“I don't think about Americans’ financial situation,” Trump recently told reporters. He didn’t need to tell us because his budget requests say everything we need to know: Right now, Congress is dangerously close to passing a bill that would pour $70 billion more taxpayer dollars into ICE and CBP at Trump’s behest, supercharging the machinery of detention, deportation, and mass surveillance. Think that’s outrageous? Wait until you hear Republicans have also slipped another $1 BILLION into the bill for Trump’s White House ballroom. It’s an unconscionable use of our resources. But thanks to tireless advocacy from movement partners and activists like you, Democrats held the line against more funding for ICE and CBP. That’s why Republican leadership is working to jam this bill through on a party-line vote. But it won’t be easy — their party is already fracturing, and House Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose two votes. Together, we can show lawmakers how badly this will backfire and help block this outrageous funding bill. Let’s remind everyone on Capitol Hill that we resoundingly reject billions for ICE violence and lavish ballrooms while people struggle.

For nine minutes and 29 seconds on May 25, 2020, police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, using the full weight of his body. Repeatedly, George pleaded, "I can't breathe."  His final words sparked national protests against police violence. But police killings nationwide have risen every year since 2020. And the Trump administration has rolled back investigations of police departments accused of violating constitutional rights.  The movement to defend Black lives, hold police to account, and truly transform our legal and policing systems rooted in white supremacy and violence is as pressing as ever.  And it’s in that context that Hinchcliffe and the team of primarily white writers for “The Roast of Kevin Hart” decided to make a disgusting and shameful joke about George's murder. A joke that his daughter, family, and loved ones—still everyday grieving every day—have to reckon with. And it’s not the first joke about George Floyd’s murder Hinchcliffe has made: He made another joke about him during the Tom Brady roast a few years ago. The Floyd Family Center for Social Equity was established by George's family in his home state of North Carolina. The nonprofit aims to "shine light on inequities experienced by underserved and underfunded communities."  Inequities like making Black pain and trauma a punchline for white comedians, packaged and sold by corporations like Netflix, and normalized by wealthy Hollywood stars like Hart.  Netflix and Hart knew exactly what they were doing when they platformed Hinchcliffe. And now they have to answer to us, the public. Add your name to the petition to demand they donate proceeds from the roast to the Floyd Family Center for Social Equity now!

This is part of an anti-democracy pattern we’re witnessing all across the South ever since the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. States like Louisiana, Tennessee, and Alabama have rushed to redraw their maps to eliminate majority Black Democratic districts in order to impose one-party rule in their states. When you can’t win on your own merits, you cheat.  After the passage of the Voting Rights Act, more Black lawmakers were elected to Congress than at any time in history, many of whom were the first Black lawmakers elected from their state and districts since the Reconstruction period. All that progress is at risk of being erased in South Carolina and across the South.  Too many people fought and died for Black people in this country to have the right to vote and build political power. We can’t let that be taken away. 

The WHO is responsible for coordinating international health efforts and plays a critical role during outbreaks of deadly diseases like hantavirus. A handful of people have tested positive for the disease in France, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, demonstrating the need for nations to work together. But earlier this year, Trump formally withdrew the United States from the WHO, terminating all funding to the body, removing all embedded personnel, and ending participation in WHO-sponsored committees, leadership bodies, governance structures, and technical working groups.  While the Trump administration tries to provide a patchwork approach to global health, Americans are left vulnerable without the broad network of monitoring and support provided by the WHO. And during an outbreak, the stakes are higher than ever. Sign the petition now calling on the Trump administration to rejoin the World Health Organization! 

While the president’s son-in-law serves as one of the Trump administration’s lead negotiators in the Middle East, Jared Kushner is simultaneously raising money for his private equity firm — from some of the very same governments he’s negotiating with. It’s part of a disturbing pattern we’ve seen before. His alarming number of conflicts of interest and the potential for self-dealing raise a host of troubling questions around his ability to act with integrity: • Are Kushner's private equity firm's financial interests influencing U.S. Middle East negotiations? • Were the billions that his firm received from the Saudi government, for example, kickbacks on past actions or down payments on future favors? • Do Kushner’s Gaza beachfront property plans influence his role on the White House-appointed Gaza Executive Board? Fortunately, we’re not the only ones asking questions. Members of Congress have launched investigations in both the House and Senate. Now, with enough public pressure, we’ll push Congress to shine a light on Kushner’s conflicts of interest and pursue accountability.

Data centers are being dumped on rural towns and working-class communities because big tech companies think they can bully us with their big money and corporate lobbyists. And now the Trump Administration wants to let these companies start building before they even have an air pollution permit.  We demand that the EPA withdraw its proposed giveaway to Big Tech data center developers and stop letting Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta build massive industrial facilities in our communities before they secure the air permits the law requires.  Data centers are 24/7 industrial sites that burn through staggering amounts of electricity, drink down millions of gallons of water, run diesel backup generators that foul the air, and hum loud enough to keep families awake at night. Please join with us in demanding that the Trump Administration stop sacrificing working-class communities and rural America for Silicon Valley's big data server farms. 

This case matters beyond one family because every parent, sibling, and child deserves protection from unlawful or unclear intervention, false public narratives, and potential misuse of authority. When children are removed, families separated, or serious criminal allegations are made, the public must be able to trust that every action was lawful, transparent, and accountable. If due process is ignored, if families are denied clarity, or if public narratives destroy reputations before facts are confirmed, it sets a dangerous precedent for every family. This petition stands for: • Child safety  • Family rights  • Due process  • Government accountability  • Protection from false criminalization  • Protection from reputational harm caused by incomplete or misleading public narratives Truth matters.  Transparency matters.  Families matter.  Justice must be rooted in facts, not confusion.

You do not get to kill someone and get away with it. While Renee’s family and community are forced to deal with the fallout and live with the trauma, Jonathan Ross continues to live his life and keep collecting a government paycheck funding by the taxpayers. Allowing him to continue working for ICE sends a message that immigration agents can act recklessly and with impunity and get away with it. This message puts all of us and our communities in grave danger.  We must send the message that you don’t get to harm our communities and face zero consequences. Jonathan Ross must be held accountable and removed from duty now. 

Today, a billionaire could be buying a $100 million private jet. But you’re paying for it too. Thanks to a tax rule called bonus depreciation, that billionaire could get $40 million back, immediately, as tax savings. A “bonus” indeed, paid for by working people like you and me. This is a giveaway, subsidizing the richest Americans for one of their most antisocial behaviors, and making working Americans pick up the tab. It’s a waste of public money while so many are struggling with affordability, and it’s an insult to the rest of us. We must close this loophole, and that's what HR 8644, the Stop Subsidizing Private Jets Act would do. It was just introduced by three House Democrats: Eugene Vindman (VA), Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI), and Greg Landsman (OH). Add your name to show your support for this long-overdue change.

Transgender people already experience homelessness at staggering rates. Forcing shelters to ignore someone’s gender identity only makes these environments more dangerous. It exposes transgender women to possible harassment, violence, and assault, and it humiliates and endangers people who are already in crisis. Nobody should have their gender or sexuality interrogated when trying to access basic safety and shelter. When our government begins to surveil our bodies, it is a dangerous and terrifying escalation of authoritarianism and control.  This rule isn’t about shelter safety—it’s about exclusion. The Trump administration has made its transphobic agenda plain, and it’s now targeting people in their most vulnerable moments, using the federal government to shut transgender people out of the last safety net available to them. Advocates say that if made official, the new rule will prevent scores of unhoused transgender people from accessing safe emergency sleeping arrangements.  Sign the petition to demand HUD withdraw its cruel and discriminatory shelter rule and protect the safety of unhoused trans Americans >>

Three workers died at Amazon facilities in New Jersey in 2022. Another in Colorado Springs that same year. Sadly, the list goes on. There's no excuse for this to happen at Amazon. Analysis based on a 2024 federal report from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), showed that Amazon's fulfillment centers report injuries more than two times as much as the warehouse industry average. Amazon workers accounted for 39% of all warehouse workers in the United States but Amazon reported 56% of all serious injuries in the industry.   A Senate report at the end of 2024 revealed that these issues could be even worse than that. The report said, Amazon “manipulates its workplace injury data to portray its warehouses as safer than they actually are.” The PDX9 warehouse in Oregon where the worker died in early April has a reputation for harsh conditions. 26% of employees at the fulfillment center suffered from injuries, according to investigative reports. Amazon has no excuse for the rate of injuries, the unsafe working conditions, and outright neglect.  Sign this petition urging Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to take immediate action to improve safety standards in Amazon warehouses and improve working conditions for all Amazon workers.

Sign this petition to tell Newberry County Council: Protect our water, our power, our peace, and our way of life. Reject Project Altair.