There is a large amount of minority people in our county and we don't want them to be in danger of being kidnaped, assaulted, or murdered. We want our community to be protected, that can't happen if ICE is welcomed into it.

After two horrific killings, multiple children used as “bait” and teargassed, and indiscriminate violence, people in Minnesota and around the country are rising up to get ICE off our streets and out of our communities. As his immigration force grows deeply unpopular, Trump is withdrawing 700 immigration agents from the Twin Cities and has ordered federal agents to stay away from protests. All the while, new funding for ICE and Border Patrol remains up in the air after Congress failed to pass an annual appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The pressure has opened a two-week window to do all we can to ensure lawmakers hold the line and vote NO against DHS funding without critical reforms that protect our communities from ICE’s violence. We’re shifting the narrative on ICE and making elected officials think twice before funneling billions of dollars toward Trump’s violent deportation force. All too often, moments like these are where we see backroom deals and empty promises weaken our position. That’s why NOW is when we dig even deeper to demand Congress hold firm against any blank check approach to ICE’s lawlessness.

The U.S. faces an unprecedented national debt, now exceeding $107 trillion, yet billions are spent punishing parents rather than supporting children. The current child support enforcement system drains resources, incarcerates parents, and worsens poverty—all while failing to prioritize children’s actual needs. Congress must act to reform this system. Key Findings: • National Debt & Fiscal Waste: From 1998–2025, federal child support enforcement contributed to mismanaged funds, with $32.5 billion spent on administrative costs—often exceeding the net support actually delivered to children. This waste worsens an already unsustainable national debt. • Child Support Arrears: Over the same period, cumulative unpaid child support totaled ~$450 billion. Tens of thousands of parents are jailed annually for nonpayment, preventing them from earning income to support their children. • Inequity & Constitutional Concerns: Felony prosecutions, punitive interest, and incarceration without consideration of ability to pay violate due process and equal protection. Current enforcement often penalizes poverty rather than ensuring child welfare. This Act Will: 1. Repeal federal felony child support provisions (18 U.S.C. § 228). 2. Require ability-to-pay hearings before penalties, license suspensions, or incarceration. 3. Automatically adjust arrears for income loss, verified unemployment, disability, or incarceration. 4. Ensure gender-neutral, equal enforcement and reciprocal enforcement of financial and custodial orders. 5. Prioritize support over punishment through job assistance, mediation, and debt reconciliation. 6. Prohibit punitive interest or penalties unrelated to actual child expenses. 7. Prevent children from being treated as government revenue or collateral for debt. 8. Increase transparency and accountability for administrative costs, reimbursements, and enforcement outcomes. Why This Matters: Current policies trap families in cycles of debt and incarceration, divert billions from direct child support, and contribute to a spiraling national debt. Reform will ensure fiscal responsibility, protect children’s needs, uphold constitutional rights, and break the cycle of poverty that unfair enforcement perpetuates. Call to Action: Sign to demand child support reform that is fair, transparent, fiscally responsible, and focused on children, not punishment.

DHS under Secretary Noem can be quickly summed up: Impunity. Injustice. Slanderous propaganda. Violence. As out-of-control ICE and CBP agents kill with impunity in our communities, Kristi Noem has proven herself to be utterly unfit to lead the Department of Homeland Security and rein in this violence. Indeed, she’s often spurred it on. We will never get the accountability we deserve so long as Noem is leading DHS, which is why Congress must take matters into its own hands and push her out.

Why This Petition Matters Illinois Medicaid dental coverage often exists in name only. In many parts of the state, especially rural and southern Illinois, there are no dentists or oral surgeons who accept Medicaid, leaving patients without real access to care. Untreated dental problems become medical emergencies, increasing suffering and healthcare costs. This petition calls on Illinois to ensure Medicaid dental coverage provides real, timely, and geographically accessible care.

The Constitution guarantees American citizens and immigrants rights and liberties. We elect our leaders to uphold the Constitution and to protect our rights and freedoms; not to look away as federal agencies are given license to strip them away. Currently, ICE and BP officers are disappearing people off the streets and detaining them with no due process, they’re smashing car windows to gain access to people, requiring people to provide proof of citizenship on the spot, and killing people without cause. These actions are antithetical to our democracy, our security and our liberty. We elect our leaders to represent us, the American people, and our democracy not to uphold the extreme tactics of an administration. We need our leaders to fulfill their vows to the constitution. We need our leaders to step forward with courage to protect the people who voted for them and that pay their salaries. We need them to do so now before our precious democracy is lost.

A vast collection of peer-reviewed science shows that if the proposed Twin Metals mine was built along the rivers and streams flowing into the wilderness, pollution and environmental degradation would be certain. It would also harm the economy: A peer-reviewed independent study from Harvard University shows that protecting the Boundary Waters from proposed sulfide-ore mining would result in dramatically more jobs and more income over a 20-year period. Polls continually show very strong support for permanent protection for this priceless wilderness area.

As long as ICE exists, even with "safeguards" like body cameras and training, then we aren't safe.  Minnesota knows too well there is no real solution but to disband ICE.  Furthermore, other solutions to immigration can be found.  Spain announced on January 27 that it is granting legal status to hundreds of thousands of people already living and working there but lacking authorization.  Instead of ICE enforcement, we could do something like that and stop wasting taxpayer money pretending it will help anything to hunt innocent, hard working people down.

We can't let ICE and other federal agents to keep terrorizing our kids and neighbors. DC Council needs to stand up for us NOW. They must ban MPD from collaborating. They must hold ICE accountable. They must use their voices instead of being silent.  

To stop extremely high monthly BGE bills due to rising delivery cost approved by the Maryland Public Service Commission.

We deserve representation that serves our communities. Ripping apart families, violently detaining residents, citizens or non citizens alike is antithetical to a healthy democracy. Instead of funding violence, our tax dollars should go back into our communities for much needed social services.Tom Souzzi has broken trust with his voters repeatedly by breaking ranks with democrats to further white supremacist agendas. He needs to change course and represent the will of the people, the majority of whom want ICE abolished. The blood of Renée Good and Alex Pretti is on his hands. 

 The murders of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, followed by attempts to cover-ups the crimes and obstruct all legal processes to bring the guilty to justice, the Trump regime is rapidly expanding its tyrannical, fascist control of our country and the destruction of our democracy and rule of law. Unless We the People, from whom government derives its just powers, don’t stop the regime soon, their control will be as extensive as it is in Russia and other right-wing authoritarian governments where any dissent is violently suppressed.