- Tell Congress to Pass the AI Data Center Moratorium Act
Data centers threaten jobs, water, the environment, and everything threatened by the "AI" they power.Email your representative and senators.
A Tale of Two Autopsies
Last year – when the Democratic National Committee kept delaying its promised autopsy on the 2024 election disaster – RootsAction decided to take matters into our own hands. We teamed up with progressive journalist Christopher Cook to produce “Autopsy: How Democrats Lost the White House.”Pass the Living Wage For All Act
Restoring lost value to the minimum wage and maintaining it is a proven means of improving millions of lives.Email your representative and senators.
Every State Can Ban Corporations Spending on Elections
States have the power to stop corporations from corrupting elections.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Allow Balcony Solar
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Utah allows people to plug small solar panels on balconies or patios into ordinary outlets for enough electricity to run their home appliances without paying any power company for it.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Ban Forever Chemicals
People are dying, suffering, and being born with birth defects.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Your State Can Unmask ICE
California has passed a ban on ICE agents wearing masks in the state. Your state can do the same. Every state should.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State Legislators and Governor: Free Pre-K For All Now!
If New Mexico can do it, so can your state.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Make Your State a Nuclear Free Zone
Let's prevent a spread of nuclear energy.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Tax the Super Wealthy
Massachusetts has created a very successful way to tax the very wealthy. Your state can easily do it too. Only Washington D.C. and these six states have a higher tax rate for the wealthiest: CA, HI, NY, NJ, OR, MN.
Please email your state legislators.
Fix the Minimum Wage in Your State
Make Voter Registration Automatic in Your State
Every election season, thousands of volunteers toil endless hours on a task that need not exist at all: registering voters. And voters are denied the right to vote when told they are not registered.
End Life Sentences Without Parole for Those Under 21
Massachusetts has banned sentencing young people under 21 to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Michigan and Washington have eliminated making such sentences mandatory. What about your state?
Ban Slavery in Your State
Some states still allow slavery, most of them as punishment for crime, as in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Abolish the Death Penalty
The death penalty's slow death is accelerating.
Please email your state legislators and governor.
Tell Your State to Put Limits on Political Action Committees to Eliminate Super PACs
A political action committee called a Super PAC can spend unlimited money promoting a candidate and can take unlimited money from individuals -- or can in most states, but not any longer in Maine.
Tell your governor and state legislators that we need this same reform now.
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News and Views
- 80 Organizations Suggest to Congress That It Comply with the Fourth Amendment
RootsAction is one of the signers of this letter.
more - Letter Asks Congressional Committees to Oppose Pentagon Budget
RootsAction is one of the signers of the following letter.
more - U.S. Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate U.S. and Israeli Militaries
In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, the House’s 2027 NDAA would all but fuse the two countries’ armed forces together.
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