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“Pornography is the canary in the coal mine” – that’s what adult film director Holly Randall told me when we spoke.

Discussing the election from her home in LA, she said access to porn was always the first thing governments targeted if they planned to attack civil liberties – and that was what Donald Trump was after.

She has been in the industry for 26 years and is the daughter of Suze Randall – one of the first female erotic directors.

“I’ve seen attacks on our industry not just in the 26 years I’ve been in it, but I’ve seen my parents go through similar things in the 1980s,” she said.

“But this is the most explicit I’ve ever seen.”

Holly is one of many porn workers who feel this way and is part of a campaign to warn about the impact of Donald Trump’s election.

The Hands Off My Porn campaign plans to spend $250,000 on ads on adult websites in key states, warning viewers that key Trump allies want to ban pornography and jail those who do it.

The ads will appear before the porn videos, with Holly explaining that they will warn viewers that such clips would be banned under Mr Trump.

Holly says it was all laid out in Project 2025 – a document seen as a playbook for the next Republican president.

Some of the people involved in Project 2025 are former senior Trump administration officials, but the former president has denied any knowledge of the document.

However, Trump’s running mate JD Vance wrote the foreword for Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts’ latest book.

In it, Mr. Vance advocates his ideas as a “fundamentally Christian vision of culture and economics.”

“In fact, he wants to outlaw porn entirely, he wants to criminalize it, he wants to send the people who produce it to prison, he wants to lock up the people who distribute it, even the librarians,” Holly explains.

Page five from Project 2025 states: “Pornography should be banned. The people who produce and distribute it should be jailed.”

“Pornography is the canary in the coal mine,” says Holly. “It’s the first thing to get rid of when the government wants to destroy your civil liberties, it’s the easiest to attack.

“We live with this every day, our industry is always under threat, we are always under attack.

“It’s not unusual, but it’s the first time it’s been linked to a president running for office who has said so explicitly that he wants to outlaw the entire industry and send us all to jail.”

Speaking about how the election has gone so far, she said it was “the most explosive” she had seen.

“It’s pretty disheartening. He (Trump) has divided our country,” she added.

“We are not in a period where we can rest on our laurels.”

When I asked her what she thought of the idea of ​​another Trump presidency, she replied: “If Trump wins, I’m holding on to my British passport. I might come.”