This latest power grab, which would entirely reshape the leadership of the Postal Service, is part of a broader strategy of this administration to upend our elections to control the outcome.  Trump is directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build a nationalized list of citizenships and require the USPS to direct states to abide by certain mail-ballot design and tracking requirements. That means USPS would be managing a list of “eligible voters” and mandate that postal workers can only deliver ballots to people on that list. These lists run a real risk of purging eligible voters from receiving ballots, with states warning that they will not be accurate. Under Trump, USPS has  finalized a rule to refuse to deliver vote-by-mail ballots in states that do not turn over voter rolls to the DHS. They are sowing doubt and confusion in our election system to lay the foundation to contest this election if things don’t go their way. This is election denialism in action—and it has to stop. Tell the U.S. Senate to block Trump’s attempts to control our elections. Sign the petition now!

ICE is spending $20 million on electric shock gloves that can help agents gain “compliance” in seconds. ICE agents are already facing criticism for violence and excessive use of force, which has resulted in several deaths. There have been troublingly few consequences — and it’s partly because with $200 BILLION in the bank, ICE can largely operate with impunity. When Republicans used a special procedure to break the deadlock and advance ICE and CBP funding through 2029 earlier this year, they freed Trump’s immigration force from the congressional oversight and accountability that the annual budget process brings to bear. Trump’s immigration force is not above the law, and it’s time Congress act like it. Americans resoundingly reject funding ICE’s abuses, and we’re going to make sure lawmakers hear our clear demands to rein in ICE and CBP. It starts with getting our money back. Can we count on you to join us?

This isn't about one person. This is about We the People of the United States — and we don't want it. We didn't vote for a camera on every corner. We didn't agree to have our movements logged, stored, and sold. We didn't sign off on a private company profiting off tracking where our families drive, every single day, with no oversight and no accountability to the people paying for it. And the numbers back up what we already feel in our gut: LAPD's own internal audit found their camera system was wrong nearly 1 in 3 times. That's not a fluke — that's a system operating on our streets, making mistakes about real people, with almost nobody watching to make sure it's used the way it was promised. We are not anti-safety. We are not anti-technology. We are Americans who believe that any system with this much power over our privacy needs real transparency, real oversight, and real accountability — not a rubber stamp and a subscription fee. This is already working. Nearly 100 cities and counties across 28 states have already canceled or rejected these contracts since 2021 — because residents like us stood up and said something. That number grows every time one more person adds their name. If you've ever driven past one of these cameras and felt that same uneasy feeling — you're not alone, and you're not overreacting. Join us. We the People built this country on the idea that power answers to us, not the other way around. It's time these cameras did too. Stop the Flock. Add your name.

By stopping gerrymandering practices, we build a path towards a more equitable and inclusive future for the generations to come. It's time to demand transparency in the redistricting process and ensure that it reflects the real demographics and interests of Georgia communities, not partisan gerrymandering.

Communities across the country are organizing against Flock’s mass surveillance. At least 56 municipalities have deactivated, canceled, or rejected Flock contracts this year, from North Carolina to California to Massachusetts. Whether or not Flock has come to your community yet, state and city leaders have the power to act. They can: • Cut or refuse contracts with Flock Safety and similar ALPR vendors • Limit data retention to hours or days, not weeks or months • Limit data sharing, prohibiting access by other government agencies absent a warrant for a felony crime recognized under local or state law • Limit usage to felony investigations, missing persons cases, identifying unregistered or uninsured vehicles, and narrow non-enforcement uses like electronic toll collection • Require annual usage reporting and restrict ALPR data availability through open records requests, so it can’t be used for stalking or exploiting someone’s data for entertainment ALPRs enable warrantless tracking, fuel mass surveillance, and produce wrongful accusations with real harm to real people. Sign the petition now calling on state and city elected officials to block Flock and protect our privacy!

This is important because the arts are a fundamental for children and teens. By handing the work to a machine, our creativity and even brain usage begins lowering (https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/). Why is a school encouraging this behavior? When you ditch humans, you ditch intelligence, and students shouldn't be exposed to that. We shouldn't discourage our young artists from participating, and by removing AI, you give people a chance to grow. 

Data center development is ramping up across the country and corporations have their sights set on Minnesota. As these billion dollar companies try to outpace regulations, more  than a dozen data center projects have already been proposed in the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” and an active fight is taking place right in Minneapolis. Very few details have been publicly released about the proposed North Loop data center, and Minnesotans have been packing neighborhood meetings to express their concerns and outrage about the deal and the possible negative impact.  "These men don't understand the concerns of this community; they're not from this community, they're not from this state.” If this data center is allowed to progress in Minneapolis, it will embolden the dozen others proposed across the state to bulldoze over the will of the people and ram through their development with complete disregard to impacts on local communities. This stops here.  Don’t let Big Tech come in and profit off our resources and land. Add your name to the petition NOW to make it clear: No new data centers!

I started this petition because I am tired of watching another suicide become a headline, then watching all of us move on until it happens again. Our community has seen two publicly reported suicide cases in about two months. On June 19, a woman died by suicide at Civitan Park in Idaho Falls. On August 18, police began investigating another apparent suicide at Guns N Gear. A 27-year-old woman also died by suicide at the same range in 2017. This is not something happening somewhere else. It is happening here, in public places in our own community. A 72-hour waiting period may not have prevented these specific deaths. We cannot know that. But these tragedies should force us to ask what we can do differently and consider every practical step that could save the next person. In 2024, suicide was the second leading cause of death for Idahoans ages 15 to 24. Idaho also had the fifth-highest firearm suicide rate among the states. These are not abstract numbers. They represent parents, children, siblings, friends, coworkers, classmates, and neighbors. Every suicide leaves people behind who have to live with that loss. A suicide crisis can happen fast. Someone can make a permanent decision during a moment that might have passed if they had more time. A 2026 study published in JAMA Network Open used 49 years of data from all 50 states and found that waiting-period laws were associated with 12.5 percent lower firearm suicide rates. I support the right to own a gun. I also think we need to be honest about what can happen when someone in crisis has immediate access to one. This petition is not asking Idaho to take guns away from people who can legally own them. It is asking for time. Three days to think. Three days to call someone. Three days to get help. Three days for someone else to notice. Three days for a crisis to pass. Will a 72-hour waiting period stop every suicide? No. But that does not mean we should do nothing. We can respect gun rights while giving people in crisis more time before they take possession of a gun. Three days does not take away someone’s right to own one. It gives them time, and that time could save a life. Add your name. Share this petition. Send it to your state senator and representative. Ask the Idaho Legislature and Governor Brad Little to give Idahoans those 72 hours. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988.

We know Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth want more money for illegal wars and vanity projects like the “Trump battleship.” We know they’d make it happen at the expense of healthcare, education, and anti-hunger initiatives. What they failed to anticipate, however, is a massive wave of public opposition, and the powerful ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Patty Murray (D-WA), jumping in to pump the brakes on their proposed $1.5 TRILLION war budget. “I cannot accept a lopsided topline that helps defense CEOs while families get left behind,” Sen. Murray recently told reporters. She’s right. And her stance has made her a target. Now, as the pressure ratchets up on Sen. Murray to fold, particularly from her Republican counterpart, Senate Appropriations Chair Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), it’s critical we — the anti-war majority — let her know we’re with her. Can you help send Sen. Murray a resounding message of gratitude and encouragement to keep up the fight and block Trump’s reckless budget from becoming a reality?

In August 2024, Phoenix Police Officers Benjamin Harris and Kyle Sue aggressively confronted Tyron McAlpin based on unverified allegations from a bystander. Within seconds of the encounter, body camera footage showed the officers repeatedly punching Mr. McAlpin and shocking him with a taser multiple times. Mr. McAlpin, who is deaf and lives with cerebral palsy, could not hear their commands and posed absolutely no threat. Following the violent arrest, the officers filed reports claiming Mr. McAlpin took a "fighting stance" and assaulted them. Because of these lies, Mr. McAlpin was wrongfully incarcerated for over a month before the Maricopa County Attorney's Office finally reviewed the evidence and dropped all charges. While the Police Department initially issued a minor 24-hour suspension to the officers, the Phoenix Civil Service Board voted behind closed doors to completely overturn Officer Harris's suspension and reduce Officer Sue's discipline to a mere written reprimand. Erasing what was already a minimal "slap on the wrist" is a profound insult to the disabled community and completely destroys public trust. A system that forces an innocent man to spend over a month in jail while letting the officers who beat him escape a single day of lost pay is fundamentally broken.

This policy affects every student’s ability to learn comfortably and efficiently. By signing this petition, you can make sure student concerns about privacy, accessibility, lost instructional time, and safety are heard by the people making these decisions. This not a petition against school safety; it is a petition for a policy that protects while also respecting students privacy and needs. The more students and parents who respectfully speak up, the stronger our message becomes and the more likely it is that our administration will seriously consider a better solution.

This issue is not about being against law enforcement or being against public safety. It is about deciding how much surveillance we are willing to accept in our community and ensuring that powerful technology is subject to transparency and public oversight. Flock Safety cameras are automated license plate readers. They photograph passing vehicles and record information associated with those vehicle sightings. That means the system doesn't only collect information about suspected criminals—it collects information about ordinary people going to work, taking their children to school, visiting friends, attending church, going to the doctor, or simply driving through town. That information can become searchable by law enforcement, and Flock operates a large network through which agencies can share access to vehicle data. Logan County residents deserve to know exactly who can access information collected here and what safeguards prevent that information from being misused. ~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~ August 12, 2026 The IJ Database of ALPR Abuse The Institute for Justice has cataloged more than 100 incidents of ALPR abuse, including romantic stalking, wrongful stops and detentions, non-law enforcement use, and other types of misconduct. Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) were sold to American communities as a targeted tool for catching car thieves and finding missing people. What they actually purchased has grown into something far broader and more frightening: an AI-powered network of cameras that photograph and log the movement of every driver who passes, whether or not they are suspected of any crime.   Companies like Flock Safety have now blanketed thousands of communities with ALPRs, quietly assembling powerful mass surveillance systems that can reconstruct where people have been, when, and how often, all without a warrant.  This dragnet surveillance threatens the freedoms the Fourth Amendment was adopted to protect. These concerns aren’t just abstractions: every day, innocent people are harmed by officials’ abuse and misuse of these ALPRs. Here are just a few examples: • In Florida, a woman was stalked and pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy who saw her at a TV shoot.  • In Texas, a sheriff’s deputy used 83,000 Flock ALPRs to find a woman who had allegedly had a medication abortion, at the behest of her abusive partner.  • In Georgia, a police chief tracked his ex-girlfriend and her teenage daughter roughly 600 times. All told, the Institute for Justice (IJ) has identified well over 100 incidents of ALPR abuse, including romantic stalking, wrongful stops and detentions, non-law enforcement use, and other types of misconduct. Although this is the most comprehensive list publicly available, it may be just the tip of the iceberg. Officers rarely enter specific reasons when they search ALPR databases, and the volume of searches is so large that it would be impossible to figure out whether officers’ vague justifications are actually true.   For instance, in litigation against Norfolk, Virginia, IJ discovered that the top three search reasons (“cj,” “stolen,” and “inv”) accounted for nearly one third of 230,000 searches over two years. One officer repeatedly wrote “la la la la,” and nobody noticed. When the government can track the everyday movements of ordinary people—to their jobs, their churches, their doctors, their protests—it holds a kind of power over private life that the Constitution does not allow.  ~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~ There is also a basic question of effectiveness. If taxpayers are paying for a surveillance system that records thousands of innocent motorists, the public deserves evidence showing what benefit Logan County is actually receiving. How many crimes has it helped solve here? How many arrests or stolen-vehicle recoveries has it produced? How frequently is the system searched? Who has access? These are reasonable questions, and citizens should be able to ask them without being dismissed or treated with hostility. Technology that gives the government greater ability to monitor people's movements deserves greater oversight—not less. We can support law enforcement while also demanding privacy, accountability and transparency from our government. Those principles are not mutually exclusive. Please sign this petition if you believe Logan County residents deserve a meaningful voice in whether this type of surveillance continues in our community.