Disabled veterans answered our nation's call without hesitation. They served, sacrificed, and returned home carrying the lasting physical and emotional effects of that service. Yet many Pennsylvania veterans are denied property tax relief because of outdated requirements that have little to do with their sacrifice. Under current law, a veteran can be service-connected disabled, honorably discharged, and still be denied assistance because they did not serve during a qualifying wartime period, do not meet a financial-need test, or are rated below 100% disabled. House Bill 1257 would modernize Pennsylvania's Disabled Veterans' Real Estate Tax Exemption by recognizing that service-connected disabilities affect veterans regardless of when they served or whether they meet an arbitrary income threshold. The bill would expand eligibility to veterans rated 50% or higher disabled, remove the wartime-service requirement, eliminate the financial-need requirement, and continue full relief for veterans rated 100% disabled or compensated at the 100% rate due to unemployability. For many veterans, this is not simply about taxes. It is about keeping the home they worked hard to build after serving their country. Rising property taxes have created financial pressure for disabled veterans living on fixed incomes, and many fear being priced out of the communities they fought to protect. Veterans across Pennsylvania have described HB 1257 as a meaningful step toward ensuring that those who sacrificed for our freedoms can remain in their homes with dignity. Pennsylvania's disabled veterans upheld their commitment to this Commonwealth and this nation. House Bill 1257 is an opportunity for Pennsylvania to uphold its commitment to them. TAKE ACTION TODAY Signing this petition is the first step. If you are a Pennsylvania resident, please take two additional minutes to contact your State Senator and ask them to support HB 1257. Find your State Senator here: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Then send the message below: "I am a Pennsylvania resident and I urge you to support House Bill 1257. Disabled veterans should not be denied property tax relief because of an income cap or outdated eligibility requirements. HB 1257 passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support and deserves a vote in the Senate. Please support Pennsylvania's disabled veterans and move HB 1257 forward." One phone call or email may seem small, but when hundreds of veterans and supporters speak up together, legislators listen.

These projects raise serious concerns about the data centers potential impact on the residents, wildlife, and the environment. Continuous noise generated by cooling systems, generators, and facility operations. Potential low frequency humming and increased decibel levels that WILL affect any nearby homes and quality of life. Stress and welfare concerns for household pets. Potential impact on local wildlife and habitats. Increased demand on ENERGY and WATER. Changes to rural and residential areas. Increased traffic, construction disturbances, and long term industrialization on the area.  We believe development should be balanced with responsible planning that protect the people, animals, natural resources, and character of our county. Therefore, we respectfully request that local officials conduct a thorough and TRANSPARENT review of all impacts. Prioritize the health, wellbeing, and voices of county residents in the decision making process.  We are also worried that infrastructure costs whether through increased utility rates, taxes, or public spending will fall on the residents, raising household bills over time. We want TRANSPARENCY regarding who truly pays for it.  Our county, our residents, and our wildlife deserve thoughtful protection. Please sign the petition to help our county from inappropriate data centers development. Thank you!! 

This cause is a direct response to the Texas State Board of Education’s (SBOE) controversial decision to approve the "Bluebonnet Learning" curriculum for elementary and middle school reading classes.  This state-backed policy integrates specific Bible stories, verses, and Christian theological narratives into mandatory K-8 public education across Texas. Scheduled to phase into classrooms, this curriculum impacts over 5 million public school students and attempts to institutionalize religious teaching under the guise of basic literacy education. Public schools must remain strictly dedicated to academic excellence, reason, science, and empirical evidence. Using public infrastructure and taxpayer dollars to introduce supernatural religious mythologies into the classroom is a direct violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which demands a total wall of separation between church and state. Religious instruction belongs entirely within the private sphere of families and faith communities, not inside state-funded institutions where children are a captive audience. Furthermore, the state's implementation strategy includes financial coercion, offering school districts additional funding per student if they agree to adopt these Bible-infused materials. This creates systemic pressure on local boards to sacrifice secular neutrality for financial survival. This cause represents atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, and freethinkers across Texas who demand that education remain entirely secular and free from religious indoctrination. We are fighting to protect vulnerable children from government-sponsored religious coercion, to preserve the constitutional integrity of our public schools, and to pressure both state officials and local school boards to completely reject this curriculum in favor of rational, evidence-based education.

The Supreme Court is facing a crisis of accountability and legitimacy, and public trust in the court is at an all time low. The blatant disregard for the public interest has gone on for far too long. We cannot allow Donald Trump and his MAGA allies to continue ripping up the Constitution and weaponizing the Supreme Court to take away our freedoms. Sign the petition now!

The death penalty in Kansas is deeply dysfunctional and has been administered in an unjust manner that has drained vast public resources without improving public safety. There has not been an execution in Kansas in more than 60 years, but the state continues to spend millions on this flawed system. Commuting all death sentences will address the system’s deep flaws while allowing resources to be redirected to more effective public safety programs. Commuting death sentences also demonstrates strong leadership and sends a powerful message to Kansans that it is time to consider repealing the death penalty. The governor should take time to consider this issue thoroughly and not try to expedite the process.

Trump is a HUGE backer of Monsanto. He even published an executive order earlier this year aiming to boost glyphosate production. Bayer, Monsanto's parent company, donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration.  And the Supreme Court's decision is based on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) declaration that glyphosate is safe—despite the evidence of its safety coming from a paper ghostwritten by Monsanto.  SCOTUS denied justice to the 200,000 plaintiffs whose lives have been devastated by RoundUp. The highest court may think Bayer—or any other corporation—does not have to answer for the harm they caused, but we don't. And Congress can right this wrong. This is just another example of corporate greed coming at the expense of our public health. Tell Congress: Pass legislation to give Americans the right to fight back against pesticide companies!

An eye-popping $1.1 trillion for the Pentagon made this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) unjustifiable. Section 219, a one-of-a-kind provision to effectively fuse the U.S.-Israeli militaries and weapons industries, made the bill highly suspect. Now that Speaker Johnson has caved to the right wing of his caucus by merging the must-pass NDAA with the SAVE Act — Trump’s craven attempt to restrict voting access ahead of the midterm elections — it’s outright dangerous. This year’s NDAA cannot pass, but if we want to stop a must-pass bill like this in its tracks, we have work to do. Legislation like this historically advances without a fuss. But with over $1 trillion for Trump’s and Hegseth’s warmongering, an insidious military alliance, voter suppression legislation, and more wrapped up in the FY27 NDAA, this is no time for business as usual. Luckily, a groundswell of opposition from constituents like you is exactly the message that can wake lawmakers up.

Big Tech and Trump want to tie states’ hands from regulating AI, going as far to make it illegal. The Great American AI Act threatens to erase hard-won AI safeguards in many states around the country. States are our first line of defense against the harms of AI and Big Tech is working to take them down. Demand Congress and Rep. Lori Trahan reject legislation that would erase AI safeguards that states have enacted to protect their residents!

Why This Matters The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is a world-renowned scientific institution, a historic urban sanctuary designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, and a critical anchor of Boston’s urban tree canopy. It belongs to all residents of Boston as a vital public resource for health, climate resiliency, and environmental equity. However, the Arboretum is under direct threat from encroaching, high-density private developments on its perimeter.

The Smithsonian Women’s History Museum has been more than 20 years in the making, and it was established to showcase the range of experiences, contributions, and struggles of women in the United States. It was finally approved in 2020, but Republicans have stalled progress by refusing to fund its construction.  And why? Because it dared include significant historical trans women, like Lynn Conway, an American computer scientist, Rachel Levine, former assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Emmy-winning star Laverne Cox. Trans people have always existed and have contributed to our nation’s history since day one. But Trump is determined to erase trans women from history and block this important museum that women have been championing for over decades.  It’s not just freedom of expression and art that Trump is attacking—it’s our history. Trump has stripped the names of historical figures from federal websites and removed historical information posted in national parks.  Our government should not be controlling and limiting what art and history Americans have access to—but that’s exactly what the Trump administration is attempting to do.  Our democracy thrives when we have access to art and history that reflects the diversity of groups that make up our nation. And democracy erodes when presidents and elected leaders abuse their power to use federal institutions as their own shrines for propaganda.  The Democratic Women’s Caucus said it best: “A museum about women, fought for and supported by women, should not be controlled by one man.” Add your name to the petition to demand Congress approve the original proposal and allow the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum to move forward!

Congress just passed a concurrent war powers resolution to withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities. It’s a historic rebuke of a deeply unpopular war. But Congress’ job isn’t done with the recent Senate vote, especially now as Trump and Hegseth are reportedly demanding $67 billion to cover the costs of their disastrous, illegal war on Iran. That means more of your taxpayer dollars to pay for violence that killed over 7,000 people — bombs like the one that killed 168 people at a girls school in Iran — and left the world more dangerous and worse off economically than before. The math isn’t adding up. With your help, we’ll build on this victory by making sure lawmakers reject authorizing another dime for this war.

The FDA is an agency responsible for reregulating our food supply and ensuring public safety. In his bid to become Secretary of HHS, RFK Jr. talked a big game about food and health. But since his confirmation, he has largely failed to deliver results for the American people. Instead, the agency has faced substantial employee cuts—with thousands of job losses since 2025. RFK Jr. fired every single person on the FDA’s media communications team, and then the Trump administration cut nearly 1,000 full-time employees from the Food Safety Inspection Service and more than 500 from the Food and Nutrition Service. Experts warned at the time that the cuts and changes could jeopardize the safety of our food supply, including slower response to outbreaks and emergencies. And we are already seeing the impact of these dangerous decisions.  RFK Jr. also revealed plans to relegate routine food-safety inspections currently carried out by the federal government to the states—meaning food-safety inspections could vary in consistency and oversight, leaving our interconnected systems, and public health, vulnerable.  RFK Jr. has clearly demonstrated that he is unqualified to lead the Department of Health and Human Services—spreading harmful medical disinformation and fringe conspiracy theories. And now he is failing to deliver on the real changes to our food and health systems that Americans need. Enough. Demand RFK Jr. do his job to make our food system safer for our families!