It's not only dangerous to the American public that this happened, but the fact that a reporter was inadvertently given access to these current day plans this in real time shows that Pete Hegseth & the rest of this crew are astounding incompetent at the roles they've been chosen for.  Pete Hegseth was just an exemplified Fox News host, with nowhere near the same sort of tactical experience that past defense secretaries had when Trump nominated him for his cabinet. The risk of having Hegseth and other officials leak information like this raises concerns about the potential mishandling of classified information as well as sensitive details regarding U.S. war plans in the future.  When President Donald Trump was asked about the report on Monday afternoon he said, “I don’t know anything about it,” he said. “I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic.” If Trump won't take actual matters of national security seriously, we will. Sign the petition if you agree there must be a congressional hearing or investigation to hold Hegseth and officials in Trump's administration accountable.  Image Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty

Without your support the forgotten women in beers beautiful and diverse history will remain forgotten. 

The US has always been a symbol of democracy, freedom and justice. Allowing Putin to conquer any part of Ukraine creates  significant destabilizing impact on global security. The ultimate US costs of Putin’s victory would be much higher than the cost of supporting Ukraine’s self-defense. Ukraine’s victory would help the US regain Europe’s trust and respect and remain one of the US most trusted trading partners. Support for Ukraine will send a message to the world that the US is still holding the values it is a symbol of and a message to the tyrants that the evil and injustice will not prevail.

Public broadcasting provides Americans with access to local news, educational programming, and independent journalism without corporate and political influence. Public broadcasters like PBS and NPR are beloved and crucial to communities across the nation, but Republicans are attacking these institutions with the goal of defunding public broadcasting.  We can fight back by letting MAGA know that public broadcasting is for the people and can’t be defunded or bought by billionaires! 

Donald Trump’s current attempt to gut bedrock environmental law may take away your ability to have a voice in decisions made by federal agencies. The National Environmental Policy Act has been implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) since 1977. His Executive Order, Unleashing American Energy, strips the CEQ of its authority, putting implementation in the hands of each federal agency. He directed CEQ to provide guidance to the agencies that tells them they should not consider a proposed project’s cumulative environmental impacts or matters of environmental justice. The agencies can also make the call on whether a project undergoes an environmental review and how detailed that review will be. It is the environmental review process that provides the public a formal opportunity to comment.  CEQ is managing the process of its own dismantling and has opened its Interim Final Rule to the public for comment until March 27. Please sign our petition and, if you can, take the additional step of submitting a comment. The government counts petitions as one comment, so we're asking people to submit comments to help us show the broad support for protecting our bedrock environmental law. We’ve created an EZ form to make it simple for you to comment. Write opening and closing sentences and select points to add to your comment from the list we provide. We’ll format your comment as a PDF and submit it to Regs.gov. We’ll also keep a copy of your comment and its tracking number. We do NOT use your information to add you to our mailing list. If you prefer, you can submit your comment directly to Regs.gov. Please share a copy of the comment and tracking number with us or keep them on file. Background The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1970, is often referred to as the “Magna Carta” of environmental law. In 1977, Jimmy Carter issued an executive order directing the executive branch’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to develop regulations for its implementation.  President Trump’s Day 1 executive order, Unleashing American Energy, eviscerates NEPA by stripping CEQ of its authority and by further ordering the Council to propose rescinding all of the regulations it developed and providing guidance to federal agencies on how they can implement NEPA themselves. The executive order continues regulations implemented “must expedite permitting approvals and meet deadlines established in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (Public Law 118-5)” and  “must prioritize efficiency and certainty over any other objectives, including those of activist groups, that do not align with the policy goals set forth in section 2 of this order or that could otherwise add delays and ambiguity to the permitting process.” (The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 chipped away at NEPA in amendments to the unrelated bill, like setting arbitrary page limits on environmental reviews.)  Trump cannot repeal NEPA without Congress, so he’s doing the next best thing (in his view). He’s removing its teeth.

Trump is working every angle to squash dissent against his extreme agenda–whether it be student protestors, independent reporters, judges, or political opponents. His aim is to instill fear against all opposition and punish those who take action against him to make a lesson to the rest of us.  And Republicans in Congress are providing an avenue to actually make it happen. Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas introduced Articles of Impeachment against Judge Boasberg, calling for him to be removed from office after he temporarily blocked Trump's ability to use 1798 Wartime Act. A number of other Republicans have since voiced their support for impeachment. And Elon Musk—the unelected billionaire who is pursuing an agenda of chaos and destruction with our federal programs and workers—has also been calling for the removal of judges who would stand in his way. Trump and Musk know that judges are a critical check on their power, and their solution is to either remove them or bully them into submission.  Trump is willing to go to any lengths to ram through his billionaire agenda of hollowing out the government so his billionaire buddies can accumulate unprecedented wealth. All the while, cutting Social Security, public schools, Medicaid, regulations that keep our air and water clean, research to find cures for deadly diseases and cancer, and so much more. Sign the petition to tell Congress to reject and push back against Trump's attempts to intimidate the judiciary and commit to blocking partisan, power-grab efforts to impeach a judge for ruling against Trump.

People should join this campaign because a nation is smart and thoughtful when its people are enlightened through a good world-class education.

During World War II, Jackie Robinson was court martialed, and later acquitted, for refusing to sit in the back of a segregated Army bus. He was a trailblazer for civil rights in the military, and eventually on the baseball field as the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball. By deleting the webpage honoring him, the Department of Defense is sending a clear signal that it’s not interested in protecting strides made in the Civil Rights Movement or honoring the sacrifices of its military service members who come from diverse backgrounds.  Just recently, the federal government said it would no longer prohibit federal contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms, and drinking fountains—a dangerous escalation that could lead to unchecked discrimination.  Removing these webpages is an affront to all soldiers and veterans of color who have sacrificed for our country. And as civil rights lawyer Ben Crump said, "This isn't history being forgotten; it's history being erased!" Add your name to tell the federal government we won’t let them erase history—restore Jackie Robinson's webpage now.

A group of parents are organizing to push our NPCSD to create real actionable policies and practices to support our school community from being targeted by gender based discrimination.  This means pushing the administration to make policies that ensure trans students are referred to by their correct pronoun, to protect teachers who teach gender inclusion from harassment from intolerant families, to post signage on bathrooms ensuring that everyone is welcome to use the facilities that align with their identity, and to provide support and curriculae to all teachers K-12 to include pronouns, trans inclusion, and gender equity in their instruction. These are the first immediate steps that we must take, and we must build an ongoing working group to continue to address these issues going forward. Recently, there have been harmful incidents on these very issues at our schools. Our little town is not immune to the larger wave of bigotry. The time to push our administration to move beyond lip service “inclusion” to actual policies is now. As parents and community members, we must make sure the district is giving the students, faculty, and staff the support they need in this time of increased intolerance.

At the end of the day, this is about us and what we need, not Trump’s obsession with trade wars against international partners.  If Trump and his administration were actually concerned with generating revenue for the government, they would focus on ending tax breaks for billionaires, not tearing apart government agencies and raising costs on goods for everyday Americans. Simply put: We will all pay more for everything, from gas, to groceries, to cars and electricity. While billionaires will continue to get their tax breaks and incentives that the Trump administration provide by stealing from the rest of us.  Trump claims he’s “rescuing the economy”, but his tariffs are just going to drive up costs for everyday Americans, costing the average family thousands of dollars. This is a complete betrayal of working and middle-class families everywhere in the United States.   Image Source: Daybreak/Getty Images

During Trump's first term he issued an executive order opening the door to blatant discrimination, targeting and banning six Muslim-majority countries. And it was complete chaos.  Families were separated. Citizens were detained at airports. And refugees were denied lifesaving admittance.  The Muslim ban was eventually partially blocked by the courts, and in 2020 then-President Joe Biden reversed the order. Biden called it "a stain on our national conscience and inconsistent with our long history of welcoming people of all faiths and no faith at all." Trump's revived Muslim ban reportedly includes five of the original six countries banned by Trump—Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—as well as expands it to 38 other countries, disproportionately impacting not only Muslim communities but also nearly two dozen African countries.  The three-tiered system would completely ban people from countries on the "red list." Another 10 countries on the "orange list" would have their entrance to the U.S. limited, and 22 countries on the "yellow list" would have 60 days to address certain "deficiencies" or be placed on the red or orange lists. This is a blatant abuse of power that will harm vulnerable people the most, turning our backs on refugees and immigrants. But we've come together before to protest Trump's cruel travel bans, and we must come together again now. 

The latest grants canceled by NIH represent millions of dollars in lost funding for projects aimed at improving vaccine access and educating communities. This research is essential to ensuring families have the tools and resources they need to make informed health decisions, especially during outbreaks like the one we're seeing now. Vaccine hesitancy is a growing threat that undermines efforts to control preventable diseases and protect the most vulnerable among us, including young children, immunocompromised people, and older folks. These grants save lives. Ending them now, while we’re witnessing a resurgence in a disease that was previously eradicated thanks to vaccines, is dangerous and puts us all at risk. Sign the petition to demand NIH restore these grants and invest in the health and safety of all Americans.