Hi Friends,

Late-night comedians made jokes this week by simply playing footage of Trump and his gang claiming both that Iran's supposed nuclear weapons program had been "obliterated" and that it was an imminent threat. They don't even respect the U.S. public enough to put real effort into the lies -- much less to consider the opinion polls showing broad opposition to an attack on Iran.

Votes are planned next week in both houses. Contact them now!

FROM PROGRESSIVE HUB

• A War With Iran Would Not Be a One-Off Event But a Disastrous Ongoing Rupture
• Israel and American Hawks are Pushing U.S. to Iran War With Catastrophic Consequences

RootsAction Campaign Coordinator David Swanson was on a peace delegation to Venezuela this week, in opposition to the policy of murdering boaters, kidnapping a president, sanctioning a country, and bullying a government at the point of a missile. Here are a few things most people in Latin America would appreciate us emailing Congress about:

• Reversing course on Venezuela.
• Ending the blockade of Cuba.
• Burying the Monroe Doctrine.

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• A Child's View of the Attack on Venezuela. And a Peace Flotilla
• New Addition to List of Nuclear Near Catastrophes

Trump wants to move unimaginable mountains of money from anything good or decent into militarism.

• Tell Congress Members to Publicly Commit to Voting No on Military Spending
• Not a Single Dollar for ICE 

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Minneapolis: Organizing for the Protection of the Community

Read RootsAction's Autopsy of the 2024 election.

Join us for the March 2026 online book club on March 4 at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET with Jonathan Rosenblum, author of We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics. Please come and ask questions!

Jesse Jackson was a lifelong leader in the effort to transform the Democratic Party into a vehicle for peace and justice, a struggle he waged at the 1972 Democratic convention where he was a force behind Sen. George McGovern’s antiwar candidacy. His own runs for president in 1984 and 1988 built a Rainbow coalition and were the first Democratic campaigns to advocate for justice for Palestinians. RootsAction’s founders were active in exposing biased and racist media coverage of Jackson’s 1988 campaign, and we continue his struggle to remake the Democratic Party.

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The Left Owes a Lot to Jesse Jackson

Illinois 08: Junaid Ahmed

New Jersey 11: Analilia Mejìa

North Carolina 04: Nida Allam

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