on October 7, 2025, by a team of NLG attorneys working with TAG, calling for an end to the U.S. government's participation in the genocide in Palestine;
The organizing of nationwide street protests on Tax Day, April 15, 2026 opposing the continued use of U.S. tax dollars to fund war, genocide, occupation, and gross human rights violations within the U.S.
The organizing of nationwide, online teach-ins that examine the role of US tax dollars in funding crimes against humanity throughout the world, from Haiti to the Philippines;
Coalition-building with other anti-imperialist organizations and participating in broad alliances, such as the Black Alliance for Peace; and
Consistently participating in protests throughout the U.S. that oppose the use of U.S. tax dollars to fund ICE immigration enforcement abuses, the prison-industrial complex, and empire.
These efforts have helped build a grassroots movement of taxpayers. They have also demonstrated the limitations of existing institutions in stopping the U.S. — described by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” — from continuing to participate in genocide and other grave international crimes.
Why the International Criminal Court Matters
The ICC is the only permanent international criminal court that can prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Under certain circumstances, the ICC may prosecute nationals of countries that have not ratified the Rome Statute, including when alleged crimes are committed on the territory of an ICC member state.
Although the ICC has thus far failed to prosecute officials from colonial "Western" powers responsible for grave international crimes, it nonetheless, remains an important forum in the struggle to hold U.S. officials accountable. The ICC arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant underscore the need to investigate and, where supported by the evidence, prosecute U.S. officials who participated in or enabled the same crimes.
On January 19, 2025, the prestigious human rights organization Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) made a substantial evidence submission to the ICC against Biden Administration officials for their complicity in the genocide in Palestine. TAAG believes that the evidentiary record must now be updated to address the conduct of senior Trump administration officials.
Defending the Right to Seek Accountability
Less than three weeks into his second term, on February 6, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14203 concerning the ICC in an attempt to prevent such accountability efforts. The order sought to shield U.S. and Israeli officials from ICC investigations and prosecutions by threatening sanctions against persons who participate in or support such efforts. Thus far this executive order has been used to sanction ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, ten ICC judges, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and three Palestinian human rights organizations. These sanctions can freeze property and bank accounts, block access to financial services, and severely disrupt the lives and work of the targeted people and organizations.
TAAG believes the executive order threatens the constitutional rights of U.S. taxpayers who seek to communicate lawfully with the ICC. TAAG is therefore working both to preserve evidence for future submission and to defend the First Amendment right to share information with international accountability institutions without fear of unlawful government retaliation.
To advance the continuing struggle for accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, a group of ten conscientious taxpayers launched TAAG in the spring of 2026.
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