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.

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.

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.

Six unelected justices on the Supreme Court have gutted crucial, hard fought protections against racial discrimination in voting. Justice Elena Kagan dissented, noting that the consequences of the Court’s “demolition” of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) “are likely to be far-reaching and grave.” This ruling is likely to set off a firestorm of gerrymandering, hollowing out the voting power of Black people and other communities of color while maximizing partisan gains. It’s not an exaggeration to say our representative democracy is at stake, and with it the future of U.S. foreign policy. So we’re joining the demands for Congress to act now. That includes passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and strengthen federal protections against racial discrimination in voting.

A dam broke in the Senate when a record 40 senators voted to halt the sale of armored bulldozers to the Israeli government in April. This vote was a monumental step toward ending U.S. complicity in the Israeli government’s violence. But it wasn’t enough — in part, because Sens. Blumenthal (CT), Coons (DE), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gillibrand (NY), Rosen (NV), and Schumer (NY) joined all Republicans in voting to keep the flow of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli government. That means seven Democrats voted against 85% of their caucus to keep arming an Israeli government that’s committing a genocide in Gaza, illegally annexing the West Bank, and bombing southern Lebanon. These votes were morally bankrupt. But they’re votes that the weapons lobby and powerful special interest groups like AIPAC will cheerlead to try and convince lawmakers they made the right choice. We need to make sure senators hear a demand to end U.S. complicity in heartbreaking violence instead: One that reminds them that their constituents overwhelmingly reject this failed blank-check approach to the Israeli government.

The people of Cuba have been pushed to the brink of collapse amidst an illegal U.S. oil embargo that has caused mass suffering — energy blackouts, food shortages, and water scarcity. The humanitarian crisis stands to get even worse as Trump warns that “Cuba is next.” His threats to “take” Cuba and push its president out of power echo the violent, regime-change campaigns we’ve seen his administration carry out in Venezuela and Iran this year. And reports are emerging that he’s ordered the Pentagon to draw up war plans for the island nation. This illegal campaign of collective punishment against the population of Cuba is only hurting the people that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio claim to help, and any act of war will only deepen the suffering. It’s not too late to stop this crisis and prevent more war. Congress can pass a war powers resolution to block strikes before they begin, AND usher in a new era of diplomacy by ending U.S. embargos on Cuba, turning the page on six decades of a failed strategy that has delivered nothing but pain and suffering to the Cuban people. A different path is possible, but only if we advocate for it, which is why we need you to speak out today.

Shocking reporting suggests Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tried to invest MILLIONS in weapons stocks during the buildup to the war with Iran — which he’s helped facilitate. If true, it means the Defense Secretary attempted to personally profit off an illegal, horrific war that has killed thousands, including hundreds of children. This is more than just disturbing; it’s outright disqualifying. The longer Hegseth stays, the longer the list of his offenses: Purging Black and women officers at the Pentagon, failing to keep critical information secure, calling for U.S. troops to commit potential war crimes, and ordering multiple instances of unauthorized use of force from Iran to the Pacific. And these reckless, dangerous actions are merely the tip of the iceberg. Fortunately, Rep. Yassamin Ansari just introduced seven articles of impeachment against Hegseth, providing us a path to push him out and clear the way for new leadership at the Pentagon. We’ve just seen how public pressure can drive accountability, with Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem recently forced from their posts. Now, let’s ramp up the pressure to make sure SecDef Hegseth is next.

Polymarket is turning human suffering into speculation: Six anonymous accounts, most of them created on February 27, made over $1.2 MILLION on Polymarket by betting that the bombs would fall the next day. Just days ago, in the minutes before the U.S.–Iran ceasefire was announced, at least 50 brand-new accounts placed tens of thousands of dollars worth of highly specific bets that the violence would pause. These trades have a similar profile; the accounts were created just moments before a critical world event. The bets were the only bets those accounts ever made. And each left their anonymous owners hundreds of thousands of dollars richer. It all paints a deeply troubling picture that Polymarket is where powerful people can use their access to privileged information to turn a profit on matters of war and violence. But we have a plan to stop these dangerous bets. Corporations respond when their reputations — and their bottom lines — are on the line. That’s why we’re partnering with 20 groups to sound the alarm and send a message directly to Shayne Coplan, Polymarket's CEO, to remind him that these bets come with a cost too high to bear. Because if enough of us speak out, we can create enough public pressure to force Polymarket to ban these corrupt markets.

When the Senate voted on a joint resolution of disapproval (JRD) to halt the sale of armored bulldozers to the Israeli government in April, a record 40 senators voted to block the sale. Here’s why that’s such a big deal: In early 2024, just 11 senators voted to request a simple human rights report on the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza. Only 15 senators voted to halt a similar weapons transfer to the Israeli government a year later. That number grew to 27 in the summer of 2025 when, for the first time, a majority of Senate Democrats voted to block U.S.-made bombs and rifles to the Israeli government. Now, the dam has broken. 85% of the Senate’s Democratic caucus voted to end U.S. complicity in the Israeli government’s horrific violence — in genocide in Gaza, in illegal annexations in the West Bank, and in an invasion into southern Lebanon. Turning the tide on the Senate’s blank check approach to the Israeli government was the first step. Now, we have to win these votes to block U.S. weapons from reaching the Israeli military. To secure the majority needed to achieve those victories, letting this group of 40 senators know that we see and appreciate their votes is a crucial start. When senators know groups like ours and people like you have their backs, it creates the political space for more lawmakers to join them in rejecting the status quo and ending U.S. complicity in the Israeli government’s violence.

Our president is threatening war crimes!

President Trump illegally attacked Iran, and now thousands of lives have been lost, tens of billions of dollars have been wasted on an unpopular war, and gas prices are skyrocketing, yet some politicians are still not speaking out against the invasion … why?  War hawks, including AIPAC, defense contractors, and major AI companies, are secretly flooding elections with millions of dollars to prop up pro-war candidates, and raking in the profits.  No politicians should be accepting money from AIPAC, defense contractors, or others promoting and profiting from war. We need to remind them that they work for us, not special interests. Corporations like Lockheed Martin that contract with the Department of Defense profit when the U.S. attacks other countries, because they make the weaponry that we use to attack. So far in 2025 and ’26, according to the FEC, the top 10 defense contractors have spent more than $8 million to elect candidates—influencing them to support future conflicts and expand the already massive Pentagon budget.  These dark-money groups know that the war and their policies are unpopular and won’t win elections, so they funnel their money through shell PACs and last-minute investments. In the primary elections in Illinois in March 2026, outside groups aligned with AIPAC spent millions, around 60% of total outside spending in the races, but their ads never mentioned Israel or war. They even set up entities with innocuous-sounding names like Elect Chicago Women. Sign now to join the call for Democrats to reject contributions from war hawks and to focus on issues that will improve our lives, like health care and lowering prices.