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.

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. 

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.

Mere hours after the U.S. and Iranian governments were reportedly nearing an agreement to end the war, Trump threatened to resume bombing “at a much higher level and intensity than it was before.” This is Trump’s cycle: One minute, a promise of diplomacy. The next, more threats of violence. What’s been consistent? This administration's failure to act in the people’s best interest. While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth scrambles to respond to violence in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump is again lashing out at the Pope, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio is suggesting we should be grateful that gas prices aren’t even higher. It remains clear that Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio shouldn’t be trusted with deciding what comes next. Congress must step in. Fortunately, cracks are breaking in the Republican caucus that could help push them to join with Democrats. Senator Collins (R-ME) has flipped her vote and is now a “yes” on a war powers resolution to end the war. Senator Curtis (R-UT) is on record as refusing funds. We need to press just a few more to get us the votes necessary to stop and defund this war — making this the moment we need to go all in and ensure our demands are impossible to ignore.

Right now, the three largest consumer credit agencies—Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian—are still choosing to allow medical debt to appear on credit reports, despite no law requiring them to do so. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has found that medical debt is the most common type of debt in collections. Yet it is one of the weakest predictors of whether someone will be able to repay it, because you don't choose an emergency. Fortunately, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have caved to public pressure before. And with millions of families struggling, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have the power to provide real, immediate relief by stopping something they were never required to do in the first place. Add your name to demand that Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion grant relief to families and permanently remove medical debit from consumers' credit reports.

When Trump says it’s “not possible” for the federal government to fund Medicare, Medicaid, and child care, what he’s telling us is: There’s plenty of money to go around, just not for you. Now, a proposed $1.5 TRILLION Pentagon budget request presents a choice as clear as day — and it’s one Congress, not Trump, gets to decide. That means we, as their constituents, have a powerful say in what happens next. So you choose: Do you want our government to spend hundreds of billions more of our taxpayer dollars on bombs and bullets to sow violence across the world, OR put those funds toward expanding healthcare access, combating climate change, ending homelessness, and funding more priorities that we know will actually keep people safe? We say: Not another dime for war and bloodshed, for Pentagon waste and weapons contractor payouts. If you’re with us, the time to act is right now. As weapons lobbyists race to the Capitol to build support for this outrageous budget, we need to get louder than the war hawks by sending lawmakers an urgent, unmistakable message that $1.5 trillion is a nonstarter.

Donald Trump Jr. is a dangerous peddler of election conspiracy theories who encouraged those closest to his father to work to overturn the 2020 election results. He’s also a war profiteer who is helping his father use the influence of the White House to enrich the family.  We can’t allow history to repeat itself. Putting Don Jr. at the head of an "Apprentice" reboot will only serve to sanitize his image and could possibly lay the groundwork for a future in politics.  Amazon is already enriching the Trump family. Amazon co-owns the rights to "The Apprentice" alongside Trump’s production company, and, through reruns on Amazon’s streaming services and airings in syndication, the show still nets the Trump family anywhere between $100,000 to $1,000,000 in royalties as of 2024. In addition to donating $1million to Trump’s inauguration fund, Amazon also spent $75 million acquiring and promoting the documentary film "Melania," about first lady Melania Trump. It netted the first lady more than $28 million.  We can’t let Amazon rehab the Trump family image so they can continue their scams. Sign the petition to demand Amazon drop all plans to reboot "The Apprentice" with Donald Trump Jr.