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CNN reported that Trump's former "weaponization" czar at the DOJ mishandled sensitive information and lied about it.

Demand Progress Education Fund just filed an ethics complaint with the DC Bar and Missouri Bar demanding an investigation.

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

Read about it in this story from @dell.bsky.social at @wired.com

ICE is misusing a facial recognition app that can’t reliably verify identity and was rushed into use.

Without real privacy safeguards, tools like this can be used by the government and law enforcement to bypass our fundamental rights.

Get Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center and save an American institution! Trump is remaking America in his image.

Sign the petition: Block Trump’s Kennedy Center name change and save the venue from closing!

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to reverse the Kennedy Center name change and save the institution from Trump’s personal vendettas.

Zuckerberg Funds Pro-AI PACs After Letting Chatbots Flirt with Minors - Demand Progress Washington, D.C. — On Monday, Politico reported that Meta gave $65 million to two super-PACs working to weaken state AI safeguards in California and across the country. Last week, Reuters reported tha...

Read the full statement from Demand Progress

Meta gave $65 million to super-PACs working to weaken state AI safeguards after Mark Zuckerberg rejected creating parental controls for “romance AI chatbots” that minors could access.

Advocates Ask Congress to Investigate FBI’s Search of Washington Post Reporter - Demand Progress Washington, D.C. — On Friday, Demand Progress and 16 other press freedoms, human rights, and civil liberties groups asked Congress to investigate the FBI’s unprecedented raid of a Washington Post repo...

And read our letter calling for a congressional investigation into the FBI raid of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home

Government shutdown looms as anti-ICE protests planned Senate reaches bipartisan funding deal, but shutdown risk lingers as House delay threatens swift passage.

Read about it at @newsweek.com

The arrest of Don Lemon and the raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home are naked attempts by the Trump administration to intimidate the press and keep us all in the dark about what they’re doing.

Don Lemon’s Arrest Continues Trump’s Attack on a Free Press - Demand Progress Washington, D.C. — On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that journalist Don Lemon was arrested at her direction. Federal judges had already rejected attempts by the U.S. Department of Justi...

Read the full statement from Demand Progress

Arresting Don Lemon, at the direction of the attorney general and after a federal court rejected previous attempts to arrest him, is an outrageous attempt to scare journalists away from covering Minnesota.

Block Trump from rigging midterms — stop the SAVE Act! Our democracy can’t withstand Trump’s coordinated assault on our elections unless our leaders stop Republicans from rigging the rules and silencing millions of voters.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections from every angle. His plan includes one of the worst voter suppression bills in modern history: the SAVE Act.

Sign the petition: Stop the SAVE Act. Block Trump’s attempts to steal the 2026 midterms.

Block funding for ICE and Border Patrol now! Senate Democrats must stop funding for ICE and end Trump’s authoritarian horrors.

A vote to fund ICE is set for THIS WEEK. Senate Democrats must stop this funding and end Trump's authoritarian horrors.

Sign the petition: Block funding for ICE and Border Patrol now!

Army General Tapped to Lead NSA Said He Doesn’t Know Much About the Biggest NSA Controversy In the Senate this week, Trump’s NSA pick Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd could face tough questions on “backdoor” searches about Americans.

Read about it in @theintercept.com

The Trump administration needs to give us clear answers about whether they will keep using their vast spying powers on Americans.

Contributor: The weird bipartisan alliance to cap credit card rates is onto something Consumer credit is less expensive elsewhere in the world because of greater competition and tougher regulation.

There is a rare, bipartisan opportunity to challenge the Visa-Mastercard duopoly and make credit cards cheaper.

Read about it in this piece from Demand Progress’s @carterd.bsky.social in the @latimes.com

Advocates Ask Congress to Investigate FBI’s Search of Washington Post Reporter - Demand Progress Washington, D.C. — On Friday, Demand Progress and 16 other press freedoms, human rights, and civil liberties groups asked Congress to investigate the FBI’s unprecedented raid of a Washington Post repo...

Read the full release from Demand Progress

Today, Demand Progress and 16 other press freedom and civil society groups sent a letter asking Congress to investigate the FBI’s unprecedented raid of a Washington Post reporter’s home.

Targeting and threatening a reporter like this undermines the First Amendment and a free press.

Demand Congress investigate all ICE-related deaths now On January 7, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, 37, in Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security claimed the victim was a “violent” rio...

Investigate Trump’s ICE prisons! End the deaths in ICE custody and the horrible treatment of people in immigrant detention.

Sign the petition: Hold ICE accountable and close dangerous ICE prisons NOW!

Facing Political Peril, Trump Tries To Reclaim His Populist Edge The president faces two major obstacles: a skeptical public and a disinterested GOP.

Read more via @huffpost.com & @robillard.bsky.social

Our Executive Director Sean Vitka on President Trump’s attempts to harness populist politics

'Blindly Endorsing' Trump Crimes, Senate GOP Kills Venezuela War Powers Bill | Common Dreams "Senate Republicans continually fall in line behind Donald Trump, no matter how reckless, no matter how unconstitutional," fumed Sen. Chuck Schumer.

Read more via @commondreams.org:

www.commondreams.org/news/senate-...

"Congress' war powers don't rest on trust. They rest on the law, and legal obligations don't disappear because of promises."

🔴 "Government invasion into a reporter’s home and the seizure of journalistic materials is exactly the kind of scenario our First Amendment was conceived to protect against."

Today, we joined over two dozen organizations in condemning the outrageous government invasion.

Trump Bullies Flip-Flopping Senators Into Defeating Vote to Block Venezuela War Five Republican senators had advanced a war powers resolution to block war with Venezuela. After Trump went berserk, the final vote failed.

via @theintercept.com:

theintercept.com/2026/01/14/t...

Yesterday, Senate Republican leadership chose to hide behind a point of order to avoid a final vote on war powers. A move that only succeeded because Vice President Vance stepped in to break the tie.

Vance Breaks Tie as Senate Republicans Kill Venezuela War Powers Vote - Demand Progress Washington, D.C. — On Wednesday, Senate Republicans and Vice President J.D. Vance blocked a final vote on the bipartisan Venezuela War Powers Resolution introduced by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Rand P...

Read the full Demand Progress statement: demandprogress.org/vance-breaks...

Tonight, JD Vance broke the tie so Senate Republicans could kill the Venezuela war powers vote.

This blocks an up-or-down final passage vote on stopping unauthorized hostilities in or against Venezuela.