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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.”

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Restoring lost value to the minimum wage and maintaining it is a proven means of improving millions of lives.

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We cannot leave an open and shameless criminal in office while he threatens overnight genocides and ruins the lives of millions of people.

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Making that autopsy public would make it harder for Democrats to repeat the same mistakes.

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He is a danger to himself and all life on Earth.

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Removal of Trump from the office of president cannot wait.

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With thousands killed and injured and over a million displaced, the new war on Lebanon is a growing catastrophe perpetrated by Israel with U.S. weaponry and support.

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RootsAction and Defuse Nuclear War are bringing together activists and organizations from our coalitions to demand that the United States government stop its attacks on Iran.

People are gathering in protest at the in-district offices of their Members of Congress. RootsAction and Defuse Nuclear War will provide signs, social media and organizing support to anyone who wants to get involved and demand an end to this unjust war.

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It’s time for congressional Democrats to replace Schumer and Jeffries with leaders who are willing and able to challenge the runaway militarism that has dragged our country into launching yet another insanely destructive war.

Send a clear message to the Democrat(s) who represent you in the House and/or Senate.

 

Decent accountable government depends on protecting, not punishing whistleblowers.

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Legislation to tax grotesque wealth and transform the lives of millions of people is waiting in both houses of Congress for your Representative and Senators to cosponsor.

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The United States and Israel have launched a completely unprovoked, illegal, immoral and barbaric war on Iran.

Your representative and senators need to hear from you now!

 

If you are in California, can you send AG Bonta a message, and tell him that he has the power to step in and block this media merger under the Clayton Antitrust Act, passed by Congress in 1914, now?

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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.

Can you sign our petition today, demanding that Amazon stop fueling deportations by ending its contracts with DHS and ICE, now?

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Your senators and representative need to hear from you to block all funding for ICE!

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Counties and states upholding the rule of law, including on masked thugs committing murder on public streets, ought to go without saying.

It needs saying. Email your state legislators and governor here.

 

We petition TikTok U.S. and UAE investors to uplift the voices for Palestine on the new U.S. TikTok spin-off.

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Without a response, there is no telling where Trump and the hawks in his administration will stop.

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Read the new RootsAction report on the 2024 presidential election -- "Autopsy: How Democrats Lost the White House."

Will there be any standards or rules governing the world? Will the U.S. government promote a free-for-all of terrorist attacks by a war machine masquerading as representative government? Or will Congress stand up to Trump?

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We need our "representatives" in Congress to recognize the genocide — and then do what the law requires of them!

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Tell the governments of Iran, Russia, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates.

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Evidence of Jeffrey Epstein's influence on governments, and on behalf of the Israeli government, has been well reported by Drop Site News and Reason, while being denied by the Trump Administration.

Email Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

 

New START, the last bilateral treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, is about to expire.

Tell your Members of Congress to do everything they can to extend New START.

 

On October 29, just before meeting with China’s President XI Jinping, President Trump posted on the right-wing social media network Truth Social that “because of other countries [sic] testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”

Tell your Members of Congress to say no to U.S. nuclear testing.

 

People are dying, suffering, and being born with birth defects.

With a broken federal government, let's tell states to step up.

 

Trump is claiming dictatorial powers and announcing plans to use them.

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It’s time for us to stop supplying Israel with weapons used to kill civilians and recognize a Palestinian state.

Please add your name to this petition by Congressman Ro Khanna.

 

Academic freedom is essential to the integrity of education. That integrity has been violated by the University of California as it turned over the names of 160 students, faculty members and staff to the Trump administration.

Please add your name to this urgent petition cosponsored by RootsAction, College Democrats of America, Progressive Democrats of America, and High School Democrats of America.

 

Congress may soon be voting on a war powers resolution on Venezuela, and has a responsibility to vote Yes -- to reiterate what is found in the U.S. Constitution, the UN Charter, and other laws: it is illegal to attack another country.

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Numerous experts are warning that actions already taken by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services will result in a great many deaths.

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Horrible damage can be done to people's lives with deepfake video, audio, and images.

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With U.S.-made weapons, Israel is massacring, starving, and displacing Palestinian families in Gaza. These acts of genocide are directly funded by U.S. tax dollars, in blatant violation of U.S. and international laws.

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LIVE Coverage of DNC Meeting Tuesday, August 26 (9am ET / 6am PT) and Wednesday, August 27 (12 noon ET / 9am PT)

We will be watching along live with special guests Norman Solomon and India Walton and will be paying extra attention to DNC decisions on dark money in Democratic elections, genocide in Gaza, and more.

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Donald Trump has executed an authoritarian takeover of Washington, DC. He will need Congressional support to keep his takeover of DC going beyond 30 days. That’s why we’re asking you to write to your senators and representative now.

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In one of the two votes in the U.S. Senate on July 30th on yet more weapons to Israel, 27 Senators voted to stop the weapons shipments, while 70 voted to keep arming the genocide, and 3 did not vote one way or the other.

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When an actually progressive candidate wins a primary and excites people who might become loyal supporters of the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party's so-called leaders tend to put their efforts into undermining or defeating their own candidate and potential.

Tell your Democratic Member(s) of Congress to endorse Mamdani right away.

 

Quickly send an email to the people who are supposed to be representing you in Congress, telling them that a lawless president must be stopped!

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We need to make it clear that war with Iran is not an option.

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We can't believe we still have to say this, but we do.

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Only harm comes from illegal unilateral sanctions against populations.

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We do not need a federal agency to do lawless kidnappings. The United States is saturated with police departments to handle actual crimes. ICE serves primarily to generate fear. The antidote is not yet more Democratic and Congressional inaction. The antidote is courage.

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This could make a difference.

Please sign this petition to the Pope.

 

We're searching for Congress Members who will publicly make a serious effort, commit to voting No, and urge their colleagues to vote No, on military spending unless it is reduced.

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The Democratic Party has failed to confront the urgency of this perilous moment for the future of the United States.

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Trump's agents have moved on from kidnapping immigrants to arresting a judge.

Please sign this petition to Judge Dugan, which we will deliver to her via her attorney.

 

Tell Democrats in Congress that Biden-style accommodation has led to disaster –– and we need them to get serious about blocking the MAGA maneuvers at every turn.

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Our highly sensitive genetic information should never be up for grabs to the highest bidder.

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Trump and Musk are giving our stuff to billionaires.

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Tell Chuck Schumer to resign as minority leader in the Senate.

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It will take so much more to effectively combat Trump’s neofascist administration.

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Trump's propaganda machine is challenging artistic institutions. Some have taken a stand against this takeover, and we can too.

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The moment is too urgent to simply hope the Democrats will come up with a strong agenda to oppose Trump.

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Trump and his Congressional servants are planning either one or two "reconciliation" bills (bills on spending, and supposedly not on policy, that they can bring to the Senate floor with only 51 votes).

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“As a matter of conscience and human decency, I will not cooperate with any efforts by the Trump administration to engage in mass deportation of people living in the United States.”

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The second inauguration of Donald Trump is the return of a real-life nightmare. We want to express appreciation for the actions you’ve taken via RootsAction during the last few years to push back against right-wing forces and to push for a truly progressive agenda. Of course we know that online actions are never enough, but they can be part of the process of building movements that can change the world. That kind of change requires endurance . . . and a variety of strategic, escalating actions over long periods of time.

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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.

 

A dangerous bill is expected to come to a vote in the Senate.

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As a constituent, you can exert vital pressure on the Democrat(s) representing you in Congress -- letting them know that Rahm Emanuel would be an unacceptable choice for chair of the Democratic National Committee.

If you have a Democratic Senator and/or Representative, take action.

 

This is urgent.

Please email President Biden.

 

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.

Please email your state legislators and governor.

 

This is urgent. Your senators need to hear from you.

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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377 ("Uniting For Peace") allows the General Assembly to act when the Security Council fails.

Email governments around the world all at once.

 

Message to Congress: "There is no moral justification for arming the globe."

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If Blinken's conduct goes unchecked, the precedent for future secretaries of state could be catastrophic.

Please sign the petition below, and add your comments.

 

Gaza cannot wait.

Email President Biden, Vice President Harris, your Representative, and your Senators.

 

For the last eight months, the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” organization J Street has been trying to have it both ways -- backing continued U.S. arms shipments to Israel while urging that fewer Palestinians be killed.

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Upholding actual rules and international law is not as popular in Washington D.C. as fueling genocide in the name of the "rules-based order." Making a commitment to uphold the law requires courage for a member of the U.S. Congress.

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Send an email to the Democrat(s) representing you in Congress -- letting them know that Joe Biden is clearly not the nominee that the Democratic Party needs to defeat Donald Trump.

Act now.

 

Leonard Peltier is the longest-held political prisoner in the United States.

Email the U.S. Parole Commission, which is about to consider his parole.

 

Send an email to the Democrat(s) representing you in Congress -- asking them to ask Biden to take a cognitive exam.

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This is a matter of human survival.

Email President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, your Representative, and your Senators.

 

We urge every government to work for Netanyahu's arrest and extradition to The Hague in the Netherlands, and urge people everywhere to perform a citizen's arrest of Netanyahu wherever he can be found, including in Washington D.C.

Please add your name to this petition.

 

Using hundreds of video clips from different sources, a CNN investigative team has identified an assortment of non-students, Trumpites, and public anti-Semites who violently attacked UCLA's peaceful "defend Gaza/UC divest" student encampment -- while law enforcement looked on.

Demand answers by emailing UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, UC Police Chief John Thomas, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and District Attorney of Los Angeles County George Gascón.

 

Show Congress that you cannot be intimidated; add your name to this public statement.

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How can people improve the world, if people don't know what is happening?

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Google (jointly with Amazon) has a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli military and government, and has fired at least 50 employees for opposing it.

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College students are facing police violence, arrests, suspensions, and ugly false accusations for nonviolently protesting genocide.

Send an email with one click to the administrations of these universities: Columbia, NYU, Yale, UNC, Washington U, Vanderbilt, Michigan, The New School, MIT, Emerson, Tufts, Humboldt, Berkeley, Smith, Pomona, Minnesota.

 

Please ask the New York Times to revise its guidance on coverage of the Gaza crisis so that it is no longer banning standard descriptions and placing the most accurate characterizations of Israeli actions off limits.

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House Resolution 934 is called "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that regular journalistic activities are protected under the First Amendment, and that the United States ought to drop all charges against and attempts to extradite Julian Assange."

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Ask your Congress Member to sign this statement already signed by Congressman Ro Khanna: With over one million Palestinians on the brink of famine, I support funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to prevent a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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We're searching for Congress Members who will publicly make a serious effort, commit to voting No, and urge their colleagues to vote No, on military spending unless it is reduced.

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Why are we allowing "Never Again!" to become "Carry on Indefinitely"?

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Urge the New York Times to report on every U.S. weapons shipment to Israel, and in every such report to include mention of these shipments' apparent violation of laws.

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Urge President Biden to announce unequivocal support for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

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The successes in preventing this war each time are important to recognize, but we can't continue having this struggle year after year. Enough is enough!

Email your Representative, Senators, and the White House to end all war threats, drop all sanctions, and normalize cooperative, diplomatic relations with Iran.

 

The Biden administration must not only affirm the legitimacy of the ICJ’s ruling and facilitate an immediate ceasefire—it must comply with federal and international law by suspending military assistance to the Israeli government.

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Really? People opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza are working with the Russian government? Of course, Pelosi has offered zero evidence at the time of her remarks or since. Some things should not be allowed to pass unchallenged.

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Tell Your Representative and Senators to Support Resolution That Calls for the Annulment of the Monroe Doctrine and the Development of a “New Good Neighbor” Policy

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House Resolution 934 (full text here) is called "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that regular journalistic activities are protected under the First Amendment, and that the United States ought to drop all charges against and attempts to extradite Julian Assange."

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This could hardly be more urgent. People in Gaza are dying from violence and from disease and hunger in huge numbers that threaten to grow.

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This is an opportunity to abolish ICBMs and make the world a safer place.

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For months, the White House has been trying, thus far without success, to get Congressional funding for more weapons, all in one bill, for four wars / potential wars / warlike operations.

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With the ongoing assistance of Congress and the White House, Israel is continuing to murder children and other civilians in Gaza just as methodically as the gunman murdered children at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

Email President Biden, your Representative, and your Senators.

 

With Section 702, the government has engaged in illegal mass, warrantless surveillance of Americans’ and foreigners’ phone calls, and electronic communications including texts and emails.

Email your congressperson to tell them to take action on reforming FISA and end the warrantless collection of personal data.

 

Based on your address, this page will identify your Representative and Senators and what they have or have not done for a ceasefire in Gaza, and provide you with appropriate texts to email them. You can feel free to edit to add your own words.

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It’s long past time that members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus spoke up for genuine diplomacy to bring an end to the horrible war and human suffering in Ukraine.

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The crime of genocide is happening. The intentional destruction of a people, in whole or in part, is genocide. The law is meant to be used to prevent it, not just review it after the fact.

Take action here.

 

Email your Representative with this urgent request.

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Email your Representative to ask them to make a statement in support of peace that we can add to this collection.

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We condemn the attacks by Hamas deliberately targeting Israeli civilians for killing and kidnapping. And we condemn Israel’s aerial bombardment of Gaza, which is again killing large numbers of Palestinian civilians. We grieve for all the lives lost and for all those injured and traumatized. The root of the current violence is the oppression and abuses suffered daily by Palestinian people as a whole under decades of cruel Israeli occupation and expansionism. Leading human rights groups -- from Amnesty International to Human Rights Watch to Israel’s B'Tselem -- have concluded that Israel’s occupation policies amount to a form of apartheid. Until Israel’s military occupation is ended, these cycles of terror and war and trauma will repeat.

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Twelve military coups in recent years in Africa alone have had something in common (apart from U.S.-made weapons). They have had U.S.-trained officers leading them. Yet Congress isn't informed in any detail of these training operations or of which U.S.-trainees overthrow governments.

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H Res 77 calls on the President to embrace the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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Seeking to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for what amounts to journalism is doing terrible damage to freedom of the press.

Please add your name to this petition.

 

Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon has given a powerful interview to the Washington Post on what's needed to address the climate crisis, why it's needed immediately, and what the Biden administration could be doing but isn't.

Let's ask President Biden to respond.

 

It's bad enough that the U.S. government has supported coup-attempts in Venezuela and imposed hurtful economic sanctions on the Venezuelan people. It is now seeking to add to those sanctions.

Click here to email your Representative and Senators to change course.

 

Senator Sanders has said that he will vote No on military spending unless it is reduced, because we need funding for human and environmental needs.

Click here to let your Representative and Senators know that we are thanking him.

 

Our support matters.

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U.S. military spending is out of control.

Click here to tell your Congress Members that you know there is a mountain of money and you want it spent more wisely.

 

You’re invited to participate in the launch of the new book by RootsAction co-founder Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.

We hope you’ll read and share the excerpts from the book that have been released in recent days.

Truthdig published a section about the true costs of ongoing U.S. warfare. And The Nation published an excerpt titled “The Convenient Myth of 'Humane' War.”

We support UPS workers, who deserve a new contract now.

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The hypocrisy was on display in early 2022 when U.S. media condemned as immoral and illegal the Russian use of cluster bombs in Ukraine, unlike its general acceptance of the U.S. use of cluster bombs in various wars. Now it's worse, as U.S. Congress Members propose to send cluster bombs to Ukraine -- greeted by almost complete media silence.

We can raise our voices. Email your Representative, Senators, and President Biden.

 

The U.S. State Department is not talking with the Russian Embassy to the United States. It's not talking about resolving the Ukraine war, but also not talking about much of anything else. This is dangerous.

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Senator Feinstein is obviously unfit to continue her work in the Senate.

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We stand in solidarity with the Writers Guild strikers.

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A full-page petition in The Hill on May 24, 2023 makes a call to “Stop the killing, agree to a ceasefire and begin negotiations!” in Ukraine. Another full-page ad in New York Times on May 16 featured this headline: “The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace in the World.”

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We stand with you, the Israelis who are taking to the streets, blocking major highways, disrupting politicians, and on strike from your jobs.

Read and sign the petition.

 

Medicaid is a vital lifeline for many Americans living with poverty or chronic disabilities, but right now 15 million Medicaid recipients are about to lose that lifeline if we don’t do something to stop it.

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Seeking to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for what amounts to journalism is doing terrible damage to freedom of the press.

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It's time to stop the killing and devastation. Ceasefire and Peace Negotiations Now!

Tell Presidents Biden, Putin and Zelensky.

 

We're searching for Congress Members who will publicly make a serious effort, commit to voting No, and urge their colleagues to vote No, on military spending unless it is reduced.

Email your Representative and Senators.

 

And to donate to charity all funds they've received from Silicon Valley Bank.

Email your Senator or Senators, if they are among those at fault.

 

This endless war needs ending.

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The Biden Administration and Congress are keeping the weapons flowing to Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. military participating in the war.

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A series of disastrous and unprincipled decisions led to this "accident."

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We can’t end forever wars with blank check authorizations still on the books.

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Halt the construction of Cop City. Preserve the forest.

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At long last, let's end an endless war.

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Over three-quarters of U.S. voters want to ban Congress Members from trading stocks.

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Incoming Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has threatened to kick Congresswoman Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Email Your Democratic Congress Member Now.

 

We're calling on Joe Biden to announce that he's not running for President in 2024.

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The Biden Administration and Congress are keeping the weapons flowing to Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. military participating in the war.

Email your Representative, Senators, and President Biden.

 

Harvard's Kennedy School has stripped Kenneth Roth of a fellowship for speaking honestly about the Israeli government.

Email Harvard.

 

Russia has put nuclear weapons on high alert. At long last it is time for the U.S. government to engage in serious negotiations that involve some compromise. There's only all life on Earth to consider.

Email your Representative, two Senators, and the White House.

 

At COP27 there are official events planned on the topic of militarism and climate within the conference. That's a result of your efforts!

Now is a time to further build the demand for action.

 

NATO is rehearsing for nuclear war.

Email your Representative, Senators, and President Biden.

 

Many U.S. states allow slavery, most of them as punishment for crime, as in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Email your governor and state legislators.

 

The ADL is lying about Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Israel.

Please add your name and comments to this petition to the Anti-Defamation League.

 

The President’s Cancer Panel (PCP) declared that environmentally caused cancers were “grossly underestimated” and that these cancers “needlessly devastate American lives.”

Email your Senators, Representative, President, and the Administrator of the EPA.

 

Tell Congress and the White House to release $7 billion in funds seized from Afghanistan, where people are selling everything, boiling grass to eat, and facing starvation in large numbers!

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We need to stop this dirty giveaway to climate destroyers!

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Most rich countries spend much less on healthcare and provide it for everyone. They use non-profit systems like single-payer that cut out the middleman, the bureaucracy, the advertising, and the profit motive.

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After 16 months of negotiations and indirect talks between Iranian and U.S. officials -- with the European Union acting as an intermediary between all parties to a nuclear deal with Iran -- a final offer has been drafted.

Email President Biden.

 

The Biden Administration and Congress are keeping the weapons flowing to Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. military participating in the war.

Email your Representative, Senators, and President Biden.

 

We are currently in the longest period without a minimum wage increase since Congress established the federal minimum wage in 1938.

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The White House says it is "exploring" sending fighter jets to Ukraine, even though President Biden in March expressed opposition, arguing that he was avoiding WWIII.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan has boosted tensions and could spark a military conflict between the United States and China.

Email your Representative and Senators, telling them to speak out for diplomacy instead of provocation.

 

If you live in one of the states at left, you can email your state legislators and governor to urge them to make your state as welcoming as possible to those from other states in need of abortion services.

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Enough is enough.

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The evidence is overwhelming. Militarizing police does not reduce crime or save lives. In fact, the main difference that militarizing police makes is that the police kill more people.

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Their all-out support for anti-choice Congressman Henry Cuellar disqualifies them for congressional leadership.

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We appeal to the world's non-imperial governments to democratize the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court -- and to impose the rule of law by super-majority consensus on the planet's rogue states.

Sign this petition to the world's governments.

 

The awful news of Russian missiles exploding in Kiev and other cities in Ukraine is countered by the uplifting news of Russians who’ve been filling streets in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere to protest the war.

Please sign the statement, and add your own comment.

 

President Biden's declaration in a speech on March 26 that Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" sent shock waves around the world. People instantly recognized that Biden had boosted the chances of a U.S.-Russia nuclear war that would quickly end most human life on Earth.

Email your Representative, two Senators, and the White House.

 

A no-fly zone would amount to a direct war between nuclear-armed militaries.

Email your Representative, two Senators, and the White House.

 

More than 60 organizations have issued a joint statement calling for elimination of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

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Two governments possessing 90 percent of the nuclear weapons on Earth are on a collision course toward war.

Email your two Senators and Representative and President.

 

These Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Often Act More Like Corporate Centrists—And Many Deserve Primary Challenges

Please read this new RootsAction.org report.

 

RootsAction Education Fund has published a Primer on Foreign Policy for Congressional Candidates.

The primer has just been made public on a website and downloadable as a PDF.

Read and share, especially with Congressional candidates.

It’s urgent that your representative in the House hear from you as a constituent – urging an immediate sign-on to the War Powers letter to President Biden that has been initiated by Congressmen Peter DeFazio (D, OR) and Warren Davidson (R, OH).

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Weaponized drones are no more acceptable than land mines, cluster bombs, or chemical weapons. The world must renounce and forbid their manufacture, possession, or use. Violators must be held accountable.

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President Biden is stepping into President Trump's shoes as weapons dealer to Saudi Arabia, even as the horrific war on Yemen continues.

Let's Say No to this. Email your Representative, Senators, and the White House.

 

The new article by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and RootsAction national director Norman Solomon explains that experts are calling for an “act of sanity that could save humanity: Shutting down all of the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missiles.”

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President Biden has announced that he is nominating Rahm Emanuel to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan.

Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”

 

“Preventing accidents or miscalculations (political as well as military) that could trigger armed conflict that could easily escalate to nuclear war is now an urgent priority.”

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As the humanitarian crisis escalates in Afghanistan, urge the U.S. government to grant asylum to Afghan refugees.

With one click, send an email to your senators and representative as well as President Biden.

 

 

In 2019 the European Union passed a Directive that requires all member countries to pass a comprehensive whistleblower protection law by 17 December 2021 – with strong free speech rights and legal protections.

 

You can quickly email key legislators in these countries at the links:
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden

A bill in the House of Representatives would create a Green New Deal for Public Schools.

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Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, an incarcerated advocate for prisoners’ rights, has been abruptly transferred to another prison without any of his property, and guards are reportedly threatening Rashid’s life.

We must show prison officials that he has support on the outside and we are watching their every move.

 

The Army Corps failed to consider significant information on Line 3’s impacts in reaching its original determination, including the risks of oil spills, climate change effects, and consequences to Indigenous peoples.

Sign this petition to President Joe Biden!

 

Van Jones was just given $100 million by Jeff Bezos.

Sign this petition to Van Jones!

 

Enough is enough!

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Asking where war victims can find justice when the United States opposes the International Criminal Court is a legitimate question.

Please add your name to this petition, which we will deliver to both Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

 

We need to impress upon elected officials the urgency of the need for serious action.

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News outlets are reporting that President Biden has decided to nominate Rahm Emanuel as U.S. ambassador to Japan.

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What the United States did to Iraq must not be done to Iran!

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Let's make education a right, not a privilege.

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H.R.2590 would prohibit Israel from using U.S. taxpayer dollars to abuse human rights in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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RootsAction.org is one of the two organizations that launched the Impeach Donald Trump Now petition on Inauguration Day; that petition has gathered 1.2 million signers. Now, the RootsAction Impeachment Campaign is bringing pressure directly to Congress members. Please visit our Impeach Trump Campaign to send an email to your representative and to learn more about the grounds for impeaching President Trump.

On November 18, Edward Snowden will be awarded Norwegian PEN's Ossietzky Prize for outstanding achievements as a whistleblower.

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Most rich countries spend much less on healthcare and provide it for everyone. They use non-profit systems like single-payer that cut out the middleman, the bureaucracy, the advertising, and the profit motive.

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It's time that we urge people in positions of power to exercise power. A relatively small number of House Members can potentially block passage of a bill, and any bill not passed by the House cannot be made law by the Senate.

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Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Jimmy Gomez are introducing the 99.5 Percent Act, which would raise hundreds of billions of dollars that could be directed into the obvious human and environmental emergencies, while simultaneously preventing plutocracy.

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Your senators and representative now have the opportunity to co-sponsor a vital new bill that has been introduced by Senator Edward Markey and Representative Ro Khanna. Please urge them to do so.

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The new report “Inside the ICBM Lobby” lays out huge dangers and some real solutions in order to reduce the chances of nuclear war.

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Contrary to his pledge that “diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy,” President Biden has publicly labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin “a killer” without “a soul.”

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Now is the time for constituents to make sure there’s no “Ambassador Rahm Emanuel.”

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We urge the Biden administration to issue a worldwide temporary general license to allow all countries and locations sanctioned by the U.S. to be able to easily import all related medicines, medical supplies, and vaccines, to facilitate international relief efforts related to COVID-19.

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Resources are desperately needed. The wealthy are just getting wealthier. Here's a solution that has long worked in many countries.

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Militarizing police does not reduce crime or save lives. In fact, the main difference that militarizing police makes is that the police kill more people.

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Good news: Tanden nomination withdrawn

President-elect Biden’s nominee to be director of the powerful Office of Management and Budget -- spent the last decade opposing progressive proposals and raising huge amounts of money for her think tank from wealthy donors representing special interests.

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In light of new information on the past record of Agriculture Secretary nominee Tom Vilsack, it is more urgent than ever that we all contact our Senators.

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Congress needs to re-introduce the War Powers Resolution under the Biden administration. Congress needs to permanently end weapons shipments to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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Samantha Power has supported war after war after war.

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Victoria Nuland has been nominated for Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.

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Tom Vilsack served corporate interests for eight years as Secretary of Agriculture under Obama. Now he is the nominee for the same position under Biden.

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Before Antony Blinken can become Secretary of State, senators must approve.

Email your Senators what you'd like them to ask.

 

Military spending is more out of control than ever. Funding is needed for human and environmental needs more than ever.

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Donald Trump has rightfully been impeached. Now he must be tried and convicted by the U.S. Senate. Criminal prosecutions can follow later.

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Donald Trump has sought to overturn an election through fraudulent actions, dishonest demagoguery, and the instigation of violence.

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Tom Vilsack served corporate interests for eight years as Secretary of Agriculture under Obama. Now he is the nominee for the same position under Biden.

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We need Biden to move the United States forward through actions like cancelling student debt -- and not to settle for a return to the unequal 2016 status quo.

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Mike Morell and Avril Haines should not be treated as qualified for high office in the U.S. government.

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Most Congressional candidates this year said little or nothing on their websites about foreign policy.

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We've heard "We don't want to leave too quickly" for nearly 20 years.
Enough is enough.

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What do you say we stop allowing candidates who lose the national popular vote to ever enter the White House as president again?

Please email your state legislators and governor.

 

The time has finally come to get weapons of war out of the hands of police.

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Privatization of water in the United States and around the world has proven disastrous for public health and public wealth.

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President Trump has made it clear that he will not accept losing the election. As commander in chief at the top of the chain of command, he could attack democracy by ordering some form of interference.

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The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg “has forced a reexamination of Republicans' 11-month blockade of Merrick Garland in 2016,” CNN reported.

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Members of the European Parliament have sent a letter to President Trump, asking him to pardon Snowden.

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We’re urging Congress to swiftly pass legislation to save, support, and strengthen the U.S. Postal Service, including its capacity to facilitate voting by mail.

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There's now a stronger resolution in Congress than we've seen in many years.

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The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 21, voted 324 to 93 (with 13 not voting) to defeat a proposal to move a mere 10% of military spending to human, environmental, and health needs.

How did your Representative vote, and what do you want to say to them?

 

We've partnered to launch a national campaign that could have historic impact. It’s called “Once Again,” and it’s a grassroots upsurge to pick up where the Bernie 2020 campaign left off. You’re invited to be part of this historic nationwide renewal!

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Taxpayers just gave COVID-19 bailouts to giant corporations, why not people?

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This video from RootsAction points to why Sanders is the strongest candidate to take on the coronavirus pandemic.

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We’re calling on Congress to fully fund a vote-by-mail system for the November presidential election.

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Congressman Ro Khanna has introduced the 21st Century Jobs bill in Congress.

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Donald Trump is robbing the working and middle class to give huge tax breaks to the wealthiest among us.

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Michael Bloomberg's defense of racially targeted policing, revealed in audio recording, is disqualifying.

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The DCCC is still blacklisting vendors who work on insurgent, primary campaigns.

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The House has passed a resolution blocking such a war. The Senate is set to vote on the same resolution.

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In its January 14th presidential primary debate, CNN displayed blatant bias so extreme that even viewers who knew little about the issues couldn't miss it, and focused on expressing hostility toward a single candidate, Bernie Sanders.

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In their coverage of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, the New York Times and Washington Post are largely serving as mouthpieces for corporate and establishment interests.

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"We the undersigned respectfully call on the appropriate authorities of the United Kingdom to immediately release Julian Assange, citizen of Australia, from Belmarsh prison where he is being unjustly and cruelly incarcerated."

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Your senators and representative have had ample time to read the two-page letter from Daniel Ellsberg that was hand-delivered to their office on Capitol Hill in late July, outlining steps needed to reduce the threat of nuclear war.

Ask them if they have.

 

Tell Congress to vote No on the National Defense Authorization Act that would give another $738 billion to the Pentagon.

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Pete Buttigieg is trying to keep a secret, namely what he did and who he worked for while at the McKinsey corporate consulting firm.

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This year's National Defense Authorization Act is a disaster in terms of wasteful and destructive spending. But the House version contains many good things that we want kept in any bill that the House and Senate agree on.

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The U.S. government is cleaning up the toxic mess left on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, after decades of bombing practice, by finding unexploded ordnance and blowing it up in the open air -- adding to, rather than diminishing health risks.

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Mandatory evacuation orders are in place along affected coastal areas but there is one group of people who has no control over whether they are able to get out of harm's way--prisoners.

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House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler seems to believe that we require still more evidence before holding impeachment hearings.

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Many liberals and Democrats watch MSNBC, but the Comcast-owned channel seems to have a bias against the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

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If this isn't impeachable, exactly what is?

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Daniel Ellsberg wrote a book that a team from RootsAction.org and the Institute for Public Accuracy has just delivered to representatives on Capitol Hill -- along with a letter from Ellsberg personally addressed to them.

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Daniel Ellsberg wrote a book that a team from RootsAction.org and the Institute for Public Accuracy has just delivered to senators on Capitol Hill -- along with a letter from Ellsberg personally addressed to them.

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At all four of CNN’s Republican debates in 2015-16, the network included conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on its panel to question GOP candidates. One CNN debate featured two CNN journalists and two right-wing journalists from conservative outlets. But at the upcoming Democratic debates on July 30-31, CNN is planning to include not a single progressive journalist among its panel of questioners.

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Twenty U.S. states' constitutions contain the same shortcoming found in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They permit slavery, or in the case of Louisiana, "involuntary servitude," as punishment for a crime.

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Climate collapse is not like other topics. It is a question of human survival.

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When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and Louisiana in 2017, prisoners were left locked-up in its path. Another hurricane or tropical storm is threatening the Gulf Coast.

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This legislation would give young people living with second-class status and at risk of deportation and family-separation the chance to become U.S. citizens.

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Washington, D.C., Maine, and Maryland have banned polystyrene containers (often called Styrofoam).

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Ask Congress to pass legislation that would deny Israel the ability to use U.S. funds to commit the worst abuses against children.

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With Congress blocking the shipment of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia, the Trump administration has declared an "emergency" in order to violate the will of Congress and provide the weapons anyway.

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What the United States did to Iraq must not be done to Iran!

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Over six million Americans nationwide are denied their right to vote due to felony disenfranchisement.

Join us in demanding that EVERY American citizen of age -- including those who are incarcerated -- can cast a ballot and be heard in our democracy.

 

Ask the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia to rescind the subpoena against Chelsea Manning.

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Threats of direct U.S. military intervention in Venezuela are intensifying. Congressional action is urgently needed to prevent war.

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Facebook has partnered with CheckYourFact.com which is part of The Daily Caller, a promoter of climate denial that was co-founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and is funded by oil barons Charles and David Koch among other right-wing backers.

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The House Judiciary Committee passed three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. One of them was for refusal to comply with subpoenas. The same article applies to Trump with very few words altered.

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Are you sick and tired of paying more taxes than some of the biggest corporations in the world?

Let's do something about it.

 

Donald Trump has announced an end to humanitarian aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

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Trump's lawless behavior continues, and will continue until Congress puts a stop to it.

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Do not extradite Julian Assange to the United States. Set him free.

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We now have bills with prominent cosponsors introduced in both houses of Congress and major momentum.

Add your name to the Medicare for All Act of 2019 and help seize this opportunity.

 

Trump wants to increase this year's already-bloated, record-breaking $716 billion Pentagon budget to $750 billion for next year, including $165 billion off-the-books.

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The United States should not be sending public money to the military and police of Honduras, especially when basic human rights conditions have not been met.

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A global coalition of Microsoft employees is refusing to work on military weaponry.

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NATO has confirmed that it intends to bring into military membership yet another country on Russia’s border -- Georgia. But before that dangerous change can take effect, the U.S. Senate must vote on it.

Please take a minute to email your two senators.

 

The newly introduced “Raise the Wage Act of 2019” would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024, index the minimum wage to the national median wage, and phase out the “tipped minimum wage” of $2.13 for tipped workers.

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Chelsea Manning continues to defend freedom of speech and the press heroically. She should be freed immediately.

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Questioning support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is not only acceptable -- from the standpoint of human rights, it is essential.

Please click here to support Rep. Omar’s outspoken courage as well as RootsAction’s work for the human rights of Palestinian people.

 

Nothing can justify the supreme international crime of launching a war against another country. Doing so always ends up hurting everyone involved.

Email your Representative and Senators with this lesson that ought to have been learned by now.

 

Donald Trump once claimed he could get away with shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue. Can he get away with publicly announcing impeachable offenses?

Let's make the answer be No. Email your Representative in Congress.

 

A major source of deadly contamination in hundreds of locations around the United States and around the world is U.S. military bases, which use PFAS for putting out fires, despite full knowledge of the effects, and despite the availability of alternatives.

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is challenging a judge's ruling that Mumia Abu Jamal has the right to re-appeal his case.

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On December 13th, 2018, the U.S. Senate voted to end U.S. participation in the war on Yemen by a vote of 56 to 41. But the House passed a bill, by a three-vote margin, that included a ban on taking such a vote in 2018. Now it's 2019, and the mass killing in Yemen continues.

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Both Donald Trump and Mike Pence have actively supported a coup in Venezuela, damaging the rule of law, eroding respect for the United States, and risking disastrous results in Venezuela and internationally.

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Trump has to be informed that he does not have immunity from impeachment.

Tell your Congress Member that enough is enough.

 

We, the undersigned, oppose the coordinated campaign to deny academics their free speech rights due to their defense of Palestinian rights and criticism of the policies and practices of the state of Israel.

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Saudi Arabia's murder of one journalist is horrific. Its murder, in collaboration with the U.S. military, of thousands of men, women, and children by the busload in Yemen is, according to the United Nations and the European Union, currently the greatest human catastrophe on earth.

Email your Representative and Senators to end war on Yemen.

 

While campaigning for the office of President, Donald Trump acted to buy the silence of individuals.

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Nick Mottern reports that Amazon is likely to win a $10 billion contract “to build a global ‘brain’ for the Pentagon called JEDI, a weapon of unprecedented surveillance and killing power, a profoundly aggressive weapon that should not be allowed to be created.”

Please sign this petition to Amazon employees.

 

Despite opposition from progressives, Nancy Pelosi is trying to revive her pay-as-you-go rule, requiring that all new spending be paid for by budget cuts or revenue offsets.

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President Trump has said that he plans to withdraw the United States from a key agreement with Russia that banned intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

Congress has the power to force adherence to the treaty if it chooses to act. Email your two Senators and your Representative.

 

Cyntoia Brown's "crime" was being a 16-year-old victim of rape, kidnapping, and sex-trafficking while black. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has just days left in office.

Email him and ask that he grant clemency to Cyntoia Brown.

 

Trump will not be welcome in Pittsburgh and other communities that reject hatred and violence, unless he fully denounces white supremacy, stops targeting and endangering all minority groups, and ceases his assault on immigrants and refugees.

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Donald Trump campaigned for office on a series of lies.

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Nothing has done more to advance the possibility of peace in Korea than the United States ceasing what it calls "war games," but which might properly be called rehearsals for the bombing of North Korea. Yet the United States, NATO, and non-NATO-members Sweden and Finland are conducting the biggest rehearsal for a war on Russia that has been seen in decades, and Russia is engaged in a similarly enormous armed-rehearsal for a war on Europe.

Please add your name to this petition to the governments of all NATO Members – plus Sweden, Finland, and Russia.

 

Disgusted and outraged at the Senate vote that put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? The constitutional remedy is impeachment.

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Activists and writers including Noam Chomsky, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Alice Walker, and Daniel Ellsberg have signed the Open Letter on this page -- to call for secure elections in the United States and steps to ease tensions between the United States and Russia in order to prevent a catastrophic conflict between the nuclear superpowers.

If you agree, join them by signing too.

 

This petition will be delivered to Christine Blasey Ford c/o her legal team.

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Kavanaugh has almost certainly lied under oath to Congress. He has worked to deny rights to African-Americans, to Hawaiians, to women, and to voters. He has striven to expand presidential powers to launch wars. He has been accused of sexual assault, a charge that must be investigated.

Email your Senators to urge them to reject the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court and to investigate all charges against him.

 

President Trump has repeatedly politicized prosecutions.

Email to tell your Representative that this is an offense requiring impeachment.

 

“We the undersigned call on President Trump to pardon Reality Winner or to commute her sentence to time served.”

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The United States has partnered with Saudi Arabia in a war in which U.S. bombs are blowing up large numbers of innocent children.

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Prisoners in at least 17 states have coordinated a nationwide prison strike to end inhumane treatment behind bars.

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To advance the cause of getting President Donald Trump impeached and removed from office, let's make use of the best tools available.

Please sign the petition, which we will deliver to network TV and cable news producers.

 

U.S. citizenship has been bestowed on Donald Trump’s in-laws, immigrants from Europe.

Tell Trump: "Your hypocrisy and racism on 'chain migration' are obvious. We see through you. We will resist you."

 

Almost one quarter of the people locked up in the United States -- which leads the world in locking people up -- have not been convicted of any crime.

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The people of Mexico have overwhelmingly elected progressive candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to be the next president of Mexico.

Please click to send a message to the people of Mexico, a message that will be delivered to Mexican media and organizations in both English and Spanish.

 

Trump has violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which the United States is party, the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which every other nation on earth is party, the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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There's a lot of talk about "accountability," but there's one tool provided in the U.S. Constitution to achieve it.

Email your member of Congress.

 

We have four simple demands for U.S. mainstream media outlets to help fix their broken coverage of Palestine.

Add your name before we deliver this petition to U.S. mainstream media.

 

Please let Ecuador’s leaders know that you support their courageous stand in protecting press freedom, as well as their right to grant political asylum and resist United States/United Kingdom intimidation.

Sign this letter to President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador.

 

On May 1, 2018, the Miami Correctional Facility in Bunker Hill, Indiana, completely eliminated in-person visitation at the facility.

Add your name to this petition to the Miami Correctional Facility Staff and Administration.

 

The U.S. Congress has 30 days to block the new weapons sale and show that the U.S. won’t support a growing military dictatorship in Bahrain.

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Let's not allow Trump to destroy the world's relations with Iran and move us all closer to war.

Please sign this petition.

 

End the provision of free weapons to the government of Israel.

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Create ranked choice voting.

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A Trump tweet said “Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria” and added: “Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'”

Email your House Member and Senators Now!

 

A bipartisan group of Senators has introduced legislation that would make it easier for the terminally ill to request a reduced sentence.

Ask your Senators to co-sponsor the GRACE Act.

 

President Donald Trump, his daughter, and his son-in-law are using public offices for personal profit, in violation of the Constitution's emolument clauses.

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Trump has nominated current CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, and current CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo.

Email your senators to block these nominations.

 

Trump wants a military parade with major war weaponry rolling down the streets of Washington, D.C.

Let's stop this bad idea before it happens.

 

Here's a plan that your Representative and Senators might take seriously, especially if they hear about it from enough of us.

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Trump is demanding millions in U.S. tax dollars for his border wall, having abandoned his oft-repeated campaign promise that Mexico would pay to wall itself off.

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There's a way that state and local governments can help save net neutrality -- and the FCC cannot stop them.

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Facebook has been deleting accounts at the direction of governments, including the Israeli, U.S., Chinese, and German governments.

Please sign this petition to Facebook, and then, on the next page, click to visit and like our new page on Facebook called Facebook Uncensored.

 

An analysis by Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has found that the purportedly liberal cable network MSNBC did not run a single segment devoted specifically to the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen in the second half of 2017.

Urge Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and MSNBC to correct their failure to report on the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and the direct U.S. military role in causing the catastrophe by signing our petition.

 

The chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, must show that he’s serious about moving the party in a democratic direction. It’s time for him to go all-out to push for complete adoption of recommendations from the Unity Reform Commission to make the Democratic Party more democratic.

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Congress is gearing up to reauthorize sweeping surveillance powers that will grant President Trump and Attorney General Sessions the unconstitutional power to continue to spy on Americans without a warrant.

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Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says, "Now is not the time to consider articles of impeachment." Impeaching Donald Trump, she says, would be a waste of time because "he's just not that important." Pelosi claims that impeaching Trump would "divide us, not bring us together."

Please sign this petition to Nancy Pelosi.

 

Video footage obtained by Reuters reveals disturbing incidents of officers and prison guards abusing their authority by using tasers, unnecessarily, on incarcerated people.

Sign a petition to demand a federal investigation into the abusive use of tasers in jails across the United States.

 

The United Nations has asked its member states to observe an Olympic truce during the upcoming February 9-25 Winter Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, and for one week on either side.

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Using nuclear weapons ever would be absolute lunacy. A step toward abolition, disarmament, easing of international tensions, and peace negotations would be for the United States to join those nuclear nations that foreswear first use.

Add your name and comments to this petition to the U.S. Congress.

 

Alarmed by the threat of a nuclear war between the U.S. and North Korea, concerned U.S. peace groups have come together to send an open message to Washington and Pyongyang that we are strongly opposed to any resumption of the horrific Korean War.

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The House Intelligence Committee has invited and, when he declined, sent a subpoena to a progressive journalist.

Please sign this petition to Congress.

 

Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is in prison in Bahrain for 2 years as punishment for speaking to the media about restrictions on press freedom in Bahrain. He's threatened with another 15 years in a separate case stemming solely from Tweets in which he criticized the war in Yemen and the use of torture in Bahraini prisons.

Please sign this petition to the Bahraini authorities.

 

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, has issued an urgent plea to Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, proposing a tried and tested means of improving relations between Russia and the United States.

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California is the first state to have explicitly banned the coercive sterilization of inmates.

Ask your state legislators to do the same.

 

Negotiated agreements and adherence to them remain highly preferable to war.

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U.S. President Richard Nixon promised reparations that have never come.

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President Trump has declared any dialogue with North Korea to be a waste of time. He doesn't want his Secretary of State engaged in what happens to be the Secretary of State's job: diplomacy. Trump has threatened war.

We must compel Congress to impeach Trump immediately and remove him from office before he does any more damage.

 

Trump's bombast has spurred even more athletes to speak out against racial injustice and against Trump.

Thank those athletes who have taken a knee in protest -- or have joined in their defense.

 

Saudi Arabia's war and blockade have pushed Yemen to the brink of famine. Saudi-UAE warplanes can't conduct their bombing of Yemen without U.S. refueling.

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Pressure from top CIA officials has caused a Harvard dean to announce that the university is canceling its invitation to Chelsea Manning to be a visiting fellow.

Sign this petition to Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School.

 

While President Trump is being denounced for his vile efforts to whitewash bigotry, threaten nuclear war, remove environmental protections, pardon a racist sheriff, and suppress voting, Vice President Mike Pence is trying to skitter under the radar.

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Donald Trump has just undone limitations on a program that unloads old war weaponry on domestic police departments.

Please sign this petition to the U.S. Congress.

 

The gap between the public interest to impeach Trump and the refusal to budge on Capitol Hill has become a chasm. We must change this.

Email your member of the House of Representatives.

 

Shoddy planning by the Trump administration has badly failed to mitigate the harm from this forecasted monster hurricane.

Sign this urgent petition to the U.S. government.

 

Many thousands of people now need emergency assistance such as housing in areas devastated by this hurricane.

Send this urgent message to your representative and two senators.

 

100 statues represent 50 states in the U.S. Capitol, two provided by each state. One of Virginia's is Robert E. Lee.

Please sign this petition to the Virginia legislature and governor.

 

His incitement of racist violence must be included in the case against him.

Email your congressional representative.

 

"The government, putting everything on the line, will block war by all means," says the President of South Korea.

Tell him we agree.

 

U.S. threats toward North Korea are threats to all of us.

Email your Representative and two Senators, with a "cc" to the White House.

 

The "exception clause" since the 1865 passage of the 13th Amendment has watered down the abolition of slavery.

Sign this petition to the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

 

There is no legal or moral basis for the United States to be waging war in Syria, risking conflict with Russia and nuclear apocalypse for us all.

Sign this petition to the U.S. Congress and Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

 

We're experiencing an epidemic of prison guard violence.

Email your state legislators and governor.

 

Tell your state to urge the U.S. Congress to move funding from militarism to human and environmental needs, rather than the reverse.

Send an email to your state representatives and governor.

 

Trump falsely claimed to have saved 1,100 jobs from elimination at a Carrier Corp. factory in Indiana. He insulted on Twitter the union leader who pointed out the falsehood.

Please sign this petition to Donald Trump.

 

A vengeful federal government – cheered on by Fox News and other media – seems intent on making an example of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner, now behind bars without bail.

Insist that the U.S. government afford Ms. Winner all her legal rights, including the right to bail.

 

What happens during the announced meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit could determine the fate of the Earth.

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Trump may do something far worse to the Grand Canyon than build a Trump Tower in it.

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Tightening restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba is bad for peace, bad for business, bad for U.S. patients deprived of Cuban medicine, and unpopular even among Cuban Americans.

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Brad Pitt and Walter Jones are right about Afghanistan.

Find out why, and do something about it.

 

The House has passed a deadly healthcare-denial bill. Now it's up to the Senate.

Your Senators urgently need to hear from you. Click to email both of them.

 

Vice President Mike Pence has established a pattern of false statements, misdirection, and blind obedience to Donald Trump. It is time to aggressively scrutinize his statements and actions.

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War making and war funding are out of control.

Please sign this petition to the Congress of the United States.

 

Add your name calling for the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump for violating the U.S. Constitution.

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A full-time worker in the U.S. today can live in poverty, and millions do. Let's change that.

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Donald Trump claims he has no choice but to threaten North Korea with war.

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The mass starvation underway in Yemen must be immediately addressed by ending the bombings, missile strikes, and raids.

Please sign this petition, which we will deliver to the U.S. government, the Saudi government, and the United Nations.

 

It’s urgent that your senators and representative in Congress hear directly from you about this extremely dangerous crisis.

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Since Trump’s executive order on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement—signed in late January—an increasing number of immigrant women are choosing not to prosecute violent crimes committed against them out of fear of being detained and deported.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is apparently working to undo federal oversight of systemically criminal, abusive, and racist local police departments.

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In 1963, the same year as his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. King pointedly said: “We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Later -- speaking of “a world torn between the tensions of East and West” -- he warned that “we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation.”

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Journalist Masha Gessen is renowned as a courageous activist for LGBT rights in Russia and a longtime opponent of President Putin. Her recent article “Russia: The Conspiracy Trap”, published by the New York Review of Books, should be widely read.

Please email this vital article to your senators and representative now.

 

Popular-Vote Loser Trump has sent more troops into Syria and yet more into a position of readiness in Kuwait.

Please sign and share this urgent petition, which we will use in pushing back, step by step, to finally end this madness.

 

Parents in every state should be given, as in Maryland, the means to exercise their right to opt out of sending their kids' names and contact information to military recruiters.

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We've now had 70 years of government overthrows, election interference, arming of terrorists, kidnapping, murder, torture, lies to justify wars, bribery of foreign officials, and cyber-attacks. Enough is enough.

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Popular-Vote Loser Trump is draining the actual wetlands, not the metaphorical "swamp."

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We reject as absolutely intolerable the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border and the consideration of using major military force as immigration law enforcement against peaceful men, women, and children.

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We're thrilled to see a group of prominent Republicans propose what many on the left have been demanding for many years: a serious tax on carbon emissions.

This should be done, and is in everyone's interest to support. But it should be done right. Please sign the petition.

 

National Public Radio has announced that it will never refer to a lie by a U.S. president as a lie.

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Smaller cities have begun this trend. New York City should be helping to lead it.

Please add your name to this petition to urge the New York City Council to act.

 

Several steps are urgently needed to reduce the risk of nuclear war.

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Four years ago, the Senate Intelligence Committee produced a 7,000-page report that the committee chair at the time, Dianne Feinstein, calls "a total exposé of the ineffectiveness of torture."

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Smaller cities have begun this trend. Los Angeles should be helping to lead it.

Please add your name to this petition to urge the Los Angeles City Council to act.

 

Missing is a commitment by the United States to itself cease fighting and cease arming fighters.

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Please sign this petition to the 45th President of the United States.

We will deliver it pre-inauguration.

 

Popular-Vote Loser Donald Trump has repeatedly indicated interest in creating a registry of Muslims in the United States.

Email your state legislators and governor urging them to make a public statement opposing any such registry and any mass deportations.

 

The water at the Texas Eastham Unit has been confirmed to contain high levels of copper and lead.

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1) Halt steps aimed at possible purge of fact-based employees at Energy Department.
(2) Block nomination of climate change denier Scott Pruitt to head EPA.
(3) Block expected nomination of Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State.

Please add your name to this urgent petition.

 

The Nobel Committee has arranged for well-known war mastermind Henry Kissinger to speak as an honored guest at a forum that is part of the Nobel Peace Prize events.

Nobel Peace Prize Watch has asked the Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions to arrest Kissinger. Add your name to the request.

 

The Intelligence Authorization Act includes a provision that creates a Committee to counter supposed Russian “media manipulation,” “disinformation,” "assassinations," and other covert measures in the United States. The Committee’s mandate is so broad -- in short, anything the President tells them to do -- that any current or future president could easily (and, if desired, secretly) use the Committee to target political enemies, journalists, and activists.

Tell your Senators to vote no.

 

The Washington Post’s recent descent into McCarthyism -- promoting anonymous and shoddy claims that a vast range of some 200 websites are all accomplices or tools of the Russian government -- violates basic journalistic standards.

Please sign this petition to Martin Baron, Executive Editor, The Washington Post.

 

Many experts in computer science have raised serious concerns about the integrity of the announced vote counts in the 2016 presidential election.

Please sign this urgent petition to the nation’s chief law enforcement officer at the U.S. Department of Justice.

 

Jeff Sessions' clear record of racism makes him unfit to be Attorney General.

Tell both your senators to reject Sessions and all other nominees with records of racism, misogyny or religious bigotry.

 

Trump and his allies are eager for the public to forget that he lost the popular vote -- at last count, by more than 1.4 million votes.

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President Obama waited until after the election to ask Congress for $11.6 billion extra -- outside the huge existing military budget -- for wars.

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The United States has just sent a message to the world, and it is not simply that our people are fed up with our government. (That has long been true and well deserved.) The message is that many of us are OK with racism, sexism, religious bigotry, xenophobia, mockery of the disabled, and viciously blaming the unfortunate for their misfortunes and ours.

Sign your name to help un-Trump this with a different message to the world.

 

Prison administrations in several states have banned prisoners from receiving the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, a grassroots paper that has published articles by and about prisoners for decades.

Please sign this petition to prison administrators.

 

Our two standards of justice in the United States, as illustrated by the recent acquittal of heavily armed white men in Oregon and the full force of militarized police being brought against nonviolent Native Americans in North Dakota, encourages racism and violence while protecting the construction of a fossil fuel pipeline that will damage the earth's climate.

Please sign this petition to President Barack Obama, North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple, the Morton County Sheriff's Department, and the Army Corps of Engineers.

 

The F-35 is a weapon of offensive war, serving no defensive purpose. It is planned to cost the U.S. $1.4 trillion over 50 years.

This is a new global/local effort to cancel it now.

 

A variety of factors unique to this election cycle contribute to a voting environment where voters have reason to believe they will be met with intimidation at the polls, accompanied by a very real fear of violence due to the color of their skin or their age.

Sign this petition to the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Voting Section.

 

The use of war weapons and tactics in local police departments fuels the widespread mentality that police in black and brown communities are at war against the people they are meant to serve.

Sign and add a comment to this petition to U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.