Democracy Defender

Thousands and thousands marching through Rome right now to say: Hands off the Flotilla. A whole day of action and general strike tomorrow.

Over the past nine months, the Trump administration has slashed budgets, fired thousands of scientists and decimated federal health research. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been cut from research programs seeking a cure and new treatments for cancer. Is this what Trump voters voted for?

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

This is the HUD homepage right now. Gaslighting at its finest.

Defend the Marine Mammal Protection Act Speak up now to urge your members of Congress to stand up for marine mammals and oppose any efforts to weaken the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Sign/RP: Congress, Keep the Marine Mammal Protection Act intact! Oil & gas, fishing gear, climate change & other human threats jeopardize the survival of many marine species. Only 370 N. Atlantic right whales, 300 belugas & 73 Southern Resident Orcas remain. Marine mammals still need our help!

Stop this ultra-deepwater drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico If approved, this project will be BP’s first completely new oilfield development in the Gulf of Mexico since the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Pls sign/share: 15 yrs after BP’s Deepwater Horizon —the most destructive oil spill in U.S. history—the same company is asking the fed. government to approve a new, massive offshore drilling project in the Gulf. Stop the ultra-deepwater drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico. Sign/Fight back:

September Actions Action Newsletter

Pls sign/share: Help fight Trump's attempt to open up the treasured wilderness of the Rainy River Watershed in the Boundary Waters to toxic mining: earthjustice.org/action/actio...

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it? 

I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism. 

So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

A recent study published in The Lancet estim. that the Trump admin’s cuts to foreign aid will cost the lives of 690,000 children under the age of 5 in 2025, & 829,000 in 2026, and 3.1 million children under age 5 would die during Trump’s 2nd term (88 children dying each hour of Trump’s 2nd term).

The Trump administration’s latest power grab: your voter data The Justice Department sued Oregon and Maine to gain access to their full voter registration lists.

The Justice Department this week sued two blue states, Maine and Oregon, to attempt to gain access to their full, unredacted voter registration lists, intensifying President Trump’s anti-voting efforts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DOJ Sues Six States, Escalating Campaign to Seize Private Voter Data Read more here.

As Trump threatens to prosecute his political opponents, DOJ files new lawsuits against CA, MI, MN, NY, NH & PA to get their full unredacted voter lists to further Trump's voter suppression agenda. Chilling abuse of power www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This is what courage looks like.

This is what leadership looks like.

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

ICE continues to assault us.

We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

I rarely agree with Ted Cruz, but on this we’re united: he called FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s bid to suspend Jimmy Kimmel “right out of Goodfellas” and “dangerous as hell.”

Using government power to punish speech we dislike threatens everyone—left, right, or center.

Takeaways from fired CDC director’s Senate testimony — The Washington Post Susan Monarez told the Senate health committee that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressured her to back changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.

Susan Monarez, fired last month as director of the CDC and Prevention, told senators Wed. that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. pressured her to support changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, subverting the agency’s scientific expertise and endangering public health. apple.news/AiuC1EMUyQRG...

The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.

The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands >>>>
earthjustice.org/feature/road...

Preach Brother Preach 💙🙏👏🏼👏🏼

🤯 the Nazis used “DENATURALIZATION LAWS” to strip citizenship from both JEWS and POLITICAL opponents. 🤨

There are 25 million “naturalized citizens” in the US, but they probably aren’t the only ones at RISK. 🤬

The one thing we ALL agree on!

> @rollingstone.com

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People can’t get COVID vaccines as cases surge. Anger is building against Trump. - Los Angeles Times

All About the AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule Here's what to know about the recommended immunization schedule for children and teens. The schedule is approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics and based on ongoing review of the most recent sc...

It’s more important than ever for the public to understand what/when pediatricians recommend your children be vaccinated against potentially fatal diseases. Help share this vital resource in your community: www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

Postcard Sign Ups — Activate America

Our postcarders have sent out 200k+ postcards in support of Prop 50, California's redistricting measure that empowers voters to redraw our Congressional lines.

Today, we launched a new phone bank.

Join us!

Postcards: www.activateamerica.vote/postcards

Phone Banks: www.mobilize.us/activateamer...